Hello, I'm looking for 4-6players for a PbP campaign, it'll start somewhere within a forest, and you're not quite sure how you got there (or are you?). Newbies very much welcome and encouraged.
Lvl 5, all official sources allowed with multiclass (using requirements), point buy and starting equipment.
Post your character's class, race, and a short story for it (about 2-5lines).
Ghaoth was young when his village was destroyed. Watching from the grassland he learned to hunt in he swore revenge on the Orcs and Goblins that pillaged then burned everything he ever knew. the only thing he had left was a crossbow and bolts and his fathers armor which didn't quite fit him right. His dog just a pup, Tapper stood by his side growling. "You know we don't have a chance boy. So stay" he says without speaking verbally. then mumbling quietly in a quiet rage "I'll get my revenge" for five years he practiced with his fathers crossbow by hunting on the planes sometimes for food and sometimes for pelts to make coin saving enough to buy a saddle and barding. Using the survival skills taught to him by his father whom was the village hunter. He has been hunting goblins for several years now ever once in awhile helping caravans travel the plains fighting orcs and other monsters but there was one goblin that was eluding him He finally caught sight of a trail of small feet he thought were goblin which started in the grasslands but he tracked deeper and deeper into the forest
Sunray was raised in a forest dwelling Tabaxi clan until it came obvious they could not harness his abilities properly. He was much larger than the rest of the clan and they eventually worked out an exchange with a half orc clan for a runt of the litter to make sure both their potentials were reached. Sunray was trained in heavy weapons especially axes and to harness his fury.
Varis Dorn... Dorn a lineage of people of the Chondathan ethnic group, Tethyrian. Orphaned at a young age and forced to raise himself... Varies found something was unique about him at a very young age. Unlike the human ethnic groups that were derived from the ancient Netherese, Chondathans had no strong bloodlines that had sorcerous ancestry, nor did they have significant traditions related to the arcane arts. But Varis does and there's much mystery around how he got his powers but it is from draconic bloodline. Brought up in Cormyr, Varis has found himself in Waterdeep and Neverwinter... continually looking to help where he can.
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Hoard of the Dragon Queen - Jalt Rhogar - Dragonborn Cleric (9)
Backstory- Vendrid had been searching through the desert for a rumored rift into another plane. At one point, she had found an oasis, and as she approached it, it seemed to almost move like mist in the wind. Assuming it to be either a magical trap of a monster, or just a wishful hallucination, she turned around. Upon doing so, the desert was gone, as she found herself present in an overwhelming amount of green. With a deep sigh, she started walking.
Drax learned to play the lute at a young age. Not because he cared about music... but because other people cared about music. It allowed him to get closer to others... to gather information and to use that information as he saw fit. The Yuan-ti left his own clan.. looking to find a way to make his own mark in the world... to get his own respect and power. Drax found that important men and women often hired people like himself to play music for them. It was during these times that he would often attempt to cozy up to the highest ranking officials and eventually made the right connections to be able to serve on a city council. There, Drax would use his silver tongue and quick wits to convince others to do his bidding... working as a puppet master of sorts.. he was not a force for good.. or for evil... he was out to serve himself... that is.. until he ended up in this damn forest...
backstory: Lotso was an orphan and raised in a church. When it was discovered that he could communicate telepathically, it was thought that he must be a divine being there to help the poor village where he had been raised. Lotso saw a good kid and enjoyed talking with others but never developed any divine powers of his own. After a years of failure, he began praying hard each night for a way to live up to the expectations of the village. Finally his prayers were answered by a powerful Solar. With the divine powers provided to him, his confidence grew and he went on to do great things on his village. With his new confidence. the divine powers that he had been told lived inside him, finally showed themselves. Now with his own powers combined the powers of a Solar... he works to do good anyway he can. Recently children had been disappearing from his village and villages nearby. The village leaders approached Lotso to find the children and bring them back. His search lead him deep into the woods.. but.. are these the same woods?
Interested. Will update this post with a link when I get the character sheet prepared.
Name: Herman Ivanov
Race: Variant Human
Class: Hunter Ranger/Rogue
Activity: Pretty active. Definitely can mange one post/ day or more.
Short Backstory: Herman was a soldier in a kingdom's special unit that was meant to protect the kingdom from the horrors of the underdark. However, he got exiled and has been wandering the land since. Herman is level 5 because he has fought minor fiends as part of his special unit, The Hell Patrol
Link: ddb.ac/characters/14227584/VaN8qk
EDIT: I filled in my character's details, alignment and backstory (A longer version) in the character sheet.
Name: "Theo" Race: Mark of Passage Human Class: Fighter/Samurai Backstory: Theodora comes from a Noble family who has not produced anyone of note since her ancestor was first granted their land and title. Being in the middle of nine children she's eager to be the one to change that and stand out from the rest. Though being a Lady of some standing she's been unable to do so in her homeland because most people recognise her or know of her family. So she's gone adventuring in an effort to find someone or something that will give her the chance she needs to prove herself.
On her path she has met new friends and made new enemies. She has disappeared down dungeons on quests for the people of various villages she's come across. She has done her best to offer her services wherever she could to whoever she could. And happily trained with warriors willing to impart their wisdom onto her. She is starting to feel more and more like the fighter she knows she can be, like the hero that will leaving a lasting legacy for her family.
[I'm around regularly as I have a job that gives me way too much time to myself]
I can post multiple times a day depending on how busy or how late work. Usually I have the most free time on weekends as those are typically my days off.
Name Mokk
Race: Goblin
Class: Monk/Drunken Master
Backstory: Mokk is from a large goblin tirbe that found a comfy job for themselves as members of a theives guild in a large city. While others worked as theives and assasins, Mokk got the job of working in the tavern that hidn ttheguild's base as well as serving the purpose of gathering information from the regulars and travelers that came inside. Due to the seedy atmosphere of the place, Mokk was introduced to bar fights fairly early in his life which he ended up having to be the one to break them up before they got deadly. Over the years he refined his art and trained himself to fight like the drunken brawlers he had to deal with, becoming feared by all the patrons that had fought him.
With his proven fighting skills, Mokk eventually became an enforcer and would collect money from those that owed the guild a debt. For the most part this was easy except for the times he had to deal with people that actually had skills to fight back. During such an instance he had to fight through a necromancer's horde of skeletons and zombies so that he could scare the wizard into paying him the money he owed
“A brief intro you say”, Will settles into the chair.
“My father ran the Hidden Gem as did his father and his father, you get it right...stores been in the family for a bit. Well we’ve, or I, have come on hard times.”
He raises his arm and motions to the store, the shelves are bare besides dust and spiderwebs.
”So...I was hoping to earn a position in your adventuring party...I’m hoping to earn some coin to restock this internal store again.”
Born to a family of elven merchants from Silverymoon, to a couple made of a tailor and a retired naval explorer, this youngest child of three turned out nothing like those close to him. Arddwyr grew up contemplative and introspective, characteristics which guided him towards a research life in filled elven libraries with no effort, eventually being formally initiated in the faith of Labelas Enoreth, god of time and history, that in the Seldarine who gave the elves their long lives. Spending his decades before maturity researching secrets, old history, and lore of the cosmos, under the guidance of various elven teachers and elders. His studies and thoughts eventually fell upon the society around him, one filled with strife between various races and factions, one that mirrored the chaos of the multiverse he studied. It was one thing that drew him, the very thing that he found the least among age-long history and present day - peace. That is precisely what, another set of decades after that conclusion, eventually drove out of his home city, a quest of ideals, one that he hoped would end with him finding his most desired secret, the one that would allow him to spread peace over all he saw.
P.S.: Used Forgotten Realms names (Silverymoon, Labelas Enoreth), but could easily change them out for ones appropriate to other settings. :)
HK-47 was built by a crazy dwarf in the north to defend the dwarf's mining operation. At some point HK-47 became self aware, but also malfunction. He would lose control of himself and fritz out in combat. Extra plating would appear protecting him and he would also become extra dangerous in combat. In a malfunctioning state he accidentally killed his creator. He has since set out to explore and learn as much as he can about the world he has found himself in.
As long as we don’t start off on Peragus II...
Archibald Ill’vistaer
Arcane Trickster - High Elf
Archie has traveled far and wide, hitching rides from town to town and even into the bigger cities. Funding his venture by performing magic shows with a traveling circus, or allegedly pulling a few schemes with some unscrupulous company. Either way he has made his way through life with a quick tongue and even faster hands. That is until he found himself in this forest.
Backstory: There was never a day when Smoke wasn't in trouble with the law but she always managed to slip through the cracks and escape from a life in prison. That was until she was caught by "The Bloody Baron". Instead of giving her to the authorities, however, he made a deal with her. If she wanted her freedom back, it would cost her a five hundred thousand gold, coin that she would earn by doing various jobs for him. An agreement was made but she was tricked into binding herself to the Baron through arcane means. If she wanted to break the contract, there would be more serious consequences than a life in prison.
Is this even still relevent? If so, I'd love to join (it will be my first play by post and also my first actual play in a long while) and I'll send my character as soon as I'm done writing her.
Zook has spent most of his life in forests, with his owl familiar. Because of this he has taught himself how to protect nature from his fire. He regularly left his forest to head to Waterdeep and find new spells. He was ambushed while travelling by a group of Gnolls and although he survived, some people he was with were captured so he risked his life going into their cave to get them back. He managed to use the treasure he accrued from the cave to pay for extra magical tuition from some of the most renowned mages of Waterdeep, even having his abilities tested by being sent to retrieve an item from Undermountain (the upper levels, Zook wouldn't have gone on a pretty certain suicide mission). After his most recent trip he returned back to where his home was, but nothing was there but trees. Trees which upon close inspection weren't the right trees for his forest. He has no idea how he got there.
Some backstories seem slightly lvl 1, this is to be a lvl 5 campaign, I'm liking most tho, add 1 line at least one kind of adventure or adventurous way your character has or how he's reached the "lvl 5 capabilities". Btw for those who may think lvl 5 and nothing but starting equip is bad, some items will come before anything happens, those will be selected depending on the final party
Ghaoth was young when his village was destroyed. Watching from the grassland he learned to hunt in he swore revenge on the Orcs and Goblins that pillaged then burned everything he ever knew. the only thing he had left was a crossbow and bolts and his fathers armor which didn't quite fit him right. His dog just a pup, Tapper stood by his side growling. "You know we don't have a chance boy. So stay" he says without speaking verbally. then mumbling quietly in a quiet rage "I'll get my revenge" for five years he practiced with his fathers crossbow by hunting on the planes sometimes for food and sometimes for pelts to make coin saving enough to buy a saddle and barding. Using the survival skills taught to him by his father whom was the village hunter. He has been hunting goblins for several years now ever once in awhile helping caravans travel the plains fighting orcs and other monsters but there was one goblin that was eluding him He finally caught sight of a trail of small feet he thought were goblin which started in the grasslands but he tracked deeper and deeper into the forest
So what will you give me? a magic Item?
perhaps armor or a item that enchants +1 to his ammo
Hello, I'm looking for 4-6players for a PbP campaign, it'll start somewhere within a forest, and you're not quite sure how you got there (or are you?). Newbies very much welcome and encouraged.
Lvl 5, all official sources allowed with multiclass (using requirements), point buy and starting equipment.
Post your character's class, race, and a short story for it (about 2-5lines).
Cadence on the game: expecting about 1post/day,.
Recruitment open till Wendesday
Ok I'll bite I can post often, daily.
Character Ghoath Eaglespear
Class Ranger/Gloom Stalker
Race Ghostwise Halfling
Ghaoth was young when his village was destroyed. Watching from the grassland he learned to hunt in he swore revenge on the Orcs and Goblins that pillaged then burned everything he ever knew. the only thing he had left was a crossbow and bolts and his fathers armor which didn't quite fit him right. His dog just a pup, Tapper stood by his side growling. "You know we don't have a chance boy. So stay" he says without speaking verbally. then mumbling quietly in a quiet rage "I'll get my revenge" for five years he practiced with his fathers crossbow by hunting on the planes sometimes for food and sometimes for pelts to make coin saving enough to buy a saddle and barding. Using the survival skills taught to him by his father whom was the village hunter. He has been hunting goblins for several years now ever once in awhile helping caravans travel the plains fighting orcs and other monsters but there was one goblin that was eluding him He finally caught sight of a trail of small feet he thought were goblin which started in the grasslands but he tracked deeper and deeper into the forest
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reminder for myself. Work together or fail apart. Talk with each other when necessary. Describe how, where, if, your character moved.
The sign on the trail ahead reads "DONT FEED THE DRAGON!" "Working Together" Follow this link please
Deleted. Interest withdrawn
Character: Sunray
Race: Tabaxi
Class: Barbarian path of berserker
https://www.dndbeyond.com/profile/YoFizz/characters/14221823
Sunray was raised in a forest dwelling Tabaxi clan until it came obvious they could not harness his abilities properly. He was much larger than the rest of the clan and they eventually worked out an exchange with a half orc clan for a runt of the litter to make sure both their potentials were reached. Sunray was trained in heavy weapons especially axes and to harness his fury.
Gash - Lvl14 Goblin Wizard - The High Court of the Aasimar Queen
Character: Varis Dorn
Race: Half Elf
Class: Sorcerer
Varis Dorn... Dorn a lineage of people of the Chondathan ethnic group, Tethyrian. Orphaned at a young age and forced to raise himself... Varies found something was unique about him at a very young age. Unlike the human ethnic groups that were derived from the ancient Netherese, Chondathans had no strong bloodlines that had sorcerous ancestry, nor did they have significant traditions related to the arcane arts. But Varis does and there's much mystery around how he got his powers but it is from draconic bloodline. Brought up in Cormyr, Varis has found himself in Waterdeep and Neverwinter... continually looking to help where he can.
Hoard of the Dragon Queen - Jalt Rhogar - Dragonborn Cleric (9)
"Ive heard it both ways."
See above
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reminder for myself. Work together or fail apart. Talk with each other when necessary. Describe how, where, if, your character moved.
The sign on the trail ahead reads "DONT FEED THE DRAGON!" "Working Together" Follow this link please
Character- Vendrid
Race- Human (Variant)
Class- Druid Circle of Land (Desert)
Backstory- Vendrid had been searching through the desert for a rumored rift into another plane. At one point, she had found an oasis, and as she approached it, it seemed to almost move like mist in the wind. Assuming it to be either a magical trap of a monster, or just a wishful hallucination, she turned around. Upon doing so, the desert was gone, as she found herself present in an overwhelming amount of green. With a deep sigh, she started walking.
I am interested!
Name: Drax SilvertongueRace: Yuan-ti PurebloodClass: BardDrax learned to play the lute at a young age. Not because he cared about music... but because other people cared about music. It allowed him to get closer to others... to gather information and to use that information as he saw fit. The Yuan-ti left his own clan.. looking to find a way to make his own mark in the world... to get his own respect and power. Drax found that important men and women often hired people like himself to play music for them. It was during these times that he would often attempt to cozy up to the highest ranking officials and eventually made the right connections to be able to serve on a city council. There, Drax would use his silver tongue and quick wits to convince others to do his bidding... working as a puppet master of sorts.. he was not a force for good.. or for evil... he was out to serve himself... that is.. until he ended up in this damn forest...Name: Lotso Kent'Ripz
Race: Kalashtar
Class: warlock / sorcerer [healer and persuasion]
backstory: Lotso was an orphan and raised in a church. When it was discovered that he could communicate telepathically, it was thought that he must be a divine being there to help the poor village where he had been raised. Lotso saw a good kid and enjoyed talking with others but never developed any divine powers of his own. After a years of failure, he began praying hard each night for a way to live up to the expectations of the village. Finally his prayers were answered by a powerful Solar. With the divine powers provided to him, his confidence grew and he went on to do great things on his village. With his new confidence. the divine powers that he had been told lived inside him, finally showed themselves. Now with his own powers combined the powers of a Solar... he works to do good anyway he can. Recently children had been disappearing from his village and villages nearby. The village leaders approached Lotso to find the children and bring them back. His search lead him deep into the woods.. but.. are these the same woods?
Deleted, Interest withdrawn as started another campaign.
Interested. Will update this post with a link when I get the character sheet prepared.
Name: Herman Ivanov
Race: Variant Human
Class: Hunter Ranger/Rogue
Activity: Pretty active. Definitely can mange one post/ day or more.
Short Backstory: Herman was a soldier in a kingdom's special unit that was meant to protect the kingdom from the horrors of the underdark. However, he got exiled and has been wandering the land since. Herman is level 5 because he has fought minor fiends as part of his special unit, The Hell Patrol
Link: ddb.ac/characters/14227584/VaN8qk
EDIT: I filled in my character's details, alignment and backstory (A longer version) in the character sheet.
Name: "Theo"
Race: Mark of Passage Human
Class: Fighter/Samurai
Backstory: Theodora comes from a Noble family who has not produced anyone of note since her ancestor was first granted their land and title. Being in the middle of nine children she's eager to be the one to change that and stand out from the rest. Though being a Lady of some standing she's been unable to do so in her homeland because most people recognise her or know of her family. So she's gone adventuring in an effort to find someone or something that will give her the chance she needs to prove herself.
On her path she has met new friends and made new enemies. She has disappeared down dungeons on quests for the people of various villages she's come across. She has done her best to offer her services wherever she could to whoever she could. And happily trained with warriors willing to impart their wisdom onto her. She is starting to feel more and more like the fighter she knows she can be, like the hero that will leaving a lasting legacy for her family.
[I'm around regularly as I have a job that gives me way too much time to myself]
Arxius, Elven Simic Hybrid Ranger in Tales from the Yawning Portal
I can post multiple times a day depending on how busy or how late work. Usually I have the most free time on weekends as those are typically my days off.
Name Mokk
Race: Goblin
Class: Monk/Drunken Master
Backstory: Mokk is from a large goblin tirbe that found a comfy job for themselves as members of a theives guild in a large city. While others worked as theives and assasins, Mokk got the job of working in the tavern that hidn ttheguild's base as well as serving the purpose of gathering information from the regulars and travelers that came inside. Due to the seedy atmosphere of the place, Mokk was introduced to bar fights fairly early in his life which he ended up having to be the one to break them up before they got deadly. Over the years he refined his art and trained himself to fight like the drunken brawlers he had to deal with, becoming feared by all the patrons that had fought him.
With his proven fighting skills, Mokk eventually became an enforcer and would collect money from those that owed the guild a debt. For the most part this was easy except for the times he had to deal with people that actually had skills to fight back. During such an instance he had to fight through a necromancer's horde of skeletons and zombies so that he could scare the wizard into paying him the money he owed
https://ddb.ac/characters/14232216/m2ZvhE
Rekuberk Onc Level 8 | Half Orc | Barbarian (The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks)
Kayassa Level 3 | Satyr | Warlock (Cleath13's LMoP)
Bertolt Silentlash Level 3 | Variant Human | Bard (Our Little Lives Kept in Equipoise: Death House)
Daerthe Narcion Level 4 | Drow | Rogue (Karmoli's Great Upheaval)
Name: Will
Class: Fighter
Race: Human
“A brief intro you say”, Will settles into the chair.
“My father ran the Hidden Gem as did his father and his father, you get it right...stores been in the family for a bit. Well we’ve, or I, have come on hard times.”
He raises his arm and motions to the store, the shelves are bare besides dust and spiderwebs.
”So...I was hoping to earn a position in your adventuring party...I’m hoping to earn some coin to restock this internal store again.”
Will extends his hand, “Do we have a deal?”
https://www.dndbeyond.com/profile/jeffdotg/characters/12954334
Hello! Definitely interested, will wrap something up and edit back here in a bit. :)
Edit: Here we go!
Name: Arddwyr https://ddb.ac/characters/14100540/yFSlBz
Race: High Elf
Class: Cleric, Life Domain, Priest of Labelas Enoreth, elven deity of time and history
Born to a family of elven merchants from Silverymoon, to a couple made of a tailor and a retired naval explorer, this youngest child of three turned out nothing like those close to him. Arddwyr grew up contemplative and introspective, characteristics which guided him towards a research life in filled elven libraries with no effort, eventually being formally initiated in the faith of Labelas Enoreth, god of time and history, that in the Seldarine who gave the elves their long lives. Spending his decades before maturity researching secrets, old history, and lore of the cosmos, under the guidance of various elven teachers and elders. His studies and thoughts eventually fell upon the society around him, one filled with strife between various races and factions, one that mirrored the chaos of the multiverse he studied. It was one thing that drew him, the very thing that he found the least among age-long history and present day - peace. That is precisely what, another set of decades after that conclusion, eventually drove out of his home city, a quest of ideals, one that he hoped would end with him finding his most desired secret, the one that would allow him to spread peace over all he saw.
P.S.: Used Forgotten Realms names (Silverymoon, Labelas Enoreth), but could easily change them out for ones appropriate to other settings. :)
Art Portfolio
As long as we don’t start off on Peragus II...Archibald Ill’vistaerArcane Trickster - High ElfArchie has traveled far and wide, hitching rides from town to town and even into the bigger cities. Funding his venture by performing magic shows with a traveling circus, or allegedly pulling a few schemes with some unscrupulous company. Either way he has made his way through life with a quick tongue and even faster hands. That is until he found himself in this forest.https://ddb.ac/characters/14238634/aLEG2Bdecided to dm new game instead thanks anyways
Name: Smoke on the Water
Class: Arcane Trickster Rogue
Race: Tabaxi
Backstory: There was never a day when Smoke wasn't in trouble with the law but she always managed to slip through the cracks and escape from a life in prison. That was until she was caught by "The Bloody Baron". Instead of giving her to the authorities, however, he made a deal with her. If she wanted her freedom back, it would cost her a five hundred thousand gold, coin that she would earn by doing various jobs for him. An agreement was made but she was tricked into binding herself to the Baron through arcane means. If she wanted to break the contract, there would be more serious consequences than a life in prison.
Is this even still relevent? If so, I'd love to join (it will be my first play by post and also my first actual play in a long while) and I'll send my character as soon as I'm done writing her.
LailG
Zook Nackle, forest gnome. Evocation wizard.
Zook has spent most of his life in forests, with his owl familiar. Because of this he has taught himself how to protect nature from his fire. He regularly left his forest to head to Waterdeep and find new spells. He was ambushed while travelling by a group of Gnolls and although he survived, some people he was with were captured so he risked his life going into their cave to get them back. He managed to use the treasure he accrued from the cave to pay for extra magical tuition from some of the most renowned mages of Waterdeep, even having his abilities tested by being sent to retrieve an item from Undermountain (the upper levels, Zook wouldn't have gone on a pretty certain suicide mission). After his most recent trip he returned back to where his home was, but nothing was there but trees. Trees which upon close inspection weren't the right trees for his forest. He has no idea how he got there.
https://ddb.ac/characters/14269343/enWSKX
After joining more my signature got out of hand so I am now a proud member of the extended signature club!! :)
Some backstories seem slightly lvl 1, this is to be a lvl 5 campaign, I'm liking most tho, add 1 line at least one kind of adventure or adventurous way your character has or how he's reached the "lvl 5 capabilities". Btw for those who may think lvl 5 and nothing but starting equip is bad, some items will come before anything happens, those will be selected depending on the final party
Ghaoth was young when his village was destroyed. Watching from the grassland he learned to hunt in he swore revenge on the Orcs and Goblins that pillaged then burned everything he ever knew. the only thing he had left was a crossbow and bolts and his fathers armor which didn't quite fit him right. His dog just a pup, Tapper stood by his side growling. "You know we don't have a chance boy. So stay" he says without speaking verbally. then mumbling quietly in a quiet rage "I'll get my revenge" for five years he practiced with his fathers crossbow by hunting on the planes sometimes for food and sometimes for pelts to make coin saving enough to buy a saddle and barding. Using the survival skills taught to him by his father whom was the village hunter. He has been hunting goblins for several years now ever once in awhile helping caravans travel the plains fighting orcs and other monsters but there was one goblin that was eluding him He finally caught sight of a trail of small feet he thought were goblin which started in the grasslands but he tracked deeper and deeper into the forest
So what will you give me? a magic Item?
perhaps armor or a item that enchants +1 to his ammo
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reminder for myself. Work together or fail apart. Talk with each other when necessary. Describe how, where, if, your character moved.
The sign on the trail ahead reads "DONT FEED THE DRAGON!" "Working Together" Follow this link please