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Mercenaries!

A game where the rules are made up and the points don't matter



It is an era of darkness in the world of Mundus. Petty kings and queens rule great city-states. Sorcerers and Monstrous beings stalk the wilderness. YOU are a brave company of sellswords- mercenaries who work for coin and hold little allegiance to anyone who bounces a check. You take on the role of one of these skilled adventurers wandering with your companions through a somewhat generic fantasy world filled with tropes treasures and riches for the taking-if you don't die along the way. You will encounter kings who hold a grudge and may or may not resemble David Bowie in both mannerism and speech. Drunken clergy. Monsters that are totally not derivative of certain Intellectual Properties. Toll trolls. Screaming things. Extra-planar butlers. Dungeons that may or may not be sentient and clinically depressed. You will uncover ancient artifacts that do crazy shit but does not do game breaking crazy shit. It's all pretty open-ended at this point except for a few things I'll go ahead and add below right now because my lunch break has been extended by three hours.

Welcome to Mercenaries, the bastard spawn of this monstrosity I foolishly thought I could manage years ago. This game will be more spontaneous, a little sillier and hopefully more fun for all parties involved. I've nerfed all that number crunchy shit to focus on story and player interaction. It's all tongue-in-cheek and characters should reflect that. Pretend your a fantasy character that truly believes that what they are doing is incredibly important. Characters will probably die, and the whole point of the game is to build a slowly evolving lore together while wrecking havoc through the game world and having fun. Your characters will be limited only in that: They all must belong to the same company of mercenaries and they must be limited to the abilities on their character sheet. Yes, there are stats, but only four and I am only using a d6 to determine outcome. This is simply to avoid any in-game fuckery that might arise and make sure nobody goes god-tier power for no reason.

"Yes and..."
Roleplay will primarily consist of adventuring through the game world searching for adventures-which I will provide as the GM. Players are encouraged to take an active part in the world as it develops in the spirit of improvisation. So your character knows about a wizard lurking in that forest? Let's go loot his shit. Your character suddenly remembers their cousin lives in this village and owes him a considerable amount of coin? Let's go loot his shit. As the game progresses, I will post seasonal or situational updates. Seasons are how time will progress in this game. (Summer,Spring,Autumn,Winter) with three months in-game time passing. In between seasons, we'll take stock of the companies accomplishments, treasure, coin, and advance the characters in power. Situational updates will be pre-adventure planning and explanations or whenever I think shit has gone horribly off track.

The World
Mundus is a world described in one DMs notebook as "Not really worth the graph paper it is printed on-". Remarked one player: "It's a fucking kitchen sink man". This may be true, but for a few small corrections, and also screw you Alan, your favorite system is GURPS. Orcs are not real. Never were, except in folk tales invented to make naughty children shit their breeches, clean themselves up and go to bed without a luke-warm bowl of grool. Humans are pretty much the only creature left after some horrible deep-lore ancient war stuff going on. Elves have shiny towers in the distance but only if it suits the current narrative arc. Look, the Dwarves have all dug too deep and I never liked hobbits halflings all that much. So for this stories purpose, I'll only be accepting human characters. (for now) Also, they will probably die pretty quick so don't fuss about with it too much.

On Magic:
Magic is derived from extra-planar beings that are usually so pissed off at being bothered that they want to kill, harm or in some other way cause serious mental or physical anguish to who ever dared to summon them. Now don't get me wrong, certain safe spells have been known to work without something truly horrible going wrong. Mage Hand is probably a safe bet. I wouldn't try a fireball in close-quarters though. Spellcasters may only have one spell ready at any given time, per level. A list of spells will be provided to spellcasters.

On Characters & Playing the Game as a Company of Mercenaries:


On Building a Character:
Hey Congrats for making it this far. I usually just skim all that shit above. I guess you're still interested in joining the game? If so, read on, fill out a character application and submit it in this thread to get in the game.











A special note for those that made it this far:



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*kicks the door down* INTERESTED!

My character will probably be a "hero" who thinks he's "the chosen one", by the way.
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@Dragonfly 9
Hola dragonfly! We'll be working out character personalities and backgrounds through exposition as we go, so a rough sketch outline of an archetype is perfect. Let's see if we get some more interest gathered.
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I've got a dumbass rogue up my sleeve for this.
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Somewhat interested, likely play a commoner, a weaselly jack of all trades focused on pure luck as you say
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@Zoey Boey@Bugman

Jolly good. I'll give it a day or so to see if any more interest is gathered.

Go ahead and start posting character sheets. @Dragonfly 9 You too!
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@Polybius, can I be a Fighter with one Priest Spell which makes him a Paladin?
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Here she is. This CS is made under the assumption that PHYSICAL also includes dexteriy roguey things and also that Spain is included in European fantasy which it rarely is for some reason.


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@Dragonfly 9@Dark Cloud@Zoey Boey@Letter Bee@Bugman

Looking good so far...Waiting on a response from that paladin guy. Pending that and SOMEONE CLAIMING THE GLORIOUS ROLE OF COMMANDER there will be an IC post forthcoming. Meanwhile, give that first post a good thorough read.
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I'll take commander if nobody else wants the spot
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@Polybius I'd take commander but Anslem is too old for that shit. He just wants his fucking pay yo, alcoholism isn't a free hobby.
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Please see subsection six paragraph four, addendum A titled "Company Recruits"
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Heyho, if I take (-2) on one stat, do I get (+2) on another? Would love to play a heavy hitting but dumb guy.
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I would, but do you really want Oliver to be commander? Like, REALLY!?
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@Polybius, as I said in PMs, my joining still depends on whether I am accepted to another RP I applied for or if an RP I am running picks up the pace...
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@Solzimer If you're really really really sure you want to do that. I'll make an exception for just your character.

@GingerBoi123 Accepted.

@Letter Bee If you roll a character and post to this thread before the IC link is up you can start with us at the beginning, otherwise I'll put you on a list!

I will post an IC link tomorrow (Eastern Standard) afternoon with a few extra rules to read if you guys haven't figured out the instructions about how to apply as commander posted in the first post of this thread. Honestly I would have thought someone would have jumped on that shit immediately. Weird.

Anyone else that wants to hop in from this point will go on a waiting list. On that note, I would advise any mercenary group to find some decent magic users, Break the fourth wall and send a few PMs if need be. After all, mercenary companies need to fill the ranks every once in a while.
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@Polybius, Thanks; put me on the list, then!
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