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[Free Session 0 Learn to Play] Adventuring Academy

[Free Session 0 Learn to Play] Adventuring Academy

Dungeons & Dragons 5e | Campaign

About the adventure

šŸ“– Learn to play D&D in a slow paced mini campaign tailored for beginners! šŸ™‹ No prior D&D experience needed! This campaign was designed to be a space for any and all questions and for new players to feel welcome in a hobby that can sometimes seem overwhelming. ā€¼ļø Free session zero for character creation, rule explanation, and learning the basics of the virtual table top! āš”ļø The Adventuring Academy awaits! Make friends (or rivals) as the quirky headmistress sends you and your fellow classmates on daring quests and fun adventures as you learn what it takes to become a hero. You may even end up uncovering a conspiracy within the academy itself! šŸ—“ļø This mini campaign will span (about) six weeks and showcase all aspects of a normal campaign but on a smaller scale where you can find what playstyle best suits you!

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3 years on StartPlaying

1632 games hosted

Highly rated for: Creativity, Inclusive, Teacher

Average response time: 1 hour

Response rate: 100%

Game Master Reviews (85)

Proficiencies

Players say this GM is great at:

Creativity

Inclusive

Teacher

Anthony avatar

Anthony

Played 36 sessions

Rollin is a dedicated compassionate GM who does his best to make sure everyone is engaged and having fun. Highly recommend giving one of his games a shot.

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Yarnspinner

Played 13 sessions

Rollin has an intricately developed homebrew world complete with all sorts of lore. He runs exciting adventures that allow the players to immerse their characters in the story. His DM style is a successful and unique combination of old-school D&D and modern roleplaying. I highly recommend playing a game with Rollin.

Chad avatar

Chad

Played 120 sessions

Rollin has set up a world and a community that is more than just your one game. There are numerous games with dozens of players that you can interact with (if you want to!), many of them set in the same world. In your individual game, Rollin is great at letting you build in your backstory to the entire plot, or a subplot that they come back to when you least expect it. He's relaxed and flexible, yet has a plan all along to both encourage and mess with your characters.

Nicholas avatar

Nicholas

Played 73 sessions

Rollin is an excellent DM. Iā€™m part of 2 of his games and heā€™s very patient and allows for creative problem solving and rule of cool while still adhering to the rules. His own homebrew setting is great and itā€™s full of interesting characters and a deep rich lore. Highly recommended DM.

Jay avatar

Jay

Played 44 sessions

Always feel safe and welcome playing with my partner with this DM. Great and challenging combat. Love that he uses foundry and has so many small details. Is also very funny. Awesome DM. My partner does not have an account but he also loves and looks forward to our games.

Arden avatar

Arden

Played 43 sessions

Rollin provides an awesome combination of role-play and combat opportunities. Not only is Rollin extremely knowledgeable about the tips/tricks you can do to fully utilize your characters' strengths, but they are incredibly patient for newcomers. There's a good blend of guiding the party along the story while leaving room for organic relationships, goals, and plots to form. The sessions feel full of content but fly by at the same time, which in my experience with virtual D&D, is super rare and I'm grateful to have found the campaign. Also great visual aids with the use of NPC character art, maps, and virtual backdrops.

Additional tables

1 available

3 NEEDED TO START

Weekly / Saturday - 2:00 PM UTC

0 / 6 Seats filled

Additional details

How to prepare

All players will need discord and a microphone in order to play. A DND Beyond account would also be needed for access to any books should the player require them. Links to the virtual table top and DND Beyond content will be provided day of.

What I provide

I have all the books (prior to the 2024 rule change) currently available on DND Beyond for players to use, I create custom MidJourney artwork and tokens for all NPCs (named and generic) and for PCs that don't have their own art/tokens they would like to use. I create most of my own battle maps. I have several Foundry mods that make the game unique, and years of gaming and improv experience to work through whatever cogs you throw in my plans as is of course the main objective for all my players.

Gameplay details

Please check tags and if there are any phobias or issues with the content listed or not listed please let me know as your comfort is more important than the plot lines I have created. Anonymous X cards will also be used on the virtual table top as a way to signal a pause to the game should at any moment anyone have issues with the content.

Content warnings

ā€¢ Blood

ā€¢ Death

ā€¢ Snakes

ā€¢ Spiders

ā€¢ Violence

Safety tools used

ā€¢ Session 0

ā€¢ X, N, and O Cards

How will character creation work

In a free session zero we will go over step by step the different options for your character and work together to find something you're excited to play. No need to bring anything to the table we will tackle it all together.

Players can expect

Combat / Tactics

Medium

Roleplay

Medium

Puzzles

Medium

Experience level

Beginner

Platforms used

ā€¢ Discord

ā€¢ Foundry VTT

ā€¢ D&D Beyond

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3 NEEDED TO START
$30.00

/ Session

Each player will be charged when a session starts.

Details

Weekly / Thursday - 3:00 PM UTC

3-3 Hour duration

0 / 6 Seats filled

Requirements

Experience required: Beginner

Age: 18+

This game will begin once 3 players have joined