I stumbled on these forums a few weeks ago. Let me first introduce myself, as I think I have a different gaming background than most of the gamers here. I’m relatively young (mid-twenties), and live in the Netherlands (Europe!) and I’ve been playing and DM’ing Roleplaying games for the past 10 years. I started with 3rd edition D&D and moved on to 4e, Mutants and Masterminds, but spent most of my gaming time as Storyteller for White Wolf games such as Vampire: the Masquerade and Werewolf. Although I’m still new to the “Old School” 1st AD&D, I’d like to give DM’ing a game a try and was hoping to be able to start a game here and find some people interested to play.
I’ve got quite a lot experience DM’ing, also play by post, but the rules of 1st AD&D are relatively new for me (and I guess I'll have to see how the dice rollers work on this forum as well). Now, before I’ll go into more detail about the game, I’d like to apologize in advance for any spelling mistakes I’m going to make. Since I’m not a native English speaker, I’m bound to make some awful mistakes in all the writing I do. Please feel free to correct me. That’s the only way I’m going to learn.
Now, for the game I was thinking about maybe 5 players. I’m a very easy-going DM (or that’s what I try to be). My games tend to be rules light and I really want it to be a very light-hearted easy going game. Although I’ll try to follow the rules (and will never break them on purpose or cheat), I find the story and the fun more important. Ultimately, we’re just here to have fun, that’s the most important thing. The campaign will be just a bunch of short “one Shot” adventures, loosely connected, most of them homebrew or inspired (and adapted) from different published adventures from different sources, set in a homebrew, but quite your standard D&D fantasy setting, just the stuff people expect.
I'm not sure what type of house rules you guys prefer or use. But one houserule I usually use for play by post games is using group initiative, since that speeds things up quite a bit. But I'm fine with doing it differently if you guys dislike that.
Well, I’m looking forward to hearing from you and see if anyone would be interested in something like this.. I’ve been lurking on this site for a few weeks and reading the posts and you seem like a very friendly community.
Cheers,
Nidhogg
EDIT: I think it might be a good idea to post this also in the first post of the thread: This is the basic premise of the adventure.
Springrite
It’s Springrite. Each year with the coming of the spring, the elves celebrate the festival of Springrite. A great feast, full of dancing, singing and drinking, all week long. From all over the world, people come to the elvish cities to witness and participate in the Springrite. So do you. You’ve come to the lands of Alfheim and the city of Eolo, home to the Sylvan Elves and their Queen Loreley. The game starts at the end of the festival, when, as it happens each year, the festival is concluded with a traditional great hunt. When morning breaks, all the elves and all the foreigners who’ve enjoyed the festivities, gather in front of the city gates and take their place in one of the many hunting parties, setting out into the woods searching for game. That’s when you guys meet for the first time, when you take part in the same hunting party. This year the elves will face much worse things than deer and boar during the hunt though… It's spring. The buds are sweet, the water sparkles, everyone is joyful... Many elves will die, when an ancient enemy returns.
The structure of the first adventure will be partly based on an adventure for The One Ring roleplaying game called "Words for the Wise". Don't look it up if you don't know it!
). I'll add some threads with setting information (a map and such) and a thread for character generation and one for friendly off topic banter. Meanwhile, there is still room for two more players, so if anyone is still interested, please post here or PM me. It will likely take a week still before the real game actually starts anyway and we can always add players a bit later.