[OPEN] Everlasting night in Icewind Dale (not D&D)

So since winter has come I’m going to propose a thematic game 🥶

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✅ The Game System.
Another play test of the home brew bowlofspinach likes to trash so much 😁 It’s supposed to be simple: you always roll 2d6. Definitely not D&D any edition!

✅ The Pitch.
There is a lot of ice, there is wind and it’s all in a dale!

This is a mash up of all the recent materials I could get my hands for Icewind Dale: face the fury of a loser goddess, figure out what devils are up to these days, watch ancient evil magic destroy everything, experience the D&D obsession with out-of-place ancient ruins and kill the same guy 3 times because WotC can't keep up with their story-line! Meet good dwarves, bad dwarves and ugly dwarves, and save the local brewery! All of this, just to watch the sunrise one more time!

✅ Adult Content or Controversial Themes. People die. People are desperate. Gods are evil. This is as close as D&D will get to "horror" so they even try to be gory 😂 I’m not looking for heroes, but pragmatic lawful people fighting for survival. You are not going to save everyone (but you can have fun while they die)


'Tis the season for some icy death

✅ Character Restrictions. I have some simple guidelines but anything that looks like D&D is probably doable. More exotic things can be considered

✅ Game Duration and Post Frequency. This game will take forever because it’s a full adventure and then some. Luckily, combat should be faster! I'm also considering a more of a episodic approach than regular D&D to skip "down-time". Frequency around 3-5 posts per week to keep it going fast.

✅ How to Apply. I’ll check the applications first. If there is a lot of interest I can ask for a small character concept.


Another human sacrifice meets a fluffy end!

Count me as interested, but I'm still uncertain what the homebrew system looks like. Given the 2d6, I would guess it's a PbtA variant. Where might I find the rules?

I am interested as well. Any guidelines to your homebrew other than using 2d6 in place of 1d20?

It's not a PbtA thing. The base idea is that you roll 2D6 and compare the result to a range of success that is between 5 and 5+mods.

There's nothing published for it but I'm sure CESN will set up the forums with all the needed rules.

I'm interested in both the game's premise and the simple homebrew system.

How do you do races in this system? What is available (aside from dwarves)?

Yeah not PbtA, but it isn't too far off. The idea is to not need GM input and streamline most actions so anything can work well on PbP. The way you figure out successes is a bit different, but with the roll rules GP has now, it's almost automatic so it's easier than when we came up with the idea a couple of years ago.

Basically, you roll a 2d6, you compare it to your skill level to figure out if you succeed, and you describe how that looks like. It's the first time we really go for a long term game, so the leveling system may be a little limited.

Because it's a pre-made adventure, I'm moslty sticking with D&D-like skills and races. I have the basic ones for now: humans, elves, orcs, dwarves and halflings. Ability scores are not really relevant here, so any race should work.

One player in an earlier version of the rules played a sentient gemstone, so the sky's the limit 😄 Though I think CESN might want to stick closer to traditional D&D style races for this game

I'd like to try it, if it's still open. I'm starting to really get into PbP. If it's d&d like, I'd probably want to play a non human. If it's possible, a Jack of all trades / McGuyver like character or to put into d&d terms INT and WIS 16 - 18 but everything else 10 - 12 a couple of cantrips, maybe a few spells, any weapon, any armor, any craft. Not everything will be perfect, might break after 1 use but it'll probably work at least once we'll maybe 🫣

This could be a good system for that since I’m not really enforcing class restrictions

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I’ll just point out again that, to make things faster, combat will be more narrative than tactical. That being a big part of the original D&D adventure is probably best to set the expectations right 😁

If everyone is fine with it, I think we have enough players. I think I can take more players so I’ll leave this open over the weekend while people are busy and start inviting next week 👍

Last call!

I’ll invite @eyes, @meseszovo, @RAAMtentacles and @testlum tomorrow once I double check everything 👌

invites sent :D

Quick shout to @meseszovo in case they missed the invitation 😁

We will be starting soon in unlikely case someone didn’t notice this and wants to jump in👌

It's me again! We had a player drop out in the meantime and we were discussing how having adding another 1 or 2 players would be great!!!

We are moving to the third chapter of this mega campaign (not in icewind yet!) and in a great place to had more people :D

Let me know if you're interested :D

Come join our grumpy orc shaman and steady dwarf cleric as they traipse toward certain death! At least now you'll be on dry land...

Also @CESN, the post is still tagged as Closed :P

Oops 😅 I hope that I looks better now

Came here interested in the post, got fished by the game I'm already in. Lol

I'd be potentially interested in joining, if you'll have me.

If the system isn't too hard to get I'll take a spot!

Hey Dmbrainiac and Mnrtoler!

I'll add you in so you can browse around, check the rules and see what you think as we do the last post for this scene. The system is narrative focused, so there is some adaptation to be done for a pure DnD adventure.

I'll keep this open for a little longer in case someone else wants to have a look :D