Ashpound's Secrets - Custom Campaign [Beginners/🏳️‍🌈 friendly]

Creating your character

Character Creation Character creation will take place at session 0 and one, although I am available off time for consulting or videocall about it. Uncommon and creative choices for races, traits and classes etc. are very welcomed up until they are contextualized with a cool background. Bring on all your crazy ideas! The abilities scores will be decided with the building points system (a system where you have a certain amount of point with which you can buy the scores, more specifically 20 points if you are familiar with the system) and the starting level will decided with the players (between 4 and 5 according to the group experience with the system). I can also provide some detailed guidelines for background creation to those who may need them, a series of tools and prompts from where to start with to brainstorm your characters. The characters sheet will be done with Foundry.

Preparing for the session

I use Discord to videocall with everyone. While using the webcam is recommended, it is not mandatory, and everyone is welcomed in the way they are most comfortable with. Unfortunately, at least a microphone is required to roleplay and interact with the group. The players should be ready to play and create their character sheet on Foundry, but the platform interface it's very intuitive and I will offer assistance with this passage, making it as much user friendly as possible. I always advice to have a physical notepad with you to take notes on dialogues, names, loot etc. It can also be done digitally on Foundry, but I always found that my players tend to have a greater immersion in this way.

What Vale brings to the table

Tools and platforms This game will take place on FoundryVTT, which is a master provided free interface accessible through your browser (Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox etc.) I use custom maps, tokens and handouts, using Inkarnate, Dungeon Scrawler and other tools, along with high quality content creators' material, specialized in each department. I also make a large use of visual art references and music (playlist or original) Roleplay I use character voices, adjusting their use in according to the style of the players. In case they prefer a more in-character/theatrical approach, making a large use of it, or an extradiegetic style of storytelling (external narration in third person). Combat and Rules Ideally I hope to focus more on the general mood of the fights and how these relate to the characters. I make a large use of creatures with specific resistances and weaknesses, awarding in this way researching your enemies and strategize the beast approach against them in advance. I tend to generally follow closely the rules, although I actively look for bending them in order to award creative strategies and roleplay focused ideas.

How Vale creates a safe table

For Lines and Veils we use the standard version by Monte Cook with some additions that I will forward to the players. The X, N & O's are communicated through chat directly with me or in the group chat, as you are more comfortable with. In session 0 I also plan to go over what are your expectations for the group and the campaign, both for your characters and for your experience as players.