The Chronicles of Ny: An episodic adventure

The Chronicles of Ny is a fantasy role-playing game. It is a sprawling story that takes place in a frontier province of the Great Kingdom of Ny. The experience of the game will reveal to you a world full of tangible people, terrible villains, evil monsters, grand and petty nobles, spectacular and haunted locations, deep and storied histories, conflict, intrigue and mystery. You will become the hero or heroine who enters this world and combats the dark forces that would destroy it. You will lead those that follow you into danger and fight your way through any who would stop you from taking your place as part of the Legend of Ny.

This is a game based on the concept of the serial. Each adventure will be self-contained with a start point and an end point, but common threads and plot lines will link them all. There will be a story for each adventure, for each three stories there will be a conclusion and the final adventure will tie all the stories together. For anyone who has played adventure series modules, they will be familiar with this theme. Our game will not try to fill 200 hours of game play into one enormous game, but instead will seek to provide 10 to 15 hours of play with each episode. If you follow the adventure all the way through, you will have a massive game, but with easily definable pauses in the story. Each game will remember where you left off and what has come before will matter in the games that follow. If you do start further into the story – on episode three or six for example– then some configuration of a start point will be provided, with a back-story to provide context for your adventure.

Each of the episodes will add onto a fully developed world and each adventure will take you to a new location, expanding your area of play. It will also not forget where you have been and returning to places and interacting with them again will be part of the fun. Role-playing is the core of the idea in this game and will be as important to success as defeating the monsters, traps, mazes and puzzles that you encounter. Our dialogue engine is not just another multiple choice quiz you get to take until you know all the answers, but a one way path through threading conversation choices that will effect how you interact with other characters and the world you find yourself in. Choices made early on will effect what comes after and will make the story become your story and not just the same adventure that everyone else has already had. It will be your adventure.

Let the adventure begin...

Chapter One:
Ny: Gatherings