WATERDEEP and below…

How to prepare

You’ll need a working microphone, free discord and Roll20 accounts. A working camera is preferred, but certainly not required. Most importantly just show up ready to play and have fun! Don’t worry If you know nothing about the city of Waterdeep or the Forgotten Realms setting in general. Even though I was playing when this setting was originally introduced back in the 80s I don’t have everything memorized nor do I want too. A lot of this setting will be original content inspired by the material rather than an exact history lesson of published material. Also don’t worry If you ARE familiar with the dragon heist or mad mage adventures. I’ve taken great inspiration from these published adventures but I’m also mixing it up A-LOT. I intend to run more of a sandbox where you'll be looking for this treasure hidden in Waterdeep. (not necessarily the exact events in the published adventure) As long as everyone has two common goals for their characters 1. A vested interest in a rundown bar that someone in the party (or maybe everyone) has inherited and 2. A curiosity about adventure and finding treasure hidden below the city. Things will likely fall in place with a-lot of my prepared material.

What I provide

I have Most official 5e books available on Roll20 including both dragon heist and mad mage modules (witch this adventure will take a lot of inspiration from) I also bring 40years of experience as a game master and player who visited this city in older additions. There is a lot of artworks and maps available on-line for this setting (that I will use some of) but as a professional artist I provide A lot of original maps and reference artwork myself as well to provide a unique and fresh adventure in this familiar setting.

Gameplay details

We’ll discuss all the safety tools and general rules of conduct in session 0. I’ll take a moment here to give some spoiler free hints as to how this will be different If you are familiar with the dragon heist adventure. As you may have noticed from the description of the game, many things have been changed or added. I’m actively using 2 of the 4 villains provided in the original adventure and I want you to have the opportunity to actually fight at LEAST one of those villains In their lair (hopefully both of them) and the dragon! Unlike the RAW adventure, where you don’t reach a high enough level to fight any of the big bads, you just have to foil them somehow. You’r adventure will also end up taking you into the first 3 levels of Undermountain. Which I have also changed (a little) in case you’re familiar with dungeon of the mad mage. I plan to take this adventure to at least the 10th level there’s plenty of exciting stuff happening in MY Waterdeep that the modules don’t mention. (No spoilers there lol) * maybe further than the 10th level if you want to venture further down into Undermountain once THIS story arc concludes.

Content warnings

Safety tools used

How will character creation work

I’m old school and strongly prefer everyone making their characters at the same time (during session 0) with my shared content on Roll20 after everyone meets each other. We’ll start at level 2, I’m fairly open with race and classes however this IS set primarily inside a big city some race/class choices will work better than others in this environment. Once you join the campaign I’ll send you a link to discord where there will be a little more detail about character creation. Feel free to start thinking about ideas for your character but please don’t finalize them until session 0 with everyone else (using the character sheet in my Roll20 game) Because party dynamics and balance tend to make the game better for everyone.

Combat / Tactics

Medium

Roleplay

Medium

Puzzles

Low

Experience level

Open to all