Tales of Maoria: A 5E D&D Adventure

[The Mighty Hero]

Welcome to the Mighty Hero’s Interest Check! Below should hopefully be all the information you need to know about the RP. If not, please mention or PM me so I will receive a notification and will thereby respond to you quicker. This will be a D&D 5th Edition RP. No worries for new comers, I have no problem teaching new players, all characters will be starting as level 5. I hope you enjoy your stay.

-Hero

The World of Maoria

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Maoria is a beautiful world filled with wondrous landscapes, vibrant flora and fauna. Unfortunately the land is ruled by a tyrant King. King Balthier had ruled the people of Maoria for thousands of years. No one knew the secret of his immortality but the people grew restless under his iron fist. Tired of nearly starving to death each year while the King had extravagant parties people soon rose against him. Most rebellions against the King end quickly and violently. Are you for or against the King? The choices you make will define you, and the world to come.

The Gods of Maoria

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The gods of Maoria can be found on page 296 of the Player's Handbook. We are using the Gods from Dragon Lance, a phenomenal book series if you’ve never read it.

Races and Classes

Races and classes can be found in the Player’s Handbook. The link I posted earlier is to a PDF version of the PHB and is searchable, or you can click on the table of contents to get you to the desired area.

Misc

Character Sheet

[JBRam2002]

@The Mighty Hero A few questions:

1) Is this taking place as a play by post here, or do you intend to run a live game off site through discord or other means?

2) Are you accepting Unearthed Arcana content? There is a plethora of content out there, making up for the biggest lacks in D&D 5e.

3) Are you using any optional rules that would be useful to know about (feats, flanking, etc)?

4) If we start at lvl 1, we would be largely ineffective against even the weakest of the king's minions. Have you considered starting at a slightly higher level? A lvl 3 or 5 start gets characters into the feel of their characters much faster without the potential of being oneshot by stubbing your toe. It is also nearly impossible to run most casting classes at lvl 1, as well as classes like Monk that have limited resources. Heck, Monk doesn't even get ki until lvl 2. Tl;dr, I've played a lot of low level campaigns, and they aren't very interesting to me mechanically.

5) Since you don't have a lot of posts on the forum, it might be worth asking: how experienced with D&D are you? How do we know you will be committed to a long-term adventurer? Etc?

I'm not sure if I have interest or not, but these questions are, I feel, important to most 5e campaigns.

[The Mighty Hero]

1) It will be taking place here so that we don't have to try and coordinate everyone's schedules too much.
2) After some thought I have decided to allow Unearthed Arcana content as long as player's all pulling their information from the same sources.
3) If by optional rules you mean house rules I am allowing players to invest 10 skill points at level 1, 2 skill points at each additional level (skill checks are scaled to take into account that players can invest in these skills). Feats are another house rule that will be more complicated to explain but I will later on this evening.
4) I have corrected the original post as it should have said players will start at level 5...I apparently was tired when posting.
5) I do not have a lot of posts on the forum but have been playing D&D for about 5 years and DMing for about 3. As to how you will know I am committed to a long term adventurer I don't think there is anything I can give other than my words.

Interest or not, I appreciate the questions.

[rush99999]

@The Mighty Hero

Would you be willing to allow playable races mentioned in other 5th edition rule books? I made a Goliath Barbarian some time ago and I've been meaning to give him some time in the sun.

[Infamous Empath]

considering...

due to my bad memory, i cant set up characters well, but once we get into actual gameplay im good.

[The Mighty Hero]

@Infamous Empath I can help you set up a character if you like. You're the villain in my best friend's RP. Thinking of being a hero?

[The Mighty Hero]

@The Mighty Hero

Would you be willing to allow playable races mentioned in other 5th edition rule books? I made a Goliath Barbarian some time ago and I've been meaning to give him some time in the sun.

@rush99999

If you can find me a link to the rule book you're mentioning I'll allow it.

[rush99999]

@The Mighty Hero

You can find the Goliath section on page 108.

[Infamous Empath]

@The Mighty Hero i dunno, my heroes tend to die quickly because i focus more on character development than anything else

[rush99999]

@Infamous Empath

Nothing wrong there. Death by character development is the aim of the game.

[Medjedovic]

I would be interested in joining this, but I have little to no experience playing on forums or 5e.

[rush99999]

@The Mighty Hero

How many people are you hoping for before this thing kicks off exactly?

[The Mighty Hero]

I was hoping for 4 players.

[JaceBeleren]

@The Mighty Hero In that case, I'm in. About 18 months of experience, all DMing (I was the guy who introduced our group to the game). Most of that was in 3.5, but updated to 5th a few weeks ago. Anyways, I want to try being a player for once.

[VKAllen]

If you still require players, I offer my membership.

[The Mighty Hero]

Awesome! I'll move this over to the actual RP section

[rush99999]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[VKAllen]

I've lined up my character for this, so I'm pretty excited.

[The Mighty Hero]

The Official RP

@VKAllen@rush99999@JaceBeleren@Medjedovic@Infamous Empath@JBRam2002

Tagged everyone who ever posted in the thread, if you're interested, the official RP is up.

[Cardamonelaw]

@The Mighty Hero
Since you mentioned wanting 4 players and seem to already have 6, is it safe to assume this game is now closed to new interest?