Game is full, thanks for your interest What do I need? I need 2-3 replacement player for my Jade Regent Adventure Path game (Pathfinder system) due to some of my previous players dropping out over the last month for various reasons. The game itself has started back in December and has been running for 3 months now. The players are level 5. When do I want to play? We play every Saturday, 6 pm GMT/1 pm EST. Next session will be March 16 (Note: Europe has not switched to summer time yet so for the next three sessions this time is actually 2 pm EST, after that it's back to normal) How long is each session? We usually have really long sessions, which I know might be a problem for some people. Most of the time we play for around 7-8 hours (yes, seven to eight hours), with a few breaks in between. I'm aware this is quite long, but please be sure you can commit to a game of that length before applying. How/where do I want to play it? We'll be using Roll20 for maps and battles, and voice communication via Skype for the actual talking (so it won't be text based in case you're wondering) A little bit about me I'm 33 years old, but I've not been doing P&P RPGs for too long since I never found a group for it in my area. Once I discovered PF 3 or 4 years ago, I've been playing online, and I'm GMing a PbP game that's been running for over a year now. I believe I have a solid grip on the rules and enough common sense to make judgment calls in border cases. But this will be my first time I'm actually GMing a "real" game, so I do expect to make mistakes along the way. I should also mention that I'm from Germany and english isn't my first language, but so far I've gotten along fine with it. Who am I looking for? What should you know? As mentioned, this is my first time running a game as a GM, so I don't mind players with no or little Pathfinder experience. If you have experience with D&D 3.5 for example, many things in PF will seem familiar to you. I've no experience with 4E, but I believe the core of it is similar as well. That doesn't mean experienced players aren't welcome, but you should be aware the GM is new, though by now I've been running this game for three months now. However what I'm looking for are people that are more Role-players instead of Roll-players. Yes there will be stretches where one combat encounter follows the next (quite possibly this week already). But even in these "dungeon crawl"-sessions RP will be possible and should be happening. If all you care about is your Damage and the highest To-Hit-Bonus, but your character background is a blank sheet, then this is most likely the wrong game for you. We had entire session (again, yes of 8 hours) that are almost entirely roleplay. You should also be aware that this is an Adventure Path. It's intended to take you from level 1 to around level 16 while telling a story. While you certainly don't have to follow the plot on rails all the time - there will be sidequests and such and your decisions will matter - you also should accept the fact that there's an overarching story here and if you're hell-bend on breaking out of that, then you should find a game that's more suited to that. Also while the PCs are clearly the center of the story, not everything is about YOU. That should really go without saying, but I guess I better say it anyway. The AP has a certain "Asian Theme" to it, but it will take quite a long time till you actually get there. Most of the AP is about the trip to Tian Xia. It is easier now than at the start to Tian Xia based concepts, but they still have to be really good and need a good reason to join up with the rest of the group. At this point the group is in the Land of the Linnorm Kings, far to the north, in the town of Kalsgard and is preparing for the trip over the Crown of the World into the far away land of Tian Xia (="Asia"). The Land of the Linnorm Kings is populated by Vikings basically, your character could hail from that culture and join the caravan here, or came up from Sandpoint with the caravan, or probably followed them or even met them by chance... or anythign else you can come up with. Who's in the group so far? Currently the group consists of the following: - Male Half-orc Fighter - specialised on "hitting things really hard" - Female Human Samurai - specialised on intimidating enemies, diplomacy and hitting them. They are all level 5. What happened so far? Here's a short summary . Beware, that it will spoiler quite a bit of what happens in the first two books of the AP. Which NPCs have joined the Caravan in the meantime? Quite a few actually. Here's a list (mild spoilers in this one) What I want from you? Further down you'll find the Character Creation guidelines. I don't want a finished character sheet from you yet, but there are there so you know what you'll get yourself into Instead I would like you to write me a PM and try to answer these questions. You don't have to write a novel, just a sentence or two for each of them is enough for now. And if you don't have an answer for some of them yet, that's ok too. To send a PM on the forum here, click my name above the post, then on the left side you will see "Send private message". You can also send me an email or reach me on Skype instead (see below for contact info). Skype will probably be the fastest way to reach me, we also use Skype to communicate between sessions as well for the game itself. If possible, please try to answer the following questions: 1) What's the name, class and race of the character you want to play? 2) What's the basic concept you're going for? 3) What's the gist of your character's background story? 4) Do you originate from Sandpoint or from somewhere else? (You can talk to me about this if unsure) 4) Which NPC do you want to be connected to and how? Which campaign trait are do you plan on taking? (Currently both players have a connection to Ameiko, so the other NPCs are up for grabs. Also see this link for a list of new NPCs) 5) Do you plan to pursue a romantic relationship with one of them eventually? If so, with which NPC if you already know? (this can obviously change as we play) 6) What's your skype name? Note: You don't have to answer all of these right away, though I would like to know at least your skype name, so we can start talking about the other questions. Character Creation Info I don't need a full character sheet yet. - Download the Jade Regent Player's Guide (and read it) - Characters start at fifth level - Standard character creation with 25 point buy - Starting gold: 10,500 gp - 2 traits PLUS 1 campaign trait from the Player's Guide (so 3 total). If you have a connection to a different NPC we can change one of those traits to fit. - Max HPs at first level. At later levels you can either take the average hitpoints or roll. If you roll you have to do it where I see it and you have to accept the result even if its below the average. We use the PFS averages, so d6=4, d8=5, d10=6, d12=7. - No evil alignment. CN is allowed, but doesn't mean you can be a jerk. - 3.5 classes, feats, spells etc are not allowed - Third party stuff is allowed on a case-by-case basis (don't go overboard. I might allow one or two things per player but not an entire spellbook) Pathfinder Resources <a href="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.d20pfsrd.com/</a> Contact info for me email: khales (dot) aoc -at- gmail [dot] com Skype: khales (dot) aoc
