Starter Mini-Campaign 🏳️🌈🫱🏽🫲🏻♾️ Learn by Playing!
Challenge the villains who seek to rule the Caves of Chaos. Claim their Chaos Shards for your own, gain their power, and shape the future of the Keep!
$20.00
/ Session
Details
Weekly / Thursday - 7:00 PM UTC
Session Duration / 2–3 hours
Campaign Length / 4–16 Sessions
0 / 6 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
~* What to Expect *~ 🧌 Creepy caves to explore 🦹 Quirky enemies to mess with 🗡 Lots of loot to smite with 🎲 One of the best ways to start playing D&D! 🏰Classic Sandbox Exploration🌄 On the edge of the known world lies the Keep, the last bastion of order before the wretched Caves of Chaos. 🧌 Challenge the villains seeking to rule the Caves of Chaos. Fight, flatter, or filch your way through their lairs. Cleverly turn their magic weapons against them. Claim their Chaos Shards for your own and level up. Adopt a goblin! 🍻 Return to the Keep to meet strange allies, vie with cunning rivals, and get drunk with all of them at the tavern! 📖 Explore, battle, and roleplay in a world shaped by your decisions with this modern classic! 🎲 Learn by Playing 📝 Get right to the action with my unique style, where the game itself teaches you how to play. Learn to turn the tables on your foes or talk your way out of certain death by trying new things and taking risks. Succeed or fail, you will always know why, and it will always be interesting. 🧙♀️ Tell Your Story 🧙♂️ This campaign is inspired by Heroes of the Borderlands, the Starter Set for D&D 5e 2024. The tale we will tell, however, is expanded and personally tailored to what themes excite YOU. Come for the dungeon Fireball, stay for the village BBQ.
Game style
Dungeon Crawl
Hexcrawl / Exploration
Sandbox / Open World
Meet the Game Master
Less than a year on StartPlaying
35 games hosted
Highly rated for: Teacher, Creativity, Storytelling
About me
I’m Varick (He/They) aka Lvl14Bard, and I’m here to make YOUR story come to life! Back in 2015, I used my improv training and what remained of a D&D 5e PHB to bluff my way through my first campaign. Now, utilizing my BA in Game Design, I collaborate with my players to craft unforgettable tales of epic heroism, stirring dramas, and goblin puns. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🫱🏽🫲🏻♾️My games are always a safe space where everyone is celebrated! My love for TTRPGs pushes me towards constant improvement. Whether that’s playing a new system or trying out new techniques, I’m always looking for a new challenge. Looking to try a new RPG? Can’t find a game? Having scheduling issues? Message me: I’ll find a solution. I can’t wait to see what kind of story we’ll tell together!
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Creating your character
Character creation will be done together in Session 0, so don't worry about learn the rules on your own. However, feel free to come to the game with your ideas, backstories, or builds! Doesn't matter if it's crazy or obvious fan-fiction, I want to hear it! See the Homebrew section for more.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
All you need is a Discord account, a microphone, and a web browser. I'll handle everything else.
What Varick (Lvl14Bard) brings to the table
I will provide an immersive and interactive audio-visual experience in Foundry Virtual Tabletop, including maps, scenes, music, ambience, automated rolls, digital character sheets, and even fancy spell effects. I provide a welcoming environment brimming with creativity and player-freedom. I don't prepare a story for you to follow, I prepare to improvise to the story you create! The thrill of adapting to the inspired insanity of the players is why I love GMing!
Homebrew rules
Homebrew is allowed at the approval of everyone at the table. Bring your craziest ideas, and we will discuss them in Session 0. I'm comfortable using or adapting anything from any 5e compatible material, including Level Up 5e, Tales of the Valiant, 2014/2024 5e, Unearthed Arcana, TikTok homebrew- anything! Just be flexible to adapting your ideas to what fits the themes of the entire group. I promise I'll keep it fun for everyone!
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How Varick (Lvl14Bard) creates a safe table
Before Session 0, I will send you MCDM's Safety Checklist, giving us a baseline for everyone's interest and comfort levels. During Session 0, we'll work together to use the safety tools listed in a way that meets everyone's needs. If none of this makes sense, don't worry! I'll walk you through it.
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