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Planeswalker Chronicles
Let’s create an exciting MTG-inspired RPG for the MTGCardsmith forums! The RPG will be called "Planeswalker Chronicles" and will immerse participants in the multiverse, offering dynamic gameplay while being accessible to newcomers at any time.
Planeswalker Chronicles: An MTG RPG
Theme
You are a newly ignited Planeswalker, exploring the Multiverse, discovering new planes, forging alliances, battling foes, and uncovering ancient secrets. The game is designed to allow seamless entry for participants while maintaining a rich, ongoing story.
How It Works
- Story Episodes: The RPG is structured in episodes (story arcs) with a central conflict that develops over time.
- Player Accessibility: Players can join at any time by creating a character and jumping into the current episode.
- Roleplaying & Mechanics: The game is a mix of free-form roleplaying (narrative) and lightweight mechanics for decisions, actions, and combat.
How to Join
Create Your Planeswalker: Fill out the quick character sheet:
- Name:
- Plane of Origin:
- Mana Affinity: Choose one or two (W/U/B/R/G).
- Signature Spell: A single spell that represents your Planeswalker’s unique power.
- Backstory: (Optional) A brief bio of your character.
Jump In: Once you've posted your character, I'll integrate them into the current story episode.
Gameplay Mechanics
Actions
Players narrate their actions in response to the story updates I post. These can include exploration, spells, attacks, or diplomacy. Here's an example:
Player: "I use my fiery spell to burn through the vines blocking the ancient temple door!"
Rolls for Uncertainty
Certain actions will require a roll (e.g., combat, puzzle-solving). I will roll a 1d20 and determine success/failure based on the difficulty:
- 1-5: Critical Failure
- 6-10: Partial Success
- 11-15: Success
- 16-20: Critical Success
Mana Points
Each Planeswalker has Mana Points (MP) equal to 10 + their Mana Affinity colors. Using your Signature Spell or major abilities costs MP, and recovering MP requires rest or special items discovered in the story.
Core Features
- Exploration: Discover new planes, interact with legendary characters, and uncover secrets of the Multiverse.
- Collaboration: Team up with other players to defeat powerful foes or navigate challenges.
- Choices: Player decisions will impact the storyline, creating a unique, evolving world.
- Artifacts & Rewards: Players can earn magical artifacts or special cards that enhance their abilities.
- Villains: The game features recurring villains who challenge the players across episodes.
Episode 1: The Rift on Shandalar
Shandalar is in chaos. A mysterious rift has opened, and strange creatures are spilling into the plane. Powerful artifacts are vanishing, and the balance of mana is threatened. You have been drawn here by an ancient call, along with other Planeswalkers, to uncover the rift's origin and restore order—or exploit the chaos.
Initial Prompt
You appear on Shandalar, a land of powerful mana surges. The skies ripple with energy, and an ominous portal looms in the distance. Villagers flee from strange, shadowy creatures pouring through the rift. A call for help echoes in your mind:
"Planeswalker, the balance is broken. Aid us!"
What do you do?
Let me know if you're ready to start, and feel free to create your first Planeswalker! I’ll handle the story updates, NPCs, and gameplay mechanics.
Comments
Plane of Origin: Ixalan
Mana Affinity: Green
Rest assured that more will come soon, I’m just really tired right now. Cya!
Sorry the art resolution is so low, I don't know why it was so low
How to Join
Create Your Planeswalker: Fill out the quick character sheet:
Jump In: Once you've posted your character, I'll integrate them into the current story episode.
I think it's a super fun one.
Happy New Year
Plane of Origin: Ixalan
Mana Affinity: Green
Not enough time to do the rest. See ya!
How to Join
Create Your Planeswalker: Fill out the quick character sheet:
Jump In: Once you've posted your character, I'll integrate them into the current story episode.
Welcome to Planeswalker Chronicles, Chicomecoatl! 🌿🐾
Introducing Chicomecoatl
You are Chicomecoatl, a Planeswalker from Ixalan, a verdant plane of jungle expanses, ancient ruins, and primal beasts. As the drumming rhythm of the jungle pulses within you, your power calls forth the wild stampedes of nature, overwhelming anything in their path.
Current Episode: The Rift on Shandalar
You step through the Blind Eternities and find yourself on Shandalar, a plane teeming with mana. The air hums with tension as an ominous rift tears through the sky. From it, shadowy beasts with jagged forms and glowing crimson eyes pour into the nearby jungle. Villagers scream as they flee, leaving behind abandoned carts and scattered belongings. The beasts are clawing at the base of a massive, ancient tree—the Heartwood Sentinel, a guardian of Shandalar's mana.
The voice in your mind grows urgent:
"Planeswalker, the Heartwood Sentinel must be protected! It holds the key to restoring balance."
The shadow creatures turn their heads, sensing your presence, their red eyes narrowing. A pack of three charges toward you, claws raised.
What do you do?
Feel free to describe your action or cast your Signature Spell: Call Forth the Stampede to summon beasts for aid!
@Mellow_MC:
The air crackles with primal energy as Chicomecoatl's voice rings out like the call of the wild. The shadow creatures slash at you with jagged claws, but your expertly wielded longswords, Fang and Claw, deflect their strikes with precision. The sound of clashing teeth and claws echoes through the dense jungle, and in a flash of green mana, you slip past the creatures with the grace of a raptor in the hunt.
As you approach the Heartwood Sentinel, you raise your hands, channeling the raw power of your mana affinity. The ground trembles as your Signature Spell: Call Forth the Stampede is cast. From the dense jungle behind you, a deafening roar erupts as a horde of beasts—massive stegosaurs, saber-toothed jaguars, and towering ankylosaurs—charge forth. The earth shakes under their weight as they slam into the shadowy creatures with unrelenting force, sending several tumbling back into the void.
The creatures attacking the Heartwood Sentinel hesitate as the stampede overtakes them. You close the distance, your blades shimmering with mana. As you prepare to strike, the Heartwood Sentinel, an enormous, ancient tree with glowing emerald veins, groans as a shadowy corruption seeps into its roots. Its branches shudder as it struggles against the rift's encroaching power.
New Challenge
The rift pulsates, threatening to summon even more creatures.
What do you do?
Hatter's Charge
As Hatter sprints forward, the two larger shadow creatures pause, sensing the calculated intent behind your movements. The jungle air crackles with the subtle hum of mana as you reach into your robes and withdraw the small pouch.
Channeling mana into its contents, you fling the blessed salts in a wide arc at the corrosive shadow beast. The moment the salts leave your hand, they shimmer with divine energy, and the spell Saltblast erupts.
Result of Saltblast
The corrosive creature lets out a guttural screech as the salts sear into its form, holy energy clashing with its shadowy essence. Its dark exterior crumbles in parts, the light burning through its malice-infused being. The creature collapses into a pool of black ichor, writhing before dissipating entirely. The jungle feels lighter, as though a burden has been lifted.
Facing the Blade-Wielding Shade
Now alone, the blade-wielding shade turns its glowing crimson eyes on you. Its stance shifts, mimicking your defensive posture as though studying you. It lunges, shadowy blades cutting through the air with unnatural speed.
Chicomecoatl’s Perspective
Nearby, Chicomecoatl sees the corrosive creature fall to Hatter's spell. Her stampede holds the rest of the shadow creatures at bay, but the Heartwood Sentinel still groans, its corruption deepening. The Sentinel’s faint voice calls out to both of you, weak but insistent:
"Planeswalkers... cleanse the roots... my strength wanes... cleanse the roots..."
Challenge Updated
What do you both do next?