3.5 3rd level villagers adventure

DEMON CASTLE PAROUSIA Prologue Chicago. Autumn, 1999. It's the last autumn of the millennium, and the city is coming apart. People are stockpiling water, canned food and cash. Television warns that banks, power grids and phones could fail at midnight on New Year's Eve. Everyone is counting down, and not everyone believes the lights will stay on. People are disappearing. It started with night-shift workers, the homeless and runaways, and now ordinary families are going missing too. The reports go nowhere, and the police have no answers. The stories are getting stranger: shapes moving across rooftops, howling near the rail yards, bodies found drained and pale, broadcasts that cut in at 3 a.m. with voices no one can place. Most people laugh them off, but fewer are laughing every week. And the city is turning on itself. End-times preachers shout down skeptics on street corners. Neighbors buy guns to protect themselves from each other. Every group blames another for the attacks, and trust is breaking down block by block. Three companies seem to have a hand in everything in Chicago right now, and to the public they're the pillars holding the city together. Blackmoor Industries is an old-money empire that owns property all over the city: towers, docks, warehouses, new developments and funeral homes. It holds the Vanguard contract and pays for the city's protection. As people leave or vanish, Blackmoor quietly buys up what they leave behind. Carmilla Dynamics is a cutting-edge pharmaceutical and biotech firm. Its free clinics, blood drives and medical trials come with glossy ads that promise longer, healthier lives. In the poorest neighborhoods, its clinics pay cash for blood. Vesper Corporation is the city's biggest media company, with TV and radio stations and newspapers. It runs the Y2K-readiness campaign, and it's the voice telling Chicago what to fear and who to blame. New preachers are appearing in soup kitchens, shelters and on street corners, preaching that the world is ending and a Shepherd will lead the faithful through the dark. Their followers call themselves the Flock and wear a red thread around the wrist. They take in the poor and the lonely, and some who join are never seen again. Meanwhile, domestic terrorism is on the rise. Churches burn, substations go dark, and bombs go off in public places with no warning and no clear motive. Every week brings a new attack, and every group in the city blames another. Nobody feels safe anymore. Under the chaos, an underground network trades in off-the-books work. Brokers, fixers and contacts pass jobs along by pager, payphone, email or a note slipped under a door. The jobs used to be ordinary: guarding a shipment, finding a debtor, getting something out of the city quietly. Lately they've changed. Now it's finding people who went missing, getting into places that are locked and guarded, and asking questions about the companies everyone else is afraid of. Some of the people who took those jobs haven't come back. But the pay keeps rising, and someone always says yes. Most of the city will never learn what's behind the chaos. But a few people who answered the same call are about to be brought together, and what they find will pull them past the headlines and the companies into something far older, something that has been waiting in the dark. Before the year is out, they'll learn what Chicago has been hiding.

ITAXIA — A Weird & Whimsical West Marches Adventure 18+ | Discord | PBP Roleplay | Text or Voice Expeditions | Beginner-Friendly A strange world. Two very different environments. Endless possibilities. Welcome to Itaxia, a whimsical, post-apocalyptic world on a planet far from Earth. Above ground lies a vast wasteland filled with mysterious ruins, forgotten technology, unusual creatures, and scattered communities trying to survive. Below ground, an extraordinary forest thrives, filled with bizarre plants, impossible phenomena, and wonders that don't always follow familiar logic. Sanctuary is hoarding resources, tensions are growing between factions, and the world is full of unanswered questions. What will you discover, and how will your choices shape the world? Itaxia is an indie, rules-light, fiction-first TTRPG inspired by Cairn 2e and ECO MOFOS!!. What Makes Itaxia Different? - West Marches Adventures: Join scheduled expeditions, explore mysterious locations, and uncover secrets. - A Living World: Your choices affect communities, relationships, factions, and future adventures. - Collaborative Storytelling: Develop your character, build connections, contribute to the world, and pursue personal projects. - Weird & Whimsical Exploration: Experiment with unusual discoveries. Creativity, curiosity, and unconventional thinking are encouraged! - Hope Amid the Chaos: It's a dangerous world, but this is also a game about connection, cooperation, and finding reasons to keep going. How We Play - PBP Roleplay Forums: Roleplay with other characters, develop relationships, and pursue personal stories between expeditions. - Scheduled Expeditions: Join adventures played through either text or voice. - Timezone: Hawaii Standard Time (HST). All player characters are human, and the server is strictly 18+. Newcomers to indie TTRPGs and West Marches are welcome! Interested in exploring Itaxia?  Complete an application to join our Discord server. Come for the weirdness. Stay for the stories we create together.

We are a group looking for 1-2 new players to join us for an upcoming daggerheart campaign that takes place in my new homebrew setting of Insonja. A mysterious supernatural event caused 3/4th of the world's population to disapear in a flash and then the world fell apart to war, famine and monsters resulting in its current post-apocolyptic state. The players are survivors who reside in the former capital of the world's greatest super power, the imperium of Reem. What survived of the capital and the heartland of the imperium was taken over by a cult that worships a group of angelic beings that are known as the Heralds. The rules of the cult are strict and they expect everyone who resides in its domain to follow said rules regardless of own opinion on religion. However the capital of Reem is one of the few safe areas in the world with civilization. Will this cult provide the safety and salvation that it claims to offer, or is it just replacing the chaos of the wasteland with a different form of evil?  This will be my second attempt at running a daggerheart campaign after the last one fell apart due to scheduling issues. The plan is to run the game as long as players keep interest in it. While I am new to running daggerheart I do have plenty of experience running dnd 5e and other systems.  I have a zero tolerance policy for bigotry and bullying. I am on the autism spectrum and we have LGBT+ players in the group. If interested in the game send my a message on discord, my username is billbroston. We will try to schedule a chat with me and the rest of the current group to decide who will be the ones to be invited to the campaign. We plan on having a session at least every other week on Wednesda.