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O L D G L O R Y




Long ago, before the world burned and when magic was alive, there was a great empire that stretched from sea to shining sea. A land of ten thousand tongues that were made into one, whose people came from horizons beyond to find a new life and whose triumph still stands eternal: America. Although it has long since fractured into countless petty fiefdoms, warlords and noble houses, all still remember its eternal glory and whose ruins still stand even more magnificent than any modern construction.
And its said some of those ruins still house relics of the old world...

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This RP is a straightforward dungeon diving expedition, not unlike what you might find in a D&D game. PCs are tasked with going to an ancient old world ruin, fighting for the treasure inside and then returning with said treasure. If you want additional background and also visualizations of the style I'm aiming for, take a look at the Int Check.

The story I am planning so far is for everyone to meet up in an area (ie Tavern), brave the wilderness and local lords to get to the ruin, going through the ruins to get their treasure and then going back to get some rewards. Details such as final location is still TBD.

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Characters should be more grounded than full on parody. If you have any more questions let me know!

Please do not DM me character sheets or apps, put them in this thread you coward.





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@Fetzen@Jarl Coolgruuf@DX3214 Any status on character sheets?

@Arhestoval Welcome aboard! You got any ideas?
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@Fetzen@Jarl Coolgruuf@DX3214 Any status on character sheets?

@Arhestoval Welcome aboard! You got any ideas?


Mine should be ready this evening :)
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@Fetzen@Jarl Coolgruuf@DX3214 Any status on character sheets?

@Arhestoval Welcome aboard! You got any ideas?


ongoing a bit of a pain due to slowdown due to decisions IRL but still ongoing.
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@ClocktowerEchos Mine should be done by the end of this weekend.
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Ideas for the campaign?
If that's what you meant, I would suggest sourcing from Metro: 2033, or Fallout, as examples.

A setting that, depending on which type of disaster caused the collapse, may or may not have caused folks to go underground. If so, for how long? Are there different kinds of humanoids now because of generations under the surface? Subspecies with bonuses to seeing in the dark or evolved to consume less food and still sustain.
Maybe society doesn't use cash for goods anymore but might utilize bullets as a universal currency. The different kinds of caliber rounds could be worth more, like how our bills are $1's $5's $10's, and such, and as 9mm is the most common round, so it's less valuable as compared to a 7.62mm for a rifle; maybe 7.62mm are worth $5 - $10 each. How accessible is ammo? Is a guy with ONE FULL clip very wealthy in these times? This may impact players' choice to enter into conflict with persuasion rather than expending ammo and literally wasting "money."
Everyday survival might be a theme.
Survival checks apply to the need for food or water. Suffering the loss of HP or stats based on how malnourished or dehydrated a player is.
This is off the top of my head, of course, and mostly gathered from those video games.
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@Arhestoval I meant ideas for your own character.

I know that from exprience that unless you already have a system in mind, adding actual numbers doesn't tend to make for good roleplaying or gameplay. There are also no guns in this setting and even something like a black powder cannon is extremely rare so a bullet-based currency isn't going to do much, plus this isn't an RP that is focusing on parts of society like that. Its a simple dungeon crawl journey and that's it, literally go from point A to B and then back to A.

Also not really doing the whole "mutant human subspecies" thing since again that's not the vibe I'm going for. Think of it less like a nuclear wasteland and more medieval America with knights, castles and swords mixed with no magic D&D adventurers. Mutant animals and monsters sure but no Dark Ones or Ghouls.
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mmmmm, Ok
well that sounds pretty boring then
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trying to find virtues & flaws can sometimes be a pain especially if they work better in the long or short term or if they even fit with backstory.
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@DX3214 I can try to help, what do you have so far?
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@DX3214 I can try to help, what do you have so far?


Well for Viktor I grabbed the ideas you threw at me about, the mountain, and John henry but decided to go less... what is the best term in English stoic, serious folks, and play more into a friendly large guy, backstory wise due to my summarization problem. His father fought back when Detroit was ruled by the ursuline Jacques Castel before being overthrown and the city becoming the great lakes Venice I need to find a goddamn life if I know this much about a goddamn mod for an old game and trained him to be a warrior he then grabbed a bit of tutelage under the hammer, and the furnace (i felt it would fit the rust faith for people to put more focus in ironworking) and his major ambition I made mostly because I was tired of complexity and just wanted some vanilla goals was just accumulation of mass wealth as for traits and flaws, virtues that sort of makes me think difficult for me due to well interpretation reasons.
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mmmmm, Ok
well that sounds pretty boring then


it can sound but the world ATE is less fantasy and high sci-fi and more lest fuck with a post-Apoc America and create wild things such as cultists of chutulu, people who believe the founding fathers are literal gods, the literal 40k tech-priest religion, used to be they changed it to be more original California being literal Japan in its 200 years of civil war, oh and also atomists from fallout albeit some of then legit find a nuke and kill an entire province that is a legit event that can happen and also the confederates are back but they are more akin to France and the HRE mixed.
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@DX3214 Going with John Henry, there's a pretty easy flaw you can have: you don't know when to quit. In the myth, John Henry's heart literally explodes or gives out after he decided to 1v1 a steel driving machine with only his hammer in a competition to see who is faster. So stubborn pride can be something.

Works as a virtue too, that he is hard working and dependable.
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Found a fun picture that is sort of related to this, at least I could see something like this happening in this setting:

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Things have been pretty quite, @Fetzen@Jarl Coolgruuf@DX3214 any news on characters or updates? Or should we all move on?
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Hey my bad this week and weekend got a little crazy. I'll try to finish out the details tonight if possible but no promises.
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a few small IRL problems mostly due to weekend, and also a few promises but still doing it.
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