Hey folks. Having just moved to the east coast and being in desperate need of a gaming group, I was was looking to recruit 3-5 players for a biweekly Dungeon World game in the Easthampton/Northampton MA area. The basic tone would be very A Song of Ice and Fire meets the Black Company with … Continue reading “”

 

Hey folks. Having just moved to the east coast and being in desperate need of a gaming group, I was was looking to recruit 3-5 players for a biweekly Dungeon World game in the Easthampton/Northampton MA area.

The basic tone would be very A Song of Ice and Fire meets the Black Company with a bit of Neil Gaiman’s work mixed in there for creepy supernatural awesomeness.

The kingdom is dying. The king, a conqueror that forged a kingdom out of perpetually feuding city states is old and grows more senile every day. The court is full of parasites, plucking the strings of his family’s ruler ship and picking the treasury clean in equal measure.

In the countryside the merchant princes and princesses of the subjugated city states have gone to war, each convinced that in these twilight hours of the Akkadian empire that they can claim it’s crown. Old grudges have spurred this war as much as greed; the old king and his family came as brutal conquerors and reigned as tyrants.

The flames of revolution and rebellion cast a dark shadow. The forces of Hell have found that desperation for a new order breeds wickedness and weakness like nothing else and the soldiers of the would-be merchant kings keep carefully to their fires, lest they be seized by the riders of the Wild Hunt.

Players would take on the role of an organization with a stake in the future of this dying Kingdom. The type of organization is up in the air: a mercenary company, a band of rebels fighting for a new way, a cabal of sorcerers attempting to fulfill a dark prophecy, a street gang fighting for their lives as the city’s gutters run with blood. That’s up in the air, to be discussed as everyone creates during the first session.

That there’ll be loads of player-driven drama, intrigue, and bloody violence is not.

Anyone in the area interested? If you are, contact me jtjessop88@gmail.com or via skype at jtjessop88 so that we can discuss a time and date to meet at Modern Myths in Northampton for character burning and a first session.

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  1. Chris Shorb That’s actually the plan. I’ll be at modern myths at 6:45 this upcoming Monday (12/15) for recruitment, character creation, and hopefully a first session. I’ve also cross posted this in the Dungeon World google+ group on the off chance that I’m not able to find enough people interested in doing a game with that premise/tone with Burning Wheel.

    Which hopefully means that either way I’ll end up with a full complement of players. 🙂

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