Dragon Heist
Solve Neverember's Enigma: recover half a million in gold he embezzled from the Waterdeep - with daring heists against crafty crime lords!
$25.00
/ Session
Details
Bi-weekly / Tuesday - 2:00 AM UTC
Session Duration / 1–2 hours
4 / 6 Seats Filled
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Schedule
Meet your party members
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About the adventure
What starts as a simple request from the scholar Volo will quickly turn into a power struggle across the free city of Waterdeep, as you uncover a villainous plot or five - and find that some of the most influential people in the city are either players, or pawns, in a Great Game afoot under the noses of the Lords of Waterdeep. A grand urban caper and a series of heists await your band of sellswords. And to the victor goes the princely spoils: a treasure worth at least half a million gold coins! So come, adventurers, fresh to the game or veterans alike, and join the great game. See if you can outwit them all, and commit the great Dragon Heist!
Game style
Roleplay Heavy
Dungeon Crawl
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(23)
3 years on StartPlaying
223 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Inclusive, Teacher
Average response time: Under 1 hour
Response rate: 100%
About me
Championing indie RPGs since at least 2004! I've been doing tabletop since I could roll a die, and I'm here to run dramatic, character-driven campaigns - particularly anime inspired games.
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Creating your character
Please join us for session zero to create 1st level characters as a group! We will be using the 2024 Revised rules.
A game of D&D for beginners, using the classic module as remixed by Justin Alexander, webmaster of The Alexandrian and author of So You Want To Be A Gamemaster! Our party currently has an Orcish Artificer, an Elven Paladin, a Dragonborn Ranger, and a Tiefling Rogue. I will be happy to walk you through character creation and picking up the rules. Please do not use ChatGPT or similar generative AI programs to create a character: they do not and cannot know the rules and will cheerfully suggest characters that do not work.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Please have a microphone and a computer with a screen large enough to handle Roll20. We will be using a dedicated Discord server to handle voice; video will not be required.
What Talia E. B. brings to the table
I will bring maps, rules, Roll20 modules, and hope to be able to get illustrations of your characters post-game.
Homebrew rules
Drinking a potion is a bonus action. Hell, if it was a bonus action in Baldurs Gate 3, give it a shot here.
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Headphones
Microphone
Internet
Platforms used
Safety
How Talia E. B. creates a safe table
Expect a flexible and improvisational style, a mix of theatre of the mind and battlemaps, a mix of drama and humor, and a grand time in Waterdeep. I'm not an expert on the Forgotten Realms, but I have been running games for over 20 years, and people have been having fun with them!
Content warnings
Safety tools used