Simple guild adventure fun.

[Dark Light]

CONCEPT
Pretty standard medieval fantasy setting. Except... nature has fought back against civilisation. Cities are all walled in, protecting themselves from the myriad of creatures that come out at night from the forests depths.

This however offers plenty of opportunity for those willing to risk it all to hunt, fight and defend others against these abominations.
It is a task none can do alone and therefore the business of mercenary guilds is popular.

Your goal will be to build your guild, build your rep all whilst staying alive.
Sometimes it won't only be monsters you have to watch out for.

The races are a little divided. (Keeping to their own lands mostly)

If you are interested please let me know. I will direct the plot but it will be based on a collaborative effort and around your characters. I will only take a small group of maybe 3-5.

[Cyrania]

I would be interested.

[LupusIntus]

Sounds fun! I’m interested.

[Dark Light]

Yay! and welcome both.

Feel free to shoot any questions or character ideas my way.
I'll work on a CS a bit later but ideally everyone will have one or two specialties that helps define their role in the guild.
Different 'missions' or jobs will favour different approaches.
If your company lacks any skill I suppose you could go hire it.

Thinking of things like.
Tracker
Trap maker
Herbalist (poisons and healing)
Smith / armorer
Treasurer / negotiator
Occult expert (book person)
Thief???
And then of course specific weapon skills

[Expendable]

Could be fun, but we don't like the term "thief" - gives people the wrong idea, you see. They keep checking their fat wallets and purses while their eyes accuse us for naught. Where is the trust in this world, I ask you? Expert Treasure Hunters, if you don't mind.

Although one wonders where one can find a treasure in this wilderness worth leaving the city?

[LupusIntus]

Yay! and welcome both.

Feel free to shoot any questions or character ideas my way.
I'll work on a CS a bit later but ideally everyone will have one or two specialties that helps define their role in the guild.
Different 'missions' or jobs will favour different approaches.
If your company lacks any skill I suppose you could go hire it.

Thinking of things like.
Tracker
Trap maker
Herbalist (poisons and healing)
Smith / armorer
Treasurer / negotiator
Occult expert (book person)
Thief???
And then of course specific weapon skills

@Dark Light

I'm flexible and could work within whatever other characters wanted/needed but I could run a fun, goofy alchemist/herbalist book worm sorta guy. The kind that stops to admire the very fascinating petals on an unknown flower species, it looks like some sort of tulip but that stem is clearly from the Lavendula genus and- oh right sorry, we should probably continue fleeing that troll.

[Dark Light]

CS Idea

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Name: | Age: | Gender: | Race:

Main role: (What do you offer the guild. Main skill)
2 Side skills you are good that are related to your main skill.

2 minor skills (try make one not directly guild related. Ie, cooking, dancing, music)

Example

Role: Archer (Archery)
Secondary: Fletching and perception
Minor: Stealth & singing

Role: blacksmith
Secondary: trap making & trap setting
Minor: Cooking and hammer weapons

As a rule specification beats generalisation, so this person is a good blacksmith but his weapons wouldn't be as good as someone who specifically chose weapon smith.

Personality: (likes/dislikes/quirks)
Reason for joining:
Background:
Equipment:
Misc:

Open to feedback and ideas.

[Expendable]

When you say we need to build up our guild, do you mean we're founding an adventurer's guild, or are we trying to increase the reputation of our party so the guild improves its standing by having us?

Are the secondary skills are like specializations or focuses? Are we starting out as masters in our craft?

Do you want to touch on personality?

In your OP, you mentioned the races are a little divided. So does this city they're in have like a dwarven quarter, a human quarter, etc? Or is there a dwarven underground kingdom and an elvish kingdom in the forest next to the city?

Are you just accepting the standard races of Human, Elf, Dwarf, and halfling? Are there half-elves in this world?

[Dark Light]

When you say we need to build up our guild, do you mean we're founding an adventurer's guild, or are we trying to increase the reputation of our party so the guild improves its standing by having us?

Are the secondary skills are like specializations or focuses? Are we starting out as masters in our craft?

Do you want to touch on personality?

In your OP, you mentioned the races are a little divided. So does this city they're in have like a dwarven quarter, a human quarter, etc? Or is there a dwarven underground kingdom and an elvish kingdom in the forest next to the city?

Are you just accepting the standard races of Human, Elf, Dwarf, and halfling? Are there half-elves in this world?

@Expendable

Good questions!

My current thoughts (may be persuaded otherwise)

**Skills.** Generally you have some average 'monster hunting' talents. Not having a skill listed doesn't mean you can't do it. Perhaps just not as well as someone who does have it listed. You're in this business because you are not the average commoner.

1st skill is something you are really good at, be it a master or just naturally adept or experienced. (Doesn't mean you can't still strive to improve.) Hopefully background explains this.
The next two are just direct subsequent side effects of being good at the first. Just broadening the first a little. Needs to be directly tied to the first.
The last two could be more of an interest, hobby or focus.

Hope that clears it up a bit.

**Personality**. Yes definitely. I'll chuck that bit in.

**Races.** Half elves and half other things are definitely in. I'm open to new and more exotic races, the world is not completely built or locked in stone yet. Ideally nothing too abstract or far from humanoid otherwise they will be met with a lot of distrust. But things like Goliaths or gnomes could fit in.

As for separation, the dwarves would have their mountain kingdom, the elves their forest island ect. While not unheard of, their presence in the human kingdoms are rare and duly noted.

[Dark Light]

@Expendablemissed the guild part.

You will be responsible for everything from taxes to advertising. Upkeep, expansion, hiring and reputation.

[Expendable]

@Expendablemissed the guild part.

You will be responsible for everything from taxes to advertising. Upkeep, expansion, hiring and reputation.

@Dark Light

So we're the seed of a guild. Usually whoever's leading the guild will not be the one out there - someone's got to manage the place, take in applications. hmmm.

[Cyrania]

So would Guild members only be PCs or would we also be recruiting NPCs into the Guild?

My current character idea.

Alastrina Rogers

Name: Alastrina Rogers| Age: 21 | Gender: Female | Race: Slightly-Elvish

Main role: Swordfighter
Skills: Athletics and Horseback-Riding

Secondary Skills: First Aid & Storytelling

Reason for joining: Seeking to be a hero

Background: Alastrina was the youngest daughter of a guardsman who had married the daughter of an herbalist who had distant elven blood in his veins. Her favorite thing in life though was to hear stories of heroes, whether from a visiting bard or from her own mother's lips. And so she longed to be like those in legends. She saw her brothers getting lessons in fighting and convinced her father to teach her as well, allowing her to learn the sword and how to ride a horse. She learned basic herbalism from her mother and grandfather so she would know how to tend to wounds and those of any she met. And when she became old enough, she left home to seek her fortune, ending up at the starting of the new Adventurer's Guild.

Personality: Friendly and determined, she tends to be cheery and curious, interested in who she meets and those she comes across. When push comes to shove though, she will get serious and shove back, doing all she can to overcome obstacles. Her temper can be fiery and her inherent stubbornness can lead her to try the same thing over and over again until she succeeds.

Equipment: Sword, Dagger, Medium Armor, Basic Herbalist Set

Misc: Can either have a horse already or get a horse later, the small elvish part would mostly help her have the reflexes and dexterity to better survive though I wouldn't complain if she ended up developing some minor magic in the course of the adventure

[Dark Light]

@Cyrania Nice! Good work on the CS. I just added a personality section too.
Guild can have NPC's if you can afford 'em. (Or what ever other arrangements you can come to.)

[Dark Light]

I think I should probably work on a proper thread.

[Cyrania]

@Cyrania Nice! Good work on the CS. I just added a personality section too.
Guild can have NPC's if you can afford 'em. (Or what ever other arrangements you can come to.)

@Dark Light

Sounds good. Could be fun if we could recruit some after rescuing them in a quest or something like that. I look forward to seeing how it goes.

Thanks! I've now added that personality section to her.

[Jerkchicken]

This seems like it could be fun. I just gotta figure out what I'd like to make for like for this.

[Expendable]

We could have like a tavern, a tap room with a jobs board, a few rooms upstairs - it'll make for a good start.

[Cyrania]

@Expendable

That would be fun.

Though I suspect that will be later on, after we get money.

[LupusIntus]

Initial alchemist character idea!

Sevrin Creed

Name: Sevrin Creed | Age: 24 | Gender: Male | Race: Half-Elf (or perhaps Furbolg, if that is an acceptable race. Something very natury)

Main role: Alchemist
Side Roles: Herbalist/Perfumer(? Thinking of something like the Elden Ring perfumer bottles: basically an expert at spraying flammable, poisonous, or acidic compounds as an attack. If that’s approved, of course!)

Minor Skills: Experimental Cooking (But in the “will eat anything once, Dungeon Meshi style”), Graphite sketching.

Personality: Sevrin is your typical distracted field researcher who loves to study all things plant-related and who isn’t afraid to get down and dirty if it means collecting a good sample. He has very few friends but is loyal to a fault to those he does have. While he tends to be cautious to the point of ‘analysis paralysis’ he is quite brave when push comes to shove. Will absolutely answer every biology-related question you didn’t know you had and probably never asked.

Reason for joining: Sevrin believes the guilds are the best way for him to get out past the city walls where he can study all sorts of flora and fauna to his heart’s content. He also has hopes of finding his missing mother someday.

Background: Atticus Creed was a lumberjack in a more isolated human settlement. It was a dangerous profession, one that often saw him traversing the dangerous forests around the town. One day he and his team were attacked by a manticore and while the others were killed he was only wounded amd was saved by an elven woman, Sylian’terhala who had been traveling the woods nearby. They fell in love and had a son, Sevrin. Sylian was delighted when her som began to share her affinity for the natural world and things were happy in the Dunsford household for many years. When Sevrin turned 19 his father passed away from illness and his mother was heartbroken. After he began working as a local alchemist he was completely blindsided when his mother suddenly announced her heart “has called upon the wanderer within her”. One year later and with many tears and wellwishes she left the city. Sevrin hasn’t heard from her in 3 years and has decided to accept a job offer with a new guild in order to get out into the forest in the hopes of finding clues to her whereabouts.

Equipment: Alchemist’s Field Kit, Sample Tubes, graphite pencils, leather bound journal, a dagger, boiled leather armor, traveler’s attire, mortar and pestle, potion bandoleer, mess kit, bedroll, fire-starter.

[Dark Light]

Should I whip up a discord for conversations?

Game can be here but I feel like discord's many threads will help with planning and guild stuff.

Everyone use discord?