Recruitment Drive: Outdoor Survival hex crawl using S&W
Feb 7, 2022 15:52:14 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2022 15:52:14 GMT -6
Hello, brave and stalwart adventurers of the ODD'74 boards. I have been running a sandbox campaign using the Swords & Wizardry rules for a couple of months now. There's one entire adventuring party at capacity (6 player characters plus some hirelings) and there's been interest in expanding the campaign to include a "B Team".
The idea I have for the B Team is that another team of 4-6 player characters will be generated at a slightly higher level of experience and will be tasked with exploring a parallel dimension by the king's top wizard (known to your character as "Mother"). Your characters will literally be expendable clones of sorts (it's part of the setting's lore), which further separates this from the main campaign.
The whole idea of this team's activities is you are already an experienced explorer, born and bred as part of the King's secret elite "revenants" or "death commandoes", and you get zapped into another dimension by magic (actually, you willingly jump into the open mouth of a mutant purple worm with a portal in its belly but that's just details. For the Crown and the Mother in the Mountain!), you're basically on the Outdoor Survival map, beginning on a stronghold that's been prepared ahead of you, and you're playing the "clear hexes to build strongholds and towns" game, but with opportunity for freelance work and bounties of sorts for variety.
You'll start with some magical gear and 16,000 XP or so, which will get you a handful of levels depending on your class and whether you multi-class, but if you get squashed by an angry storm giant or thwomped by a Roc they can grow another one of you back home. The life of the King's special soldiers is tough sometimes. Go kick in some doors, kill something and take its treasure. That's the name of the game. Fight on!
(Before I made this announcement I already had interest in this idea expressed by Mushgnome and mannclay. Can you guys confirm if you're officially joining this? If so, that's two.)
The idea I have for the B Team is that another team of 4-6 player characters will be generated at a slightly higher level of experience and will be tasked with exploring a parallel dimension by the king's top wizard (known to your character as "Mother"). Your characters will literally be expendable clones of sorts (it's part of the setting's lore), which further separates this from the main campaign.
The whole idea of this team's activities is you are already an experienced explorer, born and bred as part of the King's secret elite "revenants" or "death commandoes", and you get zapped into another dimension by magic (actually, you willingly jump into the open mouth of a mutant purple worm with a portal in its belly but that's just details. For the Crown and the Mother in the Mountain!), you're basically on the Outdoor Survival map, beginning on a stronghold that's been prepared ahead of you, and you're playing the "clear hexes to build strongholds and towns" game, but with opportunity for freelance work and bounties of sorts for variety.
You'll start with some magical gear and 16,000 XP or so, which will get you a handful of levels depending on your class and whether you multi-class, but if you get squashed by an angry storm giant or thwomped by a Roc they can grow another one of you back home. The life of the King's special soldiers is tough sometimes. Go kick in some doors, kill something and take its treasure. That's the name of the game. Fight on!
(Before I made this announcement I already had interest in this idea expressed by Mushgnome and mannclay. Can you guys confirm if you're officially joining this? If so, that's two.)
