So, I don't normally do these things so I'll keep it simple.

Been itching to do a sort of D&D esque story centered around a single player's character as oppose to a whole group. That's not to say you'll be on your journey alone, as I'll be making the NPC's that will be your party members, but in general I just really wanna try my hand at being the DM of a story about a singular person.

The game will be D&D 5e based, though I also know pathfinder to a certain extent. Just hit me up if you're interested in either or.

Hi Lucius,

I've been a bit curious of a solo player adventure, especially on these RP forum to see how it would perform. Hopefully work on my end should not be as busy as it has been in the past months. But if I do become too busy, at least it won't hinder or disturb the flow in the story since you could probably post another interest if you want to restart the story.

I suppose the only question I have is what would be expected in this one shot and how one would prepare for it?

@Expolar

Well, ideally you’d know how to play DnD 5e or Pathfinder, especially in a pbp context. I don’t mind tutoring you if you’re new but the more you know the more stuff we can do. I’d also recommends having a lvl 1 character prepared, and possibly back up characters. Unlike your typical 1x1 we will be incorporating dice to determine how things work out, meaning that there’s a possibility that you could die of luck isnt on your side.

Plot and such are tailored to each player or character otherwise, so what you’ll be doing depends on who you bring.

I've been playing D&D 5e for a while now but was recently forced to move away from my local group. Never done a PBP before but seeing as I don't have a group in my area yet it might be a good idea for me to learn. I have done PBP roleplaying in general, just not strictly for D&D or any other system. If you don't mind that, I'd be interested in playing with you as a chance to expand my horizons. I can start writing up a character for your consideration but before I get too far I want to ask; what kind of setting do you have in mind, if any?

@FateWeaver

It’ll take place in a world I stole called Keratia, typical fantasy setting through currently they’re on the way to industrialization, so there will be an advent in technology in certain areas. Still a good place for your usual sword and sorcery type place with the occasional sighting of complex magic constructs and peasants armed with explosives sticks.

I would prefer playing with D&D 5e since I've been mostly playing it in the past 2 years as a player and DM.

For a brief character idea that I currently have in mind,
Caeda Bryberos, a adamant and headstrong female half-elf who is an only child in the noble family of Bryberos. Spent most of her life in a city mainly of elves, half elves, and minority being humans. Her human mother Eleanor was said to have passed away from a severe sickness when she was about 3 years old, to this current day, she refuses to believe her death or visit her grave as it eventually leads her to think of her own mortality not being good enough as simply being a half elf and not being a pure elf than the elves whose life and culture she idealizes since youth. This is seen most with her elven father, the Baron Erlan Bryberos, she idealizes him the most from his many stories of grand adventures. It was from these stories that she decided to become part of the city guard as a way to train and prepare to join her father. She does not have any specific hate on her mother as she has been told of her being very caring when Caeda was young, but when she often compares herself to her father, Caeda wishes to follow in her father's path, but feels she would be unable to meet such expectations, especially with the centuries of experience her father has gained.

But the day eventually arrived when two soldiers knocked at Bryberos estate home to inform her of her father's death during a battle and could only give her father remaining equipment as the body could not be recovered. Just like her mother, Caeda was in denial of her father's death, she didn't attend attend her father's funeral and would end or leave conversations that were to bring him up. The most she would endure would be accepting the baroness title as the heir to the Bryberos family and land which it holds. One day, she decided to at least move and organize her father's equipment herslef from his hall of trophies to his room. It was then that when she went to grasped her father's prized adamantium gauntlet, that she felt this strange sense to wear it. This was a magical item that Erlan found during the beginnings of his adventure and said to have almost always wear it. Once it was don, she could feel its magic and grabbed the nearest weapon to do a few practice swings to feel it, only to feel the blade to suddenly become enchanted by gauntlet. After having that bit of fun, she was reminded more about her father and tried to remove the gauntlet, only to feel her being being pulled as well. A faint sense then told her of a vague direction to travel, she was not compelled to go there, but it was a lingering sensation that would remain even after another forced removal of the gauntlet. She gave this feeling a few days to pass over until she eventually decided to investigate what ever this direction may lead her towards.

So what do you think? Mechanically I'm planning for a lv 1 half elf hexblade warlock with the gauntlet powering the blades that she comes in contact with. I also chose the city watch background as that felt the closet to a guard in a city. Also how would you like us to decide ability scores?

@Expolar

Not bad. I can definitely work with this. As for stats, you can choose either a 30 point buy with a buy up to 16, or rolling stats. 4d6 six times and dropping the lowest die, and if you’re total amount is less than 70 I’ll allow you to reroll your set. Naturally you can only choose one or the other.

I rolled for her stats, with the lowest number dropped, came out as 9, 17, 15, 12, 14, and 11. Together totaling to 78.

Do you have any preferences for where to make her character sheet?

@Expolar

Looks legit, as for CS I usually use Mythweavers or a specific gdoc, whichever works best with you.

Your character will also start at level 3, your items will be what you get from class and background, plus 150 gp.

Here is Caeda Bryberos's character sheet.

One small thing that I changed for starting equipment that I wanted to ask. Instead of taking anything from the first bullet and no simple weapon form the 4th bullet, would it be okay exchange those with a rapier since as a hexblade warlock? I wanted to take that opportunity to have a martial weapon since martial weapons become my proficiency.

@Expolar I don’t have permission to see your CS. Make sure it’s not set to private.

@Lucius Cypher
Oops, sorry about this, you should be able to see it now.

Are there be anything else that I should be aware about? Also since this is a world that you created, is there a city as mentioned in Caeda's backstory that could probably fit that description? I tried leaving it general enough to probably fit it somewhere if you had a place.

@Expolar

Sorry for the late reply. Everything checks out yeah, we can easily place your city onto my world map. When I have access to my PC or just find the urge I’ll make a IC for you and me.

I'm back and looking for new meat. First come first serve. I got ideas.