Showtime at Synallagi
Homebrewed setting/adventures. Adventures/plot made to fit character backgrounds and goals to the best of my ability to weave them all together.
$12.00
/ Session
Details
Weekly / Saturday - 9:00 PM UTC
Session Duration / 3–4 hours
0 / 4 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
Welcome to the world of Synallagi. Your mostly typical world of fantasy, be it high or dark. You can expect small medieval towns, and lost ruins; monsters and mages, warlords and whatnot. If you liked to mash all your toys of various IP together growing up, this may just be the world for you. If you don't mind getting a little silly, this may be for you. If you want to swing a sword at a slime and carouse with cowboys, we can do that. You want a little sci-fi and anime inspiration in your characters or villains? I've done it before and will do it again. The idea is to do fantasy as a base ingredient to my games and get whacky from there, but don't get it twisted, drama and tragedy are also old friends at my table. The characters you bring to the table are a large determining factor.
Game style
Combat Lite
Roleplay Heavy
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Theater of the Mind
Sandbox / Open World
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(8)
Less than a year on StartPlaying
Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, Teacher
About me
Hi there. My name is Jesus Avila, and I have been GM-ing D&D 5e since my last deployment in 2018. I am a US Navy vet. I began playing D&D 3.5, but have only ever run 5e. I have run approximately 9 campaigns, and all have been homebrewed settings and adventures. I started out making all the classic rookie DM blunders like overpreparing, stressing that PCs were winning too easily and even holding too hard to rules as written. I have had enough time to cool it with all of that and have been running easy/low effort games for years now. My players and their characters are the stars, and I do love when they shine.
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Creating your character
Character creation will happen at session 0. Stats can be decided in any of ways provided in the Player's Handbook. Starting level can vary from level 1 to 3, and will be decided at session 0. Players are welcome to make their characters where ever they can, so long as they can provide me a copy or access to the character sheet. Work with the 2014 version of the Player's Handbook.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Have a Discord account and a working mic for our theater of the mind play. I suggest having a set of physical dice for that full D&D experience. Online rolling or dice roller apps are fine too.
What Evil A brings to the table
I will send the Discord Server invite. I will attempt to do character voices when the mood strikes. Bring your own ambient music. Combat may get scary but I aim to make it win-able. I will use rule of cool when rules as written don't seem to fit the moment or when the player's come up with a sick idea that raises my eyebrows and does not step on another player's toes.
Homebrew rules
To be discussed at session zero. All optional and dependent of player enthusiasm. May include: In game name changes to a class, just for flavor. Some variation of spell burn. Crit Insurance. No "free" long rests in dungeons. Every +1 modifier in Intelligence grants an extra proficiency.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Microphone
Computer or Mobile Device
Platforms used
Safety
How Evil A creates a safe table
As a veteran with many hours of sensitivity and inclusion training, and a man with many vulnerable people in my life to care about, I do take this matter very seriously. Session 0 is partly for discussing what all I and my players are not ok with happening to their characters and how to treat each other. At the end of each and every session I will ask my players for feedback with the following questions: Did everyone have fun? Is everyone ok? Does anyone have questions, comments or concerns?
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