Dungeon World with a few stipulations
Hello rpol! I can't remember the last time I was on the site, let alone played or DMed a game. Anyway, I'm proposing to start a Dungeon World game with a few stipulations.
1)I've been DMing homemade campaigns for an extremely long time. I probably began to really take off as a DM when I was in college, which was from 2001-2005. I've DMed dnd3.5, dnd4e, and most recently Pathfinder. For this game I want to use Dungeon World because it's simply an easier rules system designed for rping and storytelling... Not combat encounters that take 3 hours to complete.
2) Here's the catch... I've never played nor DMed DW. My experience 'behind the screen' should help the learning curve easier than my continued efforts to pick it up all by myself. I'd be stoked if you're a DW DM who wants to play and offer to give me a hand if/when I need it!
3)Two weeks ago I had a pretty major surgery. My recovery is going fine... Which consists primarily of bedrest, 5-minute walks, and meds. Since I can be on bedrest for up to 10 weeks, I still might have 8 weeks to go.
4) Maybe this game could make the jump to playing remotely with video with Discord or whatever other methods there are (which I can't say I know of since I've never done that before). Pbp is much better now bc I'll be looking pretty 'hospital-ey' even though I'm at home recovering.
5) In other words, I'm completely bored. I've basically watched my entire Netflix and Hulu queue and am desperate for human contact! Even if it's pbp!
So with that bit of info out of the way, here's the gist of the game I've been trying to write while on recovery as well. Bc I'm nowhere near full strength or brain-smart-making, it might be a little cliché, but it should be fun anyway!
Game takes place initially in Sigil, the City of Doors. In this game, Sigil is at the center of the multiverse. Your characters and my NPC-player will all be from different campaign worlds which we'll either decide randomly or during character development.
In case you're unaware, DW characters are developed together while starting the game. It's okay to have an idea, but a lot of your character will be made with the others so everyone already has connections to one another and already have individual and group backstories when we actually begin. DW characters use what are called Playbooks as their sheets. The typical number-crunching crum-nunching doesn't really happen. You can be a race and a class, just a class with racial flavors, just a race, and a myriad of other options.
Anyway, each character is from a completely different campaign world. I would like to stick with the stereotypical 'fantasy' campaign settings like Eberron, Golarion, Dark Sun, Forgotten Realms, and so on. There are so many freely available Playbooks in addition to the standard DW ones, you'll have a plethora of options! ... Unless it's completely OP, I'll probably be incline to let any cool, brief, character idea into the game initially.
These characters work together at an agency (for lack of a better word) who monitor the historical tapestries of every multiverse. Sometimes parts of these tapestries fray, and alternate histories spring up as anomalies. Your job is to use Sigil's doorways to travel into a multiverse with knowledge of how the tapestry is suposted to look. Once inside, it's up to you to either put things right or decide that the alternate history being woven is a better version of what should have happened and ensure that this history is preserved instead of the previous one.
(I kind of got the idea after trying to wrap my head around all the changes that happen in comicbook all the time. It drives me crazy when comics decide to reboot and change things. It makes trying to understand what the hell is going on extremely difficult, right?!)
I think that's probably a good gist of what I'm looking for in the game idea. I'm happy to talk it over before we begin! Please ask me any questions you have, give me any input you'd like, and generally tell me if you think this is the sort of pbp DW game you'd like to take part in.
Thanks very much!