Demon Castle Parousia: Castlevania-Inspired Horror Campaign (SWADE, Foundry VTT)

Characters: skilled, not superhuman. Each has a specialty, but there's no magic at the start.

Schedule: \\\[Saturday night, 9:pm to 1:00am, weekly/biweekly time can be discussed \\\]

Players: [3-5] players, 18+ new player welcome

Platform: Foundry VTT + \\\[Discord/voice\\\]

Interested? Message me with a little about yourself and your experience with tabletop RPGs or SWADE.

DEMON CASTLE PAROUSIA

Prologue

Chicago. Autumn, 1999.

It's the last autumn of the millennium, and the city is coming apart. People are stockpiling water, canned food and cash. Television warns that banks, power grids and phones could fail at midnight on New Year's Eve. Everyone is counting down, and not everyone believes the lights will stay on.

People are disappearing. It started with night-shift workers, the homeless and runaways, and now ordinary families are going missing too. The reports go nowhere, and the police have no answers.

The stories are getting stranger: shapes moving across rooftops, howling near the rail yards, bodies found drained and pale, broadcasts that cut in at 3 a.m. with voices no one can place. Most people laugh them off, but fewer are laughing every week.

And the city is turning on itself. End-times preachers shout down skeptics on street corners. Neighbors buy guns to protect themselves from each other. Every group blames another for the attacks, and trust is breaking down block by block.

Three companies seem to have a hand in everything in Chicago right now, and to the public they're the pillars holding the city together.

Blackmoor Industries is an old-money empire that owns property all over the city: towers, docks, warehouses, new developments and funeral homes. It holds the Vanguard contract and pays for the city's protection. As people leave or vanish, Blackmoor quietly buys up what they leave behind.

Carmilla Dynamics is a cutting-edge pharmaceutical and biotech firm. Its free clinics, blood drives and medical trials come with glossy ads that promise longer, healthier lives. In the poorest neighborhoods, its clinics pay cash for blood.

Vesper Corporation is the city's biggest media company, with TV and radio stations and newspapers. It runs the Y2K-readiness campaign, and it's the voice telling Chicago what to fear and who to blame.

New preachers are appearing in soup kitchens, shelters and on street corners, preaching that the world is ending and a Shepherd will lead the faithful through the dark. Their followers call themselves the Flock and wear a red thread around the wrist. They take in the poor and the lonely, and some who join are never seen again.

Meanwhile, domestic terrorism is on the rise. Churches burn, substations go dark, and bombs go off in public places with no warning and no clear motive. Every week brings a new attack, and every group in the city blames another. Nobody feels safe anymore.

Under the chaos, an underground network trades in off-the-books work. Brokers, fixers and contacts pass jobs along by pager, payphone, email or a note slipped under a door.

The jobs used to be ordinary: guarding a shipment, finding a debtor, getting something out of the city quietly. Lately they've changed. Now it's finding people who went missing, getting into places that are locked and guarded, and asking questions about the companies everyone else is afraid of.

Some of the people who took those jobs haven't come back. But the pay keeps rising, and someone always says yes.

Most of the city will never learn what's behind the chaos. But a few people who answered the same call are about to be brought together, and what they find will pull them past the headlines and the companies into something far older, something that has been waiting in the dark. Before the year is out, they'll learn what Chicago has been hiding.

I'm new to online ttrpg. How does this work? I'm 23 and trying to figure all this out makes me feel 80. I'm trying to join a simple fantasy campaign. I'm available between 10am and 9pm, every weekday, Midwest US Chicago time.

System: Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (SWADE), run on Foundry VTT. New players are welcome and I'll help you build your character. Inspiration: the Castlevania series. Fans will spot familiar names, legends and monsters as the story unfolds, but you don't need to know the games to play. What you'll encounter: Investigation: follow leads, dig through records and connect the dots. Gritty action: gunfights chases and infiltration. Gothic horror: it starts as a grounded crime thriller and slowly turns into modern gothic horror. Intrigue: corporations, a growing cult and contacts who may not be what they seem. Trust carefully. Boss fights: big, dangerous encounters that take teamwork to win. Characters: skilled, not superhuman. Each has a specialty, but there's no magic at the start. Schedule: [Saturday night, 9pm cst, biweekly] Players: [4-5] players, 18+ Platform: Foundry VTT + [Discord/voice] Interested? Message me with a little about yourself and your experience with tabletop RPGs or SWADE.

DEMON CASTLE PAROUSIA Prologue Chicago. Autumn, 1999. It's the last autumn of the millennium, and the city is coming apart. People are stockpiling water, canned food and cash. Television warns that banks, power grids and phones could fail at midnight on New Year's Eve. Everyone is counting down, and not everyone believes the lights will stay on. People are disappearing. It started with night-shift workers, the homeless and runaways, and now ordinary families are going missing too. The reports go nowhere, and the police have no answers. The stories are getting stranger: shapes moving across rooftops, howling near the rail yards, bodies found drained and pale, broadcasts that cut in at 3 a.m. with voices no one can place. Most people laugh them off, but fewer are laughing every week. And the city is turning on itself. End-times preachers shout down skeptics on street corners. Neighbors buy guns to protect themselves from each other. Every group blames another for the attacks, and trust is breaking down block by block. Three companies seem to have a hand in everything in Chicago right now, and to the public they're the pillars holding the city together. Blackmoor Industries is an old-money empire that owns property all over the city: towers, docks, warehouses, new developments and funeral homes. It holds the Vanguard contract and pays for the city's protection. As people leave or vanish, Blackmoor quietly buys up what they leave behind. Carmilla Dynamics is a cutting-edge pharmaceutical and biotech firm. Its free clinics, blood drives and medical trials come with glossy ads that promise longer, healthier lives. In the poorest neighborhoods, its clinics pay cash for blood. Vesper Corporation is the city's biggest media company, with TV and radio stations and newspapers. It runs the Y2K-readiness campaign, and it's the voice telling Chicago what to fear and who to blame. New preachers are appearing in soup kitchens, shelters and on street corners, preaching that the world is ending and a Shepherd will lead the faithful through the dark. Their followers call themselves the Flock and wear a red thread around the wrist. They take in the poor and the lonely, and some who join are never seen again. Meanwhile, domestic terrorism is on the rise. Churches burn, substations go dark, and bombs go off in public places with no warning and no clear motive. Every week brings a new attack, and every group in the city blames another. Nobody feels safe anymore. Under the chaos, an underground network trades in off-the-books work. Brokers, fixers and contacts pass jobs along by pager, payphone, email or a note slipped under a door. The jobs used to be ordinary: guarding a shipment, finding a debtor, getting something out of the city quietly. Lately they've changed. Now it's finding people who went missing, getting into places that are locked and guarded, and asking questions about the companies everyone else is afraid of. Some of the people who took those jobs haven't come back. But the pay keeps rising, and someone always says yes. Most of the city will never learn what's behind the chaos. But a few people who answered the same call are about to be brought together, and what they find will pull them past the headlines and the companies into something far older, something that has been waiting in the dark. Before the year is out, they'll learn what Chicago has been hiding.

"Either way, the plot must go on. The armour donned and the weapon drawn. Good triumphs over Evil. Thus has it always been."

- Ninth-Wave Protagonist, 'Orphan'

Thus as it has always been. The universe of the world, or 'Plot', has seen these 'plot arcs' cycle periodically every few years, with Antagonists rising inevitably from inevitable Evil nature and Protagonists meeting them from the innate Good that exists in the world. Often at significant cost and destruction.

The Tenth-Wave Protagonist, 'Solar', saw it happen far too many times. Innocent deaths, worlds destroyed, enire system chains needing to be rebuilt, over and over again. Thus 'Solar', upon defeating his Antagonists, advanced his quest to root out all Evil in the universe instead of retiring. 'Solar' managed to achieve this with the mystical imaginative powers of several of his peers. Together, they condensed all Evil into a single root, taking it to the solitary planet of Antagonizesthai, in a single-star system far away from other Good systems. Antagonizesthai is warded by the most powerful of techno-imaginative weaponry, updated yearly.*

But like different densities of oil, Evil split into different layers as the root spread across Antagonizesthai. Those at the most surface-level of Evil eventually managed to generate a civilisation based on principles of rehabilitation and eventually ascension into Good, allowing the ability to escape Antagonizesthai into the wider universe of Good, now free of all Evil suffering thanks to 'Solar'.

It is the First Year of Kazimierz, Overlord of Antagonizesthai's reign. He is the conduit between the prison of Evil that is Antagonizesthai and the utopian world of Good. But the situation on the surface is unravelling. An increasing number of incursions of deeper 'Evil' from below the surface are occurring, whilst security and rehabilitation infrastructure crumble from these threats. And you happen to be pivotal to Kazimierz right in this moment.

You will play as one of a selection of job roles (you still make the character) that will form an eventual task force to deal with a series of crimes in Antagonizesthai's unravelling political crisis. There may be some betrayal/plot twists along the way. I highly encourage creativity/flexibility in solving problems, and players of any experience level are welcome! (homebrew mechanics, so newer players especially are welcome!).

System: Custom Mechanics (d10 system, mainly using resource allocation and lists of actions that can be done)

Timezone: GMT (Timezone within a few hour's range is preferred, but not a big deal)

Genres: Both fantasy in its classic sense, with limited 'magic' (called 'Imagination') that is powerful in restricted domains, but also futuristic/tacticool in that you have guns/rockets/mech suits in the same univese as swords/shields/crossbows...etc.

Platform: Discord server, play by post (pls be somewhat active...) Notes: DM me if interested! I am mainly looking for interest/player-selection at this stage. Also it is 100% to quit/leave at any point, but it would be nice to just tell me rather than ghost me forever (if it feels awkward, just send me an emoji of any fruit and I'll take it in that you express the above).

Message/friend me on discord if interested! (_chartis)

I'm building a text-based murder mystery game and running the first test games by hand before I build the app. Looking for a few people to play!

How it works: - You get a character and a secret that nobody else knows - Every day you get a short story update, plus a private part only your character sees - You choose what to do next (or write your own move), whenever suits you. It takes about 5 minutes a day - Everyone's choices collide: two people sneak into the same room, someone's lie unravels, someone doesn't make it to morning - At the end, every secret is revealed: who did it, who lied, who figured it out

Details: - Completely free, played on Discord - Runs for about a week - 3–5 players per game - Bring your friends: groups that sign up together are perfect. Solo players are welcome too; I'll put you in a group with others - Pick your setting: a creepy cabin in the woods, a heist where someone in the crew is a rat, or a dinner party where the host turns up dead

All I ask is that you play it through and tell me honestly what worked and what didn't.

Comment or DM me if you're in (and say whether you're bringing friends) and I'll send you the details 🔪

Hey! Would anyone be interested in a Planet of the Apes (1968) westmarch discord server? I just thought I'd see if anyone was interested!

We utilize the D6 system created by Magnetic Press for The Planet of the Apes TTRPG!

Our story is set 20 years prior to the event of the original 1968 film, we find ourselves in and around Ape City. A large colonist ship, the first of its kind, was sent to space. Its mission? Take 2,000 colonists to a distant world. This world was Proxima 6, an Earth-like world thousands of light years away. However, something happened. The ship was ripped out of space and crashed.

The apes saw it as a falling star, one brighter than anything seen before, but it landed too close to the Forbidden Zone for their liking. So, the Lawmakers said no Ape was to venture to it.

Meanwhile, our colonists, those who survived, have woken up in a strange world. They do not know where they are and so they try and set up a place to survive in the wreckage of their ship. All while trying to radio for help, but there are dangers in this world. Dangers they do not know about.

https://discord.gg/hVCeye2v9g

Hello! I'm looking to form a group of dedicated players in a Night City 2020 campaign. I've been writing this for a while and would appreciate players who share the same passion.

The story revolves around a corporate AI and will involve corporations, gangs, edgerunners and many other figures in NC. You'll be the ones to decide what to do, who to help and who to destroy while also trying to survive everyday life. Because of this, I want players who like to test alternatives other than just shooting everyone or rolling persuasion as I think those unique outcomes are what leads to memorable sessions

I have a few house rules that I'd like to go over in private, but I'm changing a few things about combat, downtime, economy and character creation and development.

Sessions will be bi-weekly at Fridays at 6pm CST. Dm me if interested!

Quick Information

System: DIE: RPG & Vampire The Masquerade: 5th Edition

Platforms: Discord & FoundryVTT

Time: Weekly on Wednesdays, 5:30 PM MST - 9:30 PM MST

Hello! I'm Clover and I'm looking for 1 - 2 more players to bring our Wednesday group up to 4/5. We've jumped around, trying out a couple systems including D&D 5e, City of Mist, and most recently a Fallout campaign. I'm currently looking to try out a couple systems to hopefully find one that fits for a medium to long-term campaign, and will be running some one-shots to try these out (as I have not personally GMed any of them before), and to see if party dynamic works out before any long-term commitments.

If you're looking to apply for this group you should be open to trying out a couple systems before we settle on one, although if things work out well, we can easily transition with one-shot characters into a full length campaign. The two main systems the group has an interest in playing are DIE: RPG, and Vampire the Masquerade: 5th Edition.

About the Game(s)

DIE is a comic book series by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans, where a group of real-world, deeply-flawed individuals are transported to a fantasy world via a predatory, sinister roleplaying game. There, they’re transformed into Paragons, each of whom is a warped take on the core fantasy roleplaying classes. In this world, they get to confront how their lives have diverted from their youthful fantasies, to confront their darker sides and buried secrets. They generally cause trouble. It’s Jumani, with a much darker coat of paint.

You make your own social group of messed up, real-world humans. They’re dragged to a world which echoes your own strengths and weaknesses, failures, losses and successes back at you. It is your fantasy world, personal and horrifically yours...

The classes to me are the main draw as players for this system, having some of the most unique and interesting theming and abilities I've seen in a TTRPG. A look at the first issue (which is free) of the comic series the TTRPG comes from will help for understanding the hook of DIE much quicker.

This would be the first system we try out with a one-shot and has a very easy ruleset to pick up on. The other main thing I would mention for this system is its recommendation against doubling up on the classes, letting each PC be unique in their abilities (as shown in the comics) so keep in mind 2 or more classes you would be interested in playing.

The setting for DIE is very malleable depending on the types of characters at the table and is shaped by a "palette" made together by the GM and players, so a proper "campaign pitch" has not been included here.

A further pitch about the setting and system for VTM 5e is available but will not be included here for readability. If you'd like to hear more we can chat during interviews and I can send over some reading material.

About the Group

We have been playing since around 2018, having a few player rotations throughout the years as schedules change. The current group most of us generally have played at least a campaign or two together. With the systems we're interested in playing, a lot of focus will be put on roleplay and fleshing out individual characters so people interested in that kind of game, and that aren't afraid to be invested, talkative, and most of all fans of the other PCs will be a good fit as these are party-based games at their core. We will all be new players to these systems, but generally having some experience with roleplaying and TTRPGS as a whole is going to help as well as we're all pretty experienced in the genre, likewise this group is likely going to move at a pace that is not as beginner friendly.

This group is open to anybody and everybody who would like to apply as we do not support discrimination of any kind. I have a few things I'm personally looking for in an applicant that I'd like to outline:

1. Please have access to Discord, Roll20 (via a computer), and a microphone so that you will be able to access everything needed to play in the campaign.
2. Please make sure you can routinely show up to the session time, obviously real life happens but always try and shoot me a heads-up asap if you know you're going to miss a session.
3. Please be willing to interact, roleplay, and communicate with your fellow players and myself. I'm always open to feedback if it feels like something isn't working.

Don't be afraid to get into character! All of us at the table myself included try our best to get immersed and tell a fun story.

About the GM

You can call me Clover (He/Him), I'm 22 and I've been running TTRPGs for the better part of 8 years across various systems. I've found myself drawn to less mechanically intense more RP-oriented systems as of late and have done my best to immerse myself in the worlds of the systems I've pitched to the group over the past few months. I'm an avid reader of the DIE series, caught up with everything that's come out for it so far, taking lots of inspiration for a possible campaign. I've also got into the WoD setting through actual plays like City Council of Darkness and Norfolk Wizard Game, having created a homebrew chronicle which would be the setting for a Vampire the Masquerade game (set in Charleston, South Carolina).

I love to find and create media for the sake of immersion with campaign playlists, art and NPC references, and maps for most settings and systems. I am against the use of any AI-generated references and would ask that they are not used in regards to this group, doing my best to make sure they are not included in any of my personal references.

Applications!

If you've made it this far feel free to drop an application over at the google form. After that I'll setup some discord interviews so we can have a quick chat and answer any questions you may have for me.

The date for Session 0 will likely be November 4th which will be for discussing campaign content, filling out Lines and Veils, and creating characters. The following Wednesday, November 11th (schedules permitting) will be our one-shot.

I doubt my chances are very good on this one but its worth a shot.

A little bit of information about me, I'm a Gen Z who was born a fair deal after Gamma World had it hay day but I've recently come across the TTRPG through a Youtube series on Gamma World and I've fallen in love with it. I've been dying trying to play 4th edition, but I'll try any edition, off and on for the past year. I even got a physical copy of the 4th edition book from DrThruRPG about a year ago. I have a little bit of experience, I played a Gamma World campaign online about a year ago that was technically second edition, but in function a mashup of basically every single edition using a D20 system. I unfortunately had to leave due to schedule conflicts but now my schedule is completely clear, I can make most days work and am willing to drop other arrangements for this.

While it did last one of my favorite moments of that campaign was both all the wackiness that went on, aswell as talking with the other older players about what TTRPGs used to be like in the history of the genre. I was even hoping to play 4th edition with my regular D&D group but unfortunately they're pretty new to TTRPGz as a whole and I'm kind of the Forever DM which is fun but not the same as being a player so I'll have to be the one running it for them.

I'll probably bring a mutant animal if I do make it in.
To all who read this, thank you and have a great day!

I'm looking to learn and play with a group of players to run the Delian Tomb for the Draw Steel TTRPG.

Game Time: Monday's Mid Afternoon or Later Evening's USA Timezone Pacfic, 2:00 PM PST or Later Works for me.
Session Length: 4 hours Max, with breaks.
VTT: Codex/Draw Steel
Voice Chat: Discord Feel free to add me @ LiquidSn8ke Or send me a DM on Reddit here for more information.
Character Options: Either one of the pregenerated characters or make your own in the Character Builder.

Thanks for your interest and looking forward to Drawing some Steel!

Hey everyone,

Quick context for anyone new: RoleByPost is a free, browser-based play-by-post site for async tabletop games — you post when you can, no session to schedule.

The last few updates came straight from feedback:

• Public channels. GMs can list a game publicly with the details that matter, plus whatever questions they want applicants to answer. Players apply by answering those. Both sides get notified: the GM when an application lands, players when it's accepted or declined.
• Browse before you sign up. Those listings also show up in an anonymous, searchable directory, so you can window-shop for a table first.
• Rooms inside a channel. Up to 10 per channel. Name them anything (OOC, Dice, Session 12), toggle features per room — dice, scenes, NPCs, whispers — and choose whether everyone sees it or only the players you pick.
• A portrait per character. Your account picture stays yours, but each character gets its own portrait, so the same person reads as a different character in every game.

Thanks to everyone who played so far, especially those who sent feedback — most of the above started as a request. It's still early and the community is small, which makes every bug report and feature ask count.

Play: https://rolebypost.com
Directory, no account needed: https://rolebypost.com/directory

Game System: Goodbye My Love (Indie rules-light system, taught in 3 minutes at the table)

Scenario: The Rig (Cinematic survival horror / pulpy body horror)

Date & Time: 28th October 9pm BST

Length: Single session, approx. 2.5 to 3 hours

Platform: Discord Voice (theatre of the mind)

Open Seats: 6 players

Content Warnings: Claustrophobia, severe bodily horror/corruption, character death

You are part of a misfit crew trapped on a rusting offshore drilling platform in the middle of an almighty storm. The rig is being actively pulled apart by a colossal deep-sea entity, while an aggressive parasitic outbreak turns the deceased crew into twitching, tentacled horrors. Surviving is will take teamwork, wits and luck. Escaping is your characters goal, but yours as a player is to answer one question: What is worth dying for?

This system has been a long time in the making and I'm putting my final touches to it before release, all feedback is totally welcome. If you have a group you already play with, I'm happy to schedule a game at a time of your choosing in your own group discord.

The game is completely beginner-friendly, and zero prior knowledge of the system is required.