So, if any of you are not familiar with the rules for children adventurers from the SRD I will link them now:

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/basics...ons/young-characters

The basic premise of the game is this:

Our characters are a group of young children from a pseudo-communist egalitarian Meritocracy: this culture is fully aware of the rules of the world and things like weath-by-level and the like: although everyone at least THINKS that they are a PC, just under thousands of different GMs* with different campaign guidelines in a shared universe: and those who manage to achieve high levels are given the postilions of leadership, because if nothing else they have more HP and higher saves making it harder to assassinate them.
*(Who knows, they may be right, just not all the GM's and players are from our universe...)

Anyway, our PCs are one 'party' from a communal creche in a small-yet-prosperous city on the borders of our nation. Things are going well, nothing much to report until one day the city is attacked totally out of the blue by a rampaging hoard of undead. Our teachers take us into an underground structure and open up a sealed portal, which they explain leads into an area known as the Labyrinth, a secret subterranean realm which runs under most of the world. It may be our only means of escape from the undead even now slaughtering the city's inhabitants. We are given real weapons and armor for the first time and sent on our way with rough instructions on how to find our way through the labyrinth from our city to the capitol and wished good luck, then the door, which apparently is magically sealed against undead and most everything else is locked behind us.


I am looking to start the game at 1st level but with epic point buy for stats, and would have max starting gold, but of course with Children as the protagonists using the rules linked above. The PCs would all start at the equivalent for their race of 13 years old, and all ECL 0 PC races should be on the table. (I plan to play a human but that is beside the point.)

Inspirations for this game include The Goonies, Labyrinth, The First Two Harry Potter Books, and The Chronicles of Narnia, though I expect that it will go somewhat darker than any of them if portrayed well.

A general rating would be preferred for this story but Mature would be acceptable: Adult however is inappropriate.

You had me at "everyone thinks they're PCs."

Count me in!

This sounds like a great idea!  Makes me wish I knew the rules better!

Bumping this for the first of probably many many times to see if we can get more interested players or a GM to run the game.

Current Interested Player Tally: 3


EDIT: Additionally: Other inspirations for the game:

Order of the Stick, Key-chain of Creation, The Secret World of Ariety, and the Tale of Desperaux.
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You got some interest over here.

I'd be down for a teenage dungeon crawler.

I find myself interested in this concept as well.

This thread finally has fallen off the first page today so I am bumping it again to see if we get someone willing to run the game.

Interested Player Count: 6.

This does sound really cool.

Another week, another interested player, now all we are waiting for is a GM...

Interested player count: 7.

So wait, you're looking at epic point buy but everyone is a 1st level NPC class like commoner or what not?

Yes, the epic PB is to help the characters SURVIVE being NPC classes.

Sooooo, I've been tinkering with the idea of combining this with the "everyone is one class" idea.

This would be a significant tweak I think but if you bear with me I think you'll see the similarities:

1) Setting: Generic Pathfinder (just in case you ever escape I can put you on a map somewhere)

2) Class: Everyone is taking a 1st level of commoner but will eventually grow up into a wizard specialist school. I'm going back to old school rules where a wizard school has set defined opposition schools based upon the following pattern:

Abjuration (opposed by: Transmutation, Divination)
Conjuration (opposed by: Necromancy, Evocation)
Divination (opposed by: Illusion, Transmutation)
Enchantment (opposed by: Evocation, Conjuration)
Evocation (opposed by: Enchantment, Necromancy)
Illusion (opposed by: Divination, Abjuration)
Necromancy (opposed by: Divination, Enchantment)
Transmutation (opposed by: Abjuration, Illusion)


As for your first level commoner classes, it will depend on what specialist class you plan on taking (i.e.

Adept -> Divination, Necromancy
Aristocrat -> Enchantment
Commoner -> Conjuration, Evocation
Expert -> Illusion
Warrior -> Abjuration, Transmutation)


Anyway the plot would be lifted pretty much out of the Harry Potter books just set in a fantasy setting. You'll all ~12 yrs old and get selected to be part of a secret mythical wizard school. Random stuff happens during your first year but it builds up to your graduation and getting drawn into exploring the catacombs underneath for a world-saving mcguffin. The catacombs lead to a pocket plane with all sorts of challenges that you'll have to overcome with the power of magic and friendship.

ALTHOUGH you'd be "forced" to be a wizard you would be more then able to multi-class to help spread out your talents a bit. Basically every other level you could pick something non-wizardy so you'd end up with a natural range of abilities where some are more powerful casters while some are better warriors or what not.

This would be a large 8 person party mainly because I would only expect 4 of you to post at any given point in time :P

Thank's Prague but that's not what I am looking for, and I know this is serious threadomancy but I am bumping this too see if we can find someone to run the original game idea.

Hmm.  I definitely think that's a really interesting idea, and would love to play . . . or maybe even DM.  I'll have to think about it to decide if I think I could do it well, and also wait another week or so to make sure I'll have enough time after restarting another game I had been running but had put on hold when I got sick.

It's been more than a week, what's the situation right now?