Bite-Size Adventure Nights in The Guild of Wonders!

Creating your character

Characters will be created on D&D Beyond and should be done before game day. I'm a fairly welcoming and laid-back DM in terms of character options, so any options that players personally have available to them on DDB or that are shared to them through my DDB are acceptable (referring to classes, species, subclasses, etc). Stats will be rolled in my Discord server using the Avrae bot, and starting level will be determined by the particular Quest or Bounty on-tap. Backstories are welcomed, but not required, and you are free to create as much or as little detail as you like. I would recommend at least deciding on your character's motivations for adventuring, and for joining the Guild in the first place, as a bare minimum.

Preparing for the session

Players will need to have a microphone and Discord account for voice chat during the game, and camera is encouraged, but not required. Please be sure to create characters before the session; as well, each player should familiarize themselves with the "D&D Beyond Basic Rules" available to all players. Specifically the Players sections, "Playing The Game," and "Creating A Character," and especially read your characters' abilities and spells. It's important to understand what you can do in the game to make play as smooth as possible during the session. Character creation will be done on D&D Beyond, as well as running the game on DDB Maps. Link for the game page will be shared over Discord.

What Arthur brings to the table

Players can expect that I will provide battlemaps and prepared adventures through DDBs Maps service, as well as content sharing through the same, giving players access to my digital sourcebooks. I'm all about encouraging player creativity, and am very pro-rule-of-cool. I also love to make weird sound effects and do character voices, all that goodness.

Homebrew rules

I use three "homebrew" rules at my table: 1. Drinking Potions of Healing may be done as a Full Action, giving you the maximum healing of that potion, or a Bonus Action, requiring the dice roll to determine amount of healing. 2. I use the optional Flanking rule, so if two allies are surrounding an enemy, the flankers will have advantage against the flanked. This applies to both Player Characters AND Monsters. 3. Modified Critical Damage helps to avoid completely underwhelming Crits in combat. Instead of simply doubling your damage dice, you get the maximum damage potential of your damage die + a die roll + modifier bonus (only added once). For example, if your damage die is a d10 and you Crit, you WILL do 10 damage + a rolled d10 + your modifier. This way, you are guaranteed at least half of the potential maximum damage of your Critical. 4. I'll also be experimenting with a different style of combat, something akin to Daggerheart that I hope will be more balanced. Rather than rolling Initiative and having that determine the exact order; We will roll Initiative to determine who goes first, and play will bounce back-and-forth between Players and DM. This will mean that if DM rolls highest initiative, one of the Monsters/Enemies will act first, then the Player with the next highest acts second, then back to a monster, then the next-highest Player initiative, etcetera. This way we are always bouncing back and forth, and hopefully it avoids the problem of big groups of enemies eating up huge chunks of session time.

How Arthur creates a safe table

I have a subject matter consent checklist that I get all of my players to fill out before our game, and then I compile them into one master file to share with the group that defines the generally agreed upon lines and veils. I also operate with an Open Door policy, where players are welcomed and encouraged to come to me with any problems, whether that is a private message during the game to make me aware of the issue, or contacting me after the game to work things out, I always maintain an open line of communication with my play groups.