Upcoming Goliath Campaign

Finally it’s time to start role-playing again!

Even though the system is temporarily shelved I’ve decided that play will begin in campaign form. Those who want to participate will choose two characters, and only two, and message me personally over SMS or e-mail telling me which characters they want to play and why.

I will then give you the characters to play throughout the campaign. If you die or is otherwise disabled in the campaign, you will have the option to play a local “normal” person or maybe someone you’ve already met that are from the area.

The main purpose of the campaign is to have fun. Secondary purpose is to just get playing as before. Trying to get in character and creating a story with excitement and suspense.

It will be mostly free-form but we’ll use dice for select tasks. We’ll use D12, since the new system in the works is a Pool-system which includes using a lot of D12. I will decide on the spot how it will be used, if and when it will be used. But to begin with, it will be mostly focused on role-playing. So fluent descriptions, in character acting, and getting this working is priority number one. We are all rusty, so we need to play!

Tertiary is the purpose of actually learning about my world and the system in-game and rule-wise. The in-game part will be mostly for feeling and flavour, giving you hints about what I’ve made. All the characters you’ll have to choose from are work-in-progress archetypes from various regions, countries, and cultures around The World of Nianze.

Those characters you don’t play, will be present as adversaries and allies in the campaign. I’ve made plotlines for all the characters. And some if this, then that, arguments. Depending on what you do and which characters you take I will play out those not selected timelines which will interfere and give me more to work with.

The campaign right now is in overview phase, so I have my basic outline, and some details and events here and there, but all the holes aren’t filled yet. I will try to fill out some of them, and leave the rest for playing and find out, even for me. I need to re-learn and train on my adaptive skills for stories. After all, it’s been six months since we played even close to correctly.

So, the characters!

Cho Hong Fashi
Cho is getting old. His long beard is still black as dragons claws, but his hair has started to grey. Soon he will see his smooth face broken by the chasms of age. But all dragons most grow older. And with age, one’s breath is strengthened! And Cho’s breath is pure fire.

Czeslaw the Black
Czeslaw is searching. Ever searching. He has his goals and he knows no rest. His sword is sharp, his armour clean and his mind acute. He has a mission. And he would kill, rape and destroy every man, woman and child standing in his way. Because Dominion is everything.

Ignea Almondleaf
Ignea likes to play. A lot. This is sometimes troublesome when you are closing to fifty years of age and people asks responsible behaviour and decency out of one. Balance is forgiving, if you misstep you only step back. It’s not like it matters in the long run. Harmony will calibrate everything in the end, right? Hum, why did you just turn into a tree? Was that me? Noo…

Kamal of the Arjar
Survival is everything for the Arjar. If you leave your brethren your chances of surviving will sink. Like a stone on quick sand. Or like everything that tries to cross water. If you are alone, you must find someone else to be your brethren. You must survive. Surviving is everything. If you survive, you are strong. If you perish. Your body will rise to kill your beloved. You cannot let this happen. You must survive, that is the Arjar way.

Northman Sunde
Waking to the glorious lights of the first light is the best thing in life. Then grabbing some meat pounding it with your love, is the best thing in the morning. Relieving yourself and then eating a boar is the best thing in the forenoon. Then sleeping is important, it’s the best thing during the high sun. Then running with your brothers and sisters, killing, raping and plundering the closest village is glorious! If you get to pound some love it is the best thing, two would be better. Then hunting is boring, if it is not a two-legged dark-skinned beast that speaks. Then it is fun. They scream so funny. Sleep is the best thing in life. After ale. Lots of ale.

Saryo Leafblind
Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale. Feel the rhythm of your body. Feel the breath flowing in and out of you. Feel your muscles expanding, contracting, reacting. Feel the wind on your skin, the sun in your face, the water underneath you deep in to the earth. Feel the trees around you. You are breathing, living, existing. They are breathing, living, existing. You must protect them. You are the champion of nature. The champion of every living being. If you fall, like a leaf. Others will follow. Nature is powerful, and you are her child, ready to protect her and the future with everything you’ve got.

Vinidana Glorhia
Everything has its proper time and place. Everything and everyone. Vinidana’s place is otop of the world. She was born there, and thus she must rule. This is a burden given to some so others can be free. Vinidana is a princess, and in time will be a Queen under the Holy Emperor. She wears this burden with pride, since you must make the best of what you have. Structure and order is everything. Chaos cannot and will not prevail as long as Vinidana Glorhia is alive.