Hi, I run a 5e game set in Forgotten Realms which is homebrewed plot. The party consists of 4 players who are, like myself, all mature (Past 30 yrs old or more). We have been playing for some months and have only missed, I think, one week due to unavailability. We are currently looking for a 5th player as we intend to start another game to run alongside the one I currently DM. This is partly because one of the four players has had to go away with work for 3 weeks, and I prefer to keep the party together and not run sessions without players, and partly because periodic breaks from my campaign allow me to lay the plot bricks ahead of the party without the necessity to have everything linearly planned out. Roll20, and the lovely maps that are possible, unfortunately don't lend themselves to true sandbox without the DM working the game like a fulltime job, or adopting the theatre of the mind approach, but we have a happy medium where they players do discuss and plan their intentions, and steer the plot on an ongoing basis, which allows me to build the plot ahead of them for the next few sessions. Its not as freeform as sandbox but its far less linear than a module. Rather than having gaps when i'm working on the campaign we have decided its best that we run two campaigns so our weekly D&D itch is always scratched. So in essense this is two games which will be interchangable within the Wednesday 7pm timeslot. My campaign "Out Of Almraiven" (Almraiven being a city in Calimshan) is set at the end of the current FR timeline. The campaign has a slightly nautical theme to it as the PCs started out as deckhands on a ship bound for a remote town. I won't go into things too much, as it will take a long time, but they have just dinged level 5 and have managed to obtain a pirate sloop. They have decided to keep it, have secured a makeshift crew and are currently deciding where they would like to go when the game resumes based on their own personal motivations and plot/rumours/hooks they are aware of. They will let me know their intentions in the next few days and I will build accordingly. The second campaign, which will be starting this Wednesday, is called Albion, Caught In The Black Web. It is a game set in a fictional version of the UK. Here is the discription... "Generations ago, during the time of the end of the Third Fomorian War, a
party of adventurers unleashed the horror of the Black Web upon the
world of Albion, growing insidiously like a cancer. Many of the most powerful wizards, priests and warriors have gone off to combat the Webs, never to be seen again. Now, a party of adventurers gather together to aid a Druid whose Sacred Grove is being taken over by the Webs. And so it begins...." So in essense, we are looking for a mature player, who is reliable, easy-going and doesn't mind the fact that they are in essence signing up for two games that will, effectively, alternate periodically. Both campaigns are long term; not short jaunts. If you are interested then send me a message telling me who you are and why you are a good fit. You don't have to be a voice actor, but we'd prefer someone who is willing to talk, tries to roleplay a bit, and isn't too much of a min/max metagamer. None of us are experts by any stretch but we do try and ensure we have fun and tell a good story; which hopefully comes from the players as much as the DM. Thanks, Rob
