The Book of Sorrows | Dark forces overrun Exandria!

How to prepare

You will need a microphone. I do not REQUIRE cameras, even though I do find that roleplay is better and easier to immerse yourself in when everyone can see each other. You will need a DnDBeyond account, access to Discord, Google Chrome, AboveVTT plug-in for Chrome

What I provide

I make heavy use of voices and I try to keep up on ambient music(though I tend to get lost in the game and forget about it sometimes). Combat is as tactical as the players can handle. I adjust all of the gameplay aspects of the game according to how the players act. This gets more dialed in the better I get to know the players. I generally tend to stick to rules as written for the most part. However, there is ABSOLUTELY room for the Rule of Cool and I encourage the players to think outside the box

Gameplay details

Use of safety tools will be based on player need and will be discussed during the session zero.

Content warnings

Safety tools used

How will character creation work

Character Creation All official material is available to the players. If it is anything other than Official Content, please check with me first so I can make sure there are no conflicts with the campaign or other players. All optional class features are available to the players. Leveling will be Milestone. I believe that it is more important for players to know that they won’t fall behind if life causes them to miss game time. I use other things as incentive and rewards for good roleplay. Hit points follow standard rules at level 1. After that, you can choose to either take the average or roll for hit points, but you must choose which BEFORE you roll. Reroll any 1s you ever roll for hit points. Feats are available. At character creation, you may choose a feat at 1st level. Feats may be chosen from all content available to the players. Multiclass requirements do not apply in my games. You may multiclass freely. Encumbrance and coin weight apply. Eventually everyone has a bag of holding or portable hole so, while it is only an inconvenience for a short period of time, I tend to think it adds just a touch of necessary realism to the early game. All races are available to the players, even the flying ones. I want you to create the character you want to play. It is my job to make it work in the campaign. Once in a while, a race will be off limits due to story reasons, but even then it is a context thing and most times I have no problem reflavoring the prohibited race as something else so you can still play what you want. Ability scores: choose either heroic array(17, 16, 15, 12, 10, 8) or roll 4d6, reroll 1s, then drop the lowest. Racial ability score adjustments follow the optional rules allowing you to allocate them to whichever abilities you choose instead of the preset ones. Unless specified otherwise, the standard maximum of 20 applies. All backgrounds are available to some extent or another. If it provides a feat or bonus spells, you do not gain those features. Your physical characteristics can run the entire gamut of possibilities natural to your race, or can vary wildly from what is natural as long as you have a story to explain why you are different. You may choose starting equipment that makes sense for your background. If you want anything particularly expensive or magical at all, please check with me and we will find something that works for what you intend based on what I am allowing for the campaign. I am generally considered very generous yet reasonable with how much treasure I give out to the players throughout the campaign. Though there will be times of hardship, as there are in real life, there will also be times of great reward. I generally create my own items rather than use official content, especially past a certain level. I will allow an amount of spare gold depending on your background and the situation in which you find yourself. ALL dice rolls will be public, unless instructed otherwise by me.

Combat / Tactics

Medium

Roleplay

High

Puzzles

Low

Experience level

Open to all