Learn Daggerheart in a Remixed Sablewood Messengers one-shot

Creating your character

Five pre-made characters are provided as pdfs in Roll20, in order to streamline the game for new players. If any players have access to the Core Rules of Daggerheart (either digital or physical) and are happy to come prepared with a Level 1 character, then they're more than welcome to do so.

Preparing for the session

This one-shot will be entirely run within Roll20, which is a website that works best on a laptop, PC, or tablet. Roll20 doesn't work well with mobile phones. Since character sheets are provided as PFDs via Roll20, I strongly suggest that you have access to something to make notes with. This could be a pencil and paper, or a notes app on your computer. Dice rolling can be handled digitally within Roll20, or if people prefer to use their physical dice that is also welcome. Keep in mind that if you choose to roll your own physical dice, then you'll need two 12-sided dice for your Action Rolls. These two dice will each represent Hope and Fear, and so they'll need to be different colours so you can tell them apart. If you choose to make your own character instead of using the pre-generated ones, then please have them ready before the game begins. If anyone has any questions about character creation, then please message me and I'll do my best to help. Also consider the following points when creating your own character: 1. No matter where they come from, they now call the Kingdom and the Capital City their home. 2. This mission comes from the Royal Sage, so it must be important to the King and therefore important to the Capital City. 3. The mission will involve travelling through unknown, haunted woodland.

What Harry brings to the table

As a GM who has played Daggerheart since it was in open Beta testing, I'm thoroughly familiar with the rules and best practices of the game. I aim to keep all players involved in the story, and focus on putting an exciting narrative first. Sometimes this means that I bend the rules to allow for cool, dramatic story moments. Everything will be provided: PDF character sheets within Roll20, battle maps and scene art, character tokens, ambient music (which can be turned off if people prefer), dice can be rolled within Roll20. As long as your computing device can run Roll20 comfortable and you have a microphone, you can jump on in! There are no stupid questions when it comes to learning a new game system. I've helped many people learn Daggerheart, and I've probably already heard any game-related questions that you might have.

How Harry creates a safe table

The X, N and O card is a classic default safety tool. For those who don't know, this allows players to communicate any discomfort with the game's content by playing physical cards, or in this case typing into Roll20's chat. "X" indicates that you're uncomfortable with the situation right now, and the GM should move on immediately. There will never be judgement in my games for people using the X Card. "N" indicates that you feel the story is going somewhere that will become uncomfortable, and you'd like to pre-emptively avoid this uncomfortable topic. "O" is used by me, the GM. It's used when I think things may be going in an uncomfortable direction, and will be used to check-in with players to see how they're doing. I'd also like to say that my table does NOT welcome any anti-LGBTQ+ language or attitudes, or bigotry of any kind. I'd like any player to feel safe and welcome at my table. Finally, during this adventure we will be exploring a scary forest full of hybrid creatures inspired by player input. If anyone is afraid of bugs, then we should all avoid any mention of spiders/insects/etc