FalseAesop

You're already in the game Oramac.

Well I've decided to continue with my attempt to get a game going, though this time in stead of recruiting exclusively from Nerd Fitness I'm opening up the recruitment to those seeking games on roll20.net. If you want to play go ahead and post on this game advertizment https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/29472/eberron-princes-of-the-apocalypse If you tag your thread with NF you will jump to the top my list, because I love this community. But this time I really want to get the game going.

I'll admit I was a bit discouraged when I only had one of five people who expressed interest show up. I'm still willing to DM I've just been considering also recruiting from elsewhere.

I want to thank everyone who showed interest in my game it looks like we have a group! First game will be tonight, 6pm CDT. Roster as of now stands at Simonize, Tiefling Warlock. Childofscorn, undecided. Oramac, Half Elf Fighter. CaptainMurasa, undecided. Aena, undecided. Actually Aena you haven't responded to the PM I sent your way with the server link so I'm not sure if you're still in. So let me know one way or the other.

I just found this while looking for some quick reference sheets for myself for the module, a tourist brochure for Red Larch made by Oraibi, a user on the Wizard's Community forums. I had to edit it for the Eberron conversion, and I couldn't match the font as much as I tried, but I thought it was just fantastic. So here, before we even get started is the first player handout. I give you "A Visitor's Guide to Red Larch and the Beautiful Dessarin Valley."

Hope it works out scorny, you'd be an asset at the table. Well we definitely have enough for AN INTREPID BAND OF ADVENTURERS! And still at least one spot open for those still interested. If you guys want to start building your characters to have them all ready come Thursday that'd be great. Again if you have any questions, or would like to be walked through it, I am more than willing to help. Not something you guys need do, but I came across this list of questions to ask yourself about your character and I thought it was pretty good. And now I'll leave you with some more D&D motivational posters, because they amuse me.

That's fantastic, you're in. By the way we do have a third player, Flex_Luthor and I have spoken in the NF chat room, he hasn't gotten around to posting here, but he's expressed a desire to play. So if you want to get a character set up or familiarize yourself with Roll20 you can go ahead and go to Roll20.net and create a free account. Private message me over there https://app.roll20.net/users/104532/falseaesopand I'll invite you into the campaign. There you can hop on the campaign server and set up your character sheet and roll stats and stuff. Make sure you watch the little i ntro video that plays the first time you launch the virtual table top. I look forward to playing with you, and meeting your characters.

The D&D basic rules have everything you need to get started. It may seem like a lot of information, but don't be intimidated, the vast majority will not be relevant to the character you make. It's mostly options for characters and spells, you're only going to be using a very small part of it, and once your character is made everything you need to know should be on your character sheet. Granted the basic rules only include Humans, Elves, Dwarves, and Halflings for playable races, and Cleric, Fighter, Rogue, Wizard as character classes. Dragonborn (exactly what it says on the tin, dragon people with breath weapons), Gnomes, Half Elves, Half Orcs, and Tieflings (people with demonic blood in their veins) are additional races in the Player's Handbook. In addition to classes like Barbarian, Bard, Druid, Monk, Paladin, Ranger, Sorcerer, and Warlock. If any of those races or classes interest you we'll see about hooking you up with the info you need. But don't worry about any of that. D&D is best summed up like this. "You can do whatever you want, but if there's a chance of failure you roll a twenty sided die. Add any appropriate stats from your character sheet. The DM will tell you if you succeed or not. High rolls always good." So step by step character creation is in the basic rules. So, what sort of character are you interested in playing?

I'm an atheist. I'm not against religion, I just don't believe that there is any higher power, or any sort of grand design. I don't believe in any sort of afterlife or soul, I believe when your brain dies anything that could be considered 'you' is gone. None the less I find the universe to be a pretty awesome and amazing place, and everything I learn about how it works is just incredible. I have no existential feeling about only having a limited time in it or that it will someday end.

As I said I’m a lore hound for Eberron, so I’m going to attempt to keep this brief, but I may ramble, if you have any questions, feel free to ask, because trust me there is more, sooooo much more. The campaign’s setting. Eberron. Karrnath The Dessarin Valley and Red Larch Factions And now some additional inspiring images for the flavor and tone of the setting.

I’m looking to get a little more Dungeons and Dragons into my life. So I am going to DM an online game of D&D 5th Edition. Babies and conflicting job schedules have made my real life game group drift apart so when I thought to myself where could I find some nerds… I thought of Nerd Fitness. This is live play, not play by post, we will play using the virtual table top webapp called Roll20. Games will be Thursdays from roughly 6pm to 10pm Central Standard Time. What do I bring to the table? I’ve been playing RPGs for about a decade and a half. D&D, World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu, Star Wars, a handful of others. DMed my fair share of campaigns. What I want! Players! 3 to 5 players, while I have run tables bigger than this, I find that when players are unused to playing with each other it’s better to keep the table small. What do you need? Free time on Thursdays mostly. Also a desire to have fun and slay some monsters and play some roles. While experienced tabletop gamers and role players is of course ideal, if you want to play and have no experience I am a DM that loves to teach the game. What sort of game do I run? Ideally a fun one catering to the tastes of the players at the table. This time though, I am going to be running a module. Princes of the Apocalypse. It is a sandbox style module that should be fairly free of railroading. There will be plenty of time to explore individual character goals, backgrounds, and desires, plenty of role playing to be had if that’s the way the party wants to tackle it. The Dessarin Valley is your sandbox. With a couple of cities, half a dozen towns, dozens of dungeons (it is a dungeon crawly sandbox), numerous factions and ongoing plots swirling around a bigger plot. You guys can tackle it however you want to, follow the leads you want, do whatever you please. Though be aware that thar be monsters, and some of them are going to be much stronger than you for awhile. This sandbox is designed to take a party from level 1 to 15. Tread carefully. In Roll20 I plan on using the virtual table top to map and show you guys locations and such, but unless miniature grid like combat is what you really want, I prefer theater of the mind style combat descriptions. Though tokens will occasionally be used on the map to make sure everyone’s clear on where things are, we’ll play that by ear. I don’t plan on it for every combat. So how do you join? Making a post here saying you want to, which I’m sorry to say will be pretty first come first serve. If there is overwhelming demand I may be convinced to run a second game. So post if you’re interested, have any questions, or whatever. You need not post a character immediately, or character concept immediately (that’d be unfair to those unfamiliar with the game). Where will the game be set? The mod is written for The Forgotten Realms, but contains conversion notes for Greyhawk, Dark Sun, Dragonlance, and Eberron. While by far the most popular of the D&D standard settings, I’ve never gotten into FR. I got more into Dragonlance and Eberron, and I like some of the implications of setting the game in Eberron. So I choose to set my Princes of the Apocalypse in Eberron. I’m transplanting the Dessarin Valley to the south east of the country of Karrnath. If you have no idea what this means, worry not. You don’t need to study it’s just the backdrop I’m setting my game against. I do plan on making a follow up post on this thread briefly explaining the setting and location. I’m a lore hound, but I don’t expect my players to be. Do you have house rules? We may have to hammer out one if people are interested in Dragonmarks (an Eberron character option that hasn’t been officially updated to 5th edition yet, though fairly easily patched), but by far my most important rule. NO LONE WOLVES! The badass loner in black who isn’t here to make friends and doesn’t need anyone may make for an entertaining video game protagonist, or character from film, tv, or novels, but D&D is at it’s core a team game. If you make a character that doesn’t want to work with the party don’t expect the party to bend over backwards to work with you. This by FAR is my biggest gaming pet peeve. This is a social team based cooperative game. Make a character who is willing to play with others, or you will sit by yourself at the tavern doing nothing while everyone else adventures and gets treasure and glory. I ask you to also skip the evil characters. While evil PCs can work it is usually only in a group of players that are comfortable with each other. For a new game group coming together, not a good idea. So skip the chaotic evil rogue, thanks. Character Creation Guidelines. For those of you who want to get a jumpstart. Stats can use the standard array, 27pt buy, or the standard 4d6 drop low method. If you want to roll you’ll have to do it on my Roll20 server so I’ll know the rolls are legit, I’ll send a link to it for those who join up. All 5th edition Player’s Handbook races and classes are open, also the human variant, yes we will be using feats. As well as the Warforged, Shifters, and Changlings from the Eberron Unearthed Arcana article, as well as the Gensai, Goliaths, Aarakocra, and Svirfneblin (but only if you can pronounce it!) from the Elemental Evil Player’s Companion (even if you’re not playing one of those races, it might be a good idea to download the companion, Princes of the Apocalypse is part of the Elemental Evil wave of books, and there will be loot scrolls with spells that are in that companion.) If there’s something from another Unearthed Arcana article you want to use, ask. For now I ask no third party material. For those who've never played, the 5th edition D&D basic rules are free, though they only contain 4 races and 4 classes from the Player's Handbook. If you want to play a Barbarian, Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Paladin, Ranger, or Druid, talk to me and we'll see if we can hook you up without needing to go out and buy a $50 book for your first gaming session. Be aware races in Eberron may be culturally different than you may expect. Dinosaur riding halfling barbarians, deep jungle dwelling drow. If you’d like to know more about how particular races fit into the setting I suggest checking out The Eberron Wiki So please, if you’re interested, come join my game.

Solid goals and an even better motivation to get them done. Do your girls proud. Welcome to the Rebellion.

The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher. Narrated by James (Spike from Buffy) Marsters. To steal TV tropes summary... A horror/fantasy/mystery series of novels, fifteen and counting plus associated short stories and comic miniseries and the like, by Jim Butcher. Harry Dresden is a wizard and private detective operating out of modern day Chicago, and reluctantly hired by a special police task force as a consultant on supernatural crimes. The Genre Savvy protagonist cracks jokes about the Urban Fantasy- Dungeon Punk setting and the tropes it uses. It's he kind of series were when a wizard, his apprentice, his dog, his utterly terrifying fairy godmother (no really), a holy knight, an incubus, two half turned vampires, and a Chicago police detective are gearing up for a suicide run against near gods they argue about who has dibs on being "the Legolas" of the group.

I've been busy and away from the forum for a bit but I'm dropping by to confirm I'm still down for this race.

Well this hasn't been well organized. I'm a book binder by trade and it is Yearbook season. I'm slammed with work and overtime. Well like I said my gf and I will be at Izzy and Moe's to play the boardgames. Then head up to the mall for the 5:10 cap I'm thinking. I'll be sporting one of my NF shirts.

Yeah that's what I was thinking. It's big near the interstate. And everyone knows the mall. Personally I'd be up for the 5:10 or the 8:10 on Saturday. Before that my girlfriend and I will be participating in International Table Top day at Izzy and Moe's bar about 11 miles from Woodfield. You are welcome to come and join the fun. I'm bringing Sentinels of the Multiverse. http://www.tabletopday.com/item/izzy-moes/

The regular app or the Zombies, Run 5k trainer? In either case remember while running if you are breathing hard enough where you couldn't hold a conversation then you are sprinting, running at an unsustainable pace. Back it off, this is an endurance run. You want to be able to keep running the whole time (run drills for the trainer, the whole mission for the app proper). There will be times to open the taps and sprint. Some drills in the trainer, Zombie Chases in the main app, where you will be asked to run flat out as hard as you can, but if you are already going full out there is no way you'll evade the zoms in chases turned on.

The planning sorta took a back seat after Steve stole my thunder But yeah. I was thinking probably woodfield simply as a well known large location. Though if anyone has any ideas or suggestions for another theater I'm all ears. As a side note April 5th is international Table Top Day. There are some events happening around the area. Don't know if anyone would want to play games before movie or vice versa.

Jenn speaks truth. There is a number of Runner Fives.... Runners Five... A multitude of Runner Five on the boards.

Temptation to call into work is strong...

As I edited just after your post I've never had a Facebook account. Thanks though.

I'll come for Moe's but I'll have to miss the music man. Which of the two locations is the one on the site are we meeting at? Amazingly I have no Facebook so I can't confirm on the event page. Also I'm bringing a +1.

I'll come for Moe's but I'll have to miss the music man. Which of the two locations is the one on the site are we meeting at?

Might be able to make the meet up, don't think I'd be able to stay for the concert.