PHANDALIN: ICESPIRE PEAK A beginner-friendly D&D5e adventure
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Custom / Wednesday - 10:00 PM UTC
Session Duration / 3.5–4 hours
0 / 4 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
Phandalin. For centuries most people would know it as a ruin, a town long destroyed and abandoned. In the last few years that reputation changed into a modest mining town with a legendary mine that was definitely out there. Now, however? Now Phandalin is known as the frontier, a place where the wilderness meets civilization, where enterprising and adventurous folk can strike out and etch their name in the hall of glory...or die in the attempt. Join me in this telling of this adventure, based on the Icespire module but given its own unique twist to best suit the characters YOU come up with. All experience levels welcome, I am more than happy to help you with any aspect of the game. This campaign would take your character from level 1 to level 6 with me being able to explain every step of the way. We will use Roll20 as our VTT, D&D beyond as our primary way of sharing sources, and Discord for voice chat and out-of-session communications. Don’t know what any of that means? No worries, I will go through setup and explanation in session zero. They are all free and relatively easy to use. During the sessions we will be on a voice call and while cameras are encouraged they are not necessary.
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Meet the Game Master
3 years on StartPlaying
73 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Teacher, Storytelling
About me
Hi all, Charalampos here (but call me Babis, it's the easier one). I'm a half Greek, half Irish videogame developer based up in Scotland. Nearing a decade now I've been playing (mostly running) tabletop games starting from D&Ds 4th edition, now mainly playing 5e (and often dipping my toes in other systems, daring I know). I've run two over two yearlong involved campaigns, about ten shorter ones that spanned months and more one offs that a sane person could count to. It’s the one thing I will never get tired of doing and I delight into showing others the wonders of tabletop games. My favorite part of running games being when you can interweave a player’s backstory into the world around them, making the stakes personal and the tales more real.
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Creating your character
I am happy for you to create characters beforehand and I am available for short calls to assist. They will be made using point buy, using the main books (PHB, Xanathars, Tashas, etc) and a free feat will be made available. We start at level 1. Any usage of homebrew has to be checked and approved by me - no dndwiki material please.
2+ players needed to get started. This will be a tale about a plucky band of adventurers willing to go above and beyond, risking their very lives to find what they seek - be it glory, power, riches or perhaps something...more. WELCOME TO THE PEAK!
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You will need a microphone of reasonable quality, preferably headphones as echo is hard to defeat otherwise and a webcam is encouraged! You will need a roll20 account, a D&D beyond account and a discord account but I can help you make those if you do not have them. We will use DnD Beyond for character sheets and dice rolling although exceptions can be made. It would be preferable if you use chrome or firefox as your main browser. Finally I'll be sending out a Safety Tools Checklist before the game begins so I know what you all want to be on or off the table. RELEVANT LINKS: Roll20: https://roll20.net/ D&D Beyond: https://www.dndbeyond.com/ Discord: https://discord.com/ Beyond20 (optional): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beyond-20/gnblbpbepfbfmoobegdogkglpbhcjofh?hl=en or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/beyond-20/ Kanka (optional): https://kanka.io/en/campaign/36205
What Charalampos "Call me Babis" Koundourakis brings to the table
I will provide a Discord server, a DndBeyond campaign with a heck ton of sources for you to play around with, and a pro level roll20 campaign with numerous cool scripts in the bakground.
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How Charalampos "Call me Babis" Koundourakis creates a safe table
We can start once we have a minimum of 2 players. The first session will go over setup and details with us going into the game proper if we have not run overtime. I'm happy to chat outside of the game to explain and answer any questions. This will be a game about bold adventurers so while there will be plenty of chances to roleplay combat will likely be inevitable at certain situations. Safety Tools will be used and there is no space for racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, or transphobia at the table.
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