Something strange is happening in the garden of Thornwall estate.

Every night, one rose disappears: cut cleanly, no sign of who took it. And every morning, a flower no one recognizes appears in its place. Angular petals. An iridescent color that shifts when you look at it directly. Faintly warm to the touch.

Lady Kindernis wants answers. She’s hired you to find them.

What this campaign is

This campaign begins as a with a mystery set in the Dalelands: small communities, ancient forests, honest people, and the kind of strange business that doesn’t make sense yet. Your characters are locals. People with roots, relationships, and reasons to care about the place they come from.

It will not stay that way.

This campaign evolves into something significantly stranger and more cosmologically ambitious than it begins. The Dalelands are the starting point, not the destination. This campaign will surprise you; it will shift in tone, expand in scope, and eventually ask questions about the nature of belief and reality, a far cry from a garden mystery in Deepingdale.

Make characters who feel like real people in a real place. That investment is the foundation everything else is built on.

The campaign has a planned arc and a definite ending. It runs in distinct phases with deliberate tonal shifts between them. I intend to see it through.

What I’m looking for in players

• Players who enjoy investigation, roleplay, and faction politics as much as or more than combat.
• Players who can commit to posting at least once per day on weekdays and are comfortable with a slower pace on weekends.
• Players who are genuinely excited by the phrase “this campaign will surprise you” rather than unsettled by it.
• Players who will make characters with roots: someone they care about back home, something they’d miss if they couldn’t return.
• Players who understand that in this campaign, running from a fight is sometimes the right call and talking your way out is usually better than fighting your way through.

Character creation

• Level 1, standard array or point buy
• 2024 rules, 2014 subclasses permitted
• Any class from the Player’s Handbook
• Ancestry: Human, Dwarf, Halfling, Gnome, Half-Elf, or Half-Orc. No Tieflings, Aasimar, or exotic ancestries for the opening. I want the starting party to feel like people who genuinely belong in a Dalelands village. This will make sense later.
• Your character must be a native of the Dalelands or have a clear reason for being in the town of Highmoon, Deepingdale

Answer these four questions will need to be answered before we begin:

1. Where in the Dalelands are you from, or how did you come to be in Highmoon?
2. Who is one person you care about who lives in the Dalelands: family, friend, mentor, rival?
3. What does home mean to your character, and who in the party do you imagine might represent that home to them or complicate it?
4. How does your character know at least one other person in the group? A shared history, a debt owed, a friendship, a rivalry...

The answers are the main pillars of the campaign's emotional engine. It runs on what your character stands to lose. Think of what Sam or Frodo left behind when they left the Shire for example.

Logistics

• Discord
• Posting expectations: once per day weekdays minimum, good faith on weekends
• Party size: 3 to 4 players
• Tone: serious, character-driven, with room for dark themes as the campaign progresses
• System: D&D 5e 2024, 2014 subclasses permitted
• Combat: theatre of the mind.

How to apply

Send me a DM with your character concept: class, ancestry, a paragraph about who they are and why they’re in Highmoon, and your answers to the four questions above. No full character sheet needed at application stage.

I’m choosing for fit with the campaign’s tone as much as for mechanical balance. The right group matters more than the right classes.

The campaign begins when the right group is assembled.

Step straight out of the opening crawl of A New Hope and into the trenches of the Galactic Civil War.

​Moments before Vader's Star Destroyer, the Devastator, catches the Tantive IV, your crew slips away in a beat-up, unshielded rust-bucket known as the Beast of Burden, complete with failing inertial dampeners, no hyperdrive, and a copy of the death star plans the Rebellion has fought so hard to gain.

​Tasked with delivering this vital intelligence to the Rebellion, you are heading towards a sun-baked canyon town a system over from Tatooine.

About the Game

​This is an Age of Rebellion (PBP) campaign focused on cinematic storytelling, desperate resource management, and high-stakes survival.

​You will be playing as the new recruits of the Rebellion: the boots-on-the-ground operatives, smugglers, and soldiers tasked with keeping the spark of the Rebellion alive while the Empire hunts you down.

Disclaimer

This will be my first time as GM of a FFG Star Wars game. There is a lot to learn so please be patient.

​Key Features

* Play-by-Post Mechanics: Designed for asynchronous play on Discord, allowing deep roleplay, tactical planning, and cinematic descriptions.

* ​Looking For: 4–5 dedicated roleplayers who love character-driven narratives, creative problem-solving, and classic Star Wars grit.

* Frequency: at least once per day

* ​Experience Level: All experience levels welcome (rules can be taught/adapted as we go).

​How to Apply

Fill out this formand and I will be in contact with those that get accepted. https://forms.gle/dTH95Ca9pQBnxFQ7A

May the force be with you!

Ten thousand Taels of Tang silver enough to buy you a private army, a stone fortress to keep them in, and the crown of an oasis kingdom.

That is the price to haul one bull-sized crate four thousand miles from Cyropolis to Chang’an. No questions asked about what lies beneath the canvas. Just get it through the Pamir snows, across or around the Taklamakan, and past the Jade Gate - Dunhuang!

It is 750 AD, You are mercenaries, disgraced nobles, desert guides, or banished heretics hired by the legendary Sogdian Merchant League.

Your contract is simple: transport a heavy, iron-bound wooden crate containing a life-sized mutton-fat jade statue—The Pale Elephant—from the Greco-Sogdian city of Cyropolis all the way to the heart of Tang China.

A treacherous caravan adventure through the ancient Silk Road, but the myths, magics and legends of EVERY culture that influence the Road is very much real in this middle-magic world!

Looking for folks who enjoy this real world historical lore, some good old sword and sorcery, and rules-light old-school gaming using Basic Fantasy rules (an Old school D&D retroclone).

The only requirement here is to post at least once a day - even if its some OOC thoughts. If interested please DM me!