D&D 5e

I'm really tempted to start up a 5e game for you folks** -- I'd need to restrict it to the free basic rules (which are enough to carry us on for a little while) and I'd probably run a very basic home-brew adventure to start (just to feel out the mechanics and feel out how to best run 5e in this format). I'd take up to 5 players, so lets so how this will stick.

Sounds like Morrowlife and Caedron are definitely in.

**this is probably the third time I've written this post (but obviously I didn't post the others).

I've only been doing PbP for under a year now and found using published adventures makes it pretty straightforward. You don't need any more time than you would for playing.

Exactly :) So does that mean you're in?

I'd actually REALLY like to run one of the longer adventures that WotC has published (Princes of the Apocalypse or Hoard of the Dragon Queen into Rise of Tiamat) but those are lv 1 - 15 adventures, and the pace of play by forum can often be much slower than even monthly face-to-face games.

I'd play!

I'd like to play, but to be honest I have the PHB and would want to use some of the classes and rules in that. I could probably get by without it... but I mean c'mooooon! :)

Alright you twisted my arm. PHB is allowed

Woot spoot magoot! Four classes just don't seem like enough to me anyway.

Yay for PHB! Now the question is do I try something new or go with a typical class

Alright so this is officially on then. You can use anything in the PHB to create your characters. I'll start a game up in a few days, but in the meantime work on those characters and discuss them here.

Also, as you create your characters I want you to have a close connection with one other character (close connections are things like: personal friend, long time rival, traveling companion -- you know each other well) and a distant connection with a different character (distant connections are things like: once shared drinks at a bar, saved each other from a bandit ambush, lost a bunch of gold in a game of cards to them -- you have met before).

Very nice. Where should we submit our characters?

I will make the game shortly and let you know here when i do

Do you have a preferred method of character creation?
And are we in Forgotten Realms?

Standard array
and that's undecided but probably yes

Join the game here: http://gamersplane.com/games/50

What sort of classes do people want to play in this?

I understand that I'm late to this discussion so if you have enough who expressed interest earlier I won't be butt hurt if I'm not accepted.

I'm in two D&D5E games already, and as much as I'd like to add a third, I'll give others a crack to go before me. If there's still a slot open come Monday I'll go ahead and sign up.

New to GP, but I'm definitely down for a 5e game. I tend toward sneaky or brutish-type PCs, but i'm up for anything.

Cool. Just so everyone applying knows, I'm holding off on accepting until those who had first expressed interest submit applications. If by Monday they haven't I'll let the rest in on a first come-first-serve basis.

I applied! Excited to play some 5e :)