Character Name: Lyrai de Valen
Race: Human
Class: Ranger
Subclass: Hunter
Background: Athlete
Character Sheet: https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/104195195
Additional Equipment: Studded Leather (45 GP), Crossbow (50 GP), Oil of Sharpening
Backstory (2-3 sentences): Lyrai is an Archer who travels across the Empire to competitions to earn a modest living. Currently she is in what amounts to an off-season for her profession, as there are no competitions in the region, and she doesn’t quite have the money to make it through in an inn in Hempstead where she’s staying for a few weeks until she can go to another competition. She mostly wants to help Hampstead so that she has something to do (and so that she has at least some time to practice rather than just sit in a tavern) while she’s waiting.

Character Name: Engus Alderbark

Race: Human

Class: Druid 4

Subclass: Circle of the Land (Forest)

Background: Outlander

Character Sheet: https://ddb.ac/characters/104200623/AuMmTC 

Additional Equipment: Longbow (-50gp), Arrows (*I know we aren't keeping track, but it seemed right to buy some. -0.05), Travelers clothes (-2), Rations x5 (-2.5).

Backstory: Engus Alderbark is an old groundskeeper for a minor baron. He belongs to a club of such groundskeepers, gardeners, and rangers who meet regularly called "The Green Shepherds". Several members from Hampstead have not attended in a long while, and everyone is growing worried. Engus has agreed to investigate the disappearance of their comrades, and so makes his way to the town, towards whatever perils lie therein.

Special Bonus: 2nd Level spell scroll. TBD

Quote from VitusW>>

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@VitusW -   I can draw some threads together with other characters if that will help.  Will change out Neverwinter, but I don’t know any other cities in your world, and you said that we should not be from Hampstead.  If you have additional information we can work the backstory to have it fit, I imagine Raker as being from a larger city.  For the ancient curse, at his age and 4th level, I would think that he would have heard many words and would have the ability to carry on a conversation, but unusual words or phrases, things that he has not heard might trip him up and I would lean into it then.  At first level or a younger age I think it would be even more prominent, but I would like for him to be functional and conversational with the other players.  Let me know if there is anything else to help with the lore of the world / backstory and I’d be glad to modify.  Raker would like to blend in with a new crew, seeking to establish new connections.

 For the threads part, tying together with other characters is great. Simultaneously, while rereading what I wrote, I think I wasn't the clearest. I was asking more on the lines of if you'd want to have the possibility of finding an old acquaintance/enemy from your old dealings or if you'd rather not.

For the mimicry, sounds good to me.

Being from Neverwinter is perfectly fine by me, particularly if it helps you with your role playing. Personally, I don't know a lot of the official D&D lore so that's part of what had me thinking, "Problem: I don't know how to roleplay an NPC that has knowledge of Neverwinter. Solution: Make it a foreign city?" That said, if you'd like to go the way of creating a closer larger city, that's also fine by me. 

And as for setting lore, while Hampstead is technically lifted from a homebrew setting my friends and I have been using with each other, a big goal for me is reorienting that setting so that it fits the party that's here. Which also means I want to have an open mindset of, "You want to have a little of X in your backstory? Let's see if we can find a way to fit it in here." as opposed to a mindset of, "No. It would break some lore that doesn't even matter on the pbp-version." So, barring some wacky exception I haven't seen yet, it shouldn't be a concern to modify a character to fit the setting as I'd rather modify the setting to fit the character.

I do like the idea of finding an old acquaintance or old enemy in Hampstead, having to play cat and mouse to stay away from them, or directly confronting depending on the circumstance.  And yes, we can count Neverwinter as a large foreign city for your world, he is new to this area and trying to make contacts.  I can absolutely modify his backstory to fit your world, fit what is needed as we go, perhaps in our session zero.  

sounds good would love to join if there is enough room!

Name: Latan GoldBurner

Race: Reborn

Class: Fighter

Subclass: Battle master

Background: Mercenary Veteran

Character Sheet: https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/104228133

Additional Equipment: Backpack. Chain male. Crossbow light. Crowbar. Hammer. Longsword. Piton (10). Playing Card Set. Rations (1 per day) (10). Rope, Hempen (50 feet). Shield. Torch (10). Waterskin.

Backstory: Latan was a orphan the kids at the orphanage used to call him "demon boy" because he had a mark on his head depicting the sine of necromancy. he knew all of his life he wouldn't be treated well because of it so he went to the only place where they didn't care, the military he shot up the ranks he was the perfect general until one day he had 50 men going against 1,000 other men he gave them the best speech he could they killed all of them as latan killed the last soldier he felt a sword slice into his back he turned to his killer his right hand man stared at him in the eyes, and said "I'm sorry sir." latan fell to the ground dead... he thought but one day he felt the need to show everybody that he was better he made a pact with a god of war. the god of war made some changes and latan was back and he was going to kill everyone.

(sorry his backstory is long, but I've been wanting to play a reborn for ages)

Closing applications. Looking to make decisions and send out a PM to those accepted later this evening. Got a lot of good applications here.

PMs have been sent. There were some nice applications here. (Ended up rolling some dice to help with decisions.) If, during the campaign, anyone has something come up and needs to drop I'll re-open this thread and give preference to those that have applied before.

Hope y'all have a great day.

A slot has opened up in the campaign.

If you applied before and are still interested, please post your interest.

If this is the first you're seeing this thread, applications are welcome.

We're still towards the beginning of the campaign. Current party make-up has Rogue, Fighter, Ranger.

Character Name: Gaius Hartstone
Race: Human
Class: Sorceror - Draconic bloodline
Subclass: None
Background: Gaius is the third son of a minor noble house.  The Hartstones used to be bigger political players until Gaius’ great grandfather was caught up in a scandal.  Being the third son left him free to pursue his own desires.  Every third generation the bronze dragon ancestry comes forth.
Character Sheet: https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/105553014
Additional Equipment:  Traveler’s Clothes, 3 Pouches, Bloodstone (50gp), Scroll case
Backstory (2-3 sentences): Gaius is out in the world looking for adventure and riches.  The third son of a minor noble needs to make his own way in the world or end up tending the sheep.

(( I will detail the history more once I know more about the setting. )) 

Sounds like a neat concept.

In terms of the further details, what kind of things are you looking to possibly add? The background lore is pretty amendable so if you have an idea, it's probably something that can be worked with.

Side note: The character sheet gives an access error when I try to view it. Could you adjust the privacy settings on it to public? (That's in the Home tab of the character builder towards the bottom.)

Thank you.

I have set to Public.  Weird it was not on that already.

I can flesh out the details and add to the character.  Will work at that.  I have not been accepted to MANY campaigns at this point.  I did not want to invest a great deal of energy before getting some kind of positive feedback.

Fair about wanting to wait for any further work on it. (And for what it's worth, it's good as-is. Main motivation behind asking was that it seemed you had some ideas you were wanting to add.)

One note I will make is that this campaign isn't using feats. So if you could swap out the spell sniper feat for an ASI that would be great. After that I'll probably be sending you the invite link. 

Edit made. 

Some backstory stuff added as well.  Let me know if you are looking for more.

Sent a PM. Let me know if anything went wonky with it.