In the kingdom of Talingarde, many crimes may send you to Branderscar Prison, but the sentence has but one meaning. You are wicked and irredeemable. Each of you received the same greeting when you arrived. You were held down by rough hands and branded upon the arm with a runic F . The mark signifies ‘forsaken’ and the painful scar is indelible proof that each of you has betrayed the great and eternal love of Mitra and his chosen mortal vassals. Condemned, you face at best a life of shackles and servitude in the nearby salt mines. Others might await the “gentle” ministrations of the inquisitors so that co-conspirators may be revealed and confessions extracted. Perhaps, some of you will be spared this ordeal. Perhaps instead you have come to Branderscar to face the final judgment. In three days, the executioner arrives and the axe falls or the pyre will be lit. Through fire or steel, your crimes will be answered. You have all been chained together in the same communal cell dressed in nothing but filthy, tattered rags.Manhandled and mistreated, any finery you once possessed is either ruined or long lost. No special treatment has been given any prisoner – male or female, commoner or noble – all of the forsaken are bound and imprisoned together. Your feet are secured by iron cuffs tethered by one long chain. Your arms are secured to the wall above by manacles. A guard is posted right outside the cell day and night. Little thought is given to long term accommodations. At Branderscar, justice comes swift and sure. Escape seems hopeless. You have all been well searched and every attempt to conceal anything on your person has failed. And if you could somehow slip your bonds and fly out of this prison, where would you go? Who from your former life would want anything to do with the forsaken? Despised, alone and shackled – all that you can do now is await your doom. For each of you, your old life is over. For each of you, hope is a fading memory. For each of you, justice will be fairly meted. And who can blame fair Talingarde after what each of you has done? So you want to be bad guys...? Now is that chance to let that evil out of you that you wish you could do in so many other campaigns. You must be subtle with your evil, lest you want all the "goody two shoes" to to come after you before your plans come to pass. This will not be a chaotic mess of raping and pillaging. This is about revenge and making sure that all that put you into that prison suffers so badly that no one will want to cross you again. But you have to stay away from the watchful eyes of the holy paladins and clerics that will come after you if you cause too many waves. Though later on you may welcome the fight, you need to become the plague/cancer that spreads in secret before your signs become known and they try to "cure" you. So what am I looking for in my players? I want people to have fun with this without causing grief to others in the group. You all will have to work TOGETHER to make this happen. Most evil campaigns don't work because everyone wants to be an individual and have the story revolve around them. In party fighting breaks out, characters die and now I have to find new player(s) to fill the spot. This is going to be a Mature rating game, but we do not need to take it to the XXX rating. I will just flash forward or just hint at scenes that may be too risque or disgusting. We are all adults, but there will be a line that we will not be crossing. I would love to see a party of equal ratio of guys and gals, but we all know that there are G.I.R.L.'s (Guys In Real Life) on the internet. But I welcome all couples, singles, LGBT, straight, furries, ect. Just play in character and keep the Real Life out while we play. For most of us, we are trying to escape real life playing these games. Any harassment of the player (a character harassing another character is going to be played out) by another player WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!!! I will have other players on standby to replace people that want to harass others in an instant. I also require people to be on time and present for games. If you don't leave a post before hand or let me or someone else know, you will be replaced. The show must go on... Finally, I want everyone to have fun! Keep to the game and leave outside games and real life out of it. Power Gamers, Rules Lawyers, Attention Grabbing Emo's, and the such... keep it to a minimum. I am sure everyone that has played these games for a while has been in at least one of those categories or known other players that have been. It sucks to watch it happen, when it goes to the extreme. I will give you a warning in private, but if it keeps going, you will be replaced. Hopefully with this game, we will all become good friends and not enemies. Let us each tell the story of our characters, watch them flesh out in their adventures and come away from this game telling everyone how great it was. What you should be expecting in me, the GM? I will be early to games to answer questions and make sure people arrive on time. I already have most of the modules already put into Roll20 so most of my work is already done. I get the fun job of keeping everyone happy, the game flowing and keeping out of game drama to a minimum. I am not the type of GM that likes to kill off characters, but if you are stupid enough to kill the squire of the Grand Marshal right in front of him/her, you might as well start working on a new character. Usually there are several ways to get out of encounters without ever drawing a weapon, firing a shot, or casting a spell. Most of the time when someone loses a character, it is to their egos or brain farts. Remember, you can always retreat (and hardly any player ever does it). Downtime, between adventures, and between games, I will be using PM's or the forums to keep the story going. Since we are going to be having a limited amount of time to play, many things can be handled this way. Things like magical item making, shopping for rare goods, gathering information around town and such don't need to be done during games unless a fight happens because of it or more than 1/2 the party is going to be doing it. For those that want to embark on this journey... Leave a description of your character, what other characters would know about you and your infamous crimes. If you don't want others to know you crimes, send me a PM. Remember, these characters are going to be 1st level, so they don't need a huge backstory. I am allowing any all the normal Pathfinder races and classes. No 3rd party classes or player made races. If you have any questions or want to lobby for a certain class/race, send me a PM. Also tell me a little bit of your Role Playing experience. If you want, you can even tell me a little bit about you. The more I know about the Player or Character, the easier my job becomes (hopefully) and I can better accommodate your characters development to keep you happy!
