u/Odd-Dragonfruit-3446

EDIT: Alrighty, I'm closing applications! Thank you all for your interest! It was hard to pick players, but I think I found the ones I'd like to have. If any of them drop out or anything, I'll be sure to go back and see who's already applied to see if they'd like to replace that player. Be on the lookout for a friend request on Discord from LDS_Boi!

The gods abandoned Argos long ago.

In their absence, humanity clawed its way forward. Magic became a distant memory—rare and untamable. But where divine power failed, mortal ingenuity thrived. From the ashes of the old world rose magitek: complex machinery that harnessed the dregs of magic left over from creation itself, bending reality through gears and equations rather than prayer and sacrifice.

For a time, it seemed humanity had won. Disease retreated. Hunger faded. The great cities gleamed with brass and light

But something is wrong.

A rot spreads through Argos, invisible yet inescapable. Shadows gather in forgotten places. Old hatreds flare like wildfire. Nations that stood as allies for generations now eye each other with suspicion. In the halls of power, politicians trade insults that edge toward declarations of war. Even families fracture—brother against sister, parent against child.

No one can say when it started. No one knows why.

But everyone feels it: a pressure building behind the eyes, a voice whispering in the dark corners of the mind, urging anger, demanding blood.

Howdy y'all! I'm excited to try DMing a campaign in a homebrew setting I've been working on for a while! I have about *checks document* 80 pages of notes and lore for the setting. I quite enjoy it, and I hope y'all do too!

Anyways, the premise is that the party starts out on earth, but very quickly gets transported to Argos. Once there, they get thrown right into the thick of things kinda get to learn about the world and plot stuff naturally at their own pace, so I don't want to give out too many spoilers.

My goal is to gather a group of people who are fairly active and can post a few times per day. I've found that groups that can post a little more often are those that end up lasting longer than a week, and part of my goal is for this to be a long-term campaign. I've got lots of ideas that I'd to infli--I mean, share with my players.

As for some general stuff, the setting is fairly low-magic, though there is a bunch of steampunk-ish equipment that offset it. It's a fairly average fantasy setting, though there is a large plot that the characters will gradually uncover, but it will be up to them if they want to engage with it at all.

The campaign will be hosted on Discord, and characters will be made on DnDBeyond. I have content sharing unlocked, and I have most of the character options on there. We will use 2014 rules, and we'll use Roll20 for combat. We'll also be using Tupper and Avrae to help us out on Discord, but if you haven't used them before, that's totally fine!

Something I want to try out is using XP instead of milestone advancement. While I won't quite be granting XP for every post you make, the more you interact with the story and stuff, the more XP you'll gain, so it's kinda like motivation to be engaged lol.

But yeah, that's all I can think of at the moment. If you have any questions, feel free to ask, and if you'd like to join, feel free to fill out the survey below.

Looking forward to seeing your responses!

https://forms.gle/NDdSMtTHL6ba8j6Y6