🪽 Aetherine Skies [Lvl 4-20 Sky Piracy & Freedom]

Creating your character

If we can manage it before a session, we'll have a laidback chat so you can create your character with a bit of information about the setting. But there's no harm in preparing! The setting is eclectic and at the moment is painted with broad strokes, so it'll accommodate aaalmost any idea you have. For now, we'll stick to the D&D Beyond character creation, using 2024 species, backgrounds, classes, spells, &c. But if you have your heart set on a bit of homebrew, you can ALWAYS run it by me! For guns, we're using Valda's. The party is currently 4th level: a Shifter Beast Barbarian, a Gnome Artillerist Artificer and an Elf Death Cleric.

Preparing for the session

You will need a working mic, Discord and a D&D Beyond account. Owlbear doesn't need an account and works grand on most devices. If you're not too experienced playing D&D, don't fret, I'm very good at helping new players!

What L Sunborn Games brings to the table

A coherent, intricate but flexible player-driven world. This means it's built and amended around the decisions you make and everything that you are interested in, and that it functions in reaction to your passions and convictions. I'm very comfortable with sudden shifts and thinking on the fly! The world, as a hex grid world map, is a massive landmass centred on the Highspire Empire, surrounded by a dense fog bank, and small duchies past that. We have a D&D Beyond campaign for everyone's character. We use Owlbear maps with custom tokens for hex exploration and combat, and voice chat on Discord with ambient/atmospheric music. I'll also provide character voices galore! At the end of each session, I sketch out the main beats of the session while it's fresh it everyone's memory, then before the next session (usually Monday), I do a proper write-up that everyone can collaborate on and will be used to introduce the next session. Combat will be pretty challenging, but always gauged by your interest in it, and against lore-driven enemies — many homebrew, but also making sure you all get to fight all the classics.

Homebrew rules

Many, but none too controversial! It's all the greatest hits (potion as a bonus, improved critical hits, secret death saves), as well as a bunch of custom-made mechanics arising from the gameplay of the players (random encounters, journeying, crafting, hireling training, and many more). With everything else, they're collaborative — I'll always be happy for critique and to make sure to bounce off you. You can read here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tg4JD95gbRCLGv0x1O4J4h-oM6tk9nDl3HwrnDrGfgg/edit?usp=drivesdk

How L Sunborn Games creates a safe table

The Session 0 will be set up as a character creation session and "mood board" rundown for anyone who joins. At any time you can let me know about lines and veils and I'll stick to 'em religiously. 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬. The content/trigger warnings below are not exhaustive. Basically, let your mind delve into tropes of sky pirate adventures in a corrupt and exploitative empire, and we'll probably get there at some point. HOWEVER there will be no majorly problematic content or themes, nothing outright abusive or discriminatory — if you have a concern, shoot me a line or veil.