Inside a shopping mall in an unassuming town in America’s midwest is a dusty arcade. The entrance to the store has a blinking sign reading “Arcade Gothikka.” Cabinets lure teenagers towards them with faded neon lights. “Tetris!” “Ms Pacman!” “Asteroids!” Those games are upfront, high scores occasionally flashing onto their screens. But time has moved on from the eighties and they look long abandoned. However, in the back of the store are more unique experiences. Behind a black curtain are rows of cabinets with unusual names. “The Storm of Icewind Dale!” “Vampires of Barovia!” “War of Machines!” These are only a few of the games on display. And though no one stands in front of them, it is almost as if the games play themselves. Buttons press over and over as joysticks sway in all directions. Watching over it all is a figure dressed in a sharp tuxedo. Their gender is hard to place. They have long black hair that falls to their waist in ebony waves. Their nails are long and pointed. They have thin, sharp cheekbones and a well groomed goatee surrounds their ruby red lips. They carry a cane that thumps lightly on the ground as they roam the rows of machines, occasionally leaning over to peer into a cabinet’s display. Once in a while they tap a machine with their cane before continuing onward. This is the place where lives are changed forever. Some change for the better, others for the worse. Occasionally some unlucky soul enters the back rooms and never comes out. But almost everyone who stumbles upon this relic of a bygone era agree that the rewards are well worth the risks taken inside. ------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Arcade Gothikka! This is a brand new Westmarches style campaign featuring an arcade where players disappear into the cabinets to live out dramatic fantasies. Player avatars transfer from machine to machine, so you never have to worry about losing gear unless the avatar dies inside a game. Early on the campaign will mostly deal with gothic fantasy and sword and sorcery fantasy. At least one cabinet will be set in Ravenloft, although likely not in Barovia. Other cabinets might lead to the Forgotten Realms, to the Dragonlance setting, or into other homebrew worlds. Most games will be one or two shot adventures so you can keep your characters free for other games, but there may eventually be room for more long form adventures as well. In addition, all games starting out will take place inside the arcade. But I like the idea of adventuring into the real world as well, something that may be fleshed out in the future. I’m mostly looking for interested players at this point, although if any DMs read this and are interested in joining let me know. I am located in the EST timezone and that will be the official server time as well for coordinating games and schedules. Games will be run in roll20 and discord will be used for mics which are required. Homebrew and UA may be accepted, but it has to be checked over by me. All characters start at level one. If there is enough interest I may run games earlier, but I would very much love to run a Ravenloft game on the evening of 10/29 to celebrate Halloween. If you are interested, please leave a comment below and I will send you an invite to both the discord and roll20. If you made it to the end of this... thank you for reading!
