⚔️ Kill a lich before he destroys Icewind Dale! 💀 [Lv 9]

Creating your character

✨ Roll for stats (using a special bot on the discord server), point buy, or standard array - your choice! ⭐️ 2024 Rules ⚡️ All published Wizards of the Coast books and DNDBeyond partnered content are welcome. You can use Eberron, Dragonlance, etc. content. 🔥 Characters join the party at Level 9. ✨ Please make sure you create a character that wants to complete the objective of the campaign (defeating Zlan the lich, finding and eliminating dangerous aberrant beings, etc). 🎲 Your character should be designed as a good fit for a team game, willing to compromise and work with the other player characters in pursuit of the party goals, regardless of their alignment. Please don’t bring any lone wolves, murderhobos, characters who engage in thievery or loot hoarding, or characters who engage in disruptive or chaotic behavior. 🎭 Roleplay is an important part of the game. Please bring characters with interesting personalities that are capable of communicating with the other player characters. Ideally aim to make characters who will be curious and interested in their party members and willing to build bonds with them.

Preparing for the session

We will be using: 🎲 Foundry VTT 🎧 Discord 🎭 D&D Beyond You will be invited to the discord when you join :)

What Cy brings to the table

Players have mentioned the following about my games: ✨ Visuals. I use Foundry and put a lot of effort into making maps and tokens for encounters, so you can easily visualize what’s going on. Scenes have ambient music and oftentimes animated effects. I enjoy that video game-esque feel with my setup. 🎭 Roleplay opportunities. Players love that we get small downtime moments during the session where they can interact with each other and NPCs. Long rests are the perfect time for this. If players are roleplaying with each other without me having to speak, I see that as a huge star! 🪎 Fair shares of loot. I carefully follow the DMG loot tables to make sure each enemy drops an appropriate amount of loot, and I aim to use the hoard table at least once per session. 💸 Shops. Players like that I design dedicated shops where they can spend gold, with a buy and sell interface for buying new items and selling loot they’ve earned. ⚔️ At least one combat per session, where tactical thinking is often rewarded. I like setting up some combat encounters where players’ builds get to shine (the “they’re in fireball formation!” encounter). Other encounters reward strategy and offer unique challenges. I don’t begrudge skilled and tactical players or spellcasters; system mastery is very welcome. 📚 Lore focus. I really love the lore of these worlds and will rewrite scenes or chapters to better fit the lore (like virtually everything in Vecna: Eve of Ruin, lol). This is invisible if you’re not familiar with the lore, but noticeable if you are! 💎 Custom magic items. I really enjoy making and designing items that grow with the players, which complement their play style, goals, and skill sets. 🎲 Huge library of materials. I have a ton of sourcebooks on DnDBeyond to build with, virtually all the official material and a whole bunch of favorite 3rd party material too. I love seeing folks come up with unique interactions between the 3rd party materials. 🎯 I like the Rules as Written and tend to stick to them. They are our scaffolding for how we interact with the game world and provide us structure for what we can do in the course of the game.

Homebrew rules

🧪 Drink a healing potion as an action to gain the full effect, or as a bonus action to roll for effect 🧨 Explosive Crits give you max damage on your first damage roll, then you roll the extra dice and add them as usual ⚡️ Flanking is permitted. You must be opposite the enemy to receive flanking bonus, which gives you advantage.

How Cy creates a safe table

🚦 We will have a Session 0 to ensure we are all on the same page with boundaries and limits. ❌ Players should avoid any topics described during Session 0 as off-limits. Players are also welcome to tell me if they need any additional material added to the list as the campaign goes on.