The Lantern Marches: Before the Long Frost

The first ice has reached the Glasshouse. Hearthcross has grain in its stores and firewood stacked for winter, but neither will keep its water pipes from freezing. The old heating works have gone cold. Four workers went north to inspect them six days ago. Nobody has returned.

You are joining the recovery company sent after them. Find the crew, learn what failed, and decide how to get the town through winter.

The Lantern Marches is a Pathfinder First Edition campaign about frontier survival and discovery. The Concord left behind enchanted roads, shelter stations, and machines people still depend on. Some can be repaired. Others need parts or knowledge lost generations ago. Your expeditions can reopen a refuge, save a settlement, or uncover a route beyond the maps.

I am looking for four players who will give their characters reasons to work together and care about the people living here. Expect travel, investigation, negotiation, and combat. I will advance the party at major milestones.

Character creation

• Level 3, 20-point buy, 3,000 gp.
• Maximum HP at the first character level, exact average afterward. Carry halves forward and round the final total down.
• Two traits, or three with one drawback.
• Humans, dwarves, elves, halflings, catfolk, and ratfolk may use original PF1 or Intrepid Realms revised stats. Other ancestries use their revised entry when one exists; those without one keep their own supplement’s stats.
• Paizo PF1 classes; Kobold Press New Paths Compendium: Expanded Edition; Orphaned Bookworm PF1 options; Legendary Games PF1 Legendary Classes. Exemplar, Vampire Hunter, and Omdura are allowed.

Read Character Creation for equipment rules and source requirements, Ancestries of the Marches for the ancestry policy, and Faiths and Deities for divine characters.

Posting and applications

Aim for three substantive posts per week. Combat normally uses 48-hour action windows. Tell me about planned absences and leave standing instructions if you need me to handle a turn.

Submit a Myth-Weavers PF1 sheet and a short background. Tell me who your character cares about near Hearthcross, what they want to discover, and why they are joining the company. Include references for third-party options, your HP calculation, and your starting purchases.

New applications close October 25, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time. Use the Application and Character Template to organize your submission. For the starting town and background connections, read Hearthcross and the Marches.

Applications use Open visibility: game members can read them, and only the applicant and GMs can reply. Keep character secrets in a GM-only exchange.