Description
Setup
Hey y'all, I'm looking for four players to join a homebrew 5e campaign I'm starting on Saturday, August 22 at 4pm CST. I'm looking to start the game on a biweekly cadence with flexibility according to everyone's schedules. We'll be using Foundry for our VTT and Discord for voice chat. Beginners are welcome, as are members of the LGBTQ+ community. 18+ only.
If you're interested in joining the campaign, please respond in a comment or a DM with the following info:
- Years of experience with 5e, or with tabletop
- Order of preference for: a) combat, b) exploration, c) roleplay
Expectations
Saturday the 22nd will be a Session 0 where I'll dive into more detail with everything I mention in this section. That being said:
- Plan on sticking to character creation choices available in WoTC source material
- Preconceived character ideas are welcome - just try to keep details vague until session 0 so we can ground your character in the world
- Zero tolerance for the following:
- Hate of any kind towards players or GM
- NSFW roleplay. I generally stick to a "fade to black" approach on the details of romances
- PvP or griefing
- Groundless or unwarranted party conflict is not welcome, regardless of your alignment. This does not mean you aren't allowed to disagree in a moral dilemma. It means that you shouldn't assassinate the quest-giving NPC because you wrote your character is compelled to fulfill a blood oath to a reality-warping demon god. This isn't a single player game.
- I do expect voice chat and encourage dialogue-driven roleplay as opposed to narrator-style roleplay e.g. Can Sally Saddleback hear me? "Eat an owlbear's dick for all I care" instead of My character tells off Sally Saddleback
- I'm a 5e boomer, meaning I know 2014 like the back of my hand and I know less about 2024. I'm not banning 2024 content, I just ask for patience with mechanics that might be more obscure to me.
- I do my best to set the stage for a story that we all share in and have fun with. So while I do tend towards a darker, more serious tone and incorporate a good amount of horror in my campaigns, this isn't to say that humor and laughter is banned. Just please be cognizant of the narrative vibe at any given point in time.
- Though this has been referenced in other points, I always like to explicitly say that I avoid sexual content as a GM. Also, since I do incorporate a good deal of darker themes and horror elements, I ask players to please share triggers that I should avoid. I will do everything in my power to accommodate reasonable requests
The Campaign
Though their toil saw to the construction of towering spires and awe-inspiring cathedrals, the Ungifted groan under the thumb of society. Rumor has it an insidious plague creeps upon those both literally and figuratively at the fringes of society across Onaros. And all the while, the young scion of a noble House of the Idrytis Arcanum has gone missing.
You could have gone about your business, but something prompted you to do something when you saw the notice offering a reward for information on a young man dressed too well to be staying at Grey Hook Hall. You only saw him in passing, but you ought to do the right thing and help a family looking for their missing son, right? Or maybe what caught your eye was the 500 gold reward, but still!
Thanks for reading this far. I look forward to getting this campaign started and wish y'all the best of luck both in and out of game.