Thanks all for the interest - I'll open a 5E game to explore Sveilland, a Norse setting.
Svilland is a Norse Mythology inspired D&D 5E campaign setting; it is designed to bring the valour, brutality and drama from Norse tales to your roleplaying games. The game is compatible with 5E, but its theme and dynamics are very different than your usual high fantasy game. Sure, there is magic in this realm, plenty of it even. Yet, it is given in a way that reflects omens, spirits, runes and Norse deities with their true forms in the mythology. In Svilland you will learn the true meaning of blood, magic, raids, and wrath of the gods.
This will be a game with dark and horror themes, an adventure set in the cold, harsh lands of the north with literal struggle between the forces of life and death. The adventure adds a corruption mechanic called Hel points to emphasize this struggle.
I will ask that you make a 1st level character using the rules in the
Svilland Campaign Setting book. and the standard Player's Handbook. The setting is highly modified and tremendously thematic, so most other D&D material won't apply. You'll need a copy of the Campaign Setting book, but if that's a hardship please PM me. There's a wealth of custom options in this book - I'd like to playtest this material, so I'll set you fairly free within it to see what elements you gravitate to.
We'll accept 4 to 6 players. I'm looking primarily at running Freya's Tears, so please don't read that one. (We might modify based on the direction of play.)
I intend a slow, immersive playstyle. I will try to commit to a major story beat post as DM once a week, with 1-3 posts a week from players as your roleplay and interact with each other within the beat. I'm looking for players to be narrative and to color freely within the theme with your posts (which is my preferred DM style).
Please post here for interest. I'll request the forum be opened and once it is, I'll post some summaries of the changes the setting provides and what the start-points will be for the story. (Roughly, you'll be 1st level characters who are young folks in villages at the foot of the mountains and the edge of civilization who are coming to testing themselves at the Day of the Hunt festival to be proven worthy of joining the warbands of the region against the threats of the untamed wilderness beyond.)
You can have a few weeks time to explore the book, make characters, and for me to set up the forum, and I'll hope to launch by mid-October.
