Curses! - An absurdist romp (Learn to play!, 2024 rules)
"Bandits on the road" is where we start - nothing to see here! - but then the game grows tentacles and attempts to eat you. Yep, the game's a mimic.
$28.00
/ Session
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Weekly / Sunday - 11:00 PM UTC
Nov 9 / Session 3
Session Duration / 3–3.25 hours
4 / 6 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
"ADVENTURERS SORT-OF WANTED: The presently-cursed township of Wallop-on-Snoring is offering a nominal reward to any skilled-yet-inexpensive heroes who might be able to persuade the wizard responsible to break it. His tower will most likely be filled with deadly monsters and traps, but we don't really know since the prior people we sent never came back. BYO weapons. Incuriosity and a reluctance to ask follow-up questions a plus." This strange ad has led your band of Faerunian adventurers to a cursed town sitting on a huge secret. Investigating how to lift the curse will take you far from home and leave the planes at your fingertips. Expect lots of roleplay opportunities, a dollop of dungeon-crawling, and narrative shenanigans aplenty. - Tour several D&D campaign settings and chitchat with unspeakable horrors! - Mustache-twirling villains! Predatory real estate transactions! Moments of tonal whiplash where shit gets real! - An absurdist campaign in which your characters will start at level 1, gain their next couple of levels rapidly, and likely end up somewhere around 8th level. (Or maybe 10th, but spoilers, sweetie.) - Numerous fun surprises that make it really hard to write an ad without ruining it for you!
Game style
Roleplay Heavy
Puzzle / Mystery Focused
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
2 years on StartPlaying
88 games hosted
Highly rated for: Voices, Storytelling, Creativity
Average response time: Under 1 hour
Response rate: 100%
About me
I'm Adam (he/him, 🏳️🌈), and I try to run the sort of games I want to play in. My players' characters pretty much live in my head. I spend a lot of time thinking about their stories, about how to make backstories campaign-relevant, and strategizing how to provide satisfying challenges for them. I play the long game and I'm all about the little details, leaving both clues and little jokes for observant players to notice. I also know to check my privilege because I'm white and cisgender-male. I'm a cat dad, and you may see my Purrtato's tail on-cam from time to time. I moved to the west coast years ago, where I found my community through running D&D games. I didn't know I had a talent for voices until I started playing D&D 3.5 and felt emboldened by another shameless roleplayer at the table. I'd love to give other people a platform for finding and using their voices.
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Creating your character
The dream of the modern DM is that the group of us can sit down in episode 0 and create your level 1 characters together. In practice, I realize a lot of people are already walking around with a character concept, and fortunately, this campaign is flexible enough to kind of roll with that.
Our party consists of a rogue, a wizard, a bard, and a druid. Three are humans, and one's a tiefling. Mechanics aside, however, this seems like a pretty cool bunch. Who would you like to be? We're keeping new character generation to the 2024 Player's Handbook for this one. You'll start at level 1 and likely be level 2 by the end of the episode.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You'll need a working mic, webcam, and headphones. Please also have accounts with D&D Beyond, Discord, and Roll20, as well as install the Beyond20 browser extension. If you've already created a character, please send me a D&D Beyond link so we can add them to the campaign. If you'd prefer to jump in with one of the pre-generated characters, just click the Claim button next to the one you're choosing once you've joined the campaign, or message me and we can work on a creating a character together.
What Adam (Is Up To Something) brings to the table
a D&D master license and content sharing, custom maps, original artwork, atmospheric music, a range of NPC voices, and a campaign I absolutely loved designing.
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Internet
Microphone
Webcam
Platforms used
Safety
How Adam (Is Up To Something) creates a safe table
This is D&D: players can expect things to try to kill their characters in-between the jokes. We'll be taking at least one break per game; more, if folks request it. We'll work out our content guidelines together during session 0.
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