The Starless Marches | Daggerheart | Biweekly "Purple"
One hundred years ago, Skyfall nearly destroyed our world. Now, the Guild plans to rebuild — and needs *your* help!
$25.00
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Bi-weekly / Tuesday - 6:00 PM UTC
Dec 16 / Session 6
Session Duration / 3.5–4 hours
5 / 6 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
The sun fell from the sky a hundred years ago, covering the land in darkness and eternal winter. Most civilizations fell to ruin immediately, and nearly all trade routes became lost in an instant. The Arcanists Guild of New Astralon has set out to build a new beacon, one that will provide light like the sun once did. This light will not only serve as a beacon of hope, but also pave the way to reestablish trade, commerce, and cultural connection with any other surviving civilizations. The Guild needs your help! Everything from constructing a magical lighthouse, to surveying the untamed lands, to meeting other civilizations, and especially, raiding dungeons to discover long-lost artifacts of power. Each mission you undertake will offer experience, loot, and payment from the Guild for services rendered. You also contribute to the community goals with each mission, too! As Astralonians, the progress you make will help the entire Guild unlock powerful milestones, making the furthest exploration dives more achievable. It takes a village to raise civilization!
Game style
West Marches
Sandbox / Open World
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Realm Building
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
Less than a year on StartPlaying
19 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Teacher, Inclusive
Average response time: Under 1 hour
Response rate: 100%
About me
Hi, I'm Nicole! I'm an RPG blogger and professional GM/Storyteller from the Netherlands. I've played TTRPGs for over twenty years now, and I've GM'd for the greater part of that, with long-time experience covering Pathfinder & Starfinder; Daggerheart; World of Darkness games including Vampire, Hunter, and Mage; plus other titles like Fate, Dungeon World, and Blades in the Dark. All my adventures are handmade, giving me a deep personal connection to every campaign I run and the characters in them. Make an impact — change the worlds you play in! Additionally, my games are always new-player friendly. See a game you're interested in, but haven't played before? Send me a message!
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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.
This is a "Purple" week, which alternates with our "Gold" weeks. Given the nature of this campaign, exact party arrangement may vary between episodes. Interested in joining both? Awesome! Sign up for both groups and play the same or different characters for each.
What to expect
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
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
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Safety
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).
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