Looking For Group

Hey, I’m Rell and I’ve been DMing for nearly a decade, and writing fiction for two. My group recently switched to PF2e (almost a year ago) and so we’re very open to players new or experienced. The campaign will be a slow burn, starting in a tiny village and slowly expanding in scope and heroics as you level up. I tend to run games heavily focused on RP and story, with usually only a combat encounter or two in most sessions, centred on political intrigue, moral dilemmas, difficult choices, and trying to do the right thing in an unforgiving world.

Who we’re looking for:

We’re looking for a player who is excited to dive deep into a complex and detailed world, make tough choices, pursue their character’s goals and motivations, and enjoys deep progression throughout a campaign.

Looking for someone who is understanding of other people’s viewpoints and identities, isn’t a raging bigot, prefers open communication to silently building resentment, isn’t a raging bigot, has the ability to engage critically with complex ideas, has a level of media literacy and reading comprehension, and, most importantly, isn’t a raging bigot.

Campaign:

The campaign will start in the small village of Dynesford at the cusp of winter in a northern and snowy climate. Uncharacteristically heavy rains have caused the river to flood, wiping out the winter crops growing along the fertile bank. The village will starve if nothing is done and so a representative was sent to the nearby castle to beg the baron for help. However, he’s a week overdue on his return, and winter is fast approaching.

You’ll be starting at level 1 (or perhaps 0 for the first session or two, depending on player preference) and will have to carefully and slowly navigate an unforgiving world where the threats do not scale with the party. We’ll be using hexploration rules with a homebrew “wildness” stat. Wildness is the number of hexes the area is away from the nearest major road/settlement, plus a modifier for dangerous terrain types (mountain, deep forest, necromancer’s lair etc). Wildness is then added to a d6 to determine the danger level, with a higher number meaning higher threat enemies. If you are far from the beaten path you will come across high-level threats, regardless of what level you are.

This will mean at level 1 the majority of the wilderness is too dangerous to navigate, but at higher levels you’ll be able to take shortcuts through forests with ease, adding a level of progression to travel as you level beyond the already present progression of obtaining better mounts and magical means of transport.

The goal of the campaign is to make the world feel dangerous and full of secrets at low level, and have it slowly open up as you progress through the campaign. You’ll start as simple travellers doing small jobs for locals, and move onto larger and larger things; getting wrapped up in politics and civil war, exploring the secrets of magic, investigating ruins of ancient civilisations, and/or whatever else strikes your fancy.

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