Forbidden Lands: Of Freedoms & Fates

Creating your character

Character creation will be dealt with before the first session. Players may either look into the process in Forbidden Lands Players Guide and communicate their choices for me to compile OR I will be available 90 minutes before the starting time to walk anyone who needs it through the process. They need only message me before play and I will zip them an invite to Foundry where we will complete the characters. I always keep a stock of premade PC's as well. Just in case.

Preparing for the session

A relatively modern computer capable of running web based programs. (8-16 Mb of RAM & Chrome or Firefox- No Safari) Decent internet access. You will need a Discord account. Soon after signing up, you will receive an invitation to the Fire Mountain discord server. We have campaign specific chats there where we coordinate the campaigns as well as use the voice channels for audio during the session.

What Fire Mountain brings to the table

Collaborative storytelling is the very heart and soul of tabletop. I personally bring to the table more than thirty thousand hours of experience to aid with the emergent process necessary for collaborative storytelling. This helps ensure that I can deliver the experience you'll love without it being rote or predictable. This is especially true for a sandbox style campaign setting like Forbidden Lands. I'm a decent voice actor as well. I like to use ambient music. This particular game is very much a dark survival fantasy setting. That necessitates sticking fairly closely to the rules to preserve the perilous feel of the setting. I like to use a combination of battle maps, tokens, scenescapes and theater of the mind. I've found Forbidden Lands rules-light approach to movement and ranges works very well with this style of engagement. Any GM will tell you that starting a campaign is one thing. Ending it in a satisfactory manner is an entirely different animal. I have landed that particular plane hundreds of times for actual thousands of people, and I can count the dissatisfied players on three fingers. Stick with one of my campaigns to the end and you'll be retelling portions of it to your friends for decades to come. Thank you for your time and interest and I look forward to sharing my table with you!

Homebrew rules

The only one necessary allows a party member intending to stand the late watch to rest while the campsite is being set up.

How Fire Mountain creates a safe table

The lines and veils document will be on my Foundry in the players journals. They will be able to access it whenever they like. My Session Zero includes a ban on PVP, an agreement to avoid judgements of any type against any other participants, and excludes only game related judgements on my part. Aggressive or abusive behavior/playstyles won't fly especially Reaction Abuse. Long story short-aggression, abuse and disruptive playstyles will not be tolerated. I use the Open Door Safety Tool. If, for any reason, a player becomes disturbed or distressed they are completely free to simply walk away from the table for as long as necessary to get themselves sorted. No questions asked, no judgements made, no explanation necessary. Please note that this does NOT stop the game. There would be no point to stopping a game in a traumatic moment simply to resume it at that same moment with zero knowledge of what caused the distress to begin with. After the session I like to take a few minutes to do a round of Stars & Wishes. I find this is constructive, helps eliminate any residual stress that may have built up during play and builds anticipation for the next session.