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What are Playgroups?
A Playgroup is a group of Players who play The Contract together. Each Playgroup establishes a setting shared by all of the Contractors who call that Playgroup home. Usually, each group of Players shares a single Playgroup.
Playgroups act as a community hub. The Playgroup's Leader is in charge of defining the setting, ensuring Contractor and Gift quality, and settling disputes. Playgroup Leaders manage memberships and are able to view and edit the character sheets of the Contractors in their Playgroup.
The Harbingers’ Contracts play out across the multiverse, in worlds familiar and bizarre. . .A Playgroup's setting can be anything. Most use an instance of the default setting (The Illumination), but it could easily be a different take on modern Earth, a historical period, or even a fantasy continent with potions and spellbooks. Settings evolve over time, shaped by the Contracts and Contractors.
A Playgroup's setting determines what sorts of activities a Contractor may do on their Downtime as well as the Equipment available to them. However Contractors from all settings advance using the same Experience points and Gifts.
Crossing OverBecause each Contract is a self-contained session with an ensemble cast, and all Contractors advance at the same rate, Contractors may risk their lives in Contracts held in other Playgroups.
If both Playgroups allow it, Harbingers may invite a Contractor from another Playgroup to participate in a Contract. Visiting Contractors temporarily lose access to Equipment, Conditions, and Circumstances from their home Playgroup. If they survive, they are returned home immediately at the Contract's conclusion.
Not only can you play The Contract no matter who shows up to game night, you can play and progress your Contractors any time you want by playing in sessions held by other groups at game stores, conventions, or even online.
What are Playgroups?
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A Playgroup is a group of Players who play The Contract together. Each Playgroup establishes a setting shared by all of the Contractors who call that Playgroup home. Usually, each group of Players shares a single Playgroup.
Playgroups act as a community hub. The Playgroup's Leader is in charge of defining the setting, ensuring Contractor and Gift quality, and settling disputes. Playgroup Leaders manage memberships and are able to view and edit the character sheets of the Contractors in their Playgroup.
Crossing Over
A Playgroup's setting can be anything. Most use an instance of the default setting (The Illumination), but it could easily be a different take on modern Earth, a historical period, or even a fantasy continent with potions and spellbooks. Settings evolve over time, shaped by the Contracts and Contractors.
A Playgroup's setting determines what sorts of activities a Contractor may do on their Downtime as well as the Equipment available to them. However Contractors from all settings advance using the same Experience points and Gifts.
The Harbingers’ Contracts play out across the multiverse, in Worlds familiar and bizarre. . .
Because each Contract is a self-contained session with an ensemble cast, and all Contractors advance at the same rate, Contractors may risk their lives in Contracts held in other Playgroups.
If both Playgroups allow it, Harbingers may invite a Contractor from another Playgroup to participate in a Contract. Visiting Contractors temporarily lose access to Equipment, Conditions, and Circumstances from their home Playgroup. If they survive, they are returned home immediately at the Contract's conclusion.
Not only can you play The Contract no matter who shows up to game night, you can play and progress your Contractors any time you want by playing in sessions held by other groups at game stores, conventions, or even online.
Find a Playgroup
The Playgroups on this list are looking for new Players and have off-site communities. They are ordered by recent activity.
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Maelstrom
A world where videos of the supernatural go viral every day.
177 members | 593 Contractors | 373 completed Contracts
The most active "Illuminated Earth" World. Come play and leave your mark on the setting!
Among the Darkness
A world ravaged by horrific nightmares that threaten the survival of humanity.
3 members | 2 Contractors | 0 completed Contracts
A Survival Horror setting that encourages the Contractors to rebuild the world that was ravaged by a Solar Flare, while simply trying to survive the things that have now awakened to torment and devour humanity.
Project *******
A world where reality flows, bends, and breaks, and the whole world stands at a delicate balance.
69 members | 183 Contractors | 163 completed Contracts
The world is full of anamolies and secret organizations. Join one of the many groups or create your own. Currently in the "open cannon" However actions will affect the world as a whole moving it in one way or another. Be an contained or uncontained anomaly. Work with or against the Foundation juat better have some friends.
The Netherworld
A world between worlds. The last resting place of countless stillborn worlds that could have been.
29 members | 39 Contractors | 11 completed Contracts
The Arcanum
A world where magic and mythic creatures never left the world.
2 members | 0 Contractors | 0 completed Contracts
The Contract Play-by-Post
A world where videos of the supernatural go viral every day.
45 members | 41 Contractors | 16 completed Contracts
Heyo! Come join us over The Contract Gaming, an unofficial play-by-post and text-play server, beautifully crafted for meeting and playing with other Contractors in the text-play format. We are a general play server not dedicated to any specific world so absolutely anyone can join.
Realm of mysteries
A world the mystical lurks around every corner in plain sight but hidden.
17 members | 22 Contractors | 20 completed Contracts
Reigns of Chaos
A world about to erupt in chaos.
17 members | 18 Contractors | 8 completed Contracts
Embrace the chaos! This is a heavily houseruled world. Make sure to read the house rules before joining.
Pilos
A world that was like our own 50 years ago, but much has changed.
34 members | 43 Contractors | 12 completed Contracts
Three months ago, the world was normal.
A lot like our own, actually. The populace had no exposure to the genuine supernatural, tended to react with fear and panic.
Three months ago, the first contractors found it.
Fringe groups and conspiracy groups have exploded in popularity online. 4chan groups pop up overnight, devoted to uncovering and decoding weird occurances that hit the news, though most (like the talking dog) are discredited. Some sightings, like the woman who disappeared from a guarded cell on camera, are harder to disprove. Others, like the naked man with a mouth in his chest going viral on tiktok, are more credible but dismissed as hoaxes and publicity stunts- for now.
(If the link expires, bug Redchigh on the main discord)
Illuminated San Francisco
A world where entrepreneurs would kill for the next big thing, and those who fall off the wagon are crushed beneath the wheels.
16 members | 7 Contractors | 2 completed Contracts
An Illuminated Region where the action centers on San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area.
The Mythos
A world where gods are real and legends are true.
15 members | 21 Contractors | 17 completed Contracts
Ever wanted all those bedtime stories your Mom and Dad told you about the scary skinwalkers, vicious vikings, and magic mermaids to be true?
Welcome to The Mythos, where every legend is true, to an extent! All sorts of fictional beasties live here, leprechauns, mummies, dragons, kindhearted politicians! (Okay, maybe that last one isn't true)
Every culture's gods are on the chopping block, all the legends make for great Contracts!
-Go hunt Grendel with Beowulf!
-Recover Mjolnir for Thor!
-Cleanse some ghosts from a prison!
-And so much more!
The Desolation
A world where harbingers and contractors failed and the illuminated got out of control.
3 members | 3 Contractors | 0 completed Contracts
The Illuminated Earth but 100 years in the future after everything gets out of control. Experience a similar world to the illumination but expect the fantastical, prepare for the weird and the horror of it. A twisted version of the illumination, a setting designed for those who love exploration and want a darker setting that tips towards the grim and strange side.
Super Cluster e-3-r44
A world the worst criminals of the universe are dropped in a super prison.
2 members | 0 Contractors | 0 completed Contracts
Age of Expansion
A world where Space Travel is prevelent.
7 members | 8 Contractors | 6 completed Contracts
Sunken Dreams
A world with recent occurrences of the supernatural.
7 members | 6 Contractors | 7 completed Contracts
Happy Sunshine Land
A world <insert tag line soon>.
3 members | 1 Contractor | 0 completed Contracts
World of Darkness
A world of vampires, werewolves and other monsters living among us; hiding in plain sight.
24 members | 10 Contractors | 4 completed Contracts
This is a world of Vampires fighting secret Jihads over centuries old political and ideological differences. This is a world of Werewolves trying to save themselves from the genocide of globalization. A world of Mages losing the war of reality against rationalism and technology. Wraiths spend eternity fighting for their own souls in a perpetual nightmare while Changelings search for wonder in a world growing jaded with casual skepticism.
This is the World of Darkness
Based on the World of Darkness setting by White Wolf Publishing
The Immortals
A world of giftless, dying mortals who want to decide their own fates.
3 members | 1 Contractor | 0 completed Contracts
The Immortals is a cell for terminally ill Newbies and Novices who will never live to see Seasoned. The contracts are highly dangerous with a high mortality rate. One of these contracts will end your life, if the cancer eating your brain or the untreated AIDS in your blood don't kill you first.
Whether they want to go out in a blaze of glory, or want to scrape together enough cash to leave behind for their loved ones, they all end up the same way.
The Dark Tower
A world that is the dying heart of the universe; a nexus of doorways to every conceivable reality.
10 members | 3 Contractors | 0 completed Contracts
It is reputed to be the center of creation. The center of all possible universes and realities. A tower in the middle of an endless field of roses that connects all planes of existence and holds them steady with it's Beams.
Based on The Dark Tower series by Stephen King.