Isle of Photos

The adventure

At last the tyrant Syron has been overthrown and democracy restored to the Isle of Photos. Syron's soldiers, the Red Cloaks, held monsters and raiders at bay during the Time of Terror. The regime's priests conjured up sea-monsters to defend the island's waters. In return the people provided obedience to Syron's oppressive taxes and demands for sacrifices. But no new threats have appeared for years and the people have at last overthrown their tyrant and restored their former democracy. It is time now to break the xenophobic cordon that Syron placed around Photos and send ships out into the surrounding islands. Explorers must find whether communities in the Circle of Islands have survived in isolation. Their task will be to kill monsters, remove cults and banish tyrants so as to restore confidence, and re-connect far-flung islands with Photos as the old Circle League's protector.

system/ house rules

• Pathfinder, using low-level characters in a low-level setting where most NPCs will under level 5 in power.
• Start at level 1
• Use defence bonus rules, so that characters have a good AC sans bulky armour, but perhaps allowing fighters to also benefit partly from shields/armour.
• Healing would be done mostly from rest, food , gymnasia, temple visits
• Monsters would be harpies, skellingtons, bad guy soldiers, but also possibly hydras and sea-monsters. Not necessarily filtered for level 1 encounters. Players will struggle at first (possibly die) but grow in competence against typical encounters as they advance.

Character suggestions

• (zero to hero) goatherd: a youth adept with the flute and sling and now rising to new challenges
• Swashbuckler: generic tunic-clad (Jason and the Argonauts style) sword hero
• Red-Cloak soldier: elite red-cloak hoplite, formerly one of the bad guys. These guys might be able to benefit partly from armor while retaining class defense bonuses
• Sneaky merchant/ captured pirate: rogue released from Syron's dungeons
• Man of Might: a mattock wielding, animal skin wearing brute
• Atlantean Mindcaster: Mechanically, sorcerers with trappings to cast spells as psychic/ telekinetic/ telepathic / etc.
• Priest of Typhon: former bad guy monster summoning priests, perhaps tolerated for the purposes of the quest

Priestess of Hecate; cleric of setting's main goddess Priest of Asklepius: healer cleric Satyr or sylph: druid class playing with the Elf race stats

Links to Character Pages

These are links to individual pages that you fill in with your stuff.
template dude
swashbuckler
pankration
satyr bard
priest of typhon the destroyer