It looks like a summer PbP game is possible.
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I need to find out who wants to game, what people might want to play, and all that.
If you have played in any of my previous games on FoS, feel free to vote (this isn't only a poll for the players from the BR game). But please only cast a vote if you think you will have the free time, motivation, and net access to actively participate over the summer.
OPTION 1
Birthright 3: The Worm's Supper
As autumn gives way to early winter, folk fall ill across central Tuornen, suffering from burning fever, rotting blisters, frightening visions, and violent spasms. The priests of Haelyn labor to slow the spread of the malady with little initial success. Monks of the Militant Order travel the countryside stirring up the common folk with talk of nocturnal poisoners and black magic. In Haes, a newly formed street gang, ‘The Hooded Hunters’, attacks visitors from Lofton and openly blames the “treacherous Alamiens” for the sudden appearance of the illness.
Meanwhile, the Manslayer’s warbands strike all along the western borders with abductions, arsons, and murders by night.
Messengers from the Archprelate bring Turonen’s heroes a discrete invitation to meet His Holiness in the prelate’s palace for a private discussion of the duchy’s troubles.
OPTION 2
Ravenloft: The Surgeon’s Apprentice
Guillaume DuPont, a Richemuloise student at the surgeon’s school in Ludendorf, writes to Dorgio Varga for help. The student reports that he has been wrongly arrested for a string of murders of women in the town, based on circumstantial evidence, a misidentification of him by a witness, and ‘Lamordian xenophobia.’ Guillaume fears that even if he can win his case in court—a prospect of which he seems uncertain—the local people may lynch him before he leaves the town. He has read Dorgio’s pamphlet: The Woman-Killer, and he believes the true murderer may either be the same villain who carried out the crimes described therein or a madman inspired by reading the pamphlet. The young man provides details about the Ludendorf murders that almost exactly match Jonathon Maytr’s crimes.
OPTION 3
Summer of Sci Fi!
Do you want to try something other than fantasy and/or gothic horror? If this option wins, I will open a quick secondary poll/discussion for a sci fi game. I have several options prepared, between modules and my own notes for games I haven’t yet run. We can use the Star Frontiers rules set and default setting (the rules are available as free PDFs online, courtesy of Wizards, and the system is easy to learn).The default mode for play assumes teams of operatives who do jobs for corporations or governments. That can be loads of fun. But we could also do a game centered around the PCs as colonists on a “new” world (obviously, it won’t be a boring, safe colony!).
The necromancer will not have a raven familiar, but a chicken. BOK!
