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We're looking for a few new players to bolster our ranks!



The Game: Castle Gargantua, a procedural dungeon of gothic weirdness, running the extraordinarily spare Into the Odd ruleset.
ItO will take about 30 seconds to learn! It's a very good ruleset for PbP play—it let's you focus on the meat of the thing.

Atmosphere: Rabelaisian excess. Loquacious absurdity. Abrupt lethality. We reserve the right to be NSFW/18+, although we haven't especially exercised that right, as yet.

Causes of character death, so far:
Gummed by a Horrible Baby
Crushed by the falling of a Giant Curtain
Torn by Ungodly Rats
Chomped by a Nutcracker Golem
Turned into putti statuary by a Heavenly Ceiling

Relevant Links:
The Game Thread
Into the Odd Player-facing rules (free!)

Posting rate: 3 scheduled ACTION! posts a week. Incidental or clarification responses available on a daily basis, as needed.

That sounds riotous! Count me interested.

Great! I'll pm you some options.

I'm interested too. How does character creation work?

Great!

You can check out standard adventurer chargen in this post.

In a nutshell: rolle 3d6 for Stregth, Dexterity, and Willpower. Roll d6 for hp. Then you or I cross reference your lowest attribute and hp for equipment, and you're done! There's a few other beads and bangles, if you're interested.

However! The party is pretty deep into the dungeon, so there is also the opportunity to play a Dungeon Weirdo. In which case, roll 1d20 for the three attributes, 1d6 for hp, and we'll cross-reference the results on an entirely different table to find out both your equipment and the specific nature of your weirdness.

If you and Starbeard enter the game around the same time, it would be my preference to coordinate your character concepts a bit. But expediency will be prized over realism when adding new characters.

I was figuring on going Full Weirdo, but I'll wait until we plan out the new PCs if Rusty's also joining. I don't really care what I am, so long as one of us is the weirdo!

I'd say go ahead and make the character. We'll establish a connection inspired by the results.

Weirdo sounds exciting to me! Let's do it, Starbeard!

STR [1d20] = 3, DEX [1d20] = 10, WIL [1d20] = 1

HP [1d6] = 6

Rusty, could you give me 2 different d% rolls?

Alright:
You have the strength of a child and literally no willpower. When you die, you will explode like a bomb (1d12 damage to the area). But! You can camouflage yourself quite effectively. Also, you have a maul (d8 damage).

Make of that what you will! I'll happily entertain pretty much any interpretation of the above.

Alright! Here's my Weirdo, what do I get?

STR [1d20] = 2, DEX [1d20] = 16, WIL [1d20] = 14, Hits [1d6] = 6

Pulpatoon wrote:You have the strength of a child and literally no willpower. When you die, you will explode like a bomb (1d12 damage to the area)... Make of that what you will!

Sounds to me like I'll be making a new character fairly soon!

Where do I find more information on dungeon weirdos? What are they, exactly? (Cannot find it in the free pdf you linked.)

Hiya guys. Very new currently and I think my posts have to be approved so there could be some lag but I am interested in joining this motley crew if there's still room.

And if there is room for another pile of meat for the grinder I'll probably use standard chargen. I think it's been mentioned that the halls of castle gargantua are well gargantuan so maybe this guy is just some wild eyed madman who's been lost and roaming for a while?

I have the IoO rules so I can roll up a character a bit later if that's ok and I'll also have to figure out the dice roller.

I have pm'd the two of you with more information. Welcome aboard!

Rowenn552 wrote:Hiya guys. Very new currently and I think my posts have to be approved so there could be some lag but I am interested in joining this motley crew if there's still room.

And if there is room for another pile of meat for the grinder I'll probably use standard chargen. I think it's been mentioned that the halls of castle gargantua are well gargantuan so maybe this guy is just some wild eyed madman who's been lost and roaming for a while?

I have the IoO rules so I can roll up a character a bit later if that's ok and I'll also have to figure out the dice roller.

Welcome Rowenn552!
--Ron--

Rowenn552 wrote:Hiya guys. Very new currently and I think my posts have to be approved so there could be some lag but I am interested in joining this motley crew if there's still room.

Apologies! I missed your post—perhaps on account of the lag you mentioned. Now, let's get you started! I'll be introducing the other two new players on Monday. Let's see if we can't have you up and running to join them!

I'll send you a private message, catching you up on what's what. You can decide whether you want to tie your character concept into the others, or not.

Delighted to have you joining us!