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The Order: Monster Slayers - Highly Reviewed One Shot for Beginners and Experienced Players - Online
You’re The Order, monster hunters on a mission to secure a powerful item. Navigate a graveyard, crypt, and puzzle as your stories intertwine.
About the adventure
Let's Learn to Play Dungeons and Dragons! This is my most popular D&D 5e One-Shot. It is highly reviewed, won some awards and players new and experienced love the module. It is designed for both beginner players in mind but experienced players will love it as well. You are a group of monster hunters known as The Order sent on a mission to retrieve an item so that it does not fall into the wrong hands. You must make your way through a graveyard, crypt and solve a puzzle as each character’s stories unfold and intertwine with each other. The game has carefully designed characters to choose from. It is a one time play (one-shot) designed for 2-4 hours Requires minimum of 4 players but optimized for 6.
Game themes
$30.00
/ Session
Details
Once / Sunday – 5:00 PM UTC
Jan 15
Session Duration / 2.5–3 hours
8 / 6 Seats Filled
GAME MASTER
Erick
he/him
5.0
(38)
Schedule
Each player will be charged when a session starts.
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Meet the Game Master
5.0
(38)
5 years on StartPlaying
23 games hosted
Highly rated for: Teacher, Creativity, Sets the Mood
Average response time: 5 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
My name is Erick. I have played Tabletop RPGS for over 25 years now. If you ever told me that I could get paid to play TTRPGs I would have thought you were joking. But here I am today. The CEO of StartPlaying asked me join StartPlaying during beta just before the pandemic. When the pandemic lifted I went back to running in-person games at game rooms where I live. I now back on StartPlaying to open up to online games again. I have run games for events, conventions and Adventure League helping people learn and understand TTRPGs for the first time. And for the advanced players, I have offered challenging and intriguing memorable stories. I have traveled the world as a travel photographer connecting with people and telling their stories. Now it is time to create our own stories together. Let us sit down with a group of friends, roll some dice and tell a story together.
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Proficiencies
Players say this GM is great at:
Teacher
Creativity
Sets the Mood
Macchiato Monkey
Played 2 sessions
Gm at the end of the session asking: mention one thing you think I could have done better. Me: Everything was great! Erick knows the rules and his adventures very well. His portrayal of NPC's is wonderful! He's very welcoming to players who are practicing their English linguistics skills. The design of his adventures and pregenerated characters help these kind of players to more easily portray their player character in a non native language.
Biqij
Played 2 sessions
Erick was really welcoming and patient. None of us had ever played D&D or used a VTT before and two of us had never played a VTT but he made it a friendly environment to figure stuff out and have fun. The game was awesome and I really loved his characters - the backstories definitely led to some further discussion among the three of us after the game. We had some technical issues on roll20 but Erick helped us reach a workaround so that we could keep playing. We talked to Erick about it on stream and we know he is already aware but in case it would be helpful to Start Playing in general - it would be really nice to have everything all in one place because it was tough to keep flicking between the chat and the character sheet and discord, especially when still getting used to where everything is.
Chip
Played 2 sessions
Erick did an amazing job of making us all feel welcome and integrated in the group. The story we played through had characters that were very well developed with solid back stories to hook us in with each other. He had a great amount of patience as we had many new players on the Foundry platform and he kept us all involved throughout the session. I had a great time and learned a lot from him. I'll be looking for his sessions in StartPlaying in the future.
Chazz
New review
Played 1 sessions
Wonderful storyteller, kept pacing up, played NPC's with sincerity, and unflappable as I had some technical difficulties at the top.
J
New review
Played 1 sessions
Erick is great at teaching foundry vtt and is very knowledgeable on the rules of dnd. He sets the mood with flashy slides on pop-ups and the twist at the end is a nice story touch. If your looking to learn the vtt or 5e this is a great introduction.
Serafim Parente
Played 1 sessions
Was a great introduction to DND, Erick explain the base mechanics of the game well. Gave us a nice short quest to complete while introducing relevant mechanics throughout making it fun and educational. 100% Recommend.
Character creation
Creating your character
Characters are pre-made and carefully designed to work well with a group as well as well as interesting backstories that all intertwine with each other. The list of characters include: • Scout – Human Monster Hunter Ranger • Reese Gubber – Human Transmutation Wizard • Imani The Driven – Half-Orc Oath of Vengeance Paladin (available with 5 or 6 players) • Taylor Urirel – Human Thief Rogue • Sam Kouhrs – Hill Dwarf War Domain Cleric • Storm – High Elf College of Glamour Bard
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Make sure you have a computer with the latest up to date browser from Chrome, Firefox or Edge. Safari unfortunately does not work with Foundry VTT. Make sure your browser has WebGL enabled. A good headphones and microphone is required. A webcam is highly suggested but not required. Foundry does tend to be a video RAM and/or RAM resource hog. For this make sure that you have a integrated GPU to enable hardware acceleration and 8gb of RAM. Must have a display that is no smaller than 1366x768. Most modern computes can do this with maybe an exception of Chromebooks.
What Erick brings to the table
Upon confirmation I will provide the link to the website online where we will be using Foundry Virtual Tabletop to play the game. The game will have the choice of characters with their character sheets already set up.
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Headphones
Internet
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How Erick creates a safe table
This game is designed to pick up a character sheet and just start playing. Little or no planning for the players. It is designed for beginners and experienced players. There is a mix of a good amount of combat, puzzles and role playing. The story unfolds as each characters interact with the world and each other.