Myntalor | An original immersive homebrew

Creating your character

There will be a free session 0 to discuss your character and expectations. You can start thinking your character but tell me about it as soon as possible - many things are possible beyond DnD and we don't use DnD magic - or wait for us to entirely build it up together. I have many various premade characters with fun backstories and feats, some complex, some simple, that I'm happy to give you as is or adapt to you for a better fit, or you can create your own and I'll be happy to help you find ideas or develop your own. Anyway we'll create it with DnD point buy rules for a clear and practical base, but I also like to add fun homebrew edits depending on character's feats. Magic specifically doesn't work in Myntalor like in DnD. Character progression will not be based on DnD either and your characters will never be unrealistically full of HP, but their feats will evolve according to personal milestones related to character's background, in-game experiences, new artifacts, player's choices (training/reconversion) etc. If you want to make your own, I can usually adapt to anything and I love to make your ideas consistent with the universe. Don't worry about DnD or other rules limiting your ideas, we make the rules, and we make them to be consistent with our ideas. If you need I got plenty of ideas but I'm happy to just follow yours, to let you make it your own, or give ideas only when you lack them etc. For example this universe is fit to be bound to a god, cult, guild or other backstory events for fun feats (I have several in mind but you can invent too if you want).

Preparing for the session

Have a Discord account and a Roll20 account. We'll play from my Discord server and my Roll20 game, with a microphone, and with or without camera depending on players' preference. Discord and Roll20 are easy to use but I can help if necessary.

What Louis (English/Français) brings to the table

🌎I provide complex consistent universes, characters and factions, so that players feel it's an actual complete universe where they're not specifically pushed to anything, and there's no limit to them doing anything consistent there. Players are always drawn to multiple possible quests at a time, that can be very different from one another, but all give a better understanding of the universe and its ultimate mysteries. Everything can be solved in whatever order, influence the rest, be skipped or missed. I'm never fixed on one way to solve something either, nor on one final result. 🧙‍♀️I help players make deep characters, from their ideas or fun premade characters I prepared, and use their backstories to give them personal quests intertwined with the rest, and fun gameplay feats. 🖼️I ask the players what they want and like, and keep trying to get a feel of them in game to adapt, have more or less fighting, role-playing or mystery solving, longer or shorter, more or less challenging, mysteries harder or easier to solve etc. I try to provide the most immersive descriptions but also have some nice pictures, maps and tokens on Roll20. ⚔️I like to provide almost realistically challenging fights and situations, foes being as complex as any character, or swift fun ones. 📜I use dnd rules for a convenient and clear frameset, but I also like to adapt the rolls and results when players get creative and detail more specific actions. 🗣️I roleplay NPCs and encourage players to engage in fun roleplay too. I'm not expert at making voices but I definitely try some if players like it.

Homebrew rules

🔴Incorporated : Universe, creatures, magic or levelling are homebrew, with rules and stats based on immersion ("realistic" hp and damage based on DnD level 1 stats, evolution of skills and actions but no unrealistic hp scaling etc.). DnD classes can be used as inspiration, whole (with adapted levelling) or mixed, and totally original characters can be made with fun feats (with many premades ready). Hence most characters would have homebrew actions and feats related to their backstories and/or artifacts. These can evolve and more can appear with the game going. Some are more complex than others, but still simple enough and based on immersion and consistency. Other homebrew rules would basically be adapting to creative actions or original situations for immersion, like bonus malus, revised rules, improvised rolls and results or working on a new rule. With comfortable groups the fight turns and actions can be played faster and almost simultaneously for immersion. 🔴Ideas I have but wouldn't play without a well-known comfortable willing party : On the most extreme scenario, with the most comfortable players who like to go this far on immersion, I can play with basically no rules. This means mostly two things than can come together, separately, or partially. First one is no stats, levels or anything, only describing characters and what they're trained for and good at or not, then describing what you want to do, then roll, and I'll give you the most consistent result based on that. Second one is playing fights without turns, and with "real time" actions and reactions instead. Instead of having each player and foe attack on their turn and compare their rolls to opponent's armor, I like to describe the opponents's behavior on the instant so that you can choose to hit faster, dodge, parry or anything. This makes it more realistic but it can make it harder too.

How Louis (English/Français) creates a safe table

First I pitch players during session zero about what might happen during the game, and ask them about their expectations and limits, discuss Lines and Veils. Then X, N and O cards can be used in chat, video or vocal. Finally I'll debrief by text or vocal meeting to see if any of that needs adjusting.