Getting Started

Welcome to Cormyr!
It's great to have you here! Whether you're here for the roleplay, the encounters, or the GM experience (or all three), Cormyr relies on each member of our community to support our open-play Pathfinder concept.

Below is a list of the steps you should take in order to get started within Cormyr and learn a bit more about what to expect. Hopefully, following these steps should take you from a blank slate to being able to run your character around Suzail.

As you go through the process, you'll find areas where the same information may be presented to you multiple times. If you keep seeing something come up during the process, it probably means you should pay attention to it.

Join the Roll20 game
Verify you can access your character sheet. If not, it's YOUR responsibility to whisper or PM a GM!

Unfortunately, Roll20 doesn't automatically add players to the game when we send an invite. You have to accept the invite first. That means that we can't create a character and assign it to you until you accept the invite. If the times don't work out, we may be offline by the time you accept! There are two ways we can combat this. One is that I and some of the other GMs will regularly go through and create/assign character sheets to people if we notice they don't have them. However, it's much easier if you let us know if you don't have one yet. If there's a GM in the Roll20 room, whisper them. Otherwise, send a PM to myself or any GM and we'll make you a sheet. You must have a sheet to edit in game before continuing.

Familiarize Yourself with the Cormyr Campaign Setting
Understanding our campaign setting, at least at a high level, is critical here, since we use Cormyr and its capital city of Suzail as a static background to everything we do. Not understanding how things work in the Kingdom of Cormyr will hamper your ability to roleplay.

We have put together a wiki page with a lot of information that you can read at your leisure, as well as a few helpful external resources:

https://cormyr.fandom.com/wiki/Overview_of_Cormyr_and_Suzail

Create Your Character
A wiki page exists which will guide you through the character creation process:

https://cormyr.fandom.com/wiki/Character_Creation

Please follow the process very carefully, as it details our list of legal source materials and our list of banned rules. A GM will help approve your character sheet before you begin playing to make sure everything's in order, but please make it easy on them! GMs are players, too, so please be respectful of their time and take a little bit to spend time reading the rules.

Join the Game and Roleplay / GM Approval
At this point, you should be all set to get into the game and roleplay! Set your character name, Interact with the other players and have a good time. At some point before you are taken on your first encounter by a GM you will need to be approved. It's a quick 1-or-2 minute process that serves as the first chance for us to identify if you accidentally missed some rules or bans, etc. The GM will mark your character as approved in GM notes once finished. Feel free to volunteer for encounters even if you're not approved -- Just let your GM know and they'll take care of it quickly.