Roma Aeterna // Custom Greek & Roman Campaign Frame // 🏳️‍🌈

Creating your character

We start at Level 1! Create a character on Demiplane. You are freedom fighters! Make a character that would join a resistance movement against Rome. **Assassin, Brawler, Witch, and Warlock are allowed!** All the Demiplane ancestries are available!. If you choose to be a human, you can choose a culture from several of the tribes and nations around the Mediterranean: Greek, Thracian, Parthian, Egyptian, Celtic, Scythian, Han, or Germanic. Communities - Highborne might be a patrician, or you might from a royal house in Egypt, Parthia, or Han China. - Loreborne might be one of the magi from the East, or a philosopher in the tradition of the Stoics. - An Orderborne character might come from a Daoist monastery in the Far East, or a mystery cult around the Mediterranean. - A Seaborne character could be from any number of the pirate nations that harry the maritime trade routes. - Slyborne characters might be part of a commune of bandits or runaway slaves who live beyond the reach of the Pax Romana. - An Underborne character might hail from the catacomb-dwellers. - The Wanderborne and Wildborne nomads and "barbarians" can be found anywhere the Empire has not yet spread. I will have some pregenerated characters available if you prefer that over making your own!

Preparing for the session

Required: ✅ Microphone ✅ Free Demiplane account ✅ Discord account ✅ Roll20 account ✅ Webcam // It will absolutely enhance the experience of the game if we are all visible to each other. Faces are great for improv! Please familiarize yourself with the rules and with your character abilities before the game.

What Isaac brings to the table

No matter your experience level, I set a welcoming, inviting tone at my games. Your questions are good, your baggage from your last game is not too much, your experience matters to me! Pull up a chair, friend. Many (not all) of my games reflect a certain political perspective. This one more so than most. The themes of the game are explicitly anti-imperial. Rome is viewed as an aggressive empire by all throughout the Mediterranean, though they hide behind the legality of the Senate. If you are on board with that, you're in the right place! I have an annual Demiplane subscription and a Pro Roll20 account, so all your digital needs will be taken care of. I’m a musician and an artist at heart, so I love incorporating graphic design elements, musical soundtracks and ambient noise, beautiful maps, and character art to enhance the experience of the game. I think the biggest thing I bring to the table is a flair for the dramatic. I was a musical theater kid in high school. Character voices. Storytelling. High drama. Heartrending conflict. This is the stuff I like. Very much. I try to keep a good balance of combat and roleplaying (40-50% of game time) with some exploration and puzzles thrown in for flavor (5-10%). Sometimes one session ends up with more of one than the others, and I’m happy to adjust based on feedback. The Rule of Cool is a very important part of my style. If something will move the story forward in a cool way, I may not even have you roll for it. I’ve been learning that rolling too much can be a real barrier to more important things, like the narrative and the dramatic moment.

How Isaac creates a safe table

- I will send out an RPG Consent Form which allows players to let me know their lines and veils. - There is a digital X card option, which can be used at any time during the game to pause the game and change course. -We will take a 10 minute break around the middle of each session.