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Fresh 5e Game Seeking Creative, Eager, Easy-Going Players.

Posted by foucault82
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Fresh 5e Game Seeking Creative, Eager, Easy-Going Players

Overview

The spring thaw comes late to Lawton's Glen, but it brings with it all the excitement of a fawn taking its first steps. Wagons begin arriving from the farming villages to the south, carrying fresh food and a reprieve from the smoked meats, nuts, and root vegetables on which those hardy enough to pass a long winter in the border town have subsisted.

Such folk were few, once. Lawton's Glen began its life as a humble outpost on the northern frontier of the human kingdom of Franconia, consisting of little more than an inn and a general store built near the entrance to the dwarven mining community of Knutsdir.

At first the little town facilitated trade only with the dwarves, but soon trappers and explorers traveling up the Stonewall River to seek their fortunes in the wild lands that lay beyond the Obsidian Pass began using it as a stopover. They brought with them food and textiles to trade with the snow elves and barbarian tribes of the Frozen Wastes, and over time the Glen became a small but cosmopolitan trading post where traders from all of these groups gathered to exchange their goods.

Then came the Orc Wars. King Gralen of Franconia, a devoted paladin of Amala, declared a crusade against the followers of Gruumsh in the name of his god. For twenty years, his armies roamed the Frozen Wastes, pillaging orcish villages and dens.

Lawton's Glen served as a barracks, a winter camp, and a staging ground for many a raid, and at times the soldiers garrisoned there quadrupled the population of the previously small town. Taverns, dance halls, brothels, and others businesses opened to serve the soldiers, and soon Lawton Glen was a boom town.

The locals like to joke that they were the only winners in the Orc Wars. King Gralen's crusades, many of which he personally led, succeeded only in driving the orcs underground. His enemies united under a shaman named Garduk and, at great loss of life to themselves and the humans, defended most of their ancestral territory.

The Wars came to an end when Gralen and two score of his best knights were lost to a sudden blizzard. Gralen's son Darrick lacked his father's religious fervor and saw an easy opportunity to win the hearts of his people by bringing the crusades to an end. Nearly two hundred soldiers remain garrisoned at Lawton's Glen, however, to guard the Obsidian Pass and discourage reprisals.

Perhaps the biggest losers in the Orc Wars were the dwarves, for whom the influx of orcs meant an increase in raids on their homes and skirmishes in their tunnels. Lawton's Glen continues to enjoy good relations with Knutsdir, but elsewhere the dwarves grew more suspicious of humans, and vice versa. In an effort to end the Wars, the dwarves dramatically reduced exports of their coveted weapons precisely when Franconia needed them most, leading to a spike in prices and accusations of profiteering from the humans.

Meanwhile, the Wars have stirred up trouble for the elven and Northman tribes of the Frozen Wastes as well. Savage beasts once thought confined to the realm of myth have returned to the north, rendering the already-hard lives of the nomads all the more treacherous.


How to Apply

Our adventure begins in Lawton's Glen, but where it takes us will depend on your characters and interests. I have a lot of ideas for plots, villains, etc., but I'd like to tie them as closely as possible to the histories and objectives of your characters. So, I'm going to wait until characters are set before zeroing on these. And, of course, your own choices will ultimately determine what we explore and how.

I'm looking for eager, creative, fun, and easy-going players who will actively participate in building a compelling world and story. I will accept applications at least through Monday, October 21.

I intend to be extremely selective about the players in this game. I've seen too many RPOL games spoiled by drama, unreliable or lazy posting, and bad attitudes.

Please read through the material in the game forum before applying, and expect to put some effort into the process. We'll probably talk a bit by PM before I make a final decision. Hopefully you can appreciate that I've already put a lot of effort into designing the game and that ultimately this is in the interest of providing you with the possible gaming group and experience.

More information about the game owner:

Game: Springs & Scales.

Additionally, they used to own these deleted games:

Game: The Descent Into Avernus.

1 game running, 1 deleted game.
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