Welcome Marc, Jen, Ken, Dan, Shannon, Brian, Steve and Vicki!
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From deep in Shadow, please welcome Vicki to the campaign.
Posting Areas **NEWMarc, Steve, Dan, Vicki, Jen 3.20
Ken 3.18
Brian 3.6
Shannon - Backstory
Welcome to The Center of All Things. **The Campaign has begun!! All player pictures now posted.
Preliminary Faerie page. If you get bored, check my characters at gmamberchars.wikidot.com.
START THINKING ABOUT WHERE YOU WANT YOUR EXPERIENCE SPENT. (Example Half to Warfare, Quarter to my magic axe, quarter to good stuff.) Send me a PM or email me under contact section.
Feel free to add additional backstories about your character's childhood or any time before you actually got to your backstory or the campaign start. Good examples might be: Your first kill, your first hunt, your first love, your first battle, your first try using your powers, anything, really…
This will add to CONTRIBUTIONS. The game says if you write stories you get 10 extra points. Weeee!!! I plan on awarding contribution pts for stories you post. There will be a point of diminishing returns, or else Stephen King would be 750 pts by now.
Housekeeping: I will post at least three times a week. (An hour?) I would like the players to be able to post at least twice a week. At many points, the players will be apart, at some points, they will be together. At those points, please consider checking the board more frequently, since other players are waiting for your reply.
Please do not use player knowledge that your characters do not have. We can all learn from the writing styles of our fellow players. Besides, its fun to see what everyone else is up to. It is because of that that we will all have access to each other's threads. If there is something that really, really needs to be kept secret, like Marc having the skull of the unicorn as a lampshade, we will discuss that in private messages or emails, and then work it vaguely into the thread.
The campaign started during the Patternfall war, during the fifth book. For those of you who have not read the books, no problemo. What this means is that Amber is marching an army across Shadow to battle the Courts of Chaos on their home turf. Gerard has stayed behind, with Oberon, Dworkin and a damaged Pattern. The rest of the known Elders are on one side (Amber) or the other (ahem, Brand). Things will not necessarily play out the way they did in the books. The PCs will have some influence over the course of events.
For those of you who have not gamed with me before, I believe that the PCs shouldn't always be the most powerful things in all of creation, but you should have a disproportionate amount of influence. After all, you ARE the player-characters.
Disclaimer: My combat scenes are a mixture of John Woo, Quentin Tarantino and George Romero. (Ah, the zombies.)
Updates on powers will soon follow, but I will tell you this…
No advanced powers to start.
Pattern would be a good idea.
Basic Pattern, 35 is available, but it means you can just barely traverse Shadow. You are a Pattern newbie.
Sorcery is going to be slightly reworked, with several different kinds of magic, including witchcraft.
There will be Faerie magic, and if that interests you, let me know.
No constructs to start.
Artifacts encouraged. Take the Seek with Shadow if you want to be able to claim your item wherever you are (like Corwin does multiple times with Grayswandir)
You may choose your parent, or leave it up to me. (Mwoo Haaa Haaa)
Thank you all,
George