Divine Right to Rule

Creating your character

Because this is a playbypost, we won't start playing until everyone's characters AND their backup characters are ready- yes, backups too! This isn't necessarily because the campaign is challenging, but because there may occasionally be story-based chances for your backup characters to get involved, or references to their backstories. I'll be going over things with each of you over private messaging on Discord to help build your characters on D&D Beyond and fit your characters into my world, no matter how much or how little of a backstory you'd like them to have.

Preparing for the session

All you need is a Discord annount and a D&D Beyond account, and I'll take care of the rest.

What CipherWrites brings to the table

I have a number of homebrew rules meant to enhance things and make a unique d&d experience for the players. It's a playbypost that I plan to keep open every week, so we can hopefully all play a little bit of d&d every day!

Homebrew rules

I have twelve homebrew rules, as follows (these will also be in the discord server): 1) Drinking Potions can be done as an Action or a Bonus Action. Drinking a healing potion as a bonus action will get you normal effects, but drinking it as an action will allow you to regain the maximum amount of health from that potion (i.e. a Potion of Healing gives 10 HP). 2) When you ready the Attack action, you can ready your full Multiattack if you have one. 3) Critical hits double the total damage, rather than the dice damage. 4) Getting a Nat 20 for a skill check automatically succeeds, while a Nat 1 automatically fails. 5) A Nat 1 on a saving throw subjects double the total damage, and a Nat 20 avoids all damage. This applies to both Players and NPCs. 6) Getting a Nat 1 on a melee attack while within the target’s attack range allows the target to make an attack of opportunity on the attacker. This applies to players and NPCs. If the weapon they are fighting with is nonmagical or breakable, they can choose not to risk an attack of opportunity by allowing their weapon to break. When this happens with an enemy, the player the NPC targeted can choose to let the weapon break or for them to attack (unless the weapon is magical or unbreakable). 7) We use Matthew Mercer's Resurrection Ritual rules when it comes to reviving a creature (if you're unfamiliar, we'll go over them if it comes to that point, since they're a bit lengthy). 8) Giving someone the Help action requires both characters to be proficient in the skill (this is to prevent Help spamming, though Guidance spamming is still fine, so long as you understand it’s a Concentration spell). 9) You can substitute skill checks with other ability scores when appropriate. 10) Any attack or spell can be nonlethal if you want it to be. Making a weapon or cantrip attack nonlethal is as simply as declaring it when you make the attack...but if you want to make a *leveled spell* nonlethal, that gets a little more complicated. You must make an Arcana check using your spellcasting ability with a DC of 10 + the spell's level. On a success, you can curb the spell enough that it becomes nonlethal. On a fail, it becomes a deadly spell, but all's not lost: your intent to prevent death has still aided you, and rather than outright killing the target(s), the spell instead knocks them down and has them begin making Death Saving Throws. 11) Regarding the 2024 rules, you are free to use the new rules or the Legacy Rules, at your discretion and what works best for your character. If you choose a 2024 option, you cannot also choose the Legacy version, and vice versa 12) Not only do I use Heroic Inspiration in my games, but I will also allow you to gather as many as you like! (To balance this, the new human can only gain it once per ooc week) There are also additional uses for Heroic Inspiration both in and out of combat...but I'm running out of room! I'll go into more detail for those who wish to join the game.

How CipherWrites creates a safe table

I will ask my players privately if they have any triggers. I'll keep an eye out for anything like that and make sure their triggers are exempt from the campaign.