The Starless Marches | Daggerheart | Biweekly "Purple"

Creating your character

If you're new to the campaign, I invite you to check out the free Session 0 adventure, "Lighthouse of Old Astralon"! This gives you an opportunity to make a new character, to integrate them with the town of New Astralon, and learn the player-facing rules (if you haven't played Daggerheart before). For this campaign, all newly-created PCs begin at level 2, with 3 handfuls of gold that can be spent in any shops the community has unlocked. You'll gain levels, money, and cool items by playing the game. In either case, as a West Marches style game, a character you create can be played in any of our sessions, including sessions on different days and times. You can create multiple characters, and pick which one you play for any given episode.

Preparing for the session

You will need *free* accounts on Discord, Forge-VTT, and Demiplane (optional but recommended): https://discord.gg/YfkhkRsN6W — if you are not already a member of the server, send me a discord DM when you join! Our server has an "Entrance Hall" to help keep spammers out. https://forge-vtt.com/ — We play with Foundry VTT, for which Forge is our hosting provider. You'll need a free account for Forge, and our instance invitation link is available on our Discord server. https://app.demiplane.com/home — Technically optional but highly recommended. During initial setup, if you DM me your email address, Demiplane allows me to share my digital library with you. Demiplane helps keep character advancement tightly organized. We also use WestMarches.Games as an organizational tool to track our many PC's. WMG uses Discord to log in, so there is no additional signup for this service.

What Nicole brings to the table

The Starless Marches is 100% original content, so this is a one-of-a-kind campaign. It's been cooking for over five years now, and I'm beyond thrilled to share it with the world! This campaign follows a 3-act structure, with characters all playing within a given tier, following the Daggerheart tier guidelines. We begin with Act I, in which player characters begin at level 2. By the end of Act III our players should be reaching level 10, the highest level in the game, for some incredible high-fantasy stories!

Homebrew rules

This story uses a custom-designed Campaign Frame. Some highlights include: - A Point-Crawl travel system for exploring the wilderness beyond the heat-dome of New Astralon - Permanent community upgrades as the campaign continues, including lightstones, shops with better gear, road upgrades and more - Homemade, setting-relevant content that has yet to be discovered, including bonus domain cards, subclasses, and ancestries

How Nicole creates a safe table

We offer a separate "Session 0" in the form of a free introductory one-shot! This lets you try out me as a GM, as well as get a feel for the community we're building. This also doubles as a fun introduction to Daggerheart, if you've never played! For all games, we use the following tools: Open Door, X/N/O Cards, and Breaks. StartPlaying provides explanations on these tools, and hopefully you're able to join a Session 0 where we can discuss them. Explanations are always available at any time, but in summary: - If you need to step away for any reason, this is always OK, for any reason. - If the content in a scene is troubling for any reason, let me know (either in voice or in Discord — my DMs are open) and we can pause the scene and review/adjust anonymously. - We have a 10-minute break usually around the midpoint, and can have additional breaks if necessary. - Lines & Veils are available upon request, please reach out about any questions or concerns! Lastly, this campaign is LGBTQ++ owned & operated. We keep a zero-tolerance policy against harassment, hate speech, and "TRASH" behavior (Transphobic, Racist, Ableist, Sexist, or Homophobic).