[Online][PF1e][6-7pm AEST (GMT+11)][Tuesday] Australian/New Zealand Timezone Homebrew Game with a lo

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Hey there, I'm EST, but I would like to run a homebrew PF1e game in the middle of the night Tuesday morning 3am-5am my time, so I'm looking for players in the Australian, New Zealand, and similar Oceania time zones. I'm not sure there's enough players in that time zone for the game I want to run, but I thought I'd just throw up an add and see what I reeled in.

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DM: Me
System: PF1e Lots of Homebrew
Date/Time: Use: <t:1712646000:t>
Available Spots: 6
Preferred Player Experience: Lots w/ PF1e -- tons of homebrew and 3rd party. Not a good learning game.
Age: 18+ Firm rule

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I'm intending to run a classic high fantasy game in a homebrew world influenced/inspired by Hickman properties like Sovereign Stone and Dragonlance. The main set up would be five elementally-aligned continents with chromatic dragon rulers (Red for the 'fire' continent, etc.). There'd be a artifact mcguffin quest. Mechanically, there would be a lot of mechanical adumbrations to the magic and combat system -- Path of War, Akasha from Dreamscarred Press and Advanced Arcana from Necromancers of the Northwest (the former adds new subsystems, while the latter hugely expands what the 'base' spellcasting classes can do with spells). Consequently, this won't be a good game for those new to the system unless you have a lot of experience with ttrpgs and can make a character on your own by reading a rule book. I'm intending to have a session 0 that covers setting up whatever VTT is used and going over plot/world details -- it won't be 6-8 hrs of making characters step by step as a group; the expectation would be that players are able to do that on their own. Other rules items would be things like feat-tax adjustments and/or scaling feats, gestalt, maybe mythic etc.

Primarily looking for players that would be satisfied basically playing core rule book and near core rule book races -- elves, half-elves, gnomes, dwarves, half-orcs, orcs, humans, halflings -- I'm open to variations on these like unusual subraces, as long as it doesn't end up with a party of drow nobles. I'd also be open to a limited number of anthropomorphic animal people like otterkin, but, again, I don't want a whole party of kitsune -- like 1-2 of these kinds of 'unusual' races in a party of 6. For dragon-like races, only kobolds with dragon-aspirant kinds of classes or maybe half-dragons of some kind -- I don't want dragon pcs or anything like that.

For a VTT, b/c of the home brew elements, I'm just planning on using it to move tokens. It would be too difficult to program home brew rules into something like Foundry. I try to have nice, full-color maps for most things, but there would be no drag-and drop functionality with compendia of spells and items. I'd imagine everyone using an excel sheet character sheet and rolling dice either with a Discord bot or in a 3d dice room. I'd imagine using some combination of Foundry and Tableplop, perhaps with a 3d option like Talespire or Rpg Stories for some scenes (I'd just stream that if I did it so everyone wouldn't have to purchase it). I set up battlemaps like a Warhammer board instead of 5ft squares -- instead, I use a 1ft=1square so you can move in increments other than 5', and AoO zones can overlap in more complex ways. I use a square template around the the tokens to designate AoO and reach zones.

The other format elements would be voice on Discord or Zoom (no cameras), along with some audio-visual props like mood music and mood images, and some kind of VTT for battlemaps.

My style tends to be highly sandbox -- I have an overall idea of a story, but the campaign has the general shape of a ubisoft open world game or an MMO. There's a 'major story arc', but also a high level of sandbox site-based activities. This kind of game works best for players that are fairly self-motivated and are able to develop goals for their characters -- setting up a shop, establishing a temple etc.

I prefer playing with players that are fairly self motivated/active instead of sort of trying to follow a pre-determined plot arc of some kind and have a more passive approach.If that sounds interesting to you, send me a DM and we'll chat further.