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The Coming of the Zioth

Welcome to a world that has nineteen years left to live. In nineteen years, on the one thousand twentieth year of the Zioth, all five moons will leave the sky for a night, and the world will be destroyed and rebuilt. But who can believe such legends in a world at its prime? Everything is normal. The strange creatures of legend are nowhere to be seen, and magic? A story to put children to sleep. The Coming of the Zioth is my own PBeM, which has been running since 1996. It includes a huge number of game turns in prose form and lots of game world information. The Coming of the Zioth D&D Campaignplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigThe Story So Far

The Coming of the Zioth is a D&D campaign which started in May of 1996. Each game turn is composed of a bunch of back and forth emails compiled by the DM into a prose narrative. A typical game turn is around 14 printed pages, so we have over three thousand pages of material here! The early turns weren't very well written, so over the course of a bunch of years starting in 2000, I rewrote them into the
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The Wrath of the Talons

Five thousand years ago, the dragon Rokuchiankamphan was trapped beneath the earth before he could destroy the world. Now he is rising again, and no one is aware of this but the mysterious Sensei and the eight monks he has trained from birth for just this purpose. I played in this game from 2003-2005. There are multiple character journals, including a pretty complete one written by me. This also includes a few custom magic items and house rules. The Wrath of the Talonsplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigThe Wrath of the Talons

This is a D&D campaign I was involved in for two years, from fall of 2003 to spring of 2005. It was a complete campaign, starting at level 1 and going up to level 17, where everything was wrapped up nicely with an epic battle.
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Letters from Jack

A game I played in for a bit in 2005, which is a good example of why not to play the party traitor. Letters from Jackplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigLetters from Jack

This is a game I joined for about ten sessions, starting in the winter of 2005.

During the brief time Jack was in the party, he was reporting regularly to their enemies. Over time, he became annoyed at the incompetence of his superiors, and a bit sympathetic to the PCs' cause. Eventually, he would have converted over, and fed misinformation to his superiors. Unfortunately, the campaign fell apart, with Jack at the root of it. I'm really sorry for ruining your campaign
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Commoner Campaign

Joe Wood is just an ordinary guy, working in an ordinary town to make a living. Yeah, he has a bit of a reputation, but don't you dare call him an adventurer! Heros_Backpack from the wizards.com boards wanted to see whether you could have fun playing a commoner, and here's what came of it. Commoner Campaignplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigCommoner Campaign: Joe Wood

[By Gideon_gideonson] This adventure was created by Heros_Backpack from the wizards.com boards.

Not long ago, one of my players said she wanted to have a break from playing heroes all the time and do something completely different. She wanted to have a go at playing an 'ordinary person' for a while. Her suggestion chimed with a corner of my contrary streak that has wanted to prove that commoners really can survive in D&D land (and you can even have fun with them).…
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Campaigns Hosted Elsewhere

The Kingdom of Hurva

A complete world, including a complete and very well written character journal and a few smaller journals. The Kingdom of Hurva.

Claremont Acadamy

Young superheroes in training live together in a secret high school, and save the world in their spare time. A combination of cooperative storytelling and traditional RPG, this game is organized as a bunch of concurrent threads with their own role-playing or action encounters. There's also extensive information about the game world, including history, NPCs and photographs of the school. I play Bait, a 14 year old who is allergic to everything and needs crutches and leg braces to walk, but who also happens to be invulnerable. Claremont Academy (old forums), Claremont Academy (new).

The Adventurers

This AD&D campaign is up as a set of posts rather than compiled prose, but the game ran for 26 years, and has over a thousand chapters! The Adventurers.

World of Sulerin

A complete world, with a ton of character descriptions, spells and more. Also has journal entries from multiple characters. World of Sulerin.

Campaign Journals Forum

The Brilliant Gameologists boards include a forum for campaign journals. There's a lot of reading material there. Brilliant Gameologists.

Other Fiction

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From: Werebat Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd Subject: A story (long) was Re: PC's captured! Film at 11! Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 07:11:37 -0800

Breaking into Christopher's threadlet 'cause I lost the original post...

I have had PCs captured twice, in the same campaign that I have been running for over five years now. The most recent time, they were captured by an Illithid Lich in the
: This is a game-segment written up by a poster to rec.games.frp.dnd. It is an excellent and well-written example of using torture to create fear in a game.

Kismet's D&D: A campaign by Patricia Willenborg. Includes articles on D&D and lots of other interesting stuff.

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