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I had an idea for a quest, a kind of mash up of heist films, Jack Vance and Karl Marx - let me know if it's too much backstory:
- characters are a mix of skilled misfits from different towns who have all recently been kicked off their traditional lands by lords enclosing them to run sheep on, and now need to find a way to avoid starvation
- begging gets punished by branding for a first offence, imprisonment in a workhouse for a second offence, and death for the third; the punishment for theft is worse
- one of us has been caught stealing from a local merchant, who says she won't turn them over to the authorities if they steal her something valuable from a local wizard, who lives in a castle overlooking the town. they've persuaded the others to help
- that wizard has just been seen going for a walk
- the group is at the castle gates

Yikes! Vance and Marx? That is some mash! :)
Remember you are 'fresh faced' adventures, so I am not sure about the expert team of skilled individuals a traditional 'heist' calls for.
Maybe you could become such a crew eventually. We can try smaller scale 'heists' (often called 'dungeon crawls':) at the start, though and save some for this for later?

Remember this is a game for new players. The intent is for anyone new to GP (or new to the game system) to be able to drop into this game and pick it up easily. We are the first, so we get to define a lot by our choices and actions, but we still want to keep the world generic and simple enough for the new players who join later.

The reliable players might be called upon to make new characters for the new players to play with (I will deal with per-player limits when that comes up). This is voluntary, so only if you feel comfortable possibly playing more than one character in separate threads/adventures.

WoDu can also be a bit more deadly than (recent) DnD or DW. Maybe don't get too attached to your character ideas, they may perish --hopefully spectacularly, but 'memorably' may have to do.
Oops. This bit failed to carry over from the recruitment thread so I added it to the Character and World Creation thread.
A 'wizard' is likely to be walking towards a stake (not a steak). Magic is frowned upon, it uses demons and spirits and quicksilver, and corrupts the user. Most 'wizards' people meet are 'the bad guy'.
If you want to do magic, be prepared to be treated with suspicion or worse.

True! I guess they're connected by their interest in anthropology? :)
Yeah good flag - I originally wrote 'ragtag bunch of misfits', but then looked at the character types in the rules, who all seemed pretty skilled, so thought I should upgrade that. But it sounds like I misread the intent of the rules?

Anyway, more than happy to go with another idea, given I don't really know what I'm doing! :)

Well theatreofcomets it's sounds like a great start, something I'd be interested in playing through

Hi theatreofcomets!

Although we are basically just bandits with ambition at this point, waiting for a wizard to leave and then stealing from them is a classic.

Cheers! Happy to go with something else that suits the WoDu premise better though, if that's what folks would prefer.

It is a bit 'big' for the start, but it could be what the team is work towards becoming.

It is not so much a WoDu thing as a 'we need to keep the world small and simple and manageable for other new players when they arrive'. This is an ongoing effort, we want to provide a place for new players at all times, and having a group off on 'storming the castle walls' type adventures can break the world. If the group wants that, we can always spin off a game for them in a world of their own where they can break things to their heart's content.
Jobs in this game should be lower impact and cause smaller ripples. We could definitely break into the castle and steal something, or even have to break into a distant (rumored) wizards tower to retrieve an item, though.

We can have a war be happening nearby, you could run off and join the army, then storm (or defend) those castle walls and get into mischief over there. That would provide some alternate content for anyone who wants it. If we are interested let me know.

Well I would be interested in taking a swing at a bunch of John's and seeing what a fighter can do.

Not sure what "John's" are, but I am sure there will be people to fight no matter what jobs you guys take on --it is a fantasy game, after all. :)

Are you saying you want to run off to the war? Join that army? Get stuck in a town under siege? Are you a soldier?
Or just stumble across armies going at it and see what opportunities you can find?

Remember, this game might get big enough that we are not one party anymore. So don't worry if one player wants to do something the others are not interested in. Speak up and we can wait till we find other like-minded players then launch into special operations.

John Doe's
Maybe a wandering knight kinda deal?

Maybe 'knight' is overrating your importance a bit at Level 1 :)
Remember: From the initial thread:

Of the jobs on the board, like Rezart/Rook I'm most interested in the caravan guard and dungeon crawl ones.

@Okumheart, would either of those appeal to your fighter?

Got it. I second Rook's thoughts on Carvan guard.

Yes

Which one is the 'dungeon crawl' again?
Oh, yes, the heirloom recovery? I had not thought of it as dungeon crawl, but it is now.

Do you wan to combine them? That would have the caravan's destination be the 'Snow Mountain' as well. You would do the one and then the other in succession. If you are not interested in that then they will be in different locations.

Yep, combining them sounds good!

Makes sense to me!

OK. I will start by getting you signed up as caravan guards.
Do you want to have time in town to explore and RP a bit first, or do you want the caravan to be leaving pretty soon?
There will be time on the road for socialising with your fellow guards.

Sounds good to me.