🕐 A New Affair in Oldfaire: Something Dwells Below Play-by-Post
Candela Obscura | Campaign
About the adventure
🕐 Asynchronous text-based roleplay. 🧑🎓👩🎓 New to Candela Obscura? Learn it from me! I'd love to teach you. Candela Obscura is set in a turn-of-the-century world similar to ours, in a city called Newfaire. All manner of mysterious and fantastical things take place here, including ghost sightings, occult magicks, and terrible things in the night. Candela Obscura is a secretive organization devoted to taming those wild forces and protecting the everyday citizen of Newfaire. 🦑 Something deep below the city of Newfaire is stirring, in the ruins of the old city it's built on. 🔎 It's up to the investigators of Candela Obscura to find out what it is. 🚫 And how to stop it! Join us as we embark upon an exploration of what came before the new. ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ────────── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ────────── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── I'll let some of my players tell you what you can expect at my tables! 🤩 "Bryan is a real professional GM. [...] Playing with Bryan is playing made easy. I'd 100% recommend Bryan to anybody looking to have a real professional GM experience and he is so good you'll never want to go back." - Nate 🤩 "Bryan is an AMAZING GM who really cares that his players have fun and enjoy their time at the table. He creates wonderful scenescapes, interesting puzzles and story hooks, and knows when to let the players give themselves just enough rope to get themselves into trouble and have more fun. I cannot recommend him enough and hope I can join his other games in the future." - Brandon 🤩 "Bryan is a rare GM that sets the stage for immersion into gameplay (soundtrack, story telling, voice, pace, balance of narrative and mechanics) in a way that role-play with emotions true to your character becomes natural and necessary." - Forestbrew 🤩 "Bryan is an amazing and attentive DM [...]. He is super inclusive and makes the game a safe space for everyone, and always does his best to make sure everyone is having fun. Frankly, Bryan is a top-tier DM and I cannot wait until next session!" - Angelkin Weeb
Game style
Rule of Cool (RoC)
“Rule of Cool” emphasizes creative story beats over sticking to a system’s rules as written. Players have the ability to push the limits of the rules or even break core rule mechanics at times if the Game Master thinks it is interesting, fun, or cool enough.
Theater of the Mind
“Theater of the Mind” uses little to no visuals for scene settings and combat. Instead, the narrative imagery comes from the Game Master’s descriptions and character action and movement comes from Players’ descriptions.
Roleplay Heavy
“Roleplay Heavy” games place the focus on the story, the characters, and the world they live within, and tend to lean hard into the various roleplaying elements of the game. These games will frequently find the party talking with NPCs, exploring the personal elements of their backstories, or even having emotional moments around the camp fire.
🕐 Join us for an asynchronous play-by-post adventure into the ruins of the old city, Newfaire! 🆕 New players welcome!
5.0
(47)
3 years on StartPlaying
552 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, Inclusive
Additional details
How to prepare
If you haven't signed up for StartPlaying.Games yet, you can get a $10 credit when you do so by using my referral link: https://startplaying.games/referral/ckybo9a6v3ydhbopkb4ak87kj You will need: • Computer • Discord account • A few moments each week day! • A willingness to improvise and collaborate! You will NOT need to: • Install anything • Purchase anything (all content is provided)
What I provide
I am providing a safe, collaborative gaming and roleplay experience, and (hopefully) a great time! I am also providing access to Candela Obscura content on Demiplane.
Gameplay details
🦺 Demiplane brings us the Deck of Player Safety, an anonymous and proactive way for us to opt-out of certain subjects we might prefer to avoid. 🦺 Additionally, the Discord features XNO cards as stickers, which are used as a reactive safety tool to identify and resolve any unwanted subject matter as it arises. 🕐 Text-based asynchronous gameplay takes place over the course of the week in an exclusive Discord server that is available only to invited members. 🕐 GM will, on average, provide 2-3 responses to you per weekday. The average may be exceeded at GM discretion, and posts will occasionally be made on weekends. GM posts will typically be a paragraph or two; my play-by-post roleplay is akin to "interactive fiction", and the emphasis is on telling a story together, but importantly, not writing a *book* together. Posts from the GMs will not be excessively verbose walls of text, but evocative and engaging fiction created especially for your group.
Content warnings
• Character Death
• Language/Cursing
• Violence
Safety tools used
• Deck of Player Safety
• X, N, and O Cards
How will character creation work
We'll make characters using Demiplane together, where we coordinate and build pre-existing relationships.
Players can expect
Combat / Tactics
Low
Roleplay
High
Puzzles
Medium
Experience level
Open to all
Platforms used
• Discord
• Text/Play by Post
• Demiplane
$25.00
/ Session
Each player will be charged when a session starts.
Details
Weekly / Friday - 11:00 PM UTC
1 Hour Duration
2 / 5 Seats Filled
Schedule
Requirements
Experience required: Open to all
Age: 18+