Dungeons of Drakkenheim / 5e 2024 / Newbies Welcome!
Explore a ruined city turned into a magical wasteland, become powerful, decide the fate of the world!
$20.00
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Weekly / Thursday - 5:00 PM UTC
Apr 23 / Session 9
Session Duration / 3โ3.5 hours
5 / 6 Seats Filled
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Meet your party members
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About the adventure
(UK/EU players: the listed time is currently showing 1 hour early due to the US DST switch. It will be correct from March 29th when our clocks catch up.) Fifteen years ago, a meteor fell on the city of Drakkenheim. What was once a glittering capital is now a desolate ruin, choked by the Haze - a supernatural fog that warps flesh, breaks minds, and births monsters. At its heart pulses the crater, seeping a strange and terrible substance called delerium: the most powerful magical material in the world, and the most dangerous. Now the vultures are circling. Five factions have converged on the ruins, each convinced they alone know what must be done with delerium and the city itself - and each willing to fight, scheme, and sacrifice for it. You are adventurers drawn to Drakkenheim for your own reasons. What you do here will determine the fate of the city - and, perhaps, the world. In this campaign you will: ๐ซ๏ธ Explore the ruined city of Drakkenheim and its many dangerous, but exciting locations ๐ฌ Unravel the mystery of delerium and decide what to do about the danger it poses โ๏ธ Navigate the schemes of five powerful factions and become friends or foes with them. ๐ฒ๐โ๏ธ Game Specifics โ๏ธ๐๐ฒ โ๏ธ Dungeons of Drakkenheim is a dark fantasy campaign for levels 1-12 run using D&D 5e 2024. โ๏ธ This campaign welcomes both brand-new players and 5e veterans. โ๏ธ This is a full-length campaign โ expect 40+ sessions of city exploration, faction intrigue, and world-altering decisions. โ๏ธ Everyone is welcome! My goal is a respectful table where everyone can have fun no matter who they are or where they're from. ๐ฐ Financial Assistance Available If the session price is a barrier but you're excited to play, please send me a direct message. I know things are tough right now for many folks so I'm willing to work out an arrangement.
Game style
Roleplay Heavy
Sandbox / Open World
Hexcrawl / Exploration
Meet the Game Master
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About me
๐: ๐โ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ? A: I'm a thirty-something man from the Baltics. I've been a huge RPG nerd for, dang, almost two decades now. ๐: ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐๐? Iโm not a professional actor, improv guru or a celebrity GM, but I run a pretty good home game! ๐: ๐๐ก๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐ฌ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐? A: It would be nice to be able to justify spending more time on tabletop RPGs by paying my bills with it. ๐: ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ ๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง? A: I really enjoy running prewritten campaigns. It gives me a foundation to work off and lets the players know what to expect from a GM they havenโt played with before. So Iโll be running various published modules for 5e, Call of Cthulhu, OSR, Pathfinder 2e, etc. ๐: ๐๐ก๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ฌ? It's one of those things where I've been 'mega' online for so long, it just feels weird when people call me anything else, y'know?
View Profile โCharacter creation
Creating your character
We'll be using the 2024 rules. The player-facing material from the Drakkenheim books (sub-classes and Apothecary class) will be allowed and available in Foundry. Official 2014 material will be considered on case-by-case basis. No other 3rd party content allowed. There will be a few bans like Silvery Barbs, the Lucky feat (see below in homebrew). Starting Level: Level 1. Stat Generation: You can decide individually if you want to do standard array, point buy or 4d6 drop lowest. Character Tone: Good-natured, heroic characters who work well in a group and want to do the right thing encouraged! If you use D&D Beyond, you can make your character there and I will be able to import your character from there to Foundry.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
We'll be using Foundry and Discord so you should be able to use both. (Please test before applying, or message me if you need help with this.) Also, using a headset or headphones+mic will be appreciated by everyone involved. Hearing everyone else echoing on a player's speakers is not fun! It's perfectly fine if you never played before, but if you don't own the D&D 5e rules skim them here: https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/br-2024 When you join the campaign, I will provide you with some reading material about the campaign and the setting from the books.
What GM mega brings to the table
I'll set up a game on Foundry, provide a Discord server, provide a personal wiki for information and recaps and share the necessary materials. (I use a Discord bot to transcribe and create recaps for your convenience.) I own and will use the official Foundry VTT modules for this campaign.
Homebrew rules
Inspiration will be grouped into a single pool that every player can contribute and pull from. This character options are banned: Spells: Silvery Barbs, Conjure Minor Elementals 2024 Subclasses: Twilight Cleric, Peace Cleric, Chronurgy Wizard.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How GM mega creates a safe table
We'll do Session 0 and go over character creation, expectations and any topics we might want to avoid (or 'lines and veils' as some people call them). Then we'll start playing if there's time left. The campaign will feature some mature themes, like violence, death, body horror, scary monsters, natural disasters, politics, etc. Generally speaking, think in terms of "about as mature as Baldur's Gate 3". It is my hope that we can navigate all of these in a tasteful manner, without making anyone uncomfortable.
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