Daggerheart X Dolmenwood: Dark Fairy Tale Hexcrawl Sandbox 🌈🧚

Creating your character

During the zero session, we'll create characters, sketch backstories, cover rules basics, and play an introductory encounter. Daggerheart character creation is Step 1: Choose your class (and subclass) from Bard, Druid, Guardian, Ranger, Rogue, Seraph, Sorcerer, Warrior, and Wizard. The setting will have some flavoring of character options. For example, the Sentinel: Winged Seraph must be tied to the Pluritine Church. Step 2: Choose your Heritage from the diversity of Daggerheart options. Note that many heritages (Clanks, Drakona, Dwarves, Halflings, Infernis, Orcs, and Giants) are very rare in the setting and others (Firbolg, Faun, Fungril, Goblin, Katari, Ribbet, and Simiah) are reflavored to fit the setting. Step 3: Assign Character Traits, which include the +2, +1, +1, 0, 0, and -1 modifiers to traits. Step 4: Record Additional Character Information such as evasion, HP, stress, Hope, and Fear. Step 5: Choose Your Equipment, including two class-appropriate weapons and armor. Step 6: Create Your Background will deepen your understanding of the setting and relationships to the world. This is a great time to ask the GM general knowledge questions. Step 7: Create Your Experiences, which are special features that can be activated with Hope to grant +2 to a roll. Step 8: Choose Your Domain Cards, granting you your particular abilities. Step 9: Create Your Connections, which connects your party's characters to one another.

Preparing for the session

Players will need 1) a Discord profile, as audio and visual will be handled over Discord; 2) a mic and headphones (webcam is welcome, but not required); and 3) a computer with internet connection for the Foundry VTT interface. Note: Foundry features can be graphically intensive. Please notify the GM if your computer is older than five years. Phone and tablet support is not available. Players can use physical dice if they prefer (two distinct d12s). Foundry VTT offers dice, rules, and character sheet integration.

What Caleb | The Gentle GM brings to the table

I have over ten years of game mastery experience and have already started running this setting! Dolmenwood promises a dark fairy tale world inspired by British Isles legends. Meet strange, delightful, and otherworldly characters! Mythic and mischievous monsters await in forest glade, dungeon, and even in village streets! Or delve unplumbed dungeons to recover treasure, lost artifacts, and discover lost lore! All of which I plan to bring to life with physical performances, ambient audio, and VTT integration! The setting and exploration rules provide guidance, not walls, for telling a story driven by player curiosity and inventiveness. I'll be integrating dungeon maps, location art, and a hexcrawl overmap for players to explore. Ambient music will be available for players as well (currently through Monument Studios Fantasy Plus application).

Homebrew rules

Daggerheart offers an elegant, deep modern ruleset. If homebrewing rules are needed, that'll be discussed at the table to improve gameplay. There will be some variation between Dolmenwood kin and Daggerheart ancestry, with the Dolmenwood details taking priority in the fiction.

How Caleb | The Gentle GM creates a safe table

For safety tools, you can expect: 1. The X Card hard pauses the session. No explanation needed. 2. Open Door: Step away or leave without penalty. 3. Content Warnings: These are in the listing. Any questions? 4. Rating: I'm expecting a PG or PG-13 game depending on player feedback. 5. Lines: What content do we want to exclude altogether? 6. Veils: What content do we want to fade to black? 7. Fast forward/Rewind: Jump ahead or revisit due to sensitive content.