Salvation

Creating your character

You can choose starting equipment or a gold buy with 300 gold to spend. If you choose equipment, you can keep the 300 gold plus any other guild equipment and backgrounds granted to you. 🚨 DND Hardcore Campaign settings! 🚨 In Session 0, you'll roll for your class, race, and stats 🎲🔥. You get ONE reroll at the start 🔁—so choose your options wisely! Later in the game, you'll have opportunities to reroll your stats ⚙️, but your class and race are locked in from the beginning. Prepare for a true challenge that will test you! ⚔️ When creating your character, don't assign an alignment. For abilities involving necrotic or radiant damage, you're free to choose either good or evil. You're assigned a true alignment based on your actions in the game. This way, your character’s morality grows naturally as the story unfolds. 🌗✨ For your backstory, I want you to focus on what truly defines your character. Instead of a traditional narrative, give me three strengths—what they're really good at—and three weaknesses that are genuine flaws. Remember, this isn’t a job interview, so no strengths or weaknesses! If you're struggling, think about what your character excels at or struggles with on the skill list. If you're thinking outside the box, consider mercenary-like skills that aren’t just standard, giving your character a unique edge without breaking immersion. 🎯🛡️ 🚨If your character perishes, you will reroll them the same way, BUT they will be a resident of Barovia and already be afflicted with madness along with starting at a level half of your current level, or if you're still level 1, it will be level 1.🚨

Preparing for the session

-Have discord/ join it and wait to be assigned to your game channel -Have a good mic and make sure it's good to go. - Be prepared to play any class you roll and be prepared for your characters to possibly die and the consequences of their deaths.

What TypeWriter brings to the table

We'll be using D&D Beyond and AboveVTT—a Chrome extension VTT that connects directly to D&D Beyond. 🎮✨ I'll be sharing my D&D Beyond content with you so you can build your characters using what I own, or anything you have on D&D Beyond via books you buy on it can be acceptable so long as I approve it first. 🛠️📚 My style of GMing is all about going with the flow, encouraging your imagination to lead the way rather than sticking rigidly to rules. Of course, we'll still follow the majority of rules, but in a rule-of-cool style that keeps things moving and imaginative! 🎲🔥 I don’t believe in the "don’t split the party" mantra 🚫; as long as you're not trying to solo your way through the villain's hideout, feel free to go on your own or split the group during sessions. It’s all about freedom and creativity! 🎭🎯 I'll be doing voices, adding music through Discord 🎶, and doing everything I can to make this game as fun and immersive as possible. Be prepared for what comes! 🌟🗺️

Homebrew rules

If the rules get in the way or the story, pacing, fun or immersion than i will overrule them or simplify it to keep things going. Example: Measuring distance takes time to swap to the meassuring tool and can lead to debates that slow the game down; for me if you look close enough you are close enough so ignore grids most of the time. Others like that will crop up as we go along.

How TypeWriter creates a safe table

Here are my rules and guidelines: Any player may call a 5-10 minute break 🛑🕒 if needed, up to twice per session for the whole table to keep the game flowing smoothly 🚶♂️🎲. If you have any stars ✨ or wishes 🌟, feel free to share them in the Discord 💬 or after the game as we wrap things up 🎁. Please be able to speak clear, understandable English 🗣️✅ so everyone can enjoy the game without confusion. This is an 18+ game 🚫👶 due to mature themes and events that aren’t suitable for children, and I prefer not to be the censor police. We're here to have fun and play a game, after all. Just don't start blasting a swear every minute or go out of your way to make jokes that you KNOW many might take issue with, and we should be golden. New players are welcome 🤝, but please understand how to play D&D in general and know how to use Discord and VTTs 🎮💻. We’re playing a fun, fictional fantasy game 🌍✨. Please keep real-world issues and topics out of the game for the most part; jokes about what's happening IRL or just talking about stuff is fine, but this isn't a debate club 🚫. I won’t exclude anyone based on personal life choices 🚻, but I also won’t censor myself or ask others to censor for others'; I expect us all to act like adults and ask for mutual respect 🤝🌟. I reserve the right to remove anyone for any reason 🚪❗, but I’ll do my best to resolve issues when things aren’t clear-cut 🔍🤝 so everyone can have a good time and enjoy D&D 🎲❤️. Attendance is important to me 🗓️, but I understand life happens 🚶♀️🌎. Please make sure the scheduled time works for you on a regular basis ⏰. ✔️. Please keep meta-gaming to a minimum 🚫🧙️—there will be in-game consequences for meta-gaming 📝⚠. . By joining this game, you agree to these conditions and my terms as GM, and by joining, you waive your right to take issue with me enforcing these rules ✋🎲.