To the Borderlands and Beyond | Expanded Introduction to D&D

Creating your character

Character creation takes place during free-of-charge session 0. I will introduce you to the world, setting, story and give you some points to hook your character to – but you are free to deviate from those! Characters will be created at level 1 in FoundryVTT with the 2024 ruleset and Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, so you don’t need access to any rules yourself! If you don’t know where to start with a character, you can choose from a few different premade characters, I provide you with. During the adventure we will be using milestone advancement.

Preparing for the session

We use Discord as a voice channel and a place to store information for the campaign. You need to have an account on ForgeVTT which runs the game for us (through FoundryVTT): forge-vtt.com Please note that you do NOT need to pay money to use this website. After account creation, you may not be sent to the campaign, but to the standard The Forge page. If that happens, just re-enter The Forge through the link I provided you with. If you have never used FoundryVTT before, send me a message so I make sure you get to know the details, although we will go through a few details in Session 0, and please read the info in this 5-minute-read-tutorial: https://foundryvtt.com/article/player-orientation/ You need a desktop pc or a laptop to play through FoundryVTT, a tablet or mobile phone won’t work. Please have a working headset ready for communication or headphones and a microphone, as well as a webcam. Be sure to have a stable internet connection and find a spot where you can play without major interruptions. You don’t need your own dice, we roll through FoundryVTT.

What Yarnickle brings to the table

🎨 A colourful narrative with room for player choices 🌍The world is changing dynamically with your actions 🎭Lots of room for roleplay ⚔️Various approaches to combat 🎙️A variety of heartfelt, enthusiastically voiced NPCs – however: I am no voice actor ♪ Handpicked, professionally crafted ambient music – designed for TTRPGs. 🐉Access to the new Dungeons&Dragons 5e 2024 ruleset ✨Access to FoundryVTT, a powerful virtual platform with several advantages: - Automation for a good flow of play - Animation of attacks and spells - Animated maps and line-of-sight principle - Well implemented and easy-accessible rules 😎The Rule of Cool 🎮A Discord server for communication

Homebrew rules

• Drinking a potion takes a Bonus Action • you can take an Action to heal yourself for the max amount • giving a potion to a different creature than yourself takes an action • Hidden Death saves • You gain 1 point of exhaustion when dropping to 0 health points • We will discuss in Session 0, if you as a group prefer the normal rules for critical hits or the variant that the first die is counted as maximum damage. I default for the normal rule, but if there is a consent within the group to change, we will do that. • Stronger crits: First die gives maximum damage

How Yarnickle creates a safe table

To make sure everyone feels good I will implement several safety rules. The adventure has a few content warnings, please note them, they are highly likely to be part of the game. You will get a link to a Monte Cook RPG Consent List, where you can mark topics that you are uncomfortable with, so I can avoid them. I apply a policy of open door, where you can leave at any moment, if you feel unwell. There will be breaks after intense situations and X, N, and O cards incorporated into FoundryVTT always ready to be used. We will have a short aftercare every session that will include how you feel, if there anything that has been troubling you and also how your character is doing and if there is any change to his goals. In Session 0, we go through the meaning of these safety tools and their application and pin down topics to be avoided or to be veiled.