Brave Adventurers,



The citizens of Riverford need your help!



The Riverford Freelancers Guild have a number of open jobs right now, and are looking for eager young mercenary adventurers to complete them!



Protection. Escort. Courier. Gathering. Retrieval. Jobs of all kinds!



Adventure and fortune awaits! Visit our guild hall today!





I’m excited to announce a new series of higher-level one-shots that are centered in the town of Riverford, one of the larger settlements in The Republic of Ironhull. Whatever bold or foolhardy adventurers register for and show up to any given night’s session will be offered one or two quests, and then let loose in the Three Rivers Valley to accomplish them however they can.

This is a unique series of “sandbox one-shots" for fourth level Pathfinder RPG characters. Designed to be played to completion in a single four-hour session with no ongoing commitment, the Riverford Freelancer sessions will feature a number of short quests the PCs can choose from in Riverford, and random encounters that happen as the party explores the Three Rivers Valley trying to complete them. The players show up, read the job board, and set off on adventure.

I plan to start run sessions weekly, starting during the first week of October. We’re flexible on the scheduling from week to week, and willing to run sessions at different times to accommodate players around the world. If you're interested in playing, hop over to our G+ community or forum and help us figure out what time slots you and other users can sync up with for a session!

But wait, there’s more! This announcement isn’t just for players looking to get into some public games, it’s also for creative users who are interested in creating short quests and encounters for those adventurers to undertake!

Citizens of Riverford,



Do you need something retrieved safely and discretely? Want a reagent or rare material from the depths of the forests? Maybe you require an escort to ensure someone important makes it to their destination? Perhaps you could use a simple courier to take something to the frontier?



The Riverford Freelancers are here to serve!



An independent freelancer’s guild, we take jobs and find the best freelancers to accomplish them. Skip scouring filthy taverns to find worthy adventurers, and let us do all the legwork!



No job is too big or too small!

One of the primary focuses of SyncRPG and Overworld digital publishing is the creation of Tempest, a campaign setting that is both ours and yours, where users can participate in the development of a shared setting, and expand it by socializing RPG content. We gave you a taste of the Shigaian Hobgoblin slavers in the Escape From Nurovd one shots, and mixed in NPCs added by users to keep each session fresh. In this same vein anyone can add a short mini-adventure to the site using the revamped (based on user feedback) quest system, effectively acting as a patron in Riverford seeking the assistance of the freelance guild.

You can add a quest by following my instructions in a previous post, and they can be as simple as “I will pay 500gp for two giant black widow eggs.” You can then add that quest to a collection, and then add other associated assets, including maps and NPC or monster tokens. When you’re done, you’ll have a collection that you can link to that will allow any GM to drag in everything they need to run your quest in the VTT. When looking at a widget for a quest or other asset, you can click the open heart icon to see all collections that contain it, easily linking you to all the maps, NPCs, and macro you need to run a quest!

Whenever I run a session of the Riverford Freelancers, I’ll present a number of quests to the players, chosen from those tagged “Riverford.” Once they set out to do it, I’ll have easy access to all of the VTT assets I need to run the encounters. Similarly, a random encounter macro will generate a link to relevant tokens, which can be dragged into any wilderness map to quickly throw together an appropriate encounter for the area.

All of these features of SyncRPG greatly reduce the amount of preparation a user would have to do before each session, and allow everyone to benefit from the hard work that creative GMs put in. When quests and creations are shared on SyncRPG, the world of Tempest expands, and everyone is richer for it.

After a few sessions (and inevitable enhancements and bugfixes!) I’ll release the campaign files, making it easy for anyone to run their own sessions of the Riverford Freelancers. So join us!

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