Beware the Harbinger

Creating your character

You will receive a link to Discord, D&D Beyond, and Roll 20, so if you don't have an account with any of those, make sure you do. You should come having a pretty good idea of what kind of character you want to play. We will begin with level 1 characters and we will do Rolled Stats 'with Advantage'-- so you will roll stats twice and take the set you like more. DO NOT ROLL STATS BEFORE SESSION 0, if you have rolled your stats before session 0 I will ask you to re-roll them again. An important factor in creating your character is that they should have heroic aspirations and generally want to do good and work as a team. Lone wolves, villains, Evil type characters should be avoided. I will always be down to hearing an interesting pitch, however. We will also discuss during session 0 how your characters know each other, if they do at all. I'm using the standard 2014 5e ruleset. You will have access to the OG players handbook and classes through my D&D Beyond page, so please keep an eye out for Legacy classes (since I haven't brushed up on 2024 classes). Pretty much anything class/species pre 2024 rules is good for you to use, including Critical Role expansions. We will not do any homebrew classes/mechanics in this game. We will be doing a session 0 to discuss themes, subject matter, and go over your characters, the session 0 will be free. Depending on how that goes we may go into a small introductory session, before a proper opening session 1. Feel free to message me your character ideas before session 0!

Preparing for the session

This will be run primarily through discord with voice and camera, I will have mine on, but camera on is optional (but highly recommended!) Your character sheet should be used on d&d beyond or printed out to have at the ready. Digital Dice or physical dice + honor system is all I ask. Occasionally I will use roll 20 for big combat encounters-- but expect some background visuals and theater of the mind.

What SpeakNicklish brings to the table

Through my D&D Beyond Content Sharing, you have access to a lot of Pre-2024 books/rules that you can peruse at your leisure. Please do not look into the Icespire Peak or Tyranny of Dragons Modules (this includes Hoard of the Dragon Queen). I do some voices, but they all end up accidentally become british or irish, and sometimes its inconsistent, but I like to have fun with it. I'm getting better every day. I've been learning to incorporate music in my discord server, so I'll be trying to add some ambience to our games, wether its Theatre of the Mind, or through Roll 20. I value well thought out plans and creativity alongside the rules. If you've thought out an idea and have taken the time as your character to make it work out, I'm more than likely going to reward that kind of playstyle.

Homebrew rules

No homebrew.

How SpeakNicklish creates a safe table

Players can expect time dedicated to the actions and combat, and medium -light rules. A ruling may be made in one session and upon reflection, I may decide that I don't agree with it and address it in the group as a whole and moving forward I will stick to the ruling. During our Session 0 I will send out a Lines and Veils sheet for you to use to describe what you are comfortable with, versus not comfortable with. The content warnings that are listed are not exact representation of every topic that will exist in the game, but are themes that I have used in the past, so you can expect something to come up over the course of the campaign, so long as it hasn't been listen in your Lines and Veils sheet.