New forum RPG looking for players
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 12:55 pm
Last year I spent some time coming up with an idea for a new role-playing game based on the setting of a previous game, Heart of God, that would be more of a free-form character-based storytelling adventure rather than HoG's Pantheon-inspired god-sim. I wasn't sure if I wanted to actually go ahead with it at the time, but I've decided I do, so I need to know if we have players interested in joining in.
The basic rules and background info for Heart of God: The Outsiders can be found here.
The main difference from that linked document is that I have determined a starting scenario this game would kick off from, which is as follows:
The growing prosperity of the Heartland region has drawn many seeking wealth, particularly in the northern foothills, where the new city of Jovian stands. Home to the Jovian Guild of Merchants, many trade caravans, large and small, arrive at the city seeking lucrative contracts from the Guildsmen, who control the city's wealth.
One such caravan is that of Hastor Rum, a minor noble from somewhere in the far north, who is looking to make a deal for a shipment of textiles of the highest quality that he acquired at his previous stop in Akilas, a port city a few weeks' journey from the Heartland.
Or at least that's what he claims. In reality, Hastor Rum is a con man and a thief, and he has brought a small crew to help him pull off his most ambitious job yet: robbing the Great Bank of Jove.
You, the player, are a member of Hastor's crew. You may have been with him on jobs before, or perhaps you were recently hired just for this one heist. You don't really know much about Rum. You're not sure that's his real name. Perhaps you're not even sure why he hired you. But if you pull this off, he's offering one hell of a reward.
[So this will be how things kick off, and will be how the characters are arriving in the setting, but they may still have their own reasons for wanting to come to the Heartland beyond the job itself, and things can and probably will progress beyond this initial idea; it's all up to you as players.]
I'm looking for 3-5 players for this campaign, and I don't need you to come up with your characters immediately as there'll be more to get into in the preparation phase. Please just let me know if you're in and hopefully we can get started.
The basic rules and background info for Heart of God: The Outsiders can be found here.
The main difference from that linked document is that I have determined a starting scenario this game would kick off from, which is as follows:
The growing prosperity of the Heartland region has drawn many seeking wealth, particularly in the northern foothills, where the new city of Jovian stands. Home to the Jovian Guild of Merchants, many trade caravans, large and small, arrive at the city seeking lucrative contracts from the Guildsmen, who control the city's wealth.
One such caravan is that of Hastor Rum, a minor noble from somewhere in the far north, who is looking to make a deal for a shipment of textiles of the highest quality that he acquired at his previous stop in Akilas, a port city a few weeks' journey from the Heartland.
Or at least that's what he claims. In reality, Hastor Rum is a con man and a thief, and he has brought a small crew to help him pull off his most ambitious job yet: robbing the Great Bank of Jove.
You, the player, are a member of Hastor's crew. You may have been with him on jobs before, or perhaps you were recently hired just for this one heist. You don't really know much about Rum. You're not sure that's his real name. Perhaps you're not even sure why he hired you. But if you pull this off, he's offering one hell of a reward.
[So this will be how things kick off, and will be how the characters are arriving in the setting, but they may still have their own reasons for wanting to come to the Heartland beyond the job itself, and things can and probably will progress beyond this initial idea; it's all up to you as players.]
I'm looking for 3-5 players for this campaign, and I don't need you to come up with your characters immediately as there'll be more to get into in the preparation phase. Please just let me know if you're in and hopefully we can get started.
