DnD 4e: The Scouring of Gate Pass / War of The Burning Sky

[Mask_of_winter]

Greetings everybody!

My name is Eric, I'm 33 and have been a DM for about 20 years now. I've been running games on FG2 for a year now so I've come to know what works for me and my groups.

I recently got my hands of the first chapter of War of the Burning Sky by En world, The Scouring of Gate Pass and I must say I'm really impressed. Contrary to most WOTC released adventure modules, this is not a dungeon crawl. It is an heroic tier adventure of epic proportion. It reminds me of Star Wars during the Rebellion Era. The adventure offers many roleplaying opportunities for heroic minded players and their character.

I want to run this module on a biweekly basis on Thursday evenings or Saturday afternoons EST (GMT- 5.

I'm looking for 6 roleplay oriented players in their 30's and up who are able to commit to a 3 or 4 hours at a time session that would take place twice a month.

You do not need to be familiar with FG2 or the 4e ruleset though it would be a great advantage.

I do not use voice chat. I think it's easier for players to immerse themselves in their characters. The players are less likely to get involved in out-of-character banting that makes everybody lose focus. I ask that you follow the game. That means, no other windows on your screen, tv in the background or what have you. If you can't give me your undivided attention for 3-4 hours twice a month you are not what I'm looking for. Now, I understand things happen during the course of a game. If you have to excuse yourself for a couple minutes just say so. If it's in the middle of combat I will delay your action until you come back.

I am respectful of everybody's playing style, I just had to allow myself to narrow the type of players I want in my game down to the roleplayers. That means no rules lawyer, min/maxers or players that only show up when it's time for them to roll dice. If you decide that your character is not a big talker that is fine, you just need to emote. Roleplaying games are about cooperation, working as a team to accomplish a goal. I understand the appeal in the loner type of character but I don't think it works well in my games.

For this scenario, for simplicity's sake as far as character motivation goes, I am looking for good or lawful/good aligned characters. Unaligned or neutral is just a poor excuse to kill whoever you want whenever you want if the mood strikes you. This is not the type of character that would help drive the story forward. You don't have to be a pious paladin either to play good.

Let me present to you the War of the Burning Sky campaign setting.

You will find a trailer here

The War of the Burning Sky player's guide here

Other than the WotBS player's guide you can use most DnD 4e ressources available to you. I will not accept playtest classes or races. No assassins, artificier or swordmage, no Wilden or Shadar-Kai, no monster races except the orc because orcs are accepted citizens of Gate Pass. After reading the Player's Guide you'll also realize you may not be trusted as an eladrin.

I will make a message board available for us all to gather once a group is created.

If you are interested, post on this thread. Let me know which day works best for you; Thursday evening 7-10 EST or Saturday afternoon 1-4 or 5 EST.

And after reading the WOTBS player's guide pitch in a character concept. Extra points for originality, I can only see so many elven rangers or dwarven clerics before I want to puke.

I am aiming for a March 18th or 20th debut.

Once I have enough players I will send you a pm or email (if you've provided me with one) with further instructions.

With that said, have a great weekend all! I'm looking forward to hear from you.

Eric aka Manirick aka Mask_of_winter

[Dareus]

Are you just running this single module or are you planning on running the adventure path. I have played most of this mod before the DM disappeared on us. So if its the whole path, I am very interested and can play on Thursdays but probably not Saturdays. Let me know!!

[Mask_of_winter]

We'll see. I'll start with this module and if possible I am willing to run the rest of the adventure path. The Scouring of Gate Pass alone might take a few months to complete.

[Talen]

I may have misunderstood your email, but I believe EugeneZ has converted the first 4 WOTBS modules and has plans(I believe) to convert them all to FGII. They're available at no extra cost at the EN World website.
...lol...and now as I reread your post - Im guessing you meant completing the 1st module would take a long time...not the actual module prep...sorry - lack of sleep on my part!

[Skizzt]

Hello there, im interested in joining to your campaign. I want to play a human invoker. Im 26 years old, and i like to roleplay as i like to see a battlefield. I am familiar with 4th Edition, but a noob to FG2. Im a fast learner tho If you are interested sign me up for the debut. Cheers

[Rodfriend]

I'm able to play on sat's. I willing to play a striker, controller, or defender.

[geewhizbatman]

Hey so this sounds great, I've never played on FG2 before but I'm not techno-illiterate and I've had my fair share of table top experience, so I'm sure I can catch on.

I might be a little on the youthful side (21) but I promise not to lol or blush or chew my gum too loud. I'm happy to play whatever class is needed but I have had a hankering to try out a half-orc swarm druid (using the primal power supplement.) But I can understand if the class is a little too weird to incorporate and can scale it down to something more mainstream.

Saturday works best for me. Hope to hear from ya and pm-ing here is probably the best bet.

Thanks!

[Mask_of_winter]

I may have misunderstood your email, but I believe EugeneZ has converted the first 4 WOTBS modules and has plans(I believe) to convert them all to FGII. They're available at no extra cost at the EN World website.
...lol...and now as I reread your post - Im guessing you meant completing the 1st module would take a long time...not the actual module prep...sorry - lack of sleep on my part!

Right, I got the fg2 module EugeneZ created so I wont have much prep time. It's the "1 battle = 2-3hrs in 4e" part that will make this module take a long time to complete.

Keep these applications coming folks!

[Matopi]

Interested in giving this a go, but only Saturdays work for me. I'm willing to play any role, as needed. I'm a little wary of playing without voice chat (in my experience, games without skype or its ilk can be a little slow) but maybe I've just had some unlucky experiences? If the DMs comfortable with it, then I'm game.

Let me know if I'm needed, and I'll happily roll something up.

[Puzzle]

Id like to put my name in the "hat"

I can play any day of the week and almost any hour,i'm in -5 GMT timezone

I have been playing p&p roleplay for almost 20 years now, including d&d, whfrp, whitwolf, I have also played/run a lot of LARP events so have a lot of experience with roleplaying!

I have not played a whole lot of 4E but im not a total newbie, i have however not used FGII more than just logging onto myself to test it out, but from what i see its not to hard to get the hang of!

Im happy to play anything the party needs tho i tend to go with rogues, rangers and melee fighters,

fell free to send me a PM and il give you my contact info and all that good stuff!