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1. 

   The ancients of Al’Grithm

    

   The trumpets of triumph

   Shall mark the time

   From sand and stone

   The shadows climb
    

   The ragged form skids across the floor, grinding to a halt at the base of the dais. The man shakes as he raises his face, spittle and sand coating his unkempt beard. 

   “Why are you here?”  The woman’s voice booms from her perch on the crystal throne. Her voice lingered, echoing from the empty room.

   The man’s lower lip began to tremble as he ducked his head. 

   “Why are you here?” The scraps of extravagant tapestry shook where they hung.  The woman slowly stood, her crown catching the desert sun.

   She raised her hand like a spear aimed at the man’s throat. 

   “Why are you here?” The man swallowed.  He sat back on his haunches looking out the window at the expansive, empty city and desert beyond. 

   He opens his sun-cracked lips…

    

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   The Announcement

    

    

   Queen Marta Elgar of Caldera has made an announcement; a tribesman from across the Alamakor Desert has provided the location of an ancient city.  She will lead an expedition there, all adventuring parties are welcome to join and will be cared for on the journey. 

    

   Queen Marta seeks to restore Caldera to what it once was.  In this great treasure hunt, those who recover the most will receive the most compensation.

    

   As any gatherings, rumors swirl around what may lie below, what the queens motivations are, the nature of different adventuring parties, and who can be trusted. 
    

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   Post Rate

   GM post rate will be ~3 times per week, players can post within that as they interact but to keep things going that’s how frequently the world will respond. This may be increased slightly for dialog as required.

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2. 

   A Scarred Moon over the Harrowed City

   The Moonscar

   The Moonscar is a 2012 One Shot for high level Pathfinder 1e characters, played in the universe of and with the rules of my other game on this site, Harrowed City.

   I do encourage you please do not search for or read any spoilers for this game. If you have already played through the Moonscar (beyond just a start-and-abort), I encourage you to take a pass on this game.
   
   Applying for this game:

   I will mark an application as "Under Consideration" as soon as it has -- at a draft level: Name, Stats, Class levels, Feats, Traits, Slot (1-5) and Roles (as below), and Description (1 paragraph), Background (large paragraph to a page), Personality (1 paragraph). This is just a one-shot, not a campaign, so don't go overboard with level of detail.
   
   Once we have 10 people marked as Under Consideration, I will disallow any further expressions of interest in the game.
   
   Once we have 10 under consideration I'll give apps in progress a 1-week max to either finalize their drafts, or maybe pivot to a slot that lacks competition. At that point I will accept the 5 slots. Don't bother with gear, spells, skills, etc. until accepted. At part of final tuning, please disclose and discuss your most powerful attacks or combos; if out of balance we will tune them down, or I'll devise and share Templates to assign to a subset of Moonscar monsters so that they remain on-par as a challenge.
   
   

   Character Creation and Rules

   Basic rules: Paizo + Psionics + Occult as found here: https://www.d20pfsrd.com/. Not restricted to PFS legal. No 3rd party content (except psionics and homebrew as provided on these pages). No variant rules, except as specifically called out by me here. When in doubt, show me the URL.

   Characters start at 15th level, 20 point buy. First level Hit points = Max. Each time you gain a level after first you will gain Max-3 hit points.
   
   Starting wealth: 240,000 gp

   PC races are exclusively the Harrowed City races.
   
   There are five available character slots. You'll state in your application which slot or slots you are competing for:

   • Slot 1: one 15th level pure harrowed gunslinger
   • Slot 2: someone with at least 5 harrowed gunslinger leevels
   • Slot 3: someone with at least 10 arcane spellcaster levels
   • Slot 4: someone with at least 10 occult spellcaster levels
   • Slot 5: someone with at least 10 psionic manifestor or divine spellcaster levels

   Note that my definition of what is arcane, occult, psionic or divine differs a bit from the norm, you'll see that reading about this game world's religions below.
   
   In slots 3-5, any spell progression -- to 4th (e.g. bloodrager), 6th (e.g. hunter) or 9th (e.g. cleric, wizard) level spells, can apply for the spellcaster slots.
   
   The slots should also cover the functions of Melee, Ranged DPS, Utility casting, Healing/Raise Dead (death will happen in this game, I expect), and crowd control. It's good for each function to be covered by more than one character slot. Given that firearms are a primary weapon in this era, I expect 2-3 of you to be very capable with them -- but not everyone need be.

   Classes:

   • Check out the Harrowed Gunslinger, with over 150 deeds and feats and options that let other classes interoperate with it, this gunslinger is an essential part of this game world. (Note that many gunslinger archetypes are allowed, but some are obsolete or banned. See that page.)

   • All available classes and what religions/supernatural affinities they have is on the second post here

     • If you are multi-classing, please limit yourself to a maximum of three classes plus one prestige class.

   • Unchained classes are in use.

   • Banned classes: antipaladin, summoner (chained), dread and mesmerist.

   • Banned archetypes: any that add Sneak Attack to a non-rogue class are banned. Druidic Herbalism is banned.

   • Highcaster nerf. If a class allows spells above 6th level, then 1/3 of your class levels (rounding down) must be in classes that do not stack with that class's spellcasting ability. This rule also applies to psionic classes that reach 9th level powers, namely: Psion, Tactician, Vitalist, Wilder. (In practice at 15th level you are capped to 10th level in a spellcaster class -- and you cannot stack prestige classes on top of that to reach higher spellcaster levels.)

   • Rogues: once a good class, but outclassed as the game evolved around them, here is our "rogue rescue package."

     • “Trapfinding” is banned for all but Rogue, Investigator and Cryptic. Magic traps are routinely cloaked against Detect Magic & similar magic effects. Master trap makers have learned how to make their traps trace magic to its source. Find Traps & similar magic can be counter-measured, making the old fashioned way of detection and disarming vital.

     • A rogue can change the ability score used for 2 skills.

     • Non rogue archetypes with sneak attack are banned, making rogues more unique. Gear that voids sneak attacks is rare/expensive.

   Alignment: respect and work with your team, don't be a psycho. In this particular game, some alignment diversity has some advantages, but you must all be motived to cooperate to accomplish the mission.

   Religion is homebrew and critically affects spellcaster classes. Each religion has exclusive access to one style of magic: Arcane, Occult, Psionic and Divine. You can only use magic of one style. Pay attention because a broad swath of abilities are exclusive to each of the first three.

   • Aetherism / The Celestial Sovereigns. The Arcane faith:  exclusive access to all forms of planar magic (including monster summoning). Divine classes (clerics, etc) of this religion cast Arcane magic. 

   • Spiritalism / The Harrowed Faith. The Occult faith: exclusive access to all forms of necromancy/communing with the dead, and to druidism. Exclusive access to druidism and shamanism. (The Harrower Queen is worshiped by some in this faith, but the majority would oppose and detest her.)

   • Triapsyism / The Psychic Unity. The Psionic faith: exclusive access to all forms of reading and changing minds. Clerics and such do exist in this tradition but they use psionic rules for casting.

   • The Narrow Way / The Path of Light. The Divine faith: Cannot use magic to directly harm the living (but OK to use vs undead, constructs, evil outsiders), cannot use dark, chaos or evil magic. +1 caster level when using channeling, healing, light, law, good magic. Banned from using piercing or slashing weapons (so no firearms).

   • Agnostic. None of the above. You can use items, gear and abilities of all styles freely, but you can’t level up in any spellcasting class.

   See here for more details on the religions.

   Skills:

   • Used: Background skills; Skill Unlocks, Occult Unlocks

   • Social skill will be against increased DCs and may have limited affect against relatively higher level targets, to compensate for Pathfinder allowing incredibly large stacking bonuses to skills.

   Feats:

   • Banned: Leadership, Flanking Foil, Tumor Familiar, Sacred Geometry. Also, try to avoid exploits lest they unbalance yourself relative to a team.

   • At creation, take either the Elephant in the Room Feat Tax Fix, or a bonus Feat + a bonus Trait.

   Traits:

   • Choose three, one of which will be a Moonscar Campaign Trait (see below).

   • If a trait is listed as purple on this page, it costs a feat or two traits instead. If not listed, ask.

   Other miscellaneous changes:

   • Multiclassing: Fractional base bonuses are used

   • You will not have an opportunity to return to base, sell items or replenish gear. The entire game is likely to be a few days in character.

   • Retraining opportunities or crafting opportunities will not be available.

   • No pre-game or in-game crafting. Each crafting feat that you purchase using a feat slot will give you +20,000 starting wealth to purchase items of the types that it makes. Crafting feats granted by your class at first level will give to +10,000 gp starting wealth instead.

   Major changes around Gunslingers and classes sharing resource pools.

   • Interoperable Grit, Panache, Luck, Ki, Inspiration. These powers are all interchangeable in a common pool. You may benefit from multiple ability score boosts to this pool but only if the ability scores providing the resource are different.

   Firearms rules:  Guns are everywhere and firearms are a critical part of the environment. Read the firearm rules here, and consider the Harrowed Gunslinger which replaces the Paizo Gunslinger. Also be aware of Campaign Feats, which make firearms accessible to all classes.

   A note on balance:

   • Avoid cheesy exploits, or infinite-anything.
   • Please expect some foes abilities to be calibrated to your best attack and defense capabilities. There is no great merit to being hyper-powered relative to your peers. Do expect foes to mirror the kinds of things you bring to the table.
   • Any one particular strategy (e.g. reliance on intimidate, reliance on stealth, reliance on flight + ranged attacks) will often have countermeasures against it. You are up against high level opponents whose forces are unlikely to be caught repeatedly vulnerable to any one gimmick. So .. build characters with a mix of capabilities and not over reliance on one hyper optimized trick.

   Initial story setup, and campaign traits

   Initial Story Setup

   Runnik Gorestead was your trusted ally, a barbarian dwarf whose love for his hurling axes and meads was matched by his disdain for new-fangled firearms and urbanization. He had been with you for over a decade of adventures across the face of the Earth and all throughout the vast city-state of Ysidra. Your home in recent years has been here in the world's greatest city -- a harrowed and haunted city with multiple millions of inhabitants, densely inhabited, built and rebuilt across the millenia atop countless ancient ruins. In its Government District stand vast outsider-constructed megastructures: monuments to alien super-human egos of godlike beings who once aspired to rule this plane.

   Now your friend Runnik had suddenly gone missing, under suspicious circumstances. As he had saved your life, and vice-a-versa, many times, you had to find him and rescue him if need be.
   
   A few days into your investigation, a voice reached you by a magical sending.
   
   "I believe we share a common goal. I have information about the individual you seek. Meet me at midnight in the Dancing Lancer tavern."

   The Dancing Lancer was a tavern in the Harbor District that you and your trusted allies could reach by midnight of the day you received the message.

   At the appointed time, you arrived at the bustling tavern. It was in a wealthy neighborhood of the Harbor District, and a substantial fleet of foreign merchants had arrived in port. But in bustling crowd you met a man in an eyeless, red leather mask. He motioned for your to sit down in a side booth, before speaking in a hushed voice that sounded as though it might be disguised with magic.

   "I apologize for my rudeness in contacting you so suddenly and briefly, and thank you for meeting me here. I cannot tell you my name, but I am one of the PeersThe Peers are a group of nobles, artistocrats, high ranking guild members, and clergy who collectively rule the city. working anonymously to combat various evils afflicting Ysidra. What is doubtlessly more important to you than my name is how I can help you.

   "In recent months, I have been investigating the disappearance of a high-ranking government agent code-named named Osprey. I have discovered a series of similar disappearances throughout the Ysidran Republic and its affiliated islands, all of which occurred under similar circumstances. In each case, the missing person was last seen with an attractive stranger and appeared to be rapt with the new acquaintance's beauty and charm. Reports in most cases place the missing individual in the company of the same stranger, heading into a Government District mega-tower, a place called the Somal Observatory. Your missing friend is among those whose disappearance matches this pattern.

   "Our divinations have located several of those who vanished, as now being located upon the moon.
   
   "Long have reports spoken of a demon-tainted jungle on the surface of the moon—what we on Earth see as the Moonscar. It is there that I believe those abducted have been taken, though for what sinister succubus plot I know not. Few have the means to venture into such a realm, which is why I am here now, with you. There is little I can offer you beyond pointing you in what I hope is the right direction. Yet, if you can investigate the Somal Observatory, and find how that lets one travel to the moon, and there retrieve not only my missing agent and your friend, but any other captives of the demons there, then my faith in you will have been well-placed.

   "Now -- Whatever plan the Moonscar's Insatiable Queen and her servants have in the works, it has sped up drastically, and I fear for us all should they not be stopped."
    

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   You geared up and investigated for several days.
   
   The Somal Observatory was a tower, over two thousand feet tall, built in the central core of Ysidra. It was thousands of years old; it had been raised by arcane magic by beings from alternate realities, who for some time had contended for rulership of this Earth -- only to eventually abandon that project due to prolonged and destructive in-fighting orchestrated by the subtle manipulation of history's greatest diviner, the Harrower Queen, and immortal lich.
   
   The bottom ten or so stories of the Somal Observatory were simply houses and offices for people who lived and worked in the Government districts. But above that, the tower walls rose up, and up, and up ... to stupendous, dizzying, soaring heights.
   
   The tower was mostly hollow, but for struts and cross-beams. The inside was lit my sunlight through many crystalline windows. There were stairs that climbed upwards, but gradually rather then resembling worked stone, they morphed and became more rounded and organic-looking. For the tower had been grown, by magic, and was still a living artifact not a thing made by mortal hands. The spacing of the stairs grew more and more irregular, until about 300' upwards, only the most expert of climbers could proceed.
   
   You were all expert adventurers: you all had means of flight (*). And, so (watched by hundreds of curious gawkers) you simply flew upwards through this vast building. Its extreme size reflected the bloated egos and grandiose dreams of alien minds who once thought to rule this world as they reigned in extraplanar heavens and hells. Their infighting had been inspired and shepherded by the ever-devious Harrower Queen: who ages ago was Earth's savior -- though now she is the Harrowed City's secret occult ruler. But this is not her story.
   
   Atop the tower you found grand crystal observatory dome, with many telescopes and mechanisms for watching the stars, planets, moon, and other such celestial objects. About half of this area was in ruins, but about half cleaned and in working order, tended by golems. The golems served a mad old gnome you soon met, named Gavriel Glittercombe, who operated what he described as the Great Telescope. It not only brought the images of distant places close, but it bent space itself allowing transit to what places it could view and bring into focus.
   
   Gavriel Glittercombe confessed his delight in receiving many new recent clients, who were paying him well so that he could rebuild his golems and parts of his observatory.
   
   Pressing him on the details, it became clear that he, his telescope, and his golems were enabling the passage of succubi, and their beguiled partners, and others to transit to and from the moon.
   
   But the delicacy and complexity of the equipment and the variety and diversity of his golem forces was so great that you deemed it imprudent to engage in direct conflict to overpower Gavriel Glittercombe and seek to control the Somal Observatory for yourselves. But rather pay him to achieve your own transits, for your own rescue services.
   
   One of you went on a preparatory 24 hour scouting expedition. (The Great Telescope took at least 24 hours to recharge, and it required a clear cloudless line of sight to the moon to function.)
   
   When that mission (while dangerous) was successful, you had learned enough to prepare for your own voyage, and decided there was no time to wait.
   
   You paid Gavriel Glittercombe for your whole group to transit -- and you paid himThese pre-trip preparations cost you 45,000 gp.
   
   But I will not set back your starting wealth because of this. in advance for a return journey, he would be awaiting a signal via a permanent telepathic bond created with his familiar.
   
   Now, you must trust that he is both still alive and honorable enough to respond to it, or you will need some backup way to return from the moon! It is likely that succubi and their captives will still be coming and going: Gavriel Glittercombe never agreed to make your access exclusive.
   
   Your adventure begins, as you enter the Great Telescope's transport circle. Once sent of lenses focus on your group, while main cylinder of the telescope aligns on the distant moon. Gears whir and grind; steam puffs out of the machine, and it glows and vibrates. Then pace-time bends and shifts, and you take your first steps onto the lunar surface, entering the demon-infested jungle of the Moonscar.
   
   (*) Note: All PCs must either have a spell, ability, or item that grants them flight. Purchase one as needed. If you want to save money, you can pool resources and share a magic carpet. You won't be able to rely on flight constantly in this One Shot as it poses special risks, but at this level there are moments where the ability is a presumed must-have.
   
   (**) Note: Spells above 6th level are not available. So transit to and from the moon is not as simple as getting a scroll of interplanetary teleportation. It may require some elaboration construction, rituals, or artifacts to get back if Gavriel Glittercombe proves unreliable.

   Campaign Traits

   These traits both anchor you to the central mission, and position you relative to the Ysidra and its world.
   
   These compaign traits are "scaled up" relative to normal traits to be somewhat consequential even at the high level of 15.
    

   One Small Step:  The Great Explorer

   You were the first to be experimented upon, teleporting to the moon using the Somal Telescope.
   
   You have adapted to the moon's low gravity; you can report to others that they will similarly adapt in about 24 hours. Until adapted, movement is awkward, and combat more dangerous.
   
   You have reported back some basics of the Moonscar. The jungle itself has an atmosphere, but it is extremely hot for 15 earth-days, and then extremely cold for 15 earth-days. Traveling straight through the jungle is a hard trek, and exposes one to much poisonous demon nettle sap. Large creatures cannot readily move through the jungle because of its density. Flight is faster but even more dangerous -- it attracts crippling strands of an astral parasite. There is some pack of monsters that moves about, clearing trails. So long as that force is at work, travel on the trails is straight-forward, but is liable to lead you from one habitation or patrol-point or structure of demons, to another.
   
   Prerequisite: This background kind of begs to be a ranger demon-slayer.
   
   Benefits: You are preadapted to lunar gravity. You start with a free Keffiyeh of Cooling. You have Knowledge (lunar)/1 rank -- and no one else in the world has any ranks in Knowledge (lunar). If you have skills or abilities pertaining to jungle terrain you may use them on abyssal terrain, and vs-a-vs. If you are skilled at both, use the best +1. (There may be additional circumstances in which others may find it harder to adapt their Earthly skills and abilities to this novel environment than you do.)
   
   A famed and far flung explorer -- you have seen it all. You were a natural choice to recruit for this mission, given your perfectly adapted skill set.

    

   The Moon's Harsh Mistress: Redeemed Betrayer

   You were seduced by a succubus, and received her dark blessing. For some months you served as a covert agent of evil within Ysidra -- roving around the colossal unearthly megastructures of the Government District, and mingling among the most wealthy, elite and influential of the vast urban city-state. You helped convey intelligence to the demons, and helped entrap others into seduction.
   
   At last, your will reasserted itself; you broke free of this depraved and sinister bondage, and you repented of the vile things your mistress's compulsion forced you into. That atonement was an arduous and costly process. Now you bear a wrathful grudge against your captor and her ilk, and your spirit is hardened against their influence.
   
   Prerequisite: non-evil

   Benefit: +2 will saves vs charm and compulsion. +2 to hit and damage vs succubi.
   
   You are likely an adventurer have served as companion to others in the group in the past. Being a person of some accomplishment and fame, your fall and restoration has likely become known to them, at least in rough outline if not in great detail. Though you had acquired a taint, they harbor no doubt about your earnestness to combat the Moonscar's Insatiable Queen and her minions.

    

   Government Faction Elite: At Privilege's Apex

   Within Ysidra's internal politics and divisions, you represent someone in the government hardliner faction. You are committed to protection and preservation of the community against all threats. For now, the Moonscar presents the largest threat, and so you are united with others -- with whom you might have some real differences -- against that threat. Being among the nation's elite, you have a little extra resources to bring to bear against problems.
   
   Prerequisite: lawful; race must be human, catfolk or dwarf.
   
   Benefit: You gain a +1 trait bonus on Diplomacy, Knowledge (nobility), and Knowledge (local), and two are class skills Additionally, you gain +30,000gp starting wealth.
   
   Beyond this mission: you work for stability and the prosperity of the status quo. The established nobility and aristocrats, the guilds and the military and academia: all of these time honored social structures must be conserved and protected, as they are integral to the power pyramid that supports the Government. In the long run, the Great Telescope is a strategic asset or a peril to the city's stability: it must be under the control of your faction, or destroyed.

    

   Communist Faction Elite: Prime Revolutionary

   The present injustice of Ysidra's rulership under corrupt nobles and aristocrats deeply disturbs you, and you are part of a mighty movement that hopes to someday soon establish a new and better social and economic order. You have a rebel's heart, and you know that much must be torn down, and it may take gentler hands that your own thereafter to rebuild anew. For now, however, a treasured comrade of yours has been kidnapped, and you must see him brought to liberty. That one urgent need overrides all other concerns.
   
   Prerequisite: chaotic, not evil
   
   Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on Diplomacy and Intimidate checks, and you may use Int or Wis on these if those scores are higher than Cha. Additionally, you acquire the Bombs feature of the alchemist class, but at 2/3 your character level. However, you do not count as an Alchemist in any other way. If you ever become an Alchemist with the bombs class feature, up to 4 of your non-alchemist levels will stack with your alchemist levels for bomb progression. If you become an Alchemist without the bombs class feature, this ability remains distinct but cannot benefit from any part of your Alchemist class features, such as Discoveries.
   
   Its clear that you motivation to accomplish this mission is strong.
   
   But after that -- you cannot trust some of your companions. They are ideological enemies. You are a leader of the coming revolution. The power of the people shall be unstoppable. The corruption of the present system will be purged in a storm of blood and fire. The Government and the Harrowers are your enemies. They and nobles and aristocrats and the guilds and bourgeoisie who have oppressed the working man and woman -- all those who have ground down orcs, goblins, halflings and others with boot of oppression -- they all shall be among first with their backs to the wall when the Revolution comes.

    

   Harrower Faction Elite: Occult Oligarch

   You serve the city's secret ruler, the undead lich called the Harrower Queen. She has long ruled this nation -- and the Insatiable Queen of the Moonscar is an ancient enemy and rival. You would destroy this enemy for your Queen, and doing so will raise up in her favor as the highest of her servants. You must tolerate working with your long-term enemies, for you have this vital task in common first. You must defeat the power behind the Moonscar.
   
   Prerequisite: evil alignment. You must invest at least 5 ranks in each of Disguise, Sense Motives and Knowledge(Occult). You have an Occult affinity and cannot use Arcane, Psionic or Divine powers.
   
   Benefit: You gain Harrowed as a bonus feat, a trait bonus of +1 to Disguise, Sense Motives and Knowledge(Occult), and two of these are class skills. Last you gain Spell Focus (Divination) as a bonus feat.
   
   There was a time when you were not so deep involved in the Harrower faction. Since you began to climb their ranks, many of your former companions have come to view you with grave suspicion or fear. You have had to make sacrifices during your ascent to power. This mission, however, promises the greatest ascent.

    

   Righteous Crusader: For Justice's Sake

   You need no complicated justification to be on this mission. Demons threaten civilization: they must be defeated. Captives are taken and suffering? They must be liberated. You have been around a long time; you know your way around the battlefield, around churches and religions, and around the planes.
   
   Prerequisite: lawful or good alignment, or both
   
   Benefit: You gain a bonus of +1 to Knowledge(religion), and Knowledge(planes), and both are class skills. You can lay on hands three times per day, with effect as a Paladin of your level; additionally, you know a single mercy. If you are actually a paladin, these stack with your existing uses and mercies.
   
   You were a past adventuring companion of Runnik, and of any who adventured with him. Your reputation as a crusader will proceed you in this group.

    

   Bosom Companions: An Ardent Heart

   Whereas Runnik Gorestead was known and proved his value to all in this expedition, he was something more to you.
   
   Perhaps you are siblings, perhaps partners, or perhaps you simply adventured together since 1st level. In any case, your bond with the barbarian is deeper and stronger than any others.
   
   Prerequisite: not lawful, not evil
   
   Benefit: +1 trait bonus to Lore(dwarves), Lore(mead) and Craft(bee-keeping).
   
   Once you are within 1 mile of Runnik Gorestead, you will gain a +1 morale bonus to all ability scores. Once you are within 1000' of him, you will gain a +2 morale bonus to all ability scores. These bonuses apply only until you and he escape the Moon or die trying.
   
   Everyone who knows you, going back decades. Aiding you, their friend, and rescuing Runnik, are one and the same.

    

   Publish or Perish: the Academic

   You retired from a career as an adventurer, and have spent a number of years among the best and brightest minds in one of the arcane, occult or psionic institutions of higher learning in Ysidra. You've been in a dry spell of research and publication recently, and that is threatening you with the potential of failing to achieve tenure.
   
   One or more of your adventuring companions reached out to you, offering the opportunity to join this interplanetary expedition. You jumped at the opportunity: perhaps you are motivated by the rescue opportunity, but you are certainly motivated by the extraordinary chance this affords you to make breakthrough research. Publishing the discoveries you hope for should rejuvenate your career.
   
   Benefit: You have a magical thesis. After 24 hours of experiencing life on the moon and making at least 5 successful diverse investigative skill checks, you get to prove your thesis, and reveal to your companions what it is you have discovered. The benefit is: you the gain 1 bonus metamagic or metapsionic feat of your choice, and you learn 1 bonus spell or power of the highest level you are able to cast or manifest, along with either a permanent boost of +1 spell slot of that level or 2*level-1 power points.
   
   Several of the PCs should take the stance of welcoming you back to their adventuring party after your prolonged immersion in civilian academic life.

    

   Son of a bitch: the succubus-spawn

   The Insatiable Queen has been sending her minions to the earth for a long time, but before the Somal Tower had its Great Telescope activated, they had to travel the slow way: via a Fly spell that took two years to make the transit through the vacuum, cold and heat of space.
   
   Your mother was a succubus who made that journey; your father was a mortal now vanished -- either dead or entrapped on the moon, or lost to some unknown fate.
   
   Benefit: While Tiefling is not a regularly approved race for this game, this option lets you be an exception. You may be any race of Ysidra crossed with a Tiefling. Use Tiefling as your base race, and for your mortal side you are treated as of that race to meet prerequisites, for cosmetic purposes, to qualify for favored class bonuses. You may use either the basic Tiefling stat bonuses (+2 Dex, +2 Int, -2 Cha) or the demonspawn stat bonuses (+2 Str, +2 Cha, -2 Int), or mix-and match (+2 Dex, +2 Cha, -2 Int). You gain one bonus tiefling alternate racial trait and one bonus tiefling racial feat. If your secondary bloodline is a small race, you may be small.
   
   You likely spent your life suffering a lonely and alienated life, enduring hardship and persecution due to a heritage that makes you feared and distrusted by post. However, some of the other PCs will know you well, and within their adventuring community you can be respected and appreciated.

    

   Gleam of Heaven: the Outsider

   You have been sent from afar, as an agent of higher planar powers who wish to remedy evils done to this solar system. Your mission is to eradicate the evils of the Moonscar, and if possible to provide aid, healing or restitution to lunar natives who have suffered harms due to the invasion of their sphere. Your assignment is primarily for the good of the Moon, than of the Earth -- as the Earth has its own gods and patrons who care for it, while the Moon has been somewhat neglected by the Higher Powers of the Great Beyond.
   
   Prerequisite: Good alignment.
   
   Benefit: You are from some place completely different than everyone else in this campaign. Your primary race is Aasimar, and your mix-in race can be any Core, Standard or Advanced race. You may choose to be any variant of Aasimar. If your secondary bloodline is a small race, you may be small.
   
   Disadvantage: Everyone can see that you are quite foreign; some may appreciate that while others dislike it. You do not speak the local common tongue, nor is their time to learn it. But you may be able to communicate through magic, or through some racial language. While most of the other PCs will know each other, you are an outsider to their community.

    

   An eye for profit: Guild Leader

   You represent one of the major guilds of Ysidra. While others on this mission have a short term goal, such as "defeat evil" or "save captives" or even graciously "save the Earth", you have your own mission: to discover Lunar natives (the true natives, not these pesky demonic interlopers) and to establish a trade and commercial relationship with them. Gaining access to and ownership of the Great Telescope is paramount to establish a trade monopoly -- but follows second after verifying that there are natives worth trading with. Or exploiting. Or colonizing. Or with natural resources to plunder. One way or another, you've got your eye out for profit and for what is best for the Guild, of whom you a principle leader and active agent.
   
   Prerequisite: true neutral.
   
   Benefit: Once you interact in three separate non-violent encounters with differing non-demon intelligent lunar natives, you will discover a significant financial opportunity on the Moon. This might take a day or several in-character to accomplish. In the near term, this will manifest as a valuable magic item (to be determined, but up to 40,000 gp in price and chosen by me based on your character build.) This will also shape your character's long term goal.
   
   You may be perceived by your peers as an untrustworthy or unprincipled self-seeker. The other faction leaders present on the mission will know you well; all the factions maneuver to gain benefit from the guilds, or to utilize the guilds as allies or tools -- so you are familiar with their political posturing and maneuvering.

    

    

    

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   This is the pathfinder 1e "one-shot", The Moonscar, for 15th level characters, in the homebrew setting of my other game on the site, The Harrowed City. It's Gunslingers fighting demons in space!
   • Pathfinder 1e
   • closes August 8
   • Guisewhy
3. 

   Final Fantasy: Sins Of The Past

   The world is dying.
   
   You can barely even remember your name, but you can feel the world slowly dying beneath your feet. Mana, once a vibrant energy source that you could tap into, flows faintly through the world, and it is wrong in a way that you can not place words to. This is the world to which you awoke, your body tired and your possessions seemingly aged by the ravages of time you neither felt nor observed.
   
   The great nations of the world are embroiled in war or withdrawn into themselves, the usual arbiters seemingly inactive while chaos reigns. Something calls to you, like a siren’s song which guides your feet to a destination which is both familiar and foreign all in one. A power calls you, for what reason, you can not say… But like a moth to a flame, you head onwards.
   
   For weeks you walk, seeing what became of the world. Each day brings new sorrow, new tragedy, new heartbreak. But finally, you arrive at the destination. A tavern, much like any other. The sign denotes it as The Fat Chocobo, and it is one of the few buildings in this militarized town which seems to have held up well.
   
   On the stage, a young elvaan woman with golden hair like sunlight plucks at a harp, and smiles as she sees you, almost like you are familiar to her. A few others seem to have found tables and watch her with interest. They too seem familiar but you can not put your finger on where or when you saw them, much less who they are.
   
   The performer starts into a story as you find a seat, her voice soft but pure, carrying through the bar on what seems like magic itself. ”Long ago, before the world was born, the light of the six crystals was all there was.” Her fingers dance along the harp as she speaks, creating magical illusions in the air as she goes. ”But it was empty, and so the dark crystal created the first night. But there was something still missing, and the crystal of light created the sun and the stars.”
   
   ”’But there is nothing here!’ exclaimed the earth crystal, who then created Terra and the three moons.” The illusionary world spun through the air as its moons joined in the complicated dance around it. ’But nothing on the world moves!’ Exclaimed the water and wind crystals at the same moment, and slowly the world changed. Seas and storms swirled around the world. But soon the water began to freeze, and lastly the crystal of fire acted, warming the early world.”
   
   ”And for a time, it was just the crystals, Terra, the moons, the day and night… But the world was still empty. The crystal of earth created the first life, born from the very rock itself. He called them Galka, who would be as strong and durable as the world itself.” Soon the great desert was populated by tribes of Galka, their campfires lighting the desert wastes as the illusion moved through the air. ”Not to be outdone by her brother, the crystal of wind soon brought forth the Mithra. The were blessed by the crystal of wind, for the world would be their home, moving freely as the winds.”
   
   ”Soon too they were followed by the Tarutaru in the southern reaches and islands, blessed by the crystal of water to possess great reserves of magic. Humanity was fourth, given the gift of inner fire to see them through the harsh challenges of the frigid northern mountains.” The world quickly began to fill with the lights of campfires and cities as civilizations grew out of those first peoples. ”Finding the world quickly filling with life, the crystal of light created her children in the sky, giving the Elvaan the gift of wisdom. Lastly the dark crystal created vast caverns beneath the earth for the dwarven nations. The dark crystal looked upon the world and could not decide upon a gift to give just her people… For she cared for all those who lived upon the world and gifted them a release at the end of their lives.”
   
   ”But the full world was not as peaceful as the crystals would have hoped. War eventually came to their new world. To create peace, each chose a champion… A crystal knight to keep the peace.” The illusionary world faded away until just the light crystal’s knight remained, their face obscured. ”For here our tale takes a turn… For the great knight of the light crystal wished to end the pain and suffering that was death.”
   
   ”The knight set forth and snuck into the dark caverns where the dark crystal lay. On entering the dark crystal’s realm, the knight raised their weapon and demanded that the dark crystal surrender and pay for her crimes. The dark crystal did what the knight did not expect, and offered her life to the knight.”
   
   ”’If my death would bring you peace, I would gladly give you my life.’” A voice said from one of the tables. The performer smiled almost sadly and picked up the story, ”The knight was confused, shocked that the woman in front of her was not the evil monster that the knight had always assumed. And so the two talked, and slowly became more.” As the two figures moved closer, a third figure entered the scene.
   
   ”Abomination!” The illusionary dark knight cried and drew his massive sword. The two knights engaged in battle as the world beneath them shook with the might of their struggle. Round and round the two illusions went as the performer plucked at her harp again. ”The two foes were a match for their opposite in every way… But the knight of the dark crystal was not prepared to fight to a draw. He committed the first Sin and cast a spell to permanently encase both the knight and crystal in stone. He decreed that they should not have been together in life, and so too they should not be together in death.” For those looking closely, the knight’s eyes glowed a faint red as the knight faded away, his eyes last to disappear.
   
   ”One by one, the light of the crystals dimmed: earth, wind, water, fire… Until at last the great airships of the Elvaan withdrew… Not to be seen again.” The performer seems sad as she looks at the figures gathered around the stage, making eye contact with each them one by one until she reaches you. ”It has taken me three hundred years to gather the power to undo that dark magic… I fear I am much too late.”

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   Heroes of a nearly forgotten age raise up to fight back against the forces of darkness.
   • Final Fantasy D6
   • closes August 3
   • KellyCat
4. 

   Nidavellir Imperative

   As worshippers of the great and powerful Norse gods has waned from the time of the Vikings into the modern era, so too has the glory of Asgard and her Aesir and Vanir people. The annual hunt of the 'warrior-born', their rite of passage from being young whelps into not just adulthood but to be counted as a Warrior of the Realm Eternal, has winnowed to a once a decade event because of the decline of new births. The Warrior's Challenge has come along once again and a new crop of Asgardian would-be-heroes rise to face it. It is a simple challenge; take the heads of several of Asgard's most fearsome foes; the Jotun. But before setting out, Odin himself reads an omen and warns the young warriors that there may be something more to their mission and that they must see it through for the sake of all the Nine Realms.

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   Young Norse gods set out from Asgard to prove their worth as warrior of the realm eternal. Their challenge is simple but soon becomes troubling as they may be the last line of defense to stop an all-out war between the Nine Realms.
   • D&D 5e
   • closes July 31
   • Papa Bear
5. 

   Castle Whiterock

   

    

   "As the flame of my second life sputters and dims, I find myself thinking more and more on those heroes who, though we first met as enemies, granted me another opportunity to sip from life's cup. Great were their deeds and deep their wisdom, yet the tale of their adventures in Castle Whiterock has not been told: the helpless lives they saved and the wicked lives they ended, the diabolic ingenuity of their adversaries, the desperate moments when hope was faint, and their final victory over the terrible dragon Benthosruthsa."

    

   The Basics
   
   Rules System: Level Up Advanced 5th Edition
   Theme: Dungeoncrawl
   Starting Level: 1st
   
   Flavor: Castle Whiterock will have a very old-school mega-dungeon feel, the kind that Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz used to run for each other back in the days when the spells in the PHB were named after actual player characters and random tables controlled all aspects of an adventurer’s life.
   
   Plot Hook: A few days march from the town of Cillamar, in the Kingdom of Morrain, lies a many-centuries-old ruined castle, named Whiterock. Rumors speak of it being held in the past by monks, orcs, gnomes and even dragons. But the ruin has sat quietly undisturbed for generations, and Cillamar has grown into a thriving mining and trade town since. But is all truly as quiet as it seems within the ruins of the ancient castle?
   
   Adventure Summary: In the course of adventuring in the 15 levels and 14 sublevels of Castle Whiterock, the heroes will uncover secrets from the castle's history as they seek out fortune and glory. In order to best the dungeon, the party will have to explore many strange locations, such as orcish mines, underwater ruins, a forested demiplane, a “tower” carved from a giant stalactite, a duergar fortress, and the volcanic heart of the mountain. Along the way, they will have the opportunity to partake in several sub-quests that could net them extra wealth and XP.
   
   Perhaps they will find powerful allies and lost artifacts to help them against Benthosruthsa, the great red dragon dwelling at the bottom of the dungeon. It’s also likely they will make powerful enemies. Many of the adversaries of Castle Whiterock don’t stand around waiting for the heroes to come to them – they go looking for the heroes!
   
   Are you brave enough?
   
   GM Info: Hi there! It's Billy Watford. I’ve been GMing (DMing, Storytelling, what have you) for these last 35+ years, and gaming a touch longer. I’ve run what feels like hundreds of adventures via Paizo, WotC, TSR, and many others over the years and have currently many games running here on Myth-Weavers.
   
   My GMing style focuses more on what makes a good story, and less on things like exploiting the loopholes in rules to their fullest. I like characters that are cards to begin with, but I LOVE characters that develop over the course of a game. Don’t make me deal with two-dimensional characters that have one annoying trait they exploit over and over, and I won’t have to make a tarrasque show up. Deal? Deal.
   
   What kind of player am I NOT looking for?
   People who have played this adventure before (Sorry), and Power Gamers (not sorry) and rules lawyers (really not sorry).
   
   What kind of players AM I looking for?
   Ooh, this one is good. I am not really looking for players at all. I am looking for a cast of characters. I’m looking for someone who’s committed to not only a good plot progression (characters or players that stifle the plot make me want to scream), but character development. I want to see your character grow into their role. I want to see selfish street rat become swashbuckling hero! I want to see bored pencil-pushing acolyte become punishing wrath of an angry god! LET’S DO THIS.
   
   I’m also looking for people who can follow basic rules of grammar. That being said, I can be pretty lenient about mistakes. BUT...for the love of god, in a system like this, where you can edit minutes, days, weeks later...take a little pride.

    

   Character Creation

   First of all, this is a complete conversion to Level Up - Advanced 5th Edition from D&D 3.5 so a LOT has changed.

   Character Creation & Play Guidelines: This document has everything you need to participate in one of my games. Includes rules for character creation guidelines and much more.
   
   Character Creation and Play Version 3.1

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   Character Submissions: You will also need to start a thread in the application thread for your submission.

   Applications - Myth-Weavers
    

   If you have any questions about my rules for character building, setting, or any thoughts about character backgrounds, or to request that I review your character then you can do so by using the links below.
    

   Application Questions & Answers - Applications - Myth-Weavers

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   Generating Ability Scores: The first post in your character thread should contain your ability score generation and nothing else. To determine your ability scores, you can use whichever method that you like, you may use the standard 27 point-buy method, the static array, or you may choose to roll your stats by rolling four 6-sided dice and sum up the three highest rolls. Repeat this process six times to generate your stats.

   If you chose the roll method, you must take the stats that the dice gods have given you, good or bad, that is the hand in life that you have been dealt. Some of  the best heroes come from a tough beginning and overcoming adversity.
   
   If you are new to Myth-Weavers a guide to how to use the dice roller is available.

   Dice Tower - Articles - Myth-Weavers

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   Character Thread Template: You are welcome to use the following template. It is designed to include all pertinent details about your character for quick reference by both the Narrator and yourself as the player. By keeping this post current in your character thread, you eliminate the need for a separate Myth-Weavers character sheet. Ensure that your posting template provides a link to your character thread for convenient reference. The character template should be the second post in your application.

   Character Thread Template - Library - Myth-Weavers

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   Character Posting Template: The third post in your application should be your posting template. I have created one that you can feel free to copy and use if you like. (See Character Thread Template link above.)

    

   Free Online Resources

   Main Website

   Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E) (levelup5e.com)

   All the Rules

   Home | Level Up (a5e.tools)

   Character Creation Walkthrough

   Character Walkthrough | Level Up (a5e.tools)

   Campaign Setting

   This campaign takes place in my World of Elissar campaign setting, all relevant information can be found at the below website.

   The World of Elissar (campaign setting website)

    

   Technical Stuff

   Application Deadline: August 1st, 2024 midnight (US Central Standard Time)

   Post Requirements: Minimum posting rate of two to three times per week.

   Party Size: Looking for 5 players.

   Can I submit more than one character?
   No. I'm going to go ahead and limit it to one character submission per person. That being said, feel free to change your character concept as much as you want between now and the close date!

    

   Final DM Note

   I know the above is a very, very lengthy process to go through to apply for a dungeon crawling online pbp game. I also know that some of you will be turned off by it. Some of you will cringe, but others will pour their heart and soul into their character and create something absolutely beautiful. When I have used this process before in the past it has given me the best roleplayers I have ever seen in a game and also the most committed group of players that are still going strong after two years of play. If you are looking for a quick game of fun and just want to slash up some bad guys and do your thing then this campaign is not for you. If you are looking for more.... then look no further than "Castle Whiterock".

    

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   Castle Whiterock will have a very old-school mega-dungeon feel, the kind that Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz used to run for each other back in the days when the spells in the PHB were named after actual player characters and random tables controlled all aspects of an adventurer’s life.
   • Level Up 5e
   • closes August 1
   • bwatford
6. 

   The Cold Rule of the Frostbite Tyrant

   I'm checking interest for a homebrew that would use the 5e Tyranny of Dragons and the BX module Night's Dark Terror as an (extremely loose, basically just get some broad plot points and ideas for locations) base/primary inspiration, but be set in a homebrew setting and use the True20 system (bit of a blast from the past, here's a link if you've not heard of it: True20 - Wikipedia).

    

   The deep history of this homebrew is that it appears to be a normal fantasy setting on first glance, but deep down it's probably more like Numenera or a similar 'sufficiently advanced' science kind of setting. The basic concept is that it is a planet in the very middle of the Boötes Void (Bootes Void (Wikipedia) that's essentially isolated from the rest of the galaxy. It was colonized and/or terraformed many millennia or millions of years ago by some kind of super-advanced human or post-human society.

   But a large portion (the majority?) of this high technology has been forgotten and is currently confined to clearly artificial 'vaults' which lie deep underground, deep beneath a worldwide network of tunnels similar to the 'Hollow' from Gears of War. This 'vaultcraft' or 'vaultwear' is considered to be quasi magical to the degree it is understood at all. However, there are also ruins of what appear to be a high-tech society strewn throughout the planet -- large structures made of glass and steel stand in the middle of isolated wildernesses. Overhead, the great 'sky bridges', immense orbital rings similar to the Halo rings from the eponymous franchise, can clearly be observed by this planet's terrestrial inhabitants.

   Several other unusual elements of this planet suggest it is either a heavily engineered natural object or a completely artificial construction:

   Most of the continents rotate in an elaborate dance throughout the oceans, moving much faster than would be possible through natural plate tectonics. Several continents levitate or levitate during portions of their constant peregrinations.

   The oceans are primarily shallower than earth in the broad shelves that surround the continents, but much deeper in the vast middle reaches of the seas. These wide and broad abysses descend into artificial vaults in many instances and appear to be the outlets of a worldwide energy creation and or transformation supernetwork.

   Most of the planet has a temperature and clime that is arctic to subarctic -- similar to the climactic bands between the upper Midwest to the Arctic Circle. A small ring of the planet at the poles -- known as the canceric and anti or ante canceric tropics, are tropical or subtropical, similar to the Florida everglades, Mississippi Delta, and/or the Amazonian basin. These zones appear to be correlated with the massive 'fire seas' at the summit and bottom of the planet which may be the ocean-sized outlets of the planetary factory/energy core.

   The planet is surrounded by dozens of moon-sized orbital objects that are hollow and are clearly the product of intelligent manufacture to those with the ability to observe them closely through a telescope or similar artificial device.

   Though, upon first glance, this might appear to be a fantasy setting, there is probably an at least plausible science fiction explanation for most apparent 'fantasy' peoples, places, things and phenomena. For instance, the 'dragons' might be dinosaurs subjected to genesplicing and injected with alien DNA a long time ago -- your character(s) would probably have no idea about that except for vague traditions about ancient alchemists twisting reptiles borne in arks of steel and fire that descended from the seventy seven heavens -- i.e., it's just background. The current state of affairs appears, on the surface, to be a magical arctic setting, except the 'deep explanation' for most of the phenomena is some kind of 'sufficiently advanced' technology = magic similar to Numenera. Most of the 'monsters' are genesplicing experiments of various sorts and the 'magic' is nanotech or something like biotics in Mass Effect (the magic system would still be the standard pathfinder magic system, it's just that the fluff would be that it's based on nanotech or some kind of paracausal powers like in Destiny, Mass Effect, Star Wars, or Coriolis). The 'dragons' are probably dinosaurs or other megafauna genespliced with alien DNA by ancient 'genemathematicians'/'genehermeticists'.

   The initial campaign premise is that you're going to start out in a town (Frostfang/Chorachost) that's built around two fangs of a city-sized dead dragon (or dragon-statue, no one is really sure). The town has two trade partners -- a barbarian hunting camp on an island and another, larger, fortified town that's a colony of one of the Eight Baronies of the south. The feel/ambience is similar to Skyrim and and Ralph Bakshi's 'fire and ice'. There's an ancient tomb on a mountain overlooking the starting town -- similar to Bleakfalls Barrows in Skyrim. This starting zone is on the edge of one of the aforementioned tropical zones at the roof and base of the planet. The ancient town of Bluesleep was once the center of the bloodice-tea ceremonies of the Cryoraptorian Slavering Realm.

   The continent north of the starting zone is much more ice age/primeval in aesthetic and technology level and primarily consists of the disparate 'thouman/kurulthaag' of the warlike maalisan (wild men), white orc, and yeren peoples-- their semi nomadic empires, established on the bones of a more ancient elven civilization, are the dominions of the Snowflake Tyrant. The starting area (on the northern shore of the starting continent) has a number of other factions/areas/events going on -- the yeren (yeti) empire of the northern continent of Phlegilon/Plegilon is one of the main servitors of the Frostbite Tyrant -- a mysterious creature that's similar to King Ghidorah in Godzilla. He was awoken from a deep ice tomb miles beneath the earth by crazed archeologists who became his first cultists. He seems to have abilities similar to the Legion of Everblight from Iron Kingdoms in that he has a despoiling aura that can be used to extend his conscious presence into servitors, including the yeren priest-king Azkoog the Indomitable. The forces of the yeren and the white orcs (bolgazog/bulazuur), and the 'wild men' (mallisan) have set up several forward camps in the starting zone and are pushing inwards looking for the purported location of the mana-well sought by their draconic god-which is probably actually a island-sized hyper drive reactor of some kind.

   There's also another dragon lord known as Kamabuzda that lives in the depths of the oceans between Kathomon and Pheligon/Plegilon/Phelgilon that's also looking for the mana-well and possesses its own legions of deformed servitors.

   There are two predominant 'genealogies' or 'species' of races based on what exotic sci-fi fuel polluted their area in the past -- one set are 'were kint' that have mischwesen (mixed animal, like neo-assyrian sheddim/griffins or centaurs) or similar beastial forms. The other are 'mana kint' -- possessing elemental forms. The basic concept would be that with certain triggers characters can assume there manamorph or weremorph. These are represented by races such as undine or other genasi stand-ins, or appropriate class choices (druid, alchemist, shifter, hunter) with shifting powers.

   Humans/Sapients

   • Varidan/Varidoran: The main primary ethnic group of the Varadian Republic that used to rule the Eight Baronies of southern Kathomon. An industrious, mercantile people that are also highly militaristic. Their cultures is a mix of medieval Iberia, Venice, as well as ancient Rome and Macedon. Their capital of Thal-amun-Varidoth is similar to Lankhmar.

   • Cheirsulari: The druidic and hunter-gatherer peoples who form the original population of the Barony of Gaulsir, of which the township of Frostfang (Chorachost) is a colonial dependency. Their culture has a Finnish/Celtic aesthetic.

   • Osalavdun: Pale-skinned, bald -- believed to have 'elder blood' from the prehistoric civilization of the enigmatic Glassspinners. Live in isolated clans in the mountains of the Shalar Region.

   • Malisan/Maalisan: The so-called 'wild men' of the northern continent of Plegilon. They are similar to historical neanderthals and are believed to have interbred with yeren and orcs. They are renowned for their great strength and skill at hunting. At least some clans are rumored to be matriarchal theocracies ruled by half-breeds known as Lammia or Lammazu which combine the genus of a sabre-toothed tigre or similar predator with that of a Malisan amazon.

   Other Races:

   • Cryoraptors: Blue-scaled dinosauroids who once ruled an empire centered on the present-day Shalar/Salar Region. They ruled in the name of Slaaniatar the Maiden of Pain and Pleasure. A civil war with their dragon-angels and the followers of Asaelen, mistress of light, destroyed their empire. Many undead inculabulsan -- the pain priests of Slaaniatar -- remain entombed in the ancient barrows of the Cryoraptorian civilization, including the edifice that grimly overlooks the isolated settlement of Frostfang (Chorachost). Any player characters of this race will probably be descendants of the upstart adherents of Asaelen. These would be represented by kobolds with trait choices that express blue, black, and white draconic heritage.

   • Xollital/Xoxolitol: Blue and purple ice salamanders. The previous 'chosen people' of Slaaniatar that were replaced when their dragon-angel fell from the favor of the goddess known as the Hungry One. They currently live in subterranean caverns. A small number are explorers. Many have abandoned their worship of Slaaniatar and now venerate a pantheon of eight hero deities, most of whom are tricksters.

   • Mimkin: White mink bipeds. Tricksters, traders, caravan folk. They are scavengers that live in clans on the edge of the northern townships. They acknowledge no absolute law except their own, including the 'civilized' notion of private property.

   • Ice gnomes/Ukkanaq: Ram-horned peoples who live on the highest peaks of mountains. They are renowned as mystics and seers, as well as masters of gemnomancy. They were previously slaves of the Xollital and Cryoraptors.

   • Snowflake Elves: Mysterious adherents of the snow dragon goddess Tzamakaga and her council of 'white women'. Extremely white--blindingly white, skin with blue, pink, and purple veins and blood and hair. They are famed for their knowledge of snow magic, which combines elements of illusion and cryomancy, as well as their three-headed arctic fox-hunting steeds. Tzamakaga is considered to be a trickster and inter-dimensional traveler. She is currently believed to have departed on a tour of the nearby stars for an unknown purpose. She has been gone for roughly a decade.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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   The island-continent of Kathamon or Katmon or Kozomon is surely amongst the most remarkable realms of the kingdoms of Estral-Veliis. It's northern portion is a fearsome icy waste. Its southern portion is a verdant land of semi-tropical forests that contain the Eight Kingdoms. The lofty peaks of the intertwining ranges of the Rainshadow, Thundershadow, Stormshadow, Lightningshadow, and Hailshadow Mountains that form the stony spine of Kathamon divides these distinct biomes so decisively that each side of the mid continental divide might as well be a separate world. In the north, lapped by the chilly waters of the Inner Sea of Cadmusia, the Isle of Karmathag stands as an isolated outpost of civilization. It is home to the settlements of Minikog, an outpost of the barbarian Kadyrian tribes, and the town of Namir's Rest, a dependency of the Kingdom of Ceracal. Of late, the peace of the Isle of Karmathag has been threatened by the forces of Samagsmolyandolsomanodolonta, the Frostbite Tyrant, a vile white dragon from the far northern continent of Plegilon. The merciless wyrm directs his armies of frost orcs and trolls and yeren to locate the Hidden Well, a reported mana lake of immense size and nigh infinite power from which the Frostbite Tyrant intends to draw forth the necessary power to condemn all lands of the living to an eternal chill... The Frostbite Tyrant and a dark pantheon of several other 'great dragons' or 'true drakes' have attracted to themselves a veritable legion of crazed fanatics known as the Mysteries or the Grand Mysteries of the Wyvern or the Grand Mysteries of the (Five Tails of the) True Drakes. The initiates of the Mysteries have infiltrated the major civilized realms of the canceric and ante-canceric tropics. In the ancient Salar Region, once the epicenter of the fearsome slaving empire of the cryoraptor civilization, dark rumors have been cast abroad that the isolated township of Bluesleep has been conquered by the sinister agents of the Mysteries. However, fortune would have it that an enterprising collection of travelers making their way upon the uppermost tier of the White Road or sakbejsakbejo'ob will soon have an opportunity to investigate the fell rumors...
   • True20
   • closes August 5
   • sanadnon33
7. 

   Temple of Xard

   Character creation will be using the GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Rules and using the templates and lens provided only.

   Well be using the GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Boxset but I am happy to use the series of pdfs for extra content. (I have pdfs 1 - 15) Source Books being used; GURPS Basic Characters, GURPS Basics Campaigns, GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Boxset, GURPS Dungeon Fantasy PDF's 1 - 15, GURPS Magic and GURPS Martial Arts.

   Character Point Buy: 250 points, -75 Disadvantages, 5 points Perks, -5 points Quirks. In addition I will allow players an extra 20 points to buy a racial template, those players choosing to be human will gain an extra 20 points spend on stats, advantages and skills.

   List of expectable races; Dwarves, Elves (Half-Elf, High Elf, Mountain Elf, Sea Elf and Wood Elves), Nymphs, Gnomes, Half-Orcs, Halflings and Human. If anyone wants to play another race run it by me first and I'll think about it but I feel there is enough options for everyone to choose from.

   Experience will be awarded either weekly or monthly depending on post rate, though I may change this to milestone - we'll see how it goes.

   There will be plenty of room for Role-play as it suits the PBMB format..

   We presently have a full party, any further applications will be put in as first reserves in case anyone drops out.

   • Dwarf Barbarian (Groan)
   • Half-Orc Holy Warrior (Necromyncer)
   • Human Cleric (Brother Rondell)
   • Halfling Thief (Lockheed Dobbins)
   • Human Mage (Ursella Farspell)
   • Nymph Bard (Amaranth)

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   Sometimes you want an intricate fantasy setting that encourages roleplaying and characterization – one with lovingly detailed cultures and plots, enabling you to give each hero a past, a family, and a home town. Sometimes you want to use every rule, making the game richer and more realistic . . . . . . and sometimes you just want to play a combat-monster warrior who stomps monsters and takes their stuff! Many – perhaps most – gamers started out playing simple dungeon-crawl RPGs or hack n' slash computer games. Some of us still recall that time fondly, but pretend to have "outgrown" it. But if you love the smell of fireballs in the morning, GURPS Dungeon Fantasy is for you. The Dungeon Fantasy series reduces GURPS to the essential abilities and rules you need to create tough dungeon-delvers, equip them with awesome gear, and defeat monsters and traps to get even more awesome gear. It provides the GM with advice on how to pose challenges and keep things interesting without unbalancing the game or killing all the PCs (unless they deserve it!). And as the series grows, we'll be adding new items that cover advanced characters and situations. So choose a good, strong archetype like "barbarian" or "thief," strap on your Accurate Orichalcum Broadsword of Smiting, stuff your potion belt with Great Healing Potions, and get with the program!
   • GURPS
   • closes July 30
   • Shub-Niggurath
8. 

   Every Day Heroes E. G. O. (Organized Play)

   Everyday Heroes is a game system where you are the hero! It is set in the modern world. It is inspired by action movies and comics. You can be a brute, commando, mastermind, or sleuth with a profession of field agent, journalist, intelligence, or military, for example. This isn’t high fantasy or action in space. This is gritty action in a version of our world.

   They have free 90-page demo that basically allows you to start playing.  This means you don’t have to invest in the full PHB unless you like the game. The full PHB just gives you more options so if there is anyone who is looking for 5E super hero game this is that. The Boys meets City Of Heroes is how you can think of it. 

   The first module will be Meat the Enemy. You are agents of Redemption, a clandestine global organization. When national governments cannot (or simply do not) get involved in protecting innocent people or the world itself, REDEMPTION’s mysterious “Board of Directors” selects a team of agents from all walks of life—Everyday Heroes—who are willing to step up and take action!

    

   REDEMPTION has been receiving reports from around the globe of dangerous and terrifying cryptid monsters, and the heroes must choose one of them to investigate. You are that team!

    

   The team will consist of 4-6 heroes.

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   Organized play for the Everyday Heroes game. They have free 90-page demo that basically allows you to start playing. This means you don’t have to invest in the full PHB unless you like the game. The full PHB just gives you more options so if there is anyone who is looking for 5E super hero game this is that. The Boys meets City Of Heroes is how you can think of it.
   • Miscellaneous
   • closes August 2
   • Shambala
9. 

   Adventure in the Great Realm of Farveld

   Welcome to this Dungeon Crawl Classics campaign set in my homebrew world!

   If you are new to DCC, the system is considered to be an OSR RPG. OSR stands for Old School Revival. These RPGs are modelled on the earliest RPGs to appear in the late 70s and early 80s, such as Basic D&D and the like. This game will be ideal for you if you love classic fantasy vibes. My homebrew world has a low-magic, slightly grimdark feel. The peoples of Farveld are humans, dwarves (heimfolk), orcs (grakthal) and the rarely encountered Callenthi. There are also less well-known peoples such as the Urshthal who are like human/bear hybrids.

   If you are after something a bit more fantastical, then you probably want to a join a game utilizing another of my favourite systems: 5e D&D. I run a lot of 5e, but for this game I wanted to go back to my gaming roots. Come join me if you want to experience a bit of old-school RPGing!

   The application process is as follows: Create a character. For backstory, give me a reason as to why they are in the bustling fishing town of Rishuuwhvind, which is where the story will begin. Rishuuwhvind sits on the shores of Anchlochfarr, a huge inland sea in the Realm of Farveld. Perhaps your character was born there. Or perhaps they are just passing through. Check out the Character Creation Thread on the menu bar for all the information you need on available classes and character creation.

   I'm looking for 5-6 players. I look forward to gaming with you!

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   DCC campaign set in my homebrew world. OD&D / OSR feel.
   • Dungeon Crawl Classics
   • closes July 30
   • Paul B
10. 

    Veins of the Earth

    You were an adventurer. Somehow you ended up underground. It happens as part of the job from time to time, but this is different. For some reason, somehow, you were trapped. Whatever escape plan you had (if you were smart enough to have one) failed or became impossible. Now you face the depths with whatever meager supplies you brought. You begin to realize all your previous underground experience barely scratched the surface. The caves you explored before were like pores in the skin of the earth. Now you walk the Veins. 
     

    Game System: Adjusted Dnd 5e
    Game Setting: Veins of the Earth, a gritty surreal version of the Underdark, taking place on (or under) a magical historically-adjacent Earth.
    Post Expectation: adaptable, but I'd like to see posts every other day or close to it.
    Game length: A few months, hopefully reaching level 6 at least.
    Number of players: 3-6

    

    This is a short experimental sandbox campaign. It's a mega-dungeon crawl taking place in a gritty surreal version of the Underdark. This campaign will deal with psychosis, cannibalism, slavery, and many other unpleasant fictionalized versions of real human behavior. The focus is on survival and the sometimes desperate ways we accomplish it. 

    I’ve been GM for a handful of games, a couple of which were on this site. I'm fond of converting alternate settings to 5e DnD. I tried this setting previously on the old site, but life happened and things generally fizzled out quickly. This game is intended to be shorter and faster paced in the hopes that momentum can carry it through to the end. I’ll be taking rolling applications as my schedule allows. They’ll begin as 1 on 1 games for the first handful of posts to gauge pacing then I’ll merge them into bigger threads. I’d like to see frequent posting, but I definitely understand when life takes you away for a while. If you disappear for too long, your character might fade into the dark. They’ll return if you do.

    Character generation instructions can be found in the application folder. Please skim the setting specifics, as there are some comprehensive changes to vanilla 5e.

    A note on tone
    This game takes place in a lightless, desolate, dangerous place where calories are scarce and you are closer to the bottom of the food chain than the top. This isn’t a game about your characters thriving and succeeding. This is a game about pushing them to their limits in interesting ways that force them to make hard decisions. Despite that, it’s not meant to be a horror game. This is a sandbox game and players will get to choose the direction/tone. There is no immediate goal, no main quest, and escape is only a fantasy at first. Shape the world or just make it to your next long rest. It’s up to you.

    Combat is always an option, but it can be entirely avoided if that’s what the players decide. This game is about decisions: deciding what to carry, who to fight, where to go, what to eat, when to rest, how much time to spend doing a task, and whether or not to drink that potion you just found.

    A note on gameplay
    This game will be highly lethal. Your characters will go down, possibly a lot. They might go insane or lose a limb. Random encounters won’t be level adjusted, and successfully escaping provides as much experience as defeating your opponents. Progression is mainly through sheer survival: Eat. Sleep. Don’t let the darkness get you.

    Also, being a PbP game, I expect the game to progress mostly through in-character posts. I’m completely okay with posts that do nothing to move the scene forward if they're concerned with character goals and motivations. Banter and discussion are welcome.

    If you have goals as a player about what you’d like to see and how you’d like the game to go, or if you want to clarify a distinction between something said by your character and how you actually feel, by all means post in the OOC. Otherwise post in character as often as possible.

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    Don’t Starve meets Lisa with a splash of Spelunky in this experimental sandbox cave survival game
    • D&D 5e
    • closes August 8
    • Alkemy
11. 

    Pathfinder Society 1E- Official

    Central community for Paizo's Organized Play Campaigns- Pathfinder Society, Pathfinder Society 2E, and Starfinder Society.

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    Central community for Paizo's Organized Play Campaigns- Pathfinder Society, Pathfinder Society 2E, and Starfinder Society.
    • Pathfinder 1e
    • closes August 31
    • Dax Thura
12. 

    Empire!4 Reloaded: A nation and world building game [Discord]

    Empire!4 Reloaded

    GMs: PotatoPriest, Zayuz, Avonthes

    With special thanks to Rolepgeek, Minescratcher, Lleban, and Tentreto for writing the rules, 
    Rolepgeek, Minescratcher and Tentreto for writing some of our lore posts, 
    And the fantastic Lleban for the map.
     

    Welcome to Empire!4 Reloaded! This is an offshoot of the Empire! series of play-by-post worldbuilding and nation building games. The current main title in this series is Minescratcher’s Empire!8. This offshoot game is aimed at recruiting newer players and giving them a classic Empire experience with a simpler and more archaic rule set. If you were a player in Empire 1, 2, 3, or 4, we love you but you are ineligible to play in Empire4! Reloaded. 

    We aim to recruit around 20 players, and recruiting will remain open until we do, though the game is scheduled to begin on May 26.

     

    Setting

    One hundred years ago, Dejan the Golden arrived at the site of his final conquest. He had fought in every corner of the known world; broke bread and bones with every people, and united them all under a single banner. His empire, powerful and vast, was to bring an eternal peace to the varied lands of Emjata - but it was not to be. On the eve of his final conquest he was struck down by a bolt of lightning from the sky, and since that day the Avakonian Empire has been in a spiral of decay and misfortune that has allowed new powers to spring to life, as well as the reassertion of the old that have been trampled by the great conqueror. Nobody knows why Dejan was smote by lightning: some say that he was struck down by the gods for his hubris. Others claim the powerful magic of a jealous rival. Others still whisper that in his great valiance he was uplifted to divinity itself, but with time the truth has only become more obscured.

     

    Welcome to the lands of Emjata, where the world once conquered and ruled by the glorious Avakonian Empire has begun to fracture and collapse under the weight of its complexity and decadence. EMPIRE! has the player take on the role of a faction that controls land, resources, and military might over many generations of rulers, the form of which can be as you please. Forge history with and against your fellow powers! As this is a collaborative worldbuilding game, but also a social strategy game, be ready to fight while remembering not to tread on the enjoyment of other players.

     

    Featuring warfare, intrigue, romance and politics, we encourage players to generally follow a tone befitting an analogous fall of the (fantasy) Roman Empire with the expected content being rated 16+. As the writer of your own faction, you may choose the general tone that your writing sets within this sphere. This game also uses a community discord server. Participation in the discord is not mandatory, but encouraged since a lot of political deals happen there.

     

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    A fantasy nation building game with elements of worldbuilding, pvp, roleplay, and strategy. Always recruiting. New players welcome!
    • Empire!
    • closes July 31
    • Potato_Priest
13. 

    Barony of Felines

    Gathering of the Nobles

    As a noble child, your PC met 10 year old Bruce Wayne. His parents were viciously murdered so you and your parents went to pay respects at Wayne Manor in New Gotham. You spent 10 days with Bruce in his early grief, exploring the expansive manor grounds and making childhood promises. 20 years later you receive a letter reminding you that you pledged on the old gods and the new to come to Bruce's aid should he ever need it. Feeling obligated, and wanting a good relationship with the wealthy Wayne family, you call for your horse, say goodbye to your family and barony for the dark city... New Gotham.

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    I am looking for 1-2 new players to join a game that just began. Make a noble with a cohort and I will assist you fitting your character into the setting. Feel free to read The game thread for the full story, but here is the condensed version... The Knights of Sorrows (PCs) are given a defunct barony where Bruce's uncle rules but has gone into seclusion. Forced to reroute due to a crumbling bridge, the nobles travel through an adjoining barony. The party encounters beggars and vagabonds on the boarder of their barony - Soursoot Meadows.

    You have the option to remake the existing character Lanai and her cohort Sinestra, this is her background/description. She is the current Wayne delegate for Baroness of Soursoot Meadows. If you wish to play her, use what you want change the rest (make a copy of the CRS and remake Lanai's mechanics).

    This adventure is split in two parts and will involve skill challenges to help baronies in addition to encountering possible deadly fights.

    Major Influences for this original module are the novel Brothers Majere by Kevin T. Klein & PFAP War for the Crown (specifically done by the wonderful podcast Find the Path).

     

    Rules for PC creation

    7th+1000xp w cohort

    Religion=polytheistic. Current trend to have a duo or trinity of deities tattooed on wrists.
        Preferred deities ....
    Mystra, Dumathoin, Abbathor, {elemental deities- Akadi, Grumbar, Istishia, Kossuth}, Desna, Pelor, Gond, Auril, Talos, Tymora, the Raven Queen (N, Death, Winter, Fate), Malar, Mielikki, Selune, Waukeen, Moradin, Corellon, Hanali, Deneir.

    preferred sources -FRCS, DLCS, ECS, Dragon Mag material including Dragon Compendium, UA, Com Adv, CWar, CArc, CDiv, MM I and II, PHB, DMG, ExPsionHB, MoFa, PGtF, RoF, RoS, RoD, RoW, SS.  Most other sources are ok, you don't have to ask.

    Full HP 1st Lv. Roll (rerolling 1's) or 1/2 rounded up. 
    stats: roll 3d6 8xs dropping lowest two. You can always chose the 34 point buy system. cohort rolls 3d6 6xs and can always use the elite array.
    +Start with typical gold. Fine and regular clothing, dress outfits, are provided as well as a signet ring indicating your station (50gp).
    +Ignore the first 10 lbs of equipment for encumbrance and small folk don't receive encumbrance size penalty. 
    +Please list weight (over .49 lbs) and price of all items (above 9 silver) on CRS.

    +Everyone full PC gets a bonus 3 ranks in a profession as nobles have jobs and families. job examples = knight, captain (of a vessel), judge, barrister, bookkeeper, priestess, sage, diplomat, banker, artist, performer.

    +Full PCs can have the Leadership feat for free at 6th level (so you can take improved cohort at 6th). Your leadership score/requirements can trigger off of char wis or int. Your cohort is a loyal companion that is tied to you and your house; a little brother, a niece, a cousin of lower station, a servant, a squire, a favorite teacher/advisor/priestess, a loyal umber hulk bodyguard, a Kender or tortle servitor, a psychic 'watcher' to monitor your family for the lichking, an undead servant (remember, undead are not necessarily evil in Lichstone... the king is well tolerated and he's a lich.) etc.

    +non-humans can negotiate a swap for a feat at first level (example: lose gnomish spells and Add +1 to illusion spells cast by gnomes and +1 racial bonus on attack rolls against kobolds and goblinoids.for 1st feat).

    +magic is restricted in this setting mostly at higher levels (teleport, resurrection, raise dead, most spells over 7th level). Sorcerers are mostly elven; non-elven sorcerers are sought after by the Imperium.

    +I use a small amount of pathfinder stuff (prices, items, creatures) like the spell Identify and your ability to identify items and the price of amulets of mighty fists. If you have one suggestion involving your character, just ask.

    +You can take on one flaw for a feat at first level.

    
     

     

    Races on Drelin

    Elves - the high desert is dominated with tall elves, oft with air genie bloodlines. The shorter cousins live primarily in the Forever Forest under the strict Elven Imperium. Gnomes and elves swap lifespans.
    Humans - every shade but white. The people of the Outlands, high plateau, and mountains are mostly asian in appearance. Those from the desert lands have a middle eastern appearance. Those of the western heartland and Lichstone have light black and tan tones.

    Dwarves - of Drelin are modeled after insular mountain dwarves from Dragonlance. Mostly non-good cave dwellers that have a superiority complex, they live in relatively small clan caverns that trade or raid with the 'outside world'. Most dwarves live in the Krendes Mountains in the north in an eternal territorial battle with giant kin. They famously maim their ogre slaves and ogres famously like to eat dwarves. They tend to have darker skin. The other large population of dwarves in the mountains of the north and central east coast. These are the dark stain on dwarves on Drelin, they operate as pirates, dominating the rough eastern seaboard making trade nearly impossible. They, unlike all other Drelin dwarves, are indiscriminate enslavers

    Planetouched - Aasimar are strong in the Molten Barony of Caladan and Teiflings are mostly found in the Molten Barony of Gedi Prime. The molten baronies are northeast of New Gotham.
    Fey - lots of fey in the Forever Forest.
    Gnomes - gnomes populations are low and have offspring of every variety (of gnome). Gnomes and elves swap lifespans. Historically they tinker and invent a lot.

    Halflings - only Kender exist on Drelin, brought as slaves by orcs over three centuries ago. They are a toned down version of the DL race. I have rules if someone is interested in playing one.
    Half elves - usually originate in and around Moonglade, largely subjugated by the Imperial Elves. 
    Half orcs - prevalent in the Outlands. Ancestors from the orcish invasion of hundreds of years past. There are no full orc left on Drelin. Anyone can use the human stats instead of half orc.
    Sea-elves- the spongy coral coast has a healthy population of green and blue shaded sea elves. They trade with New Gotham.

    Anthropomorphic Animals are prevalent around New Gotham including Tortles, rabbit-folk, grippli, kenku (from beyond the mists, in Lichstone)
    There are no goblins.
    Bloodlines are prevalent on Drelin.

     

    map of Drelin - New Gotham is not in this map. It would be where the last letter in Merzy River is, the r.

    map of 3 Dams Baronies

    You will make a 7th level nobility with attache.

    This adventure utilizes the talents of Lichstonian nobles to aid local baronies. You will create your own House of the Olde Monarchy. I have three examples here... Yours will be similar listing= name and briefly describe your barony/dutchy, god/goddess (up to 3), major business, house flag/colors (remember: red is the king's colour and is tightly restricted). The 1% mostly live within Lichstone castle its self.

    Family : Gellentara (99%) Known for their vampire lineage.

    Goddess : Evening Glory

    Business : Leadership of New Gotham (the Lord Mayor Duke Davids Gellentara)

    Flag and Colors: same as New Gotham or Evening Glory

     

    Family : Wayne (92%) Known for immense diverse wealth. Count Bruce Wayne.

    Gods : Kord and Dumathoin

    Business : Holdings in New Gotham (the Wayne Academy of Youth, Wayne Enterprises, Wayne Bank). Philanthropy, loans and banking.

    Flag : Pink W over grey.

     

    Family : (93%) Atreides from the Molten Barony Caladan

    Gods : Shihalud (Sandworms in the desert lands), Kord (riding a bull), Istishia

    Business : Trade partnership with the secretive desert elves and the spice only they produce. The elves also produce and trade in the illicit drug styigia. House Atreides (aasimar) are known for their ruthless psionic academy and loyal house troops. At constant war with neighboring Molten Barony Gedi Prime ruled by the sadistic, demon-worshipping House Harkonnen (tiefling).

    Flag : Black bull head on Green.

    want to play a psionic Paul Atreides? He is married to a highborn desert elf.

    -local baronies.

    ---Three Dam Baronies. The fortified New Castle (flag is a white hound on black) is barrier between the dangers of the east (wastelands, desert empires, swamps) and New Gotham. The middle barony is a swampy valley called Soursout Meadows (flag is a pink paw print on grey). Miremoor- barony of flowers and canals. Ruled by the young and beautiful Floral Duchess Zyah. Southern most of the 3 Dam Baronies. Verdant canals occupied mostly by Kender, Tortles, rabbit folk and grippli (flag is a blue river otter on green).

    ---northeast of New Gotham is the 2 Molten Baronies. These heavily fortified villages are the source of many resources including salt, stone quarries, oil fields, coal mines. These baronies create a barrier between Lichstone and both the Elven Imperium and the Wastelands.

    Other businesses for your family might include :

    -other towns and villages behind the mists. examples ; Gotham known for its architecture and Ravenstone known for its kenku witches and oracles. Most of Lichstone countryside is farmland to the coast. The coast is dangerous with lobstrocities raids and dry conditions.

    -landowner. All nobility owns lands. Your father and/or mother probably rule one of the baronies (you can be as descriptive as you want with your 'home' barony or just use one of the provided). There are 20 baronies behind the mists in Lichstone proper, the above mentioned 5 baronies around New Gotham. In addition, 8 more baronies compose the Kenderlands aka South Central Drelin. The SCD baronies are the least desirable because of the wet conditions and the sometimes infuriating kender.

    -the lucrative Mistberry wine. Kender druids from South Central Drelin grow berries and most of it is processed/traded out of New Gotham to the elves.

    -coal mines. Strong unions ensure the workers of the mines.

    -ore manufacturing for steel.

    -trade/diplomatic relations with elves. Either the xenophobic elves from the Forever Forest or the secretive sea elves. You can play an elf or sea elf whose family conducts trade relations with the Wayne family.

    -salt mines. Tough work mostly done by the imprisoned.

    -military. Knights of the realm can work the waters on river barges in South Central Drelin protecting kender citizens from the swamplands to the east or on the open oceans working with fishing crews and sea elves in defense of their homeland (the spongy coral coast). They can be calvary along the northern walls, soldiers in Lichstone the capital city or the newly formed New Gotham. The lichking has a personal guard similar looking to the imperial guard in star wars.

    -religion. Many shrines and churches are run by the Lichstone nobility.

    -necromancy. Lichstone is the home of necromantic magic on Drelin. They embrace undead and use them for labor and protection. Necromancers are revered in Lichstone.

    -waterways. There are canals and sewers in New Gotham and many rivers of the kenderlands. All throughout is the ubiquitous eel trade.

    -alchemy, technology. Gnomes ply their trade in New Gotham.

    -ship building. Large sea-faring ships are constructed in part in New Gotham and shipped on barges downriver through South Central Drelin to the ocean.

    -the dwarves of Lichstone. Cliffside entrances to the isolated dwarves clans. Some ride the waves as fishermen mainly staying to the safe waters of the soft spongy coral coast. The clans are led by the Highcrest family.

    A note on the Lichking and the nobility. - The nobility is stable, ensuring lineages through marriages and business partnerships. They exist, however, entirely at whim of the rarely seen Lichking. They can only guess as to what he wants unless they receive orders from his imperial highness usually through a kenku inquisitor. In general, the king wants Lichstone to remain strong and independent. Law and order in his lands are a must, this seems to include protecting the kenderlands and fostering a good relationship with the elves. A house that can't keep its affairs in order runs the risk of total annihilation, even a noble house. Agents are known to literally come in the night and exterminate entire families, never to be spoken of again. A true dictatorship.

    
     

    DRELIN : geography (for full history and geography see setting thread)

    Local Overview

    Country: Lichstone (capital city - Lichstone City)

    Annexed Territory: South-Central Drelin aka SCD (capital city New Gotham)

    Ruled by his eternal highness the Lichking. His lands are broken into baronies ruled by nobles.

     

     

    Lichstone- The 'olde monarchy'. Ruled by the same family for thousands of years. Twisting cobblestone streets with tightly packed similarly colored buildings line a mountainside of this ancient capital-city. Olive trees, dates, citrus orchards and wine vines fills Lichstone's countryside. Held within high mountains, the unforgiving oceanside cliffs on one side making Lichstone safe from invaders.(7-8 o'clock orientation~Drelin is a circular continent)
         A mixture of ravenloft and Rome. The capital city Lichstone City sits atop south facing seaside cliffs, it is crowned by a grand gothic castle. "The Olde Monarchy" has been ruled by the same family for thousands of years. Cobblestone streets twist around tightly packed monotone buildings that line a mountainside of this ancient capital-city. Villas with olive trees, dates, grapes, and citrus orchards fills Lichstone's countryside. Old structures fill the city as old traditions rule the land. The 'true gods' have never left favor here as they did for most of Drelin during the Time of the Dragon Gods, and a thoroughly polytheistic society has developed. The many temples and shrines in Lichstone are dedicated to a multitude of gods and it's people are suspicious as well as superstitious. Unlike on most parts of Drelin, undead are abundant within Lichstone, making a populace dependent on the Legion and nobles. Graveyards and mausoleums are as common as barns on Lichstonian farmland. Always a step ahead of menacing mists that plague the area, gypsies roam the countryside in small caravans selling their bizarre style of magical protection and entertainment.
    A crumbling wall marks most of it's northern and eastern boarder, most outsiders don't pass this boarder. East Lichstone is orchard land sloping downward to the kenderlands; wetlands and flooded lowlands that support isolated fishing villages. West Lichstone is dry and sparsely populated, the broken lands lie beyond. The northern boarder is shared with Tendron, the southern of two western Drelin kingdoms. Tendron shares a large lake with rival Drelmore west of the Forever Forrest. West of those kingdoms is the broken lands till the shore. The land is dry and doesn't take to seed all the way to the coast.
         Lichstone's banner is a grey skull with gold crown on a field of pink. Grey-pink-grey. The darker the pink/red the higher the position. The lichking is adorned crown to boney toe in blood red and crimsons, where a page might sport a bubblegum kerchief.

     

     

    New Gotham- A metropolitan, gothic settlement with gnomepunk overtones. The TMNT live in the Underworks of New Gotham having a patent on pizza, a tortle must own and animorphs must work at all establishments that serve tomato based sauce served on dough with cheese. Bruce Wayne, formerly from Lichstone, resides in New Gotham. New Gotham is Lichstone's second biggest city besides the capital.
        Over two centuries ago the Gellentara family (known for it's vampiric bloodline) was granted a dismal task of leaving Lichstone proper to construct and then fill a penitentiary with trouble makers heading in from the Outlands and Wastelands, and with the thieves and beggars from the kingdoms of the Western Heartlands. The new castle and penitentiary was built with the help those 'criminals' who the Gellentara rounded up offering a new life in the surrounding lands tending orchards and mining coal. Mistberries flourished in the volcanic rich soil and with help abundant, the 'incarceration castle' took on new shape. Gnomish refugees settled New Gotham as did the curious kender in South-Central Drelin. Pleased with the progress, the lich king provided a second round of funding which added temples and fortifications with many more Lichstonian families to work as soldiers and clergy. 
        A lucrative trade partnership began between the dark city and elves. First, the elves of the Forever Forest trade for the mistberry wine, partly with their servitor race - anamorphic animals. The creatures would work off their 'payment' and then they would be free. This eventually led to an uprising which freed the animorphs (tortles, raven folk,  rabbit folk, salamander people and rat folk) from elven oppression. Many animorphs never left and now reside in New Gotham.  Later, a trade route is established with the pearl rich sea elves who love the citrus and mistberry wine New Gotham has become famous for.
        The bustling metropolis is constructed of blackstone, wood and metals. An entrance to Lichstone, New Gotham is situated at the very end of the infamous and crumbling 'Lichstonian wall', where unpredictable mists play havoc on travelers. It rains a fair amount and the dark city is usually blanketed in fog. It is generally warm and muggy. To the immediate north are lava fields, then, the forests begin before reaching an enormous volcano surrounded by fey and elven forests… aka the Forever Forest. A clockwork bridge spans the River Merzy, which splits the city in two, then, flows south into orchards and wetlands below. These vast wetlands are inhabited mostly by kender under the protection of Lichstone.  The swamplands are situated ominously southeast of New Gotham, an extensive wetland with rivers and mangroves dominated by warring tribes of bullywog and opportunistic troll bands. 

    New Gotham's banner is light pink over dark gray. Its flag is a pink background with dark gray bridge over river.

    City Sections : Penitentiary quarter with Arkum Asylum, the canals, riverside with clockwork bridge, temple district, the high district, "New Castle" and mausoleums, the underworks.

    Lichstone utilizes undead workers. This has allowed the wealthy to maintain their status while simultaneously lessening the hardships of the lower class. No one in Lichstone goes hungry. Being a farmer in Lichstone is a lot more comfortable than being an indentured farmer from the Western Heartland (to the north of Lichstone).

    The mists of Lichstone are nearly constant fogs that creep over the stonewall that runs along the northern border ending at New Gotham. The fog can appear greenish when thick and seems to confuse those wondering through at best and at worst the mists can disappear people without a trace. It is said that just as some creatures walk into the mists and don't return, some do return with having aged many years. The stonewall and accompanying mists have worked historically as immigration deterrence.
    Mistberry Wine - a pink wine made from pink berries that grow with little sunlight and abundant fog (rumors say kender druids are responsible for the ability of the mistberries to thrive in a clouded area). The sweet wine is "lighter" than ubiquitous elven reds, and can be processed into a sparkling wine or a potent ice wine. There are private gardens within the city, volcanic rich fields north of New Gotham make the finest vintage and 'orchard lands' supply the bulk. These hilly parts of South-Central Drelin are occupied and worked by kender under the protection of Lichstone. Mistberry processing occurs in factories within the darkstone walls of New Gotham. The majority of mist berry wine is exported to the elves both from the fey forest and the sea.
    
    Images of New Gotham
    Town center where the temple and high districts meet. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Finnsdawhwmr81.jpg&rdt=46877

    Penitentiary quarter with Arkum Asylum in the background https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c8/df/0d/c8df0d28db61cafd0dfafc6b0aab4e63.jpg

     

     

     

    South-Central Drelin- Under the authority and protection of Lichstone, SCD is dominated by New Gotham and orchards in the north. Many fishing villages (Innsmouth) thrive amongst mangroves, swamps, and marshes. Further south, floodplains give way to the salt marshes. Kenders are commonplace throughout the southland, whereas the secretive sea elves inhabit the spongy, soft coral coast. The eastern portion of SCD is dangerous swamplands.

     

     

     

     

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    Calling 7th level nobles to aid Count Bruce Wayne of New Gotham
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    • closes August 5
    • ocelotdie
14. 

    Pathfinder Society 2E- Official

    Central community for Paizo's Organized Play Campaigns- Pathfinder Society, Pathfinder Society 2E, and Starfinder Society.

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    Central community for Paizo's Organized Play Campaigns- Pathfinder Society, Pathfinder Society 2E, and Starfinder Society.
    • Pathfinder 2e
    • closes August 31
    • Dax Thura
15. 

    Pathfinder 2e planning thread

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    • Pathfinder 2e
    • closes December 23
    • Dax Thura
    • Rudolf
16. 

    Pathfinder 1e planning thread

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    • Pathfinder 1e
    • closes December 23
    • Dax Thura
    • Rudolf
17. 

    Myth-Weavers Recipe Book

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    People love to play TTRPGs... and eat! Weavers love to show off their cooking skills, and share recipes on the Discord, so this seemed like a good idea to consolidate it into one spot!
    • Personal Creative Hub
    • closes August 22
    • Powderhorn
18. 

    Starfinder Society- Official

    Welcome to the (New) Myth-Weavers official chapter of the Starfinder Society organized play campaign.

     

    The Starfinder Society Roleplaying Guild, part of Paizo’s Organized Play programs, is a worldwide science fantasy roleplaying campaign that puts you in the role of an agent of the Starfinder Society, an organization of explorers, archaeologists, and adventurers dedicated to discovering and chronicling all corners of the galaxy (and beyond). The Starfinder Society Roleplaying Guild is powered by the Starfinder Roleplaying Game.

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    Where DM Dax runs games.
    • Starfinder
    • closes December 31
    • Dax Thura
19. 

    The Realm Folded Tavern (RFT)

    The doors of the Realm Folded Tavern are always open to those adventurers who seek it out!

    
    The RFT is a D&D 3.5E community where participants take part in, and hopefully also run their own, missions and adventures of all lengths and concepts. It is not an 'anything goes' game, but we are pretty liberal in our character building limitations. There is no PVP in the Tavern itself, and it is frowned upon in missions; but if you want to test your skills we have an Arena too.

     

    The OGMW RFT ran for over 8 years, with hundreds of players and characters over its life, and we have now moved everything to the new RFT here on the new MW site.

     

    Read the character guidelines, submit something for approval, maybe even offer to run a mission or two.
     

    Fun and adventure awaits you at the Realm Folded Tavern!

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    The Realm Folded Tavern sits, as the name suggests, in a wrinkle in the Universe. Between planes, of the planes but not part of the planes. From here the Barkeep runs a tidy house where adventurers of all shapes, sizes, skills, and experience can rest, socialise, and (most importantly) find work.
    • D&D 3.5e
    • closes December 31
    • Rudolf
    • JCBarnes
    • rogueblade0729
    • Blue Jay
    • Delia2531
20. 

    Adventurer's League Games

    The D&D Adventurers League is an ongoing official campaign for Dungeons & Dragons. It uses the fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons rules, and features the Forgotten Realms setting and now Eberron. You can play D&D Adventurers League games literally anywhere. Players use the fifth edition rules to create a character and bring that character to games anywhere D&D Adventurers League play is happening.

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    Central hub for AL Games community members. Discuss with other AL Players and DMs.
    • D&D 5e
    • closes December 31
    • Gregorotto
    • lemonstyx
    • TricksterArcane
    • ballon
    • QuirkyJoe
    • Poor_Knight
21. 

    Tyrant's Bloom

    Premise/Setting: Every fifty years, in the treetops of the Florid Sepulcher, a titanic carnivorous flower born in blood, hope, and death blooms. It pushes its way up through the tangle and thrash, from a source deep in the Darkness-Under-Eaves. The legends that surround this bloom are myriad, but all agree that it will grant those who find it, and avoid being consumed by it, immense power.

    Recently, a terrible rootquake shook all of the Florid Sepulcher as the mile-high treetops that its inhabitants call home rearranged themselves in the first sign of the Blooming: the Shudder. From all across the reach, and from far distant, hopeful explorers are gathering to claim the prize for themselves, their motives as varied as the legends surrounding their goal.

    You are one of these explorers, come from either near or far to Verdurance, one of the central ports of the Florid Sepulcher. Before setting out to find and claim the Bloom, you need to find a crew—one that you can trust, won't leave you for dead on the rustling waves, or steal the Bloom all for themselves—and acquire a ship to take you across the Wildsea, that forest that engulfed and forever reshaped the world three hundred years ago in a single night.

    As sailors set sail in their chainsaw-powered ships to search for the Bloom, you prepare to join them, risking life and limb to find a legend, for whatever reasons you may have...

    System: The Wildsea RPG (free rules available here). No prior familiarity with the system required! The system is narrative-based and easy to learn.

    Posting Frequency: Ideally, an average of 2 times per week. There will be at least 2 updates per week to keep things moving.

    Length: As a GM, I find it difficult to run short games, so this will be a medium-to-long campaign. However, I am open to players dropping in and out as need be (within reason).

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    Take to the treetops in chainsaw-powered ships to hunt down the legendary Tyrant's Bloom in the Wildsea! Three centuries ago, the world began anew, the old world ending in an eruption of green that covered everything in a deadly forest a mile high. Now, the survivors eke out a new existence above the canopy, clustered around mountaintops and ruins scattered across a thrashing sea of ever-growing leaves and branches: the Wildsea. Those courageous enough to brave the rustling waves do so in chainsaw-driven vessels, tearing paths between ports seeking fame, fortune, and knowledge; these are wildsailors. In the verdant and spectral reach known as the Florid Sepulcher, a massive rootquake caused the forest to heave, thrash, and grow again, swallowing entire ports and unearthing ancient ruins from far below the canopy. This Shudder is the first sign of the coming of the Tyrant's Bloom: a titanic carnivorous flower born in blood rumored to have powers beyond mortal comprehension. Wildsailors from near and far have come to find it, putting chain to thrash in their search even as they establish new trade routes, uncover old secrets, and discover new wonders. You will take on the role of a wildsailor, crewing a chainsaw-powered treetop-sailing ship to explore the Florid Sepulcher and search for the Tyrant's Bloom, using a modified version of the Wildsea RPG. Come sail the seas of green!
    • Miscellaneous
    • closes August 4
    • Morkskittar