The Golden Scythe: Intrigue, Magic & High-Stakes Adventure
What begins as a simple guard post spirals into a high-stakes battle for the Golden Scythe — a relic every power in the kingdom wants!
$15.00
/ Session
Details
Weekly / Thursday - 11:00 PM UTC
Dec 11 / Session 9
Session Duration / 3 hours
Campaign Length / 8–10 Sessions
2 / 4 Seats Filled
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Schedule
Meet your party members
2/4
About the adventure
You thought you signed up for a simple gig: guard duty at the kingdom’s centennial celebration. Keep the nobles safe, look intimidating, and most importantly—protect the Golden Scythe, the realm’s most treasured artifact. What could go wrong? Plenty! When the artifact vanishes, your hunt to recover it will pull you into barren wastelands, hidden realms, and long-buried secrets. What begins as a routine job becomes a journey that could change the kingdom forever! Will you protect what you were sworn to guard? Or risk everything to restore it to its proper home? The choice—and its consequences—will be yours. 🗡Never played Daggerheart before? No problem! I'll guide you through character creation and explain the rules as we play! 🗡This game will have a balanced mix of story-driven roleplay, tactical combat, and open-ended puzzles to keep your creative juices flowing. 🗡Explore a unique world full of conflicting agenda's, clever villains, and ancient magic. 🗡Unravel the mystery behind the Golden Scythe and determine its fate: Will you destroy it? Protect it? Return it? Whatever you do, the Kingdom and its surrounding world will be changed forever! 👨🏻🦲👩🏻 🧔🏿♂️Whose this for? 👨🏻🦲👩🏻 🧔🏿♂️ ✅Players that are new to Daggerheart and want to try out a new system. ✅ Players who've never played a Table Top Role Playing Game before. ✅ Players who enjoy narrative driven adventures. ✅ Players that enjoy collaborative story telling
Game style
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Puzzle / Mystery Focused
Combat Heavy
Roleplay Heavy
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(8)
Less than a year on StartPlaying
8 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Knows the Rules, World Builder
About me
Hi there, I'm Gene! I've been GMing for 30 years across dozens of systems—from Basic D&D to Starfinder, Rogue Trader to Fabula Ultima. I prefer to run games that focus on puzzles, character interaction, and problem solving rather than ones that focus on power fantasy. That's not to say there won't be some rousing opportunities for combat - they'll be plenty of that - combat is the frosting on the cake after all. If you’re looking for character-driven adventures full of personality, mystery, and creative chaos—you’ve come to the right GM.
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Creating your character
🛠 Character creation will happen during session 0. 🛠 Characters will start at level 1. 🛠 Characters will be created on Demiplane. 🛠 This is a custom adventure, there is no campaign frame associated with it.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
✅ A Roll20 Account. You can create one here: https://roll20.net/ . I'll send you and invite to the game when you signup. ✅ A Discord Account. You'll be sent an invite to my Discord Server. ✅ A Demiplane Account. I'll share the rules using this. You can create an account here: https://app.demiplane.com/
What Gene Foxwell brings to the table
🎈 Over 30 years of GM experience — decades of experience creating worlds that feel rich, immersive, and fun. 🎈 Smooth onboarding to Daggerheart via Demiplane — Both new and experienced players should have no problem creating their characters. 🎈 A cast of colorful NPCs — quirky, memorable characters with distinct personalities 🎈 A balanced mix of tactics and drama — tactical combat blended with immersive roleplay 🎈 Enthusiastic character voices — not perfect, but always entertaining and delivered with energy. 🎈 Curated thematic music — background tracks chosen to heighten atmosphere, drama, and immersion throughout the game.
Homebrew rules
Daggerheart is already pretty rules light - I haven't seen good reason to add any homebrew rules to it yet.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How Gene Foxwell creates a safe table
☂️ I'll provide a document outlining the core Lines and Veils during Session 0. ☂️ Time will be set aside at the end of each session for folks to let me know what they enjoyed, didn't enjoy, what they want more or less of. ☂️ We'll be using the Demiplane deck of player safety.
Content warnings
Safety tools used