Tides of War | Fight for the Twilight Lands!

Creating your character

You can create your character in two ways. 1 - Make the character with me manually inside Foundry (about 10 minutes if you know what you want). 2 - Make your own character on DnD beyond website if you own the books and resources needed. Send me the link and I'll put it in Foundry for you. ✨Campaign starting Level: 4 🔒Content allowed: Race, background and class preferably from the Player's Handbook 2024. We can use legacy existing subclasses from all existing books and settings, except for Twilight and Peace clerics. Please use common sense and talk to me about it if making something too exotic. 🔒Multiclassing is discouraged, but you can do it. Just talk to me about your ideas as you level up. 📜Ability scores: Determined by Point Buy (27 points) 💪Feats are allowed 💖Hit Points: Take Average 🎒Initial Equipment: All of your Class and Background starting set, one Potion of Greater Healing, 500 gold to buy mundane equipment.

Preparing for the session

✅A Discord account (free to create, web based) ✅PC or Laptop capable of handling audio and video for 3 hours. ✅ An Internet Browser (up to date): Chrome, Firefox or Opera are recommended. ✅ A good microphone and headset. ✅ A stable internet connection. ✅ A quiet place where you can focus without background noise.

What Carlos brings to the table

Foundry VTT license, hosted on a cloud (you open it on your internet browser), running very light and smooth while configured with an expansive set of modules, including spell animations, robust automation for combat and many other functionalities. Beautiul maps, set up with walls and dynamic lighting. Proper soundtracks to set the mood and beautiful art as handouts to inspire your imagination!

Homebrew rules

Overall guidelines: I try to keep house-rules minimum, or they are redundant, and we forget them. Usually I have a maximum of 3. After that, if I feel like introducing a new one, I have to remove an existing one. I usually don't introduce house-rules without talking to the group about it. 1 - Lingering Death Save failures All failed Death Saving throws carry over until a Long rest is completed. In addition, whenever a PC gets up from 0HP, they gain a failed Death Saving throw. If a character has 3 Death Saving throw failures and goes down to zero hit points, they are dead. Additionally, during a short rest, a PC can choose to spend 1 Hit Dice or more to remove a failed Death Save. 2 - Heroic short rest: The first Short Rest of the day only takes 10 minutes instead of 1 hour. Short rests are Limited to two per day. 3 - Legendary Resistance Punishment: Whenever a creature uses their Legendary resistance, the effort spent causes them to take 5 damage per spell level. If it's an ability or class feature, they take 15-20 damage (GM decides). This bypasses all resistances and immunities. The GM will describe how this happens narratively.

How Carlos creates a safe table

As expected for a war-themed adventure in a fantasy or dark-fantasy setting, Tides of War contains combat encounters which depict sequences of violence. Additionally, the adventure includes certain events which portray body horror, death, abuse of power, supernatural horror, murder, kidnapping, immolation, ghostly possession, torture. I do my best to ensure that none of these topics are overly gratuitous in their presentation or needlessly gruesome in detail. The purpose of tabletop roleplaying games is to have fun experiencing a unique adventure and story together as a collaborative storytelling experience. We will be doing a session zero before beginning the adventure, and I can easily modify descriptions or scenarios as appropriate to avoid content that the party might be uncomfortable with. I use the Tabletop RPG safety tool X-card by John Stavropoulos integrated on my Foundry setup. Anyone can press the X button, or say "Let's talk for a moment", "I need a break" and we will stop, talk about it and continue later.