An Adventure Awaits! [Closed for Now]

[Remec]

I was just thinking I would like to find an ongoing game of some sort...here's the questionnaire:

1.) What are you hoping to see within a Dungeons & Dragons campaign? (Inform me of your expectations. Are you somebody that enjoys life-threatening combat encounters, prefer puzzle-solving, seek character developing story progression, or a combination of it all?)
I would enjoy of a nice mix of everything, especially character development and a strong plot/story.

2.) Are you comfortable with dark content if it arises? Is there anything you would prefer not see? (Essentially, I need to know what I should not include in this game so I can keep you comfortable and willing to participate.)
Not usually something I would initiate, but can get a feel for some when it seems necessary for the story and/or appropriate for the characters (PC or NPC) involved.


3.) Character Name: Micah Handeler
4.) Character Age: 20
5.) Character Race: Aasimar
6.) Character Background: Sage
7.) Character Class: Druid
8.) Character History: Discovered an affinity for the adoration of the local Moon goddess and studied as much as he could under the eye of an old hermit near his village.
9.) Why is your Character adventuring? Comes from a simple village and had not been aware of his heritage until he hit adolescence. Now entering his twenties, he has decided he needs to go out into the wider world and find out more about the difference between those touched by the Outer Planes and those not so blessed (cursed?).

[Chulanowa]

Interested as well; however, I have a full day at work ahead of me

[Madam Striga]

I was just thinking I would like to find an ongoing game of some sort...here's the questionnaire:

1.) What are you hoping to see within a Dungeons & Dragons campaign? (Inform me of your expectations. Are you somebody that enjoys life-threatening combat encounters, prefer puzzle-solving, seek character developing story progression, or a combination of it all?)
I would enjoy of a nice mix of everything, especially character development and a strong plot/story.

2.) Are you comfortable with dark content if it arises? Is there anything you would prefer not see? (Essentially, I need to know what I should not include in this game so I can keep you comfortable and willing to participate.)
Not usually something I would initiate, but can get a feel for some when it seems necessary for the story and/or appropriate for the characters (PC or NPC) involved.


3.) Character Name: Micah Handeler
4.) Character Age: 20
5.) Character Race: Aasimar
6.) Character Background: Sage
7.) Character Class: Druid
8.) Character History: Discovered an affinity for the adoration of the local Moon goddess and studied as much as he could under the eye of an old hermit near his village.
9.) Why is your Character adventuring? Comes from a simple village and had not been aware of his heritage until he hit adolescence. Now entering his twenties, he has decided he needs to go out into the wider world and find out more about the difference between those touched by the Outer Planes and those not so blessed (cursed?).

Fellow moon worshipper here - wanna plot something out?

[Majabya]

I'm kinda new to DnD, my interest of late comes from watching some campaigns on youtube in my spare time, like Critical Role and all that. Either way, I'm eager to learn and play.

1.) What are you hoping to see within a Dungeons & Dragons campaign?
Good stories, good friends, good times, but more than anything I'm trying to learn the game better and get out of my shell as well. I guess I'm kinda like my character and just hungry for the experience.
2.) Are you comfortable with dark content if it arises? Is there anything you would prefer not see?
I'm surprisingly comfortable with pretty much anything as long as it's called for. The Cannibals gotta eat too and all that.

3.) Character Name: Rainy Skies (Rain for short)
4.) Character Age: 18
5.) Character Race: Tabaxi
6.) Character Background: Caravan Specialist
7.) Character Class: Ranger
8.) Character History: Rain warred with boredom day in and day out, his home town a humble host of hovels, barely more than a large camp stationed in the middle of grassy plains. Having heard a handful of stories from travelers over the years, the young tabaxi grew restless, he wanted to see more of the world than just this smattering of tents and blue skies. He wanted to meet an orc, to see a dragon, to see what all this ale stuff was about and why dwarves, whatever those were, drank it till they keeled over. So, after honing what skills he could, Rainy eventually left his home by stowing away on a passing merchant's cart. 
9.) Why is your Character adventuring?: The only thing that seemed to ease Rain's boredom in his youth were the stories he coaxed from vagrants and merchants, and because of this fascination, he wants to live out as many as he can. And if he gets to tell a child somewhere a tale that makes their eyes go wide, all the better.

[Blackbird]

What are you hoping to see within a Dungeons & Dragons campaign?
Good stories, good friends, good times,

Perfect answer in my opinion.

[Remec]

Fellow moon worshipper here - wanna plot something out?

Sure, sounds like a plan...*ducking back a page to reread Pigla's entry*...first thing that comes to mind is that Alin, your crackpot, could be my hermit and we might have had to sit through the same teaching sessions (maybe together, maybe separately) only you are following the clerical service and I feel in with the slightly more esoteric druidical one.

What else might we have done together? Maybe I helped you in learning Common...

[Madam Striga]

Sure, sounds like a plan...*ducking back a page to reread Pigla's entry*...first thing that comes to mind is that Alin, your crackpot, could be my hermit and we might have had to sit through the same teaching sessions (maybe together, maybe separately) only you are following the clerical service and I feel in with the slightly more esoteric druidical one.

What else might we have done together? Maybe I helped you in learning Common...

Hah, that would fit quite well. Poor Alin x) I do like the idea of him teaching her common (starting with swear words, obviously)

[Remec]

Hah, that would fit quite well. Poor Alin x) I do like the idea of him teaching her common (starting with swear words, obviously)

I think I usually follow the Sesame Street/Electric Company language pattern...colors and numbers, Days of the week, household items...and, yes, cursing once an attempt is made to use the new words among native speakers... hehehe

[Madam Striga]

I think I usually follow the Sesame Street/Electric Company language pattern...colors and numbers, Days of the week, household items...and, yes, cursing once an attempt is made to use the new words among native speakers... hehehe

Sounds good to me. It might also help explain, further, why Piggy is travelling - if she's being accompanied.

[Diesel Heart]

Alright, folks! With the two others that posted interest still working on character sheets and everyone else's characters being submitted, I'm going to close it off there for now. I will start working on the world and ask people questions through private message soon. Come Saturday, I will provide character sheets for everyone to fill out and we can get started on Monday, hopefully.

[Madam Striga]

Alright, folks! With the two others that posted interest still working on character sheets and everyone else's characters being submitted, I'm going to close it off there for now. I will start working on the world and ask people questions through private message soon. Come Saturday, I will provide character sheets for everyone to fill out and we can get started on Monday, hopefully.

Exciting!

[Brittlby]

Urz and Grem! In full effect! Woooo!

[pdragon]

looking forward to it

[Brittlby]

looking forward to it

We should get T-shirt’s made...

[pdragon]

there's probably a spell for that, like she has a magic symbol/ruin that she can paste on anything and they just go around putting it on everyone's clothes and armor saying it's "official merch"

[LSWSjr]

Nah, I know a goblin sweatshop where we can get them made for a couple silver each ^_^

Cheers
Rowan/LSWSjr

[Snake]

Sorry but i'm going to drop my interest here; I just can't get a character built up. >.< I just can't decide which one.

[Chulanowa]

Mind if I jump in that spot? On phone now, but can Chuck out a character later tonight!

[Diesel Heart]

Mind if I jump in that spot? On phone now, but can Chuck out a character later tonight!

sure!

[Chulanowa]

Still deciding between a Fighter or Paladin (leaning paladin), but otherwise I'm solid:

1.) What are you hoping to see within a Dungeons & Dragons campaign? (Inform me of your expectations. Are you somebody that enjoys life-threatening combat encounters, prefer puzzle-solving, seek character developing story progression, or a combination of it all?)
I'm a big fan of the "classic" feel - dank dungeons, ruins of nearly-forgotten empires, groady-but-charming NPC's, traps, rust monsters, and the sensation of the world being "lived in," if that makes any sense. I hate the "polished" feel of most MMO's where it's almost as if your character is the first being to ever be in a given place. Speaking of, one thing I'd like to avoid is LotR / Blizzard-style "doomsday of the week" scenarios; Maybe there is a great dark overlord gathering his armies and preparing to march in the near future, but we have rats to kill and copper to pilfer!

2.) Are you comfortable with dark content if it arises? Is there anything you would prefer not see? (Essentially, I need to know what I should not include in this game so I can keep you comfortable and willing to participate.)
Two main things I'm not down for are rape-as-plot-device (please, no orcish hordes with eternal hardons for elf maidens or whatever) and grotesque body horror. What I mean by the latter is... well, in horror movie terms, 1958's "The Fly" is okay, but 1986's version of "The Fly" is right out. Pain and death and loss are fine for me (I cut my RPG teeth on white Wolf games after all!) but outright prolonged torture is generally a no for me - torture my character, but with "you were tortured, and the gaoler had a thing for razors and needles,' that's all I need, can work with it from there. XD Also, please no zombie apocalypses - they don't bother me, buth tye do make me fall asleep.

3.) Character Name: Bryldora Stoutbluff of the Jokkyd Clan
4.) Character Age: 30
5.) Character Race: Mountain Dwarf
6.) Character Background: Mercenary Veteran
7.) Character Class: Paladin
8.) Character History: "Bryl" was born into the lap of privilege and prestige, as the daughter and sole heir of King Homdùr Stoutbloof of the Jokkyd Clan, ruler of the seacliff Fortress-city of, well, Seacliff. However, even the princess has the responsibilities of any dwarf, and the morning after her 20th birthday, she was inducted into the militia. The Seacliff Militia wasn't exactly the well-oiled machine one thinks of with dwarven militias; bounded on three sides by the sea and on the fourth by the friendly human city-state of (imaginativly) Seaside, they were pretty lax. Bryldora certainly learned plenty from the Drillmasters, armorsmiths, and veterans, but there was no sense of urgency or danger. After all, it's not like goblins could attack, right?

Well, they didn't have to; there was rot at the heart of Seacliff, a plot between two clans that had taken a dark, sour turn even in the time before Bryldora's birth; When Clan Hyggs finally made a move on its rival clan Gorthunak, the result was a swarm of undead and summoned monsters that overwhelmed the militia, adding many to their ranks. Hyggs lost control of their created army in short order, and the resultant two-day civil war culminated in a massive explosion that tore Seacliff from its foundations and threw it into the sea. Bryldora is one of the few survivors of seacliff who were fished out of the water or washed ashore. The actions of Clan Hyggs had no only poisoned their own name, but that of Seacliff as a whole, for having tolerated (even unknowingly) their heresies. Clan Jokkyd, as the rulers, bore the brunt of this shame; even the other survivors would have nothing to do with Bryldora, and spat the name of her father.

After some time with the other refugees in Seaside, Bryl struck out on her own, not just to escape their scorn, but to try to rebuild what she can of her family's name, maybe even holdings. Her pampered childhood has worn away in the realities of surface-dwelling exile, and battle against real foes alongside real armies.

9.) Why is your Character adventuring? her ideal is to redeem her family name in the Dwarven way - honorable actions, glory in battle, and bloody revenge against all who have ties to Clan Hyggs. Maybe her clan will never be kings again (as far as she knows she may even be the last...) but at least she can try to rebuild their standing in history. Her reality is that living requires gold, and there's always someone out there paying good gold for some hired steel; and when there's not, well, treasure has a funny way of being squirreled away in caverns and ruins...

[Madam Striga]

Still deciding between a Fighter or Paladin (leaning paladin), but otherwise I'm solid:

....

DWARF LADY O:

[Chulanowa]

DWARF LADY O:

Best ladies!

[Diesel Heart]

I have a few other people interested in this, so I am thinking of making this something akin to two groups of adventurers to help spread out things from a CR Encounter sake.  Before I do that, however, I'm curious what you all think of that.  If I do that, I'd expand the number of slots and this might grow into a bigger game.  Thoughts? Opinions?

[Brittlby]

It’s a lot of bodies for you to juggle, even in two teams. Also, play by post games have a low player retention rate. You might be best advised to start with what you have and have a secondary story hook to a Second Wave of players to replenish drop outs.

[Remec]

It’s a lot of bodies for you to juggle, even in two teams. Also, play by post games have a low player retention rate. You might be best advised to start with what you have and have a secondary story hook to a Second Wave of players to replenish drop outs.

*nods*
Yeah, that seems a good course of action...and if things seem like they're going to be solid for a while, then launch the second group on its own, but with the idea/concept that the two groups might become one group as the story progresses.