The Lost City | 2024 | All Experience Levels Welcome!

The Lost City | 2024 | All Experience Levels Welcome!

Your Patron is a Noble Djinn who master's a realm of infinite doors to infinite worlds. Help him grant some wishes, you may yet earn one of your own!

TYPE

Campaign

LEVELS

1–12

LANGUAGE

English

EXPERIENCE

Beginner

AGE

18+
2 NEEDED TO START
$23.70

/ Session

Details

Weekly / Thursday - 1:00 AM UTC

Session Duration / 2.5–3.5 hours

1 / 5 Seats Filled

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Meet your party members

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About the adventure

You have been travelling through the desert with a paying caravan escort job. Separated from the main group and finding all traces of them swept clean by the storm, you come across a half buried stone door on a hill. Perhaps it would be a good idea to seek some shelter here temporarily, as another storm seems to be brewing on the horizon. looks like it may head your way! What secrets might be held within this Ziggurat? Perhaps the dreams which have started recently may give some clues? Who are these strange, masked cultures who live here, buried in the sand? We will answer these questions, and more! Welcome and please join with us as we proceed through a fun, challenging series of original 1980's modules that has been rewritten for the latest Dungeons and Dragons (5e 2025) in "Quests from the Infinite Staircase". I ran several of these like 40 years ago when I was a kid, so I have been really enjoying this experience, with fresh players' perspectives, as an adult.

Game style

Dungeon Crawl

Rules as Written (RaW)

Roleplay Heavy

Combat Heavy

Meet the Game Master

5.0

(23)

Neurodivergent
Artist
Teacher/Educator
Voice Actor

2 years on StartPlaying

124 games hosted

Highly rated for: Knows the Rules, Teacher, Creativity

Average response time: 1 hour

Response rate: 80%

About me

Hail, fellow gamer and well met! Aho. I've enjoyed many years (and still learning!) as a Storyteller/GM/DM and sometimes player. Typically, with a wonderful variety of groups, systems, styles and people! If you try me out, I do my best to allow for a lot of roleplays. You will experience a fair amount of tactical combat as well as some time for exploration. You will most likely laugh and enjoy yourselves while forgetting some of your real-world troubles. You will experience my calm voice and demeanor over which many have said that I should be in voice acting or radio work. With a long background in theater and customer service I often feel as though I may have been meant to do this pro GM thing... It has been a fulfilling yet challenging experience so far! (Profile pic with Mark Twain at his old house) I believe that on a deeper level, the things we create become reflections of our selves. The fantasies that we create embrace a lot about who we are in real life. They can represent the things we want to accomplish and experience. The fights we want to win and the values we wish to cherish or reject. A roleplaying game gives us the opportunity to do so safely in a comfortable, relaxed space for such fantasies! My intention is to enable a sacred, safe place for your imagination to roam freely, where each of us can play off and with each other in harmony. One of my favorite games ever was with a large group in my college days. Everyone played their own Dark Elven Matron mother, totally evil. Complete with their own noble House. Deep down in the in the Underdark. Daughters, males, slaves, evil Lloth worshippers and all... it was a furious game of note passing, deceit, backstabbing, building power and survival. Insanely challenging but great fun, with permissions of course! This and several other campaigns have lasted for several years or more of play time and have always been highly enjoyable! I do tend to get a little hyper-focused on these games. I also tend to prep way more than is actually required. Part of that is because I am neurodivergent with ADHD and some definite overlap into the Autistic Spectrum. I often recognize and genuinely empathize for others with these and other societal differences and hope that you'll feel safe and included in the environment that I work to provide. I've learned through time how to manage much of it though there's always room for new challenges. In addition, when not gaming I do love to kayak, raft, e-bike or hike in the great outdoors whenever possible. I love to read, a lot. Mostly TTRPG books nowadays but I've read a decent library of sci-fi, fantasy, including many other types through the years. Many in a hammock outside in nature (wish I could be there more!). I join and host several drum circles each month. I have dabbled in drawing and painting quite a bit through my years. I spent a lot of time making jewelry as a silversmith too. Leathercraft, tool work and dyeing was probably my first hyperfocus on arts and crafts though. I've been known to watch a bit of video entertainment, as I cannot always give reading the focus it deserves. Sometimes, I just need to not think so much, which can be challenging as my kind of neurodivergent! My hyperactive self tends to be way more mental than physical. I find myself empathizing with the Indigenous communities throughout the world for the terrible things, including genocide, done to them and their ancestors. I believe that we should listen to many of their voices and begin to resume roles as caretakers of the land, even if only for the sake of our descendants on this world. Parts of this come from the fact that I love gardening and natural landscaping. I helped run an organic wildflower nursery for many years too. I've built many miles of rock walls as well as hiking trails. I have planted literally thousands of trees throughout the years. Even more than that in perennial herbs and flowers! Check out the profile point boxes on this page for a little more insight into me and my style if you'd like. Hope we get to meet and play some games with you sometime soon!

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Character creation

Creating your character

We will create characters in DnD Beyond with standard attributes, level one. I have books to share if you need them, in there. If you're seeking something I don't have yet, please share it with us or wait a few weeks so I can add it to my resources. We will set expectations and talk safety during session 0, which should end in some play time...

The current party

We can launch with two, if everyone agrees!

What to expect

Preparing for the session

We will be using Discord and DnD Beyond for our sessions. You will need free accounts. I'll send you the links after you sign up. Please let me know if you would appreciate any guidance, assistance or advice!

What Craig B brings to the table

I try my best to do some voices and accents here and there. They don't always last long but should be enough to set off some imagination. I'm mostly a rules as written kind of DM but will occasionally hand wave it if we are getting frustrated or for something super cool that contributes to the story! We are looking for friendly, reliable players who'd like to have some friends in the online gaming community to roleplay, laugh and have fun with while playing some games and forgetting about stuff. You will be expected to treat everybody in the group with respect while trying your best to be kind. We will expect you to join us, on time and prepared, unless you've given us some prior notification. I'll be there to chat if you need anything. If your expectations are not being met, please let me know! You will have access to my DnD Beyond content, including maps and tokens. While I do enjoy this published content, I try not to railroad players. If you'd like to go in other directions just let me know, preferably in advance, lol. I do enjoy using some voices and the rule of cool can be fun. I don't use music as it is a distraction for me. If you'd like to use some content that I do not have yet to share on DnD Beyond, let me know. You can either share it with us (if you have it) or stick around for a bit and we can work towards it!

Equipment needed to play

Internet

Computer

Microphone

Safety

How Craig B creates a safe table

We will set safety and discuss expectations during session 0. Any help you need will be provided at that time. Lines and Veils, Stars and Wishes, Breaks will all be implemented.

Content warnings

Safety tools used

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