Whispers of the Astral Gates | Can you survive apocalypse?

Creating your character

We'll have a mini session 0 prior to the game, where we'll talk character concept and setting tone, do come up with a concept in mind if possible, and we'll find a way to make it to fit within the setting's lore. Homebrew is allowed and customization or reflavoring is encouraged, though it has to be previously approved for balance purposes. We are currently at level 10; using 2024 ruleset, with rolled stats, using 4d6, dropping the lowest and re-rolling any 1s. Characters will join the adventure with a rare equipment, as well as 1 rare wondrous item, 2 rare and 3 uncommon consumable item, and a custom crafted magical item that is of significance to them. This magical item will gain the opportunity to grow, improve and evolve during the adventure, growing in power with you. Feel free to use D&D beyond for the initial creation if you'd like, character sheets can easily be imported to foundry VTT.

Preparing for the session

Have a web browser ready to join the link I'll send you for foundry VTT. This has to be opened in a computer, either PC or Mac works fine. Chromium browsers are recommended. Have a microphone and his Internet connection; It's highly encouraged to have a camera available.

What Martin (The Fate weaver) brings to the table

• Foundry VTT and the a variety of curated premium modules. • Free Heroforge mini to use inside Foundry VTT. • In session music, ambience and sounds. • Many "Devil's Bargains" and exceptions to rules. • Great rewards for creativity and out of the box solutions. • Personalized Homebrew and encouragement to bring your own. • Character driven world, focusing on role play and narrative. • Immersive and deadly encounters with high stakes and impact. • A background in Storytelling, Film making and Video game design. • A variety of fully voice acted, diverse and unique NPCs. • AI generated and curated images to portray emblematic moments. • Out of session question answering and community assistance. ---- Sign up perks ---- • Bring a buddy promo! Each game that you play in you get to bring a person for free! Share the joy of a one shot, or a small glimpse into a campaign you are part of with your IRL friends. This invitation can be used multiple times per player, but only when bringing in someone new to the server and registering to the game through SPG. • Access to my Discord server and its community. • Access priority for any future one shot or campaign • Post game survey where you can share your opinions and requests • Free session on the day closest to your birthday • Dedicated one-on-one calls to discuss character development in a campaign.

Homebrew rules

**Crucible of Fate** Everyone will roll a D6 at the beginning of a session. On a roll of 1 to 3, they belong to the player's pool, otherwise, they go to the GM pool. After rolling any D20, but before knowing the results, players may use any number of Fate dice available in their pool, adding them to the total result. Once a die has been used, it goes to the opposing dice pool. Some character abilities may require the use of Fate dice. **Deadly criticals** On a natural 20 attack roll, weapons and features deal full damage and roll their dice on top of it. **Soft criticals** When an attack exceeds the AC by 10 or more, all damage dice are maxed. The damage benefit can be changed into a grappling or shoving check on top of the regular attack's damage. **Heroic spellcasting** As long as a leveled spell is used as an action, a non-damaging cantrip may be used as a bonus action. **Actually useful helpers** The help action can only be provided if a creature is proficient in the skill check. **Alternative skills** Players can request to use a different stat for a skill check as long as it's justified by narrative. **Druidic knowledge** Druids can roll nature with wisdom as their stats. **Clerical understanding** Clerics can roll their religion checks using wisdom instead. **A sip of that** Creatures may drink potions as a bonus action. If they use their action instead, they gain the full benefits of the item, without rolling. **Life improvements** Living a good lifestyle will grant bonuses like temporal hp, additional hit dice, etc. depending on the type of pleasure and the cost of it. **Evolving cantrips** Your non-scaling cantrips will get better as you level up, based on the [Evolving cantrips PDF]( https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R1BhBtKxTHR4WfsIkX5nKnXgkCj9CeXa/view?usp=drivesdk) **Heroic points** As a reward to daring actions, great roleplay, or amazing ideas, you'll be awarded a heroic point, which can be used as a free action to gain one of the following: - An automatic success. - Infuse double damage on an attack check - Make one normal action as a legendary action outside of your turn. - Bend the rules of the world slightly These unique effects must be described as an epic moment. **Ritual resurrection** Except for revivify, any other resurrection magic will require a ritual, where multiple creatures make skill checks. **True curses** The remove curse spell only shows you the way of removing a curse, be it a ritual, a quest or any other form of story development. **Clashing mana** When a spell is dispelled or counterspelled, there's a chance for the magic to cause a random mishap. **Working economy** Monetary values for the setting have been adjusted to reflect a real working economy, with actual uses for copper and silver coins in everyday life and lower levels. **A whole new world** The species of Etharis have been changed from traditional 5e D&D. Racial traits have a place and impact on the lore, life and religion.

How Martin (The Fate weaver) creates a safe table

During our session 0 we'll go over the setting and the safety tools to be used, which may be shared in the public text channel for the campaign, or requested privately through DM. We'll also fill a consent checklist to make sure no uncomfortable surprises happen, and introduce the line and veils safety tool. After each session we'll take 5 minutes to go through a short debriefing and highlights.