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Out of the Abyss: escape from the Underdark, levels 1-15
In the cavernous underbelly of Faerun, join a party including a varied cast of NPCs to try to find the way out.
$15.00
/ Session
Details
Bi-weekly / Friday – 1:00 AM UTC
Aug 1 / Session 0
2–3 Hour Duration
5 / 5 Seats Filled
Schedule
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About the adventure
You've been captured! Create a character recently taken and enslaved by the nefarious dark elves (or drow) of the subterranean cave system called the Underdark. Meet a varied cast of your fellow inmates. Will they be an asset in your escape from this land far under the earth, or bring disaster to your party? Would they betray you to your captors for extra rations? The Underdark is a dangerous place -- you'd better think through your escape carefully, or else one of the countless dangers will see you dead, recaptured, or worse. Can you bring a little good to these dark, damp caverns? Or will you, too, be lost in the belly of the earth?
Game style
Combat Heavy
Rules as Written (RaW)
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
2 years on StartPlaying
152 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, Inclusive
About me
Bottom Line Up Front: passionate and knowledgeable long-time dungeon master looking to become your dungeon master. You don't need to finish this bio; read it until you're hooked and then book me or sign up for one of my games! I'm not the best voice actor (yet!) but I am very good at narrative, encounters, characters, and rules. I am very LGBTQ+- and neurodivergent-friendly partly because I am both. I am an anarcho-humanist determined to appreciate people heedless of national, religious, ethnic, geographic, class, and other boundaries (but maximally respectful of personal boundaries). Session 0 is important to set expectations; ongoing communication is absolutely crucial to manage and maintain them. Look no further if you're looking for: an expert on tabletop RPGs and their systems and settings; a nerd that has read most of Wookieepedia (among many other fiction Wikis) and tons of Wikipedia; someone that can spend anywhere from one brief sentence to ten dense pages to describe a given person or place, at your request and preference; someone borderline obsessed with the concepts of player agency and choice leading the story of a game involving character statistics informing semi-random results; or someone that should've gotten their degree in philosophy instead of computer science. I am the DM for you! I've been engaging in cooperative imagination involving increasingly-elaborate characters and stories for 28+ years, running structured role-playing groups in a narrative/game-master capacity for 19+ years, and running crunchy games featuring a lot of challenging situations (including but not only combat) for 7+ years. Some of my reviews are from an extremely high-mortality Warhammer 40k game about Imperial Guardsmen drafted into the Inquisition, while others are from a cuddle-fest Dungeons & Dragons campaign about a half-naked halfling barbarian and a shivering kobold chemist liberating the people of Ten Towns from Auril's everlasting rime. I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about tabletop rules, encounters, stories, and worlds. I actively seek to pillage and repurpose ideas and tropes from books, games, shows, and movies. One of my first and most frequent questions for players is what they want for their character's story going forward. Unless I'm running a module for you (and even then to a lesser extent), my goal is to create a believable world to explore, with reasonable obstacles that challenge your characters' attempts to achieve their goals. We'll discuss how challenging those obstacles should be in session 0, and feedback will help me fine-tune to hit the sweet spot. This bio in progress; do you know me? Message me to contribute!
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Creating your character
We'll get your characters set up and go over safety tools and other book-keeping during the free session 0. After that my private messages are always open for any concerns a player might have. 1️⃣ Starting level: 1. 🎲 Roll for stats in session 0 or use the standard array: 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, and 15 assigned as you like. 🧩 Free starting feat for all races! 💍 Start with a Common magic item of your choice!
Every other Thursday! Free session 0!
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You will need: ✅ A working microphone ✅ A Discord account: https://discord.com/ ✅ A Roll20 account: https://roll20.net/ You will NOT need: ❌ Dice 🎲 ❌ Rulebooks 📚 ❌ Knowledge of the game 👨🔬
What Cass brings to the table
✅ All relevant rulebooks. 📚 ✅ Years of experience interpreting them. 👩⚖️ ✅ A living world and characters that respond to you and your actions 🌎 ✅ A private Discord server we will use for voice in-session and group chat between sessions🎤 ✅ A bot playing carefully curated ambiance tracks; you set the volume 🔇🔉🔊 ✅ Battlemaps, tokens, and visual aids 📊
Homebrew rules
Bonus Action consumables, unstacked flanking (+2/3/5 to hit instead of advantage), no ritual casting Tiny Hut, and Tiny Hut is still worthwhile because I'm uncharitable about whether you're safe and secure enough to rest.
Equipment needed to play
Microphone
Internet
Platforms used
Safety
How Cass creates a safe table
🕷️ A dark and dangerous underworld full of: ⚔️ Scary monsters that know what they're doing 👨🏽🌾 Detailed characters with their own lives and problems 🏛️ Intricate dungeons and detailed communities 👑 Epic loot Experience required: ❌ None! If you come wanting to play and willing to learn, I can teach you the rules.
Content warnings
Safety tools used