Sky Pirates of Vogst! Homebrew 5e Campaign

Creating your character

Session Zero means the world to me. I want to be involved when making your character. I offer a free independent session privately with me before we start playing, so we can connect your character into my world. It helps build investment and connection, which I think makes for the best games. I love backstory and will take as much as you can give me after we talked about setting and location! The first and most important thing for anyone to know about my table is that I am running a collaborative game! I mean collaborative in every sense of the word. I am on the same side as the players. The goal when playing with me at my table is to tell the most interesting story possible with every player as co-authors. I promise you that I will try my hardest to make whatever crazy ideas you come up with happen in my world within the rules. I want a table that's never afraid to speak up because they know that when they do, they'll be heard and their ideas will be respected. You will be starting at level 3. Feel free to create a character in whatever character creator you'd like, as long as it can be exported and sent to me as a PDF or JSON. In Session Zero, we will be rolling for stats! 4D6 take the highest 3. You'll be allowed to re-roll once after completing your 6 stats, but you'll sacrifice those 6 rolls and will accept the next set of roll results.

Preparing for the session

Discord Foundry VTT (I will guide you through everything involved with this) And it's for vibes and music more than tactical combat Backstory after our first character meeting. Spend me a PDF or JSON copy of your character sheet.

What DM Corn brings to the table

My style of GMing has changed over the years. Back in college, it was a highly tactical game with long dungeon crawls, stat blocks, traps, treasure, and discovery. Now I DM for multiple theatre teachers who are much more into roleplay than heavy dungeon crawls, and it's been an absolute blast. Taking the best of both of these worlds, I'd say my style has become more roleplay heavy with a big emphasis on flowing and purposeful combat. My biggest strength as a DM, according to my players, is building compelling narratives with well-balanced tension and meaningful encounters. My personal favorite part about being a DM is narrating character actions. To get the best results, I'll help take what is unique about your character and incorporate it into my world! The more fleshed-out we can make the character, the more they will feel alive when they swing their sword, or cast arcane spells. I want you to experience what your character feels, and to know they aren't just a stat block banging their sword against an enemy's HP.

Homebrew rules

Drinking a potion is a bonus action. Death Saves get more difficult the more often you go down in one fight. Upon request we can work together to make magic items/weapons that are completely homebrewed No spells are banned until proven to be a problem in the game. Please don't abuse this.

How DM Corn creates a safe table

Session Zero will establish all safety tools listed below. We will be establishing lines and veils that will be listed in a Discord channel for both reference in the future and to add on in case you've forgotten something. I have an open door policy. Feel free to communicate anything that's bothering you and I'll be happy to accommodate. That includes taking breaks whenever you feel uncomfortable, or if you feel the need to resolve issues at the table then and there. X,N,O cards can be messaged to me by DM, or held up on camera for immediate effect. There will be 20 minute breaks in longer sessions. There will also be a quick check in after every session to make sure everyone is feeling grounded and secure with the game. Feel free to talk about how the game affected you. You can vent to either myself privately, or with friends at the table.