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Learn to Play Dungeons and Dragons: Heroes of the Borderlands
Seeking wealth, glory, and challenges? Are you strong enough to explore and help tame the wilds? Explore beyond the keep for wealth and glory!
$20.00
/ Session
Details
Weekly / Thursday - 1:00 AM UTC
Nov 13 / Session 2
Session Duration / 2ā2.5 hours
Campaign Length / 8ā14 Sessions
2 / 5 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
Seeking wealth, glory, and challenges? The borderlands await those brave enough to help explore and tame the wilderness beyond the keep. Only those who are brave and possess exceptional skills are sought to apply. In this adventure, you will: š§ Explore the wilds to seek out threats to settlers, merchants, and travelers. š£ļø Interact with the agents and castellan of the keep to learn of missions which lead to monetary and other rewards. š¦ Discover people living beyond the keep and determine their goals towards the residents and settlers seeking to tame the wilderness. š Learn of plots and dangers both within and outside the fortified walls of the keep. āļø Battle the hazards of the wilderness and those who seek to overthrow the castellan. š° Gain the attention of the castellan and be rewarded for your deeds and actions. This is an introductory adventure into the world of Dungeons and Dragons aimed at beginning players. Pre-made characters provide for quick and easy immersion into learning to play this fantasy role playing game. Emphasis is on having fun and helping to craft a story where your actions influence the world around your character. I will help open the doorway into this world of fantasy role playing. Complete with resources and materials which will assist your first steps into the game, you will be carefully guided on the elements of the character sheet, how to use a digital table top, and the basics of playing cooperative games.
Game style
Rules as Written (RaW)
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Sandbox / Open World
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(24)
3 years on StartPlaying
506 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Teacher, Storytelling
Average response time: Under 1 hour
Response rate: 100%
About me
Call me Oginme, OG, or Cliff. I have been playing D&D since 1978 and ran my first homebrewed adventures two years later. I put the game aside for a couple of decades to focus on career and family. Then my son asked for a Dungeons and Dragons set for his birthday and asked me to create a campaign for him and his friends. I went on to DM for two additional groups who had been abandoned by their DMs and we went on to run campaigns lasting well over two years. A decision to leave a demanding and unrewarding job handed me an opportunity to take on running games and campaigns professionally. The term professional is not one I use lightly. I have read many books, listened to many live streams, and practiced at improv and writing to improve my skills. My constant stream of imagination and flight of fantasy are activated when DMing games of DnD. I continually work to improve my delivery, voicing, and improv skills. When not playing, planning, or creating for my games, I have a small herd of LaMancha dairy goats, plant an extensive garden, play guitar, read and listen to a whole lot of books, study a variety of subjects, and cook.
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Creating your character
Pre-generated characters will be used to get you into the learning quickly and efficiently. At the end of the campaign, I will be available to assist in helping you create your own character.
Pre-made characters are available in Cleric, Fighter, Rogue, and Wizard. Each class has a selection of four species: Dwarf, Elf, Halfling, and Human.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
To participate in this campaign, you will need the following: An account on Discord (free) An account on Roll20 (free) A computer (laptop or desktop recommended) A stable Internet connection I highly recommend a good set of headphones and dedicated microphone to eliminate background noise and feedback from your speakers.
What Oginme brings to the table
I bring an open, immersive environment where the focus is on having fun. An emphasis on allowing the players to contribute to the mutual building of a story, creates an environment where you can allow your imagination to take root and grow. Rules form the basis of our interactions and allow for fairness at the table, while not being limits to your creative use of your abilities and equipment. Our games will be accompanied by an immersive music/ambient soundtrack. Vibrant maps are used which will allow you to utilize the terrain, improve immersion, and visualize interactions. I create memorable NPCs for you to interact with, each with their own goals and ambitions. There will be a private Discord server set up for this game which will allow you to converse freely with the other players and discuss the sessions or events
Homebrew rules
To facilitate learning the game by the rules, there are no homebrew rules within this campaign.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Headphones
Platforms used
Safety
How Oginme creates a safe table
We will start the campaign with Session 0 to discuss lines, veils, and prohibited behavior. During that session, we will cover table etiquette and my table rules. Additionally, there will be a deck of cards on the VTT with X, N, and O cards which allow you to stop or slow down the action so that we may work through any issues which arrises during the game play. These are anonymous. There are also means by which you can message me privately in-game and on the discord server if there is some issue which we need to discuss and address. Following the sessions, I will remain on the discord server to discuss the session and talk about which sections you enjoyed or disliked.
Content warnings
Safety tools used