Gods of the Forbidden North
The Forbidden North is a great place to find treasure!
Free
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Play by Post (Asynchronous)
Billed Weekly / Thursday - 1:00 AM UTC
Session Duration / 2–2.5 hours
4 / 5 Seats Filled
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Meet your party members
4/5
About the adventure
NOTE: This is a Live-Text game. We play for 2-2.5 hours of constant texting. It is rapid and furious. As the GM--my hands are tired by the time the session is over. It's a ton of fun, but you do need to be at your computer and train your attention on the game. From The Publisher On the arctic frontier, at the border between the mountains and the wastes beyond, looms Castle Thar-Gannon. For centuries, the Skull God ruled his domain from his blackened throne. But twenty years have passed since the routing of his armies, and the castle lies abandoned with riches unclaimed. Yet, death still lurks in the shadows of the ruins. An ancient doom arises from the depths of this place... Gods of the Forbidden North is a massive, three-volume mega-adventure series written for the Old-School Essentials: Advanced Fantasy tabletop role-playing game by Necrotic Gnome. It details a campaign setting, a wilderness hex-crawl, a sprawling underworld connecting to multiple entrances on the surface, and most importantly, an enormous megadungeon.
Game style
Dungeon Crawl
Hexcrawl / Exploration
Play By Post
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(17)
4 years on StartPlaying
59 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, Inclusive
Average response time: 1 hour
Response rate: 100%
About me
🚵🏻♂️:6'0" // 38 // He/Him 🎲: Tales of the Valiant (D&D 5e),The One Ring 2e, Isle of Ixx, Warlock!, Mutant Crawl Classics, Quest, Land of Eem Hello there, traveler! It's me, DM Nors. I'm a fiction and TTRPG writer, cat dad, and avid soccer fan. I grew up acting in the theater, reading fantasy books (well, my parents read them to me until about halfway through high school: I'm dyslexic), and pretending I was Frodo hiding from orcs in the woods around my parents' house. My love of the written word has brought me to a love of all things Play-by-Post! If you love TTRPGs with deep narratives and exciting adventures but don't have the time to dedicate full sessions, PbP is the medium for you! As a fiction writer, I'm all about the narrative scope of a good TTRPG session. Like a short story or novel, every uncovered thread connects to a larger tapestry, if only your characters would follow it to its conclusion. That being said, I also have a love for Mutant Crawl Classics (a gonzo OSR with extremely lethal combat), so be prepared to use every ounce of courage and cleverness to triumph in battle. I have a list of published works both in fiction as well as game design for games like Quest and Warlock! I believe in real stakes for player-characters and enemies who look to kill as much as they look to run and save themselves from death. I love rules lite games that get out of the way of players creativity and let players be awesome without sacrificing the real stakes that come with a dangerous campaign and extreme adventures.
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Creating your character
All characters are made via https://dndcharacter.com/ which is an Old School Essentials character generator. Characters are made on the honor system. Stats are rolled and no character can begin the game with more than one stat over 15. You may use any official class, either basic or advanced, from the official OSE books and provided on the above website.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
1) Friend me on Discord: .nors We'll go from there.
What Nors brings to the table
I bring the rules and the adventure.
Homebrew rules
We use an injuries table rather than the RAW. We also use a weapon options document. PC damage die is the same as their Hit Die--we do not use weapon damage die.
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Internet
Platforms used
Safety
How Nors creates a safe table
I use a Lines and Veils document.
Content warnings
Safety tools used