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Duplicity

A D&D Inspired Rp



Premise


Many years ago two children from different families came together and became friends. They played, they grew, they learned; as children tend to. Both grew to fine young men who had a flair for the world of magic; attending a far off academy to hone their respective talents. They both were very successful in their own way, excelling in different fields of magic but complimenting each other as well as any two could.

There was little time to much else other than study and practice but when such a luxury as down time came along you could bet they would be in the cities grand market center sifting through trinkets of this and that in hopes of finding a needle in a hay stack. One day, they found such a needle; more accurately two pieces to a rune engraved medallion. One-hundred gold pieces is what it cost but to them they felt the strange markings would pay off in spades.

How both right and wrong they were. The runes were unlike any they knew and even when presented to those that were far more learned they discovered nothing to translate it. So each of the friends retained one half and parted ways upon completion of their apprenticeship, setting out to try to solve the puzzle which now hung around each of their necks.

Research and luck in the depths of the archives after years of looking, hidden beneath layers of dust and long forgotten scriptures, led one of them to quite the discovery one late night as he burned the midnight oil. An ancient scroll finally allowed him to translate his half of the medallion. Excited beyond belief he quickly wrote to his childhood friend so they could come together and finally solve the mystery that had plagued them for so long.

Such a prize they found out they did hold. A necomancers tool to control the undead, creatively enough called The Amulet of the Dead. Yet they only had two out of three parts, the third, a gemstone in the middle, was missing. The two pieces would allow the wearer to control undead to a point but once they had the gem, they would be nearly untouchable. One man saw the darkness within such an item while the other could only see the potential power to wield. And so the decent into betrayal began.

One refusing to give in, the other plotting and scheming to obtain his darkest desire. One thing led to another and poison was slipped into an evening nightcap. He did not mean to kill his childhood friend, only to weaken him enough to take what he wanted. Such a loss only drove the remaining man further into the abyss, thinking that now, once he recovered the gem spoken about on the back of the amulet, he could perhaps raise his friend once again.

More years passed, more madness, in search of the missing piece until finally its location was discovered but it was heavily protected in such a way he knew he would need help; of the undead kind. But where to find enough dead to raise? Why not right there, between the shakily peaceful lands between the Orcs and Humans? Crush the treaty between the two and start a war. War brought death, death brought a possible army of undead for the now mad necromancer.

More plotting and war had broken out, orcs slaying humans, humans slaying orcs. The body count is climbing and time grows short. This is where we begin, in the middle of a town on the outskirts of war is where our adventurers will meet. Why they are there is up to you, what happens next will be shown by me in the first ic post.

Will you join me?



Overview

Setting: The moderately sized hamlet of Salarn
Time Frame: Medieval Fantasy
Technology Level: Pre-Black Powder
Starting Season: Autumn
Magic Availability: Yes
Editions Referenced: 2nd through 5th



Couple of Basics

  • DnD Based Fantasy Rp
  • Not DnD fully - so if you don't know the DnD system, you will be just fine.
  • Character Sheet Template will be provided
  • Only Races below will be accepted - don't ask for more
  • Dual Classes are okay
  • Kits are just fine
  • Chatroom will be provided to those accepted into the Rp to exchange ideas
  • High Casual to High Advanced Posting
  • Battles will have a rotation and system to be explained later
  • Mundanes welcome and encouraged



Available Races

  • Human
  • Elf
  • Dwarf
  • Halfling
  • Half-Orc
  • Gnome

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Sounds interesting, I've always liked the way DnD handles things like races and magic.
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Interested.

Couple of different character ideas, if GM permits existing/Certified Pre-Owned PCs.
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@Sigil As long as I am not having to deal with Yondar Sexrock or anyone shoving the Pally, I think you'll be fine.
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...damn.

Ok, I have another idea, then. Still on board.
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Lol I am sure you will be just fine hun.
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Interested, will this be play-by-post or skype-and-roll20?
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Play by post for the most part. The character sheet template I will provide does have a stat section with a set number of stat points to assign to be able to gauge characters by. Boss fights will run via chat flip coin system I worked up some months ago. It will be adventure driven with multiple out comes for each scenario.

This rp will run mostly like other casual/advanced where I will leave damage given and taken to the rpers themselves. But as I said with boss fights it will go a little more technical, I'll break it all down in full detail in ooc when the fights arise to keep it stream lined and easy to follow.
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@McHaggis Yes, you will be fine. I only draw inspiration from the DnD handbooks and will fully explain anything that you all come across.
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Excellently premise and well plotted.
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Interested, but awkward timing with finals week. I might still be able to join, if we have a few days.
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@Assallya Thankies, ^^

@Luminosity Oh girl, you're always welcome Lumi! No worries about finals, you'll have time. This will run much slower than Cinder. ^_~
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Play by post for the most part. The character sheet template I will provide does have a stat section with a set number of stat points to assign to be able to gauge characters by. Boss fights will run via chat flip coin system I worked up some months ago. It will be adventure driven with multiple out comes for each scenario.

This rp will run mostly like other casual/advanced where I will leave damage given and taken to the rpers themselves. But as I said with boss fights it will go a little more technical, I'll break it all down in full detail in ooc when the fights arise to keep it stream lined and easy to follow.


Sounds good. I've plenty experience playing and GM'ing D&D/Pathfinder games, so if you need some help, I can do stuff.
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@Light Will keep that in mind, ^^ Thank you.

Looks like we have a few interested, I'll get the ooc up tomorrow with the character sheet template. Will be no rush to start since I know some here have finals and with Christmas coming up. Will be a steady bit slower paced Rp.
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Are you planning on having a class system like DnD?
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@Experiment 249 Yes, you will be able to pull from classes between editions 2 through 5 & pathfinder - kits and dual classes will be welcome - customs as well. For those not versed in DnD I will help find a class for what idea they have kicking around in their mind.
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Ah good, I'm stuck as a forever DM and want to play a bard or an arcane trickster(5e rogue with magic) so I'm looking at those.

The arcane trickster was not planned on being chaotic anything, probably lawful neutral. So not that thief who steals everything because "lol so chaotic" like a lot of the rogue's I've played with (and hated).

If anyone was looking to play either of those let me know so I can pick the other/a new one entirely.
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This sounds so frigging cool. I'm interested.
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@Experiment 249 I completely understand the forever Dm, LOL Funny, I recently first dipped my toes into the bard ways, found it very enjoyable and a nice change. No worries though, I won't be playing my bard this round, ;)

Will have everything up come morning so that should answer a lot of questions as well as probably raise some new ones. The CS is rather in-depth.
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