Shards of Corruption - A Journey Into Darkness
A darkness spreads its corrupting tendrils over Tharisvale. Can a ragtag group of heroes uncover its mysteries and save the realm?
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$20.00
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Bi-weekly / Saturday - 12:00 AM UTC
Mar 28 / Session 4
Session Duration / 3 hours
3 / 6 Seats Filled
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Meet your party members
3/6
About the adventure
Shards of Corruption is an adventure anthology by Eventyr Games. The adventures are rooted in corruption, betrayal, love, and vengeance. Each adventure is a journey into darkness, filled with sinister foes, devious challenges, and exciting treasures. In this campaign, the party starts at level 1 and progresses to level 11 as they travel across the realm of Tharisvale. An emerging evil is sending its tendrils of chaos, carnage, madness, and corruption across the realm, and it's up to a stalwart group of brave adventurers to stop it! Each adventure in the campaign has combat, social interactions, and exploration. Travel to small villages, bustling towns, and sleepless cities. There are dungeons to conquer, fantastical creatures and people to interact with, mighty beasts to vanquish, mysteries to unravel, puzzles to solve, and traps to defeat. All in all, everything a good D&D campaign has.
Game style
Combat Heavy
Roleplay Lite
Roleplay Heavy
Dungeon Crawl
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(8)
Less than a year on StartPlaying
3 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Knows the Rules, Inclusive
About me
Hello there! David Rempel here, founder of the small independent publishing company Rempelstiltskin Productions! I started GM-ing when the red box was new and have been playing and GM-ing for decades. I bring years of experience and creativity to the table as either a player or a game master, and I feel it's important, as a game master and small publisher, that I play as well to keep that player perspective in mind when designing and running exciting adventures! My campaign style is usually of the modular-adventure-path or guided sandbox variety. I'll use prepublished adventure paths with a theme, or pull in various independent third-party adventures, stringing them together into a campaign with an overarching narrative. Where I can I tweak the modules to add something personal for the PCs. Often, for a change of pace, I'll create something from scratch for my players, and if it works out well and I can make it more generic for other game masters to use and tweak for their own players, I may put it in the queue for publication as a polished adventure or one-shot! That doesn't mean you will be railroaded, though. If you wish to go off the beaten and prepared path, I'm more than happy to oblige :) I'm a big fan of what Kobold Press has been doing lately.
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Creating your character
Character creation will be done at our session zero as a group. Pregenerated characters will be available for those who wish them. Session 0 (the first game we schedule) will be free. General Details on character creation at my tables can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vJPiGz30JVIyYJz7Z-30uXwIEjCDyAv-uZkTccDzXyA/edit?tab=t.w2s9dfvxf7l5 Additionally, Eventyr's Heretic's Guide to Devotion & Divinity's player options are also available for use (subclasses and feats). However, they will be converted using the conversion rules from 2014 5e to 2024 or Tales of the Valiant. Don't worry if you don't have all the books; I have them.
Halfling 5.5E Fighter Grung 5.5E Paladin Human ToV Witch The party is level 2
What to expect
Preparing for the session
At a minimum, you will need Discord and Zoom. https://discord.com/ https://www.zoom.us/download Additionally, the Fantasy Grounds VTT is recommended for play, but not required. If there are players who do not wish to use the VTT, I screen share a player-facing version of Fantasy Grounds. You can roll dice and let me know the results, tell me where you want your character to move, etc, and I'll make it happen in the VTT. That being said, play goes smoother if you use the VTT. If you want a tutorial on how to use the software, let me know. I'm more than happy to have a one-on-one meeting and help you learn the basics so you can hit the ground running for our first session. Fantasy Grounds is 100% free, very powerful as a VTT, and is installed locally on your computer and runs on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. https://www.fantasygrounds.com/ Once you've joined the game, I will send you an invite to my Discord server. There, you will find the specifics needed to enter the Zoom call and the Fantasy Grounds server.
What Rempelstiltskin brings to the table
I provide a thrilling, challenging, and entertaining game. As a general rule, I root for the players to succeed, but I won't save them. I like to play an above-board, honest game. I generally do not hide my dice rolls, and I never fudge them. If my NPCs are having an unlucky day, they are having an unlucky day, and the same can be true for the PCs. I try to play my NPCs as realistically as possible, based on their motivations, both in and out of combat. My combat is tactical, played on maps or zones, and occasionally theatre-of-the-mind, where appropriate, with an eye towards pacing and keeping the game moving forward. I can teach the ins and outs of the VTT, but I do not require my players to use it. I broadcast a player instance of the VTT over Zoom, so those who do not want to or can't use the VTT can still play. All you need to bring is some dice and your imagination. I will trust that you will be as honest about your dice as I am with you if you are using physical dice. We are all adults here, and the goal is to have fun :) Pregenerated characters are provided for players who want to use them.
Homebrew rules
The Rules used are an amalgamation of Dungeons and Dragons 2024 and Tales of the Valiant. Details can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vJPiGz30JVIyYJz7Z-30uXwIEjCDyAv-uZkTccDzXyA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.yw3edkl3odf8
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
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Safety
How Rempelstiltskin creates a safe table
An extension for Fantasy Grounds allows users of the VTT to use anonymous safety cards. PMs on Discord can be used for players who aren't using the VTT. Players are provided with a consent sheet to complete, so I know what makes them feel comfortable and what doesn't. During session Zero we will go over the results of the consent sheet (anonymously) as well as what I am personally comfortable/uncomfortable with as a GM.
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