Do you enjoy D&D 5th Edition? Do you have a penchant for short,
self-contained stories of varying settings and themes? Sci-Fi Space
Opera? Cosmic Horror? High Fantasy? Low Fantasy? If so, then you are exactly what we at Darkstar are looking for! Recently,
we've started a one-shot megagroup with a focus on open, flexible games
of varying time spots, and are (very generally speaking)
non-traditional tales exploring concepts not regularly explored in your
typical game of Dungeons and Dragons. For each adventure, a new
level 6 PC is generated. We are rolling our stats, feats and
multi-classing is both allowed and encouraged. All official Wizard
material is open for use (this includes the PHB, DMG, Unearthed Arcana,
Elemental Evil, ect). Everything is up for reskinning, thus the only
limit to what kind of character you can create is your imagination. This week, we are running the following: WILD WILD WESTRON II - REVENGE OF A WATER MERCHANT
"The Lawmen? Awful strange sort. Wander the wastes, never
doin' much of anythin'. Well, 'cept killin' people. People they don't
like. Now, mostly this means people that do wrong. Sometimes it ain't
that though, just people that look'et 'em funny. Ain't no rhyme or
reason to it. One thing is real clear though - they ain't a fan of folks
taken advantage of the lil' man. Lawmen've silenced a hell of alot o'
bandits, raiders n' thieves. Silenced 'em in the screaming echos of
bullets n' dynamite."
Westron. A lawless wasteland devoid of truth or justice,
filled instead with emptiness and death. Endless sand punctuated
occasionally by sun-bleached bones and cacti. And now, something
different. For in the south, water has appeared, a miraculous spring
that became a lake, and whose rivers now flow across a once-barren
quarter of this once-hopeless world. And with that water has come life,
and progress. The people return from the earth, from cool caverns and
dusty ghost towns. Children are born. Men grow old. The Green has
returned to Westron.
Now a railroad has been built, many years of hard work on the
part of the PineLand Confederate, built to link the flourishing south
with a mineral-rich north. Bandits stalk its gleaming iron tracks,
awaiting the passing trains, desperate for the water, gold and guns
passing between the territories.
With political turmoil brewing over the rights of the
green-skinned slavefolk to remain free or owned, the only defense of the
newly-formed confederate lies in the Lawmen - an ancient, nomadic tribe
of warriors that still remember and adhere to the Old Ways, the ways of
law, of order, of a land before the dry-times. Any may join, from the
tribal Cattlemen of horn and hoof to the short Squats of Deepshaft
Mountain to the long-eared PineLand settlers. They hold only one creed:
to help the innocent, to protect the weak, to uphold the ancient,
long-forgotten laws of the now-anarchic Westron.
You are one such Lawmen. You bare your fathers revolver,
carry you mothers boomstick, and ride your dead brothers Sandbike. You
are neutral, your only allegiance being truth and justice, enforcing the
right of the common folk to live without worry of ones fellow man. And
now, you are needed, for the world is about to turn, to progress into a
new era of prosperity, or descend into one of blood and darkness.
You and your comrades escort the Faith's Ascendant, which
launches now on its first run - a massive iron fortress on wheels
carrying nearly ten times more goods than any train before it. Many will
seek the train and its bounty, and with the PineLands engulfed in a
brewing civil war, it has only the Lawmen for defense. Should it arrive,
the joint project of the divided Confederate will bare fruit, and the
northern territories the line the Deadlands will flourish with
resources.
Stand fast, Lawmen. Much rides on you now. The lives of many
families hang in the balance. Lose this train, and anarchy will return
to Westron. Once more, men will live in fear, and death will reign
supreme over the endless, sun-scorched wastes. Post below or message me personally if you'd like to participate in any or all of these games! If you'd like more info on what's going on right now or the group in general, hit up our LFG page: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/46966/darkstar-" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/46966/darkstar-</a>...