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Weblya
July 7th, 2016, 23:08
This'll be Curse of Strahd, starting with first level characters.

FG License: Ultimate License, players just need to show up.
Game System: D&D 5E

Time Zone: GMT
Day of week and time: Wednesdays at 1900 GMT+1 (1300 CST)
Planned start date: July 20th
Planned Frequency: Weekly
Term: Will depend on the group. It's pretty sandboxy, so it's hard to predict the number of sessions until I've run it at least once.

Text or Voice: Both. Text will be used for in-character interaction and RP emotes and dialog. Voice will be used for OOC chatter, clarifying questions, and managing combat. You should be at least prepared to roleplay in text, though you don't need to be experienced with it if you don't mind a bit of a learning curve. Skype will be used for between session chatter and some coordination, and there will be an Obsidian Portal page to record campaign information for offline use and whatnot. So be prepared for that.

Voice software used: Teamspeak

Roleplay & Combat mix: I'm going to guess 50/50 at this time, but it will depend on the group dynamic that forms.
Number of Players in game & needed: Have four players, maybe 5. Want to add 1 or 2 to go to 6.
Character starting level & equipment: 1st level, standard equipment packages or rolled starting gold. I'm willing to bend a little if you can convince me that an item is essential to a concept.
Character restrictions: PHB races, variant human included.

Details of scenario: Well, it's Ravenloft, so expect gothic horror in D&D. There's mystery and darkness, but your characters aren't powerless against it. I grouse sometimes as a DM, but I'm usually pretty easy going in play.

I prefer when a player follows a strong story concept, as opposed to a strong mechanical concept. Making a mechanically potent character is fine, but there has to be a strong story behind why your character has taken that mix of feats/multiclassing/background. If when asked about why your fighter took pole arm mastery you answer "because it lets me use my reaction and bonus action to attack each turn!" you're doing it wrong for my game (I'm not trying to be down on that in general, though!). Anyway, hopefully I explained that well enough, but feel free to ask if I need to clarify it more.

I also prefer players have a background written out and know about their character and what makes them tick. I would also appreciate players willing to write up backgrounds for their character, and potentially even post semi-regular logs (IC and/or OOC) throughout the campaign.

Hopefully this helps, but ask if you have a question.

Oh, and PM me if you're interested (and got to the end of this), we can chat in Skype beforehand to see if it might be for you. Oh, and you might reply here as well.

Weblya
July 8th, 2016, 20:16
Just wanted to add a quick clarifying post onto this. I've got some interested folks I'm chatting with, but there's still room for more to talk with me about it. Don't forget to post here as well if you do.

This is an afternoon game in terms of US timezones, evening for Euro timezones.

And as I think about it, the game is probably a bit more RP focused than I gave much thought to. In using the text to RP, it's great if you're comfortable in using the various emote flexibility it gives you to really get into the actions and motion of your character in play, rather than simply the dialog. This tends to be a learned skill, and I expect to have to help people get used to it. As long as you're willing to give it a shot then don't worry if you're not experienced with how text-RP usually runs.

X-baby longshot
July 9th, 2016, 01:30
we do still communicate via Team speak, but prefer to try and text out our character actions and speach. none of the long term players are 100% at this and we still talk but attempt to put as much as posible in to text as well. As you all can see i dont spell worth a damm and thats ok they get my broken text mesages and figure it out, so dont be scared by text!

Elwen
July 9th, 2016, 02:02
I'd love to join. I've been looking for an text-focused rp game ever since my USB for my headset microphone died. :)

Weblya
July 9th, 2016, 23:00
Looks like we're full now. I'll bump this in the future as slots open, so feel free to subscribe to this thread if you want to follow that.

scytale2
July 10th, 2016, 12:56
Am I in this coming Wednesday?

Weblya
July 10th, 2016, 13:03
I must have missed a reply or a PM? I don't see anything from you at I look back. We're full for the moment, but I'll probably look at starting a second heat of players in the next month or two.

scytale2
July 10th, 2016, 13:54
No worries.

prale
July 11th, 2016, 22:19
I would love to get into an afternoon weekday game...

Trasin
July 12th, 2016, 11:43
Same here

hydrol
July 12th, 2016, 22:11
Weblya,

I think your concept and game style would work very well for my Halfling Rouge - If anyone drops out or you start a second heat of players then please let me know.

Many thanks

Mike