Hello! You can call me Dapper or Eli. I'm looking for some players for a campaign I'm running on late saturday nights. With that out of the way, heres all the pertinent info. Welcome to the Fallowed World. This campaign which I am advertising here is set in a world that has recently undergone a prolonged apocalyptic event. The world did not end due to some massive invasion by some new threat, or from some random catastrophic occurrence of gods. The world was at the height of civilization and technology but four hundred years prior to the campaign start, until The Endless Autumn began. The seasons stopped turning, fall never gave way to winter. While at first this seemed a boon, a strange reprieve from the usually harsh and underappreciated season, eventually a strange degradation overtook the world. The soil became unsuitable for planting anything, the plants that did live became sickly, toxic and sometimes outright awakened into hostility. The great civilizations of the past collapsed upon their own populations and their lack of food. These days, most people have devolved into wandering by themselves or in nomadic tribes for safety from other hungry and desperate people, or from the monsters which have spawned from the world seemingly randomly. Those with enough good soil to even have a few crops are considered well-off and respectable. A pack animal to carry around your things, even one, is a sign of massive wealth should you be able to sustain its cost of food and water. The world is harsher now then it ever has been, and people have still yet to fully adjust. In tone and historical basis, this campaign takes place in a quasi-Late Bronze Age collapse in an original fantasy setting. Technology is limited to Bronze Age equipment, not to say that such things are unsophisticated, but one will not find full plate armor or complex weaponry even at the best of times. Things as they are, technology has reverted even further due to the collapse of most civilizations. This game is meant to be a hardcore survival game. I will force you to keep track of your food, you will be expected to find ways to cleanse your water and avoid disease. You will be expected to treat for infection when hurt. Every skill in the 5th edition skill list will have new and expanded uses to simulate survival in a completely and utterly hostile world. Roleplay is a requirement. My games that I run are around 60% Roleplay, 30% Combat and 10% Misc/planning and shopping. Since mercantile endeavors are obviously quite limited in a post-apocalyptic setting, but not impossible. Still, expect most encounters with other humanoids who are not confirmed allays to be rife with tension and prodding. Social skills and the right persuasion checks can keep a potential fatal clash between tribes from escalating, or can perhaps tip them in the direction of greater violence. I will work with you during a "session 0" to help you make your character something you would want to play and could have a great time with, that also fits with the existing lore of the setting. Death is always a possibility in this game, a highly likely one if characters don't take precautions against potential threats, but I still want you to absolutely care about your characters. Your backgrounds will play a bigger part in the campaign then just deciding a few extra starting skills. Whether you only send me three or four paragraphs about your characters past, or if you write a giant essay for me, I will find ways to integrate your characters past into the present of the game so that it matters. This game will take place from 11:30PM CST to 2:30AM CST on saturdays. This timezone is not negotiable, its the only time I can really set up to run a game right now. The day however isn't absolutely set in stone. Horror, evil, and generally unseemly subject matter will be present in this campaign. People uncomfortable with these things beware. I won't be allowing blatant erotic roleplay however, as this isn't that type of game. The upper limits are going to be rather accurate and vivid depictions of combat wounds, execution, and possibly torture. I don't take pleasure in inflicting these things in PCs, but it is possible such things can happen to your characters. In the same vane, your characters may also find themselves performing terrible acts onto others. I do not restrict alignments to Good or Neutral in my campaigns, evil is completely viable here. The game will be open-world/sandbox-y. You will have a few general objectives as a party, but you're able to do anything you want at anytime within physical reason. Pretty self explanatory. My discord handle is DapperMage#2327. You can contact me there or send me a PM via roll20 if you are interested in playing in this game.
