So as some of you may have seen, I'm the GM of a big homebrew campaign that currently has 4 groups of adventurers running around on the same map.
There's a lot to digest here, but here's the main bullet point: you get to make a character sheet and be considered as part of the campaign passively until a slot that you can fill becomes available.
Whenever I recruit new players because of some characters being eaten by real-life stuff, I get overwhelmed with messages from people wanting to play. I hate turning people down, I love being able to be inclusive and saying 'yes' to a new character and so I've made this solution. It's an experiment but I'm 75% sure it'll work!
I am now willing to accept more players, each of you starting at level 1, rolling your character sheets in the same way the adventurers do, but you are going to fulfil a background role that would normally be inhabited by a NPC!
Boring? NAH! See, you get to sell something like an apple to an adventurer, just like the guy in Epic NPC Man on Youtube. Yep, I'm opening those doors! AND - remember this - peasants are just as important, if not more crucial, as the people in the limelight. Even the smallest halfling can achieve greatness and can help others achieve things they'd never personally dreamed of.
Basically, I'm allowing you to enter the campaign as an NPC - or, in this case, a peasant - that's biding its time, waiting and yearning for a chance to become an adventurer whenever a slot does open up. It is occasionally-voice-based and mostly passive text-based roleplay with chance interaction with adventurers and, most importantly, filling in some of the background noise that the players might otherwise miss out on. You might even get a chance to play in a full session if there's a seat available due to an adventurer's no-show and get picked to fill a seat permanently if a player has to back out fully for whatever reason. In times like this, I usually allow players to roll a d100 - who ever rolls the highest gets the free seat for that night. You as a peasant MIGHT get the chance to enjoy that limelight now, too!
In the meantime, you could open a shop or be a simple traveller or a bard in a tavern or ... whatever! Be creative! And yes, you still get to earn XP (much smaller amounts than a full session's worth) and gold (you get to sell items to players and other peasants) . You still get to travel the empire-sized map (at a speed worked out to be roughly 55miles per day... ish... at full march with rests - depends on your character sheet!).
So. How many slots are there? I don't know. How many elves can we fit inside a dragon? Let's find out!
If you want in, reply below with your Discord tag or contact me in Discord directly - you'll find my tag in my signature below. Thanks for reading!
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Discord: Ancient Mutt#4871 | GM: Order of the Styx: Unseen Servant | Artist: Inkarnate
Hey folks,
So as some of you may have seen, I'm the GM of a big homebrew campaign that currently has 4 groups of adventurers running around on the same map.
There's a lot to digest here, but here's the main bullet point: you get to make a character sheet and be considered as part of the campaign passively until a slot that you can fill becomes available.
Whenever I recruit new players because of some characters being eaten by real-life stuff, I get overwhelmed with messages from people wanting to play.
I hate turning people down, I love being able to be inclusive and saying 'yes' to a new character and so I've made this solution. It's an experiment but I'm 75% sure it'll work!
I am now willing to accept more players, each of you starting at level 1, rolling your character sheets in the same way the adventurers do, but you are going to fulfil a background role that would normally be inhabited by a NPC!
Boring? NAH! See, you get to sell something like an apple to an adventurer, just like the guy in Epic NPC Man on Youtube. Yep, I'm opening those doors! AND - remember this - peasants are just as important, if not more crucial, as the people in the limelight. Even the smallest halfling can achieve greatness and can help others achieve things they'd never personally dreamed of.
Basically, I'm allowing you to enter the campaign as an NPC - or, in this case, a peasant - that's biding its time, waiting and yearning for a chance to become an adventurer whenever a slot does open up. It is occasionally-voice-based and mostly passive text-based roleplay with chance interaction with adventurers and, most importantly, filling in some of the background noise that the players might otherwise miss out on. You might even get a chance to play in a full session if there's a seat available due to an adventurer's no-show and get picked to fill a seat permanently if a player has to back out fully for whatever reason. In times like this, I usually allow players to roll a d100 - who ever rolls the highest gets the free seat for that night. You as a peasant MIGHT get the chance to enjoy that limelight now, too!
In the meantime, you could open a shop or be a simple traveller or a bard in a tavern or ... whatever! Be creative! And yes, you still get to earn XP (much smaller amounts than a full session's worth) and gold (you get to sell items to players and other peasants) . You still get to travel the empire-sized map (at a speed worked out to be roughly 55miles per day... ish... at full march with rests - depends on your character sheet!).
So. How many slots are there? I don't know. How many elves can we fit inside a dragon? Let's find out!
If you want in, reply below with your Discord tag or contact me in Discord directly - you'll find my tag in my signature below. Thanks for reading!
Discord: Ancient Mutt#4871 | GM: Order of the Styx: Unseen Servant | Artist: Inkarnate
I'm interested, DM you