EDIT - Game is now full! Thanks everyone!
link to another game
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DISCLAIMER - No promises, this is just a speculative idea I'm throwing out fueled by insomnia, caffeine, job-loss induced boredom and lack-of-game frustration.
Frankly, though I enjoy creating a decent character with a plausible backstory, I'm utterly fed up with doing so to have the game implode at infancy, or my character killed off through bad luck, or in more than a few cases get rejected at application stage in favour of some utter munchkin of a character with an EPIC BACKSTORY and a big pretty almost NSFW picture the player has grabbed from someone else's deviant art page (I may be exaggerating a bit here, but you get the idea.)
And after weeks of nothing suitable appearing here or at any of the other PbP sites I peruse, it eventually dawned on me (ironically just before dawn, insomnia sucks.) that I might have to do it myself.
So, I was thinking of running a dungeoncrawl, three to five players maybe, level one or two characters biased towards fighters with maybe one or two wizards at most. (T&T doesn't have a thief class and their Rogues are basically untrained wizards which wont fit in the game too well...actually just thinking I might be able to take one Rogue character in the party but they'll be at a disadvantage compared to the others.)
System will be Tunnels and Trolls 5th Edition plus the Wiz/Mana stat from 7th Ed and a couple of houserules. T&T sample rules are available free from online retailers and the rest isn't hard to grok.
- No epic plot. Well okay I do have an idea or two, but nothing epic. Depending on how the game goes, I might develop it.
- No convoluted storyline. Kill things and take their stuff.
- No backstory or picture required. Your character is Foop O'Pingledart the Human Fighter? Good enough - we'll worry about a backstory if you survive.
- No need for in-character page long posts of introspective, character building navel gazing. You hit the monster with a weapon, move on.
- But still no munchkins - I do have some standards.
As I said at the start this is still pretty speculative, but if there's interest, I might give it a go.
This message was last edited by the user at 16:58, Thu 09 May.