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Lightning Keep: MineCraft meets D&D. PBP 2024 Rules Lv3
Refugees flee the Ender dragon’s wrath. Only the stronghold’s restored magic can protect them. Can you find the lightning rods and survive its mobs?
$7.00
/ Session
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Weekly / Sunday - 10:30 PM UTC
Session Duration / 1–4 hours
2 / 8 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
--- STORY - - - People run from the menace of the Ender Dragon. Villages crumble to sandstone ruin, and the skies burn with violet flame. Only one bastion remains. Lightning Keep, a stronghold built in an ancient age of Redstone magic and storm-forged steel. Once, its six lightning rods absorbed the fury of the skies, powering protective wards that even dragons feared to cross. But the rods have been scattered, the power has faded, and the dragon’s shadow draws ever closer. You are called to venture into the blocky fortress, biome of peril and possibility. From Creeper-infested ruins, where you hear the groans of the undead, you’ll need to gather courage, craft cunningly, and rebuild what once protected this land. The lightning rods lie hidden in the ruins each guarded by strange magic, ancient traps, bewildering puzzles and hostile mobs that hunger for your downfall. Can you restore the six rods before the Ender Dragon descends to finish what it began? Or will your names be lost in the debris of broken blocks and failed enchantments? --- TYPE OF ADVENTURE - - - This adventure fuses the imagination of Minecraft with the depth of Dungeons & Dragons. Using monsters from the Minecraft Creatures compedium, you will move through the lightning keep using Owlbear Rodeo in a dungeon crawl, uncovering secrets, fighting mobs and solving puzzles, sometimes with crafting gathered resources. There will be some Minecraft Easter eggs to discover along the way. The rules are D&D 5e 2024 with a MineCraft theme and flavour. The game is expected to last 3 months as a play-by-post. This is a suitable bonus game if you cannot bare to be without D&D in your daily life, enjoy roleplay and co-create a story. --- PLAY BY POST ACTIVITY --- PBP are slow but enjoyable. To keep things flowing for everyone, I will make a substantial post every 24-36 hours to move the game along. Between that time, I will pop into the game and answer questions and make comments for fun and help players decide their actions. I ask players if they are done in a certain scene before moving on. Players are asked to post in a similar way. Of course, we understand that sometimes life happens and you don't get the time or headspace to meet this commitment. In which case, your character can pause or be run by someone else. There can be audio summaries in Discord to help you catch up if you miss many things. An impression of time difference in PBP vs live games is 2 hours of live games is approximately 1 month PBP. Players game together happily across different life schedules and time zones.
Game style
Combat Heavy
Dungeon Crawl
Play By Post
Puzzle / Mystery Focused
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(15)
2 years on StartPlaying
55 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Teacher, Storytelling
Average response time: 7 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
I specialise in running Dungeons & Dragons adventures and I like to inject a bit of humour into them all. I follow the nr1 rule that "D&D is about having fun!" I have been doing fantasy games all my life and love making stories for others, and enjoy seeing my players interact. I like to get to know my players and their characters and tweek the story to give them something personal to chew on. For my homebrew adventures I like to use popular cultural references in my games, especially when naming monsters (like a quiz) and crazy NPCs. I use Discord, Owlbear Rhodeo and Theatre of the mind with some AI images to make the experience more immersive. I really like running Play-by-Post adventures as we get to know each other over a longer period of timme and on a daily basis. For me running games is like spending time with people who enjoy each others creativity.
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Creating your character
Build a Level 3 character with point buy and starting equipment in the 2024 rules. If you have something specific in mind, please just ask. You can choose 2 extra sets of Tools/kit Eg. Herbal kit, masons' tools. etc.
Level 3 Adventure. Point but stats. starting equipment. 2024 rules. --- PLAY BY POST FORMAT --- The whole game is delivered via Discord (story) and Owlbear rodeo (maps). Your DM will post the unfolding story at least once a day (probably more). Players then post their interactions and roleplay, roll dice in D&D Beyond and Discord. The DM then responds, and so the adventure reveals. PBP is great for people who find it hard to meet a regular schedule of games, who like to microdose on D&D daily, and who enjoy writing and getting into roleplaying. or who find they cannot access live face-to-face games. With a mobile device, you can play anywhere, anytime. You will NOT NEED to learn Avrea commands. The benefits of play-by-post are: - THOUGHTFUL ACTIONS: Take your time considering your optimal combat move or roleplay interaction. - FRIENDSHIPS: Bond with your fellow players as they become a daily presence in your life - CHARACTER BUILDING: Dive deep into your character as you roleplay through text, giving as much detail to their thoughts, responses and personality as the campaign builds. - FLEXIBLE GAMING: Play anytime, anywhere with people across different time zones. No more scheduling the group to meet - WORLD BUILDING: Detailed descriptions and A permanent record of what happened in the campaign builds, so no more arguments about what was said
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Please have a Discord account. A D&D Beyond account linked to your Discord. An internet connection and a computer or mobile device to be able to play anywhere, anytime.
What Robert Grant brings to the table
You will have a link to join my discord server where the game is hosted. I will give you a campaign link which includes custom items for the adventure and access to my library of sources for more character options.
Homebrew rules
- Flanking is a +2 to hit - Healing potions as an action give full dice restoration. As a Bonus action you roll the dice. - Critical Hits score max dice + dice roll +bonus. - Special initiative rules for PBP - In combat, you can do a skill check to know more about your enemy from a bonus action.
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Internet
Mobile Phone
Platforms used
Safety
How Robert Grant creates a safe table
It's all about fun in my games. So if you have a problem, let me know and we can work it out, I am willing to stop the game and discuss this in private if necessary to help your experience. Players are welcome to hang out after the session to discuss how the game was for them. If
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