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People are turning to stone, and the cure is being hoarded be the elite. Will you bring balance and peace back to this broken land?

TYPE

Campaign

LEVELS

1–10

LANGUAGE

English

EXPERIENCE

Beginner

AGE

18+
2 NEEDED TO START
$20.00

/ Session

Details

Weekly / Friday - 6:00 PM UTC

Session Duration / 3–4 hours

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About the adventure

You're part of a group of adventurers in a forest that's been forced into an eternal spring. This unnatural springtime causes the beings in this forest to experience explosive growth and become increasingly dangerous and feral. A nearby city has been invading the forest and expanding their territory in order to build farms to grow a flower that's the only known cure to a pandemic sweeping the city. The sins of the long dead founders of the city are haunting the current residents, causing them to get sick and eventually turn to stone. The city is getting crowded with these formerly living statues, monuments to their ancestors' hubris. The only cure to this horrible disease is being hoarded by the elite and given only to those willing to act in the interests of those with the most power, deepening the conflict between the people of the forest and those who live in the city. Innocent people are being pit against each other while the greed of the rulers of the city destroys their homes in the forest and the city. Will you be able to bring this conflict to a peaceful end and restore balance to the land? This campaign will be oriented towards beginners. I'll teach you how to play! I'll present you with situations that will have multiple solutions, so whether you want to be sneaky, talk your way out, creatively use magic and other abilities, or charge in with swords drawn, you can certainly try! We'll be using the Witherwild campaign frame from the core book as the setting, which is based on Princess Mononoke and other similar media. We'll start at level 1 and continue through level 10.

Game style

Rule of Cool (RoC)

Meet the Game Master

4.9

(13)

LGBTQ+
Queer
Women/Femme Identifying

1 year on StartPlaying

21 games hosted

Highly rated for: Inclusive, Creativity, Teacher

Average response time: Under 1 hour

Response rate: 100%

About me

Hello, I'm Celeste! I'm queer, nonbinary, trans femme (they/them), and I've been playing in and running TTRPGs with my friends for about 6 years. I also have a lot of experience facilitating TTRPG therapy groups, and really enjoy creating spaces for people to explore different ways of being in the context of role playing whether that's in a therapy group or not. I also love stories, and co-creating them with a group of people is my favorite way to experience them. My main goal when I'm GMing is to facilitate the table making a fun and interesting story together, and I deeply appreciate players at the table who are as committed to that goal as I am. I've enjoyed all kinds of fantasy and sci-fi media since I was a kid and love to co-create stories in those types of settings with others. I'm particularly interested in running narrative focused games with more role play, but also enjoy some amount of tactical and cinematic combat. I love more collaborative games that involve players making up some information about the world and giving me opportunities to build on their contributions. This also lends itself to more player driven, sandbox type campaigns, which suit my style well. It's important to me to maintain an inclusive and respectful atmosphere at my tables. I won't allow for any racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, etc at my tables. Also, I'll never use AI for my listings or in my games.

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Character creation

Creating your character

Characters will start at level 1. Characters will be created on Demiplane in session 0. Coming to session 0 with some character concepts is encouraged, but I would like character creation to be collaborative and done with more context about the campaign. Also, we'll be using the character creation options from the Witherwild campaign frame. Daggerheart is designed around there being little to no overlap between character abilities, so adhering to that is encouraged, but exceptions can be made if two players are really excited about the same thing. Using playtest content from The Void is fine! I'd like players to update their characters if new versions of the content they're using come out though, but as long as you're cool with that, Void content is available! Once character creation is done, players can connect their Demiplane account to their Roll20 account to import the character sheet to Roll20.

What to expect

Preparing for the session

You'll need internet and accounts on Discord, Demiplane, and Roll20. You'll also need a working microphone and a relatively quiet place to be. Webcam and camera on during session is encouraged but not required.

What Celeste brings to the table

I'll bring a Demiplane account with a virtual copy of the core rule book as well as a subscription for sharing content with everyone else. I'll also bring well designed encounters that include exciting, cinematic combat and opportunities to resolve encounters nonviolently or without killing all the adversaries. Combats will also have stakes and narrative relevance. I'll use maps/tokens on Roll20 for some combats where positioning is more important and will stick to theater of the mind for others. Voices are a growth edge for me, and I'll do my best to differentiate NPCs enough so you can tell who's talking during role play scenes. I'll have a playlist of thematic music playing through the voice channel, and I'll make soundboards for each session to use sound effects in real time during play. I'll also teach you how to play! I'll go through the basics that you need to know to make your character in session 0 and will continue supporting new players in learning the rules through play in the first couple sessions. In my experience, I've had players totally new to TTRPGs feel comfortable with the rules after a session or two.

Homebrew rules

We'll be using the setting specific rules for the Witherwild campaign frame. I sometimes bring in mechanics from other campaign frames and may do that in this campaign.

Equipment needed to play

Internet

Computer

Microphone

Webcam

Safety

How Celeste creates a safe table

I'll send out a Lines and Veils document for players to fill out before session 1. X, N, and O's can be typed into the text channel for the game.

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