Chosen by Fate Villians by Force

Creating your character

Character Creation will happen prior to session one. Stats will be determined by rolling 4d6 and dropping the lowest so you add up the largest 3 dice for each stat. Every character will start at level one but they will leveling up fairly quickly so have that in mind when you start creating your character. I would like for there to be a pdf version of your character sheet, even if you use some other form while playing. I also want to highlight even though your characters are going to be in one role because of the story don't feel limited by who they are and their history. Have fun with it.

Preparing for the session

Make sure you have a discord account, you'll be prompted to join a server when you sign up for the game. I want this to be a low cost barrier so we're going to start with just discord and we might evolve to bigger and better things as the campaign goes on.

What Tell brings to the table

I prefer to favor role play over combat settings but I still do combat about a quarter of the sessions, depending on what my players prefer. I don't do ambient music because I find online it makes things much more complicated. For Fate specifically there is a weird component of anti-railroading where there is an external patron almost that seems to be setting up a correct path that is built to be stepped off of. I use some character voices, my combat is fairly balanced - there is a chance of character death but I try to not make it feel hopeless. I do a lot of narrative and character work, there will be some investigation and finding the next steps for yourself, but if you do something awesome it will tend to stick with you. (ie you randomly roll a nat 20 on drawing a picture you might later be given a magic paintbrush) I reward rp. I do not tolerate murder hobos.

Homebrew rules

Plot Armor-When in agreement DM and Player can save a character who was one shotted by a monster. If the player is at full health when hit and taken down to zero in exchange for permanently losing 1 of their max hit points. The player can forfeit the plot armor or the dm can refuse to give it in certain circumstances.

How Tell creates a safe table

The game will start with a session zero where we'll go over everyone's boundaries and a bit more nuance on the possible triggers that might come up during sessions. Players will then be able to dm me privately to let me know if we need to pause or stop a thing we're doing because of trigger and I will let everyone else know without drawing attention to the person who has requested the pause.