Dragons, Dragons! DRAGONS!!
The Cult of the Dragon have evolved from being weirdos who love dragons to a powerful force that are raiding towns up and down the Sword Coast.
$20.00
/ Session
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Bi-weekly / Friday - 2:00 AM UTC
Session Duration / 3–4 hours
Campaign Length / 30–40 Sessions
0 / 5 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
Tyranny of Dragons (Hoard of the Dragon Queen, Rise of Tiamat) was on of the first modules to come out with 5e. The campaign intentionally has a bit of everything; big combat, mystery, political drama, exploration, downtime, travel, traps, giants, talking sword, betrayal, factions, And Dragons!!! It's a big adventure and you will get gold to use. Players will get the chance gear up, you should think about what type of mount you want when you can afford it, and I intend to include the new bastion rules - you can grow your home base. This is the first campaign I ever played and I have run it multiple times since then. It holds a special place in my heart but it's not sacred I'll go off book where that can improve things and I'm happy to go "off rails" if that is everyone's vibe.
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(1)
Less than a year on StartPlaying
Highly rated for: Creativity, Teacher, Rule of Cool
About me
Hi, I'm Brenton (he/him). I've been GM-ing D&D5e since 2016 and started professionally GM-ing in 2021. I've run intro sessions for over 200 new players getting into their first ttrpg. After venturing out from my dining table at home I have run online, in convention halls, and at the private venue I run with my partner. While I have played a good selection of ttrpg's I keep coming back to 5e it's just the right level of crunch for me.
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Creating your character
We will start session 1 with some session 0 and can make characters together but feel free to bring a character along if you already have something put together. I encourage you to use standard array but feel free to use point buy if you really want. (I've seen rolling for stats go badly in a longer campaign so I don't encourage it.) I'm cool with any WotC publish content. I'm willing to play with unearthed arcana but you need to know your character if you want to go down that path. I'm running '24 monsters but you can use '14 characters if you really want but I assume most people are running '24 these days. If you don't know what I'm saying in this paragraph I do run more intro level one shots.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
I'll be running on my Discord server. We'll also get Roll20 going so we can have battle maps and get a bit more tactical in combat. Once the political stuff kicks off I'll provide a pdf of the different parties involved.
What Brenton brings to the table
If we are all playing together for the first time lets play with rules as written (with space to be flexible for rule of cool). Describing my style I find the tags provided a little hard to choose. I think I'm more "balanced" than things like "combat heavy" roleplay light". Having been professional DMing for a while I'm used to adjusting to my table's play style as we go. If you like to fight stuff we will do combat, if you like to find creative solutions to problems I like to reward that, if you like talking to NPCs I have run a game with a whole separate sheet that was tracking who was added to the party's entourage because they just kept adopting and convincing people (and things) to join them. Sorry I don't do voices.
Homebrew rules
I allow the optional rule of flanking.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
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Safety
How Brenton creates a safe table
If anything goes too far put an X in the chat and we instantly move to the next scene. If you aren't familiar with the "x card" safety tool let me know and we can talk about it before we start. With this adventure I'm not expecting any problems but it is a big campaign with a lot of different stuff going on so if you have any lines and vales please let me know and if you don't know what that means please feel free to ask. Before getting into the content warnings I think I would just put out there that PC and NPC deaths are possibilities. At my table pets are only in danger if you send them into combat or risky situations.
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