Dark Souls / Memento /Daggerheart 🗝️ Hero, protect your Legacy!
A band of demigods who lost their memories must escape the Gaol before they fade into oblivion and abandon their Realms and followers.
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Weekly / Saturday - 6:00 AM UTC
Session Duration / 1.4–1.6 hours
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About the adventure
👑You used to be a Champion of a Realm, a Saint, a Demigod, an Archlich, or similar creature of great renown or notoriety, with your very own Realm of Influence and its peoples. 🌫️But now you wake up with a hazy recollection in a crypt. Why are you here, and how do you escape? Who were you exactly, and what will happen to your Realm in your absence? In this Dark Souls-inspired game, you will enjoy elements of a Memento-like mystery, building/deconstructing a kingdom, and Dark Souls-style exploration and combat. 🛡️Create a formerly powerful PC with its own Realm of Influence, now jailed and devoid of power, seeking a way to return to its Realm. 🕯️Navigate the dark lands of the Gaol in search of your Memories, Powers, and an Exit. 🔥Find Embers of Evocation to rest, prepare, and Remember. 🌎Race to return to your Realm, which suffers in your absence as both worldly and cosmic forces prey on it. 🗡️Fight Epic Battles against Epic Adversaries. Bosses who are mean and mean it. 🔎True exploration: strange world, adversaries with motives and tactics, and progressive character building and subverting of your identity and backstory. ☠️Die and Respawn to learn boss tactics, just like in Dark Souls games. Death is not the end; being forgotten is the end. 😱Watch as your perception of self crumbles as you learn truths about who you are and what your Realm is. 🏰Find out whether the Realm you built will survive you or crumble into dust... Remember, a true death comes only after a true oblivion. Do not rot in this cell. Whether it's Vengeance or Redemption that you seek, move with haste, Jailed One, and break free from the Gaol! If you'd like to join the campaign, but the price seems steep, please reach out!
Game style
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Theater of the Mind
Sandbox / Open World
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(20)
4 years on StartPlaying
50 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, Teacher
Average response time: 3 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
As I was lazily scrolling on my phone during my class, I stumbled upon a thing called "Pathfinder". Little did I know that this word was about to change everything. Well, before I knew it, a decade of TTRPGs was behind me. Some of my fondest memories come from playing D&D with my friends. My favorite days of the week are the ones when I run a game! Allow me to share my joy of gaming, world-building, and connecting with others through stories! With my background in tech, education, game design, and storytelling, we are going to experience something special. My goal - to have you tell all your friends how awesomeour session was!
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Creating your character
🔹Session will be a mix of playing and reviewing characters. A Session 0.5 if you will. 🔹We will review characters, so make sure to have a character ready. We will start at level 1 using standard character creation rules. Void content is allowed! 🔹We will determine the general idea of who your character believes they are (a demigod, a great hero, a saint, an archvillain, etc), as well as what they believe their Realm is (for example, Terrible Godking of Hammerheim, the Realm of Icy Chains, or Lich-slayer, Champion Defender of Eternal Plains of Erenhold Crownlands). 🔹We will create starting connections between characters. ⭕ Nota Bene. Your character and their Realm will be flashed out through play as they reclaim their Memories. Come up with a fluid, loose concept.
☠️On Session 1 we: 🔹Review characters. 🔹Create connections. 🔹Play the Introductory Adventure.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You will need the following: 🎤A microphone that helps everyone hear you well. 🔕A quiet environment, so that we may focus on our session. 💭A Discord account, so that you may join the Discord server we will use to communicate. 🔎A web browser for Owlbear Rodeo, our digital tabletop. 📜An analog or digital character sheet. (Demiplane, Heart of Daggers, etc).
What Dungeon Matt brings to the table
⌛Over a decade of GMing TTRPGs, including classic adventures, gimmick campaigns, megadungeons, and intrigues. I have GMed in several systems, learning something new each time. Open tables with strangers, private tables with friends, online games with clients, I have done all of it. 🎻Curated soundtrack to soak the session with atmosphere. Places with leitmotifs, thrilling combat music, moments of silence. 🎤Nice microphone that makes sure you can hear me well. Coupled with my optic internet, audio should be crisp, clear, and uninterrupted. 📜 Knowledge of rules that I improve constantly. I read the source materials and participate in online conversations to learn more and understand more. And if there is ever a moment for a ruling, I err on the side of players and fun. 📆 Punctuality and consistency. I share my calendar in advance and communicate to make sure everyone is on the same page with session times and dates. 🦉 A neat digital space for playing in Owlbear Rodeo that includes some often-used rules, notes, maps, and visual aids when necessary.
Homebrew rules
🔹Avoid Death move now triggers only if all of the PCs are reduced to 0 HP (a total party kill). When that happens, the party respawns, and their Realm of Influence suffers a complication or defeat. Only then is a Scar roll made.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
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Safety
How Dungeon Matt creates a safe table
There may be some heavy topics and themes in this game. It is meant to be a dark campaign. Send me your Lines and Veils before your first session. We will also have Stars and Wishes after each session to make sure everyone is enjoying the campaign. Content warnings are not exhaustive, but if you can deal with any grittier media such as Game of Thrones, you will have no problem at my table. Sexually explicit content will not be present in the game.
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