Ghosts of Saltmarsh | high seas, pirates and plunder

Ghosts of Saltmarsh | high seas, pirates and plunder

TYPE

Campaign

LANGUAGE

English

EXPERIENCE

Open to all

AGE

18+
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Details

Bi-weekly / Tuesday - 5:45 PM UTC

Session Duration / 3–3.5 hours

0 / 5 Seats Filled

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About the adventure

🏴‍☠️ Pirates | 💰 Plunder | ⚔️ High seas swashbuckling Ahoy! I'm really pleased to be starting a new campaign of maritime marauding and mayhem. Don't miss your chance to be part of the crew! This campaign will be based on the official D&D sourcebook - Ghosts of Saltmarsh - and it's great. Lots of loot early on, fun choices for your characters to make. Haunted houses! Adventure on the high seas! The campaign really suits my style - light-hearted antics with high stakes and an overarching story to tie everything together and test your characters. Maybe that suits you too? Our story will start in Saltmarsh, a seemingly tranquil fishing village, that teeters on the edge of chaos. Beneath its quaint facade lurks a world of danger and intrigue: 🏴‍☠️ smugglers ply their shadowy trade in hidden coves 🏴‍☠️ monsters rise from the depths 🏴‍☠️ the drowned refuse to stay drowned And if that wasn't enough... 🏴‍☠️ a sinister cult spreads its tendrils throughout the region Book your spot now and prepare to set sail for glory and, perhaps, infamy!

Meet the Game Master

5.0

(17)

DMs Guild Writer
Neurodivergent
Teacher/Educator
Game Designer

4 years on StartPlaying

58 games hosted

Highly rated for: Creativity, Knows the Rules, Teacher

About me

Hello. I'm Aion and you should join one of my games today if you like what you see here. You'll enjoy being at my table if you enjoy: 🙋 being a collaborative team-player 🧝 a fun and light-hearted game with serious stakes 🧙 campaigns that build and characters that grow 🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏻 making new friends 🧭 classic open-world D&D adventures What I offer: 🗝️ years of experience GMing online and in real life. 🧙 a GM you can count on. I take the game seriously and turn up on time and ready for anything you can throw at me 🏔️ a simple, no-cost, no download setup 👐 an inclusive and safe table I'm a GM who: 🔭 puts the players first 🙋 loves helping beginners get started 🦸 has deep personal connection to the good D&D can do 🤞 brings real-life experience of neurodivergence and queer identity Some of the things my reviewers have said: ⭐ "A capable, thoughful and relaxed GM rolling with whatever shenanigans we get up to and always making sure everyone is involved and enjoying themselves." ⭐ "Fantastic GM ready to roll with the punches and very adaptive to the playstyle of the players." ⭐ "A phenomenal DM - he really worked with what each player wanted from the session to enable us to have a great time. Soooo much fun! Wouldn't hesitate to recommend him for any type of session" ⭐ "He really knows the rules and how to help newbies navigate them without getting bogged-down. Really enjoys creativity from players and is happy to reward that." 🤞If this sounds like your kind of thing, join one of my games today - I promise if you do, we'll tell a heroic, unforgettable story together! --- On a personal note, I've found playing and running D&D has had amazing benefits for me. It's been a distraction from other things in my life, a way to keep a social life alive, a welcome escape into another character and another world. One more thing: if you're at a place in life where you can't afford to pay for sessions or you can't commit to a campaign because of cost, it's ok. I've been there. Just let me know and I'll gladly make your session free or arrange for you to skip payment for a few sessions to get back on track. No questions asked. --- Please check with me before making your character. I will usually review character sheets and help you make changes to fit in with the campaign. I generally say no to evil characters, or races and classes from other worlds than the adventure setting. It's just really hard to pull off a character whose goals are at odds with the rest of the party. There will be no player vs player violence or stealing from the party members. Thanks for reading this far. I hope you'll join one of my games!

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Character creation

Creating your character

So that we have as much game time as possible, I'd like players to set up characters on D&D Beyond before the first session. I can help with character ideas or provide pre-generated characters if needed. Please use point buy for your abilities - it saves on awkward conversations about cheating! If you're new to D&D, I would advise you to stick to options in the Player's Handbook, especially at level 1. If you have a burning desire to play something from another rulebook, we can talk about that and I'll do my best to accommodate. I will create a campaign on D&D Beyond and I'll send a link so that you can add your characters to it. I have some campaign specific backgrounds that I can share with you.

The current party

Players will start at level 1 in the pirate town of Saltmarsh. A body washed up on the beach points the way to a haunted house.... Suitable for beginners and experienced players alike. I love this adventure because there is so much loot, so early. Oh, and you might get your own ship... This campaign will be every other Tuesday - hoping to start 16th July or 30th July.

Safety

How Aion creates a safe table

I will brief everyone of the safety tools we use before the campaign and before every session, I post a list of lines and veils that are active that session. We'll use D&D Beyond for character sheets, Discord for voice chat and Owlbear Rodeo for maps and combat. I set up campaign specific channels in discord so that you can discuss and roleplay in Discord between the fortnightly sessions. Video's completely optional. After every session, we'll perform a quick review and suggest any changes for the next time to ensure we all have a great experience and can steer how I run the campaign. We'll have a 10-15 minute break somewhere in the middle but it's a-ok if anyone needs to step away briefly for any reason.

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