The Great Mind Flayer Train Robbery 🦑🚂 🌄 Spireward Bound

Creating your character

I'm very happy to provide support over text and video/voice chat! This campaign makes quite heavy use of homebrew material (discussed below), so I'm very keen to help. You can also take a look at the ready-made characters through the Google Drive link below. Player characters will be level 8 at the start of the campaign and level up roughly every four sessions - if you're joining mid-campaign I'll let you know where we're up to. Core attributes are set through Standard Array. You are free to use any race/species and background combo from throughout the 2014 rules, the weirder the mix of PCs the merrier! You are free to play any of the core classes, but you must use its new subclass in the Arcane Artillery homebrew module (see below). You're free to select spells from the 2014 PHB, but I'd highly recommend taking a good look at the new homebrew spells. As starting equipment, use your class and background's normal equipment, but change your starting weapons. Take two non-magical weapons from the PHB you have proficiency with, and two firearms from the Updated Firearms Table doc that you are proficient with. Make one a +1 weapon. Have a think about where/when your character has come from across the D&D multiverse, tell me one regret they have, and two important relationships in their lives. Your character may not belong to an Evil alignment.

Preparing for the session

On top of making your character, you need to: - have a mic, headphones, and computer with an internet connection - have a read of the homebrew below - ensure you have access to Discord and have followed the link supplied after sign-up

What Jacob brings to the table

I bring almost a decade of DMing experience, a carefully crafted Owlbear Rodeo setup, and some sharp improv skills. I'll provide all the rulebooks you need for character creation and playing the game. You can expect open ended challenges with a variety of paths to take - combat is there and its sharp, but you can often get around it too.

Homebrew rules

This game makes use of two homebrew systems. First, character creation, available weapons and magic items, and additional available spells can be found in the Arcane Artillery homebrew module. This module adds a new firearms-themed subclass for each of the D&D base classes (except for Druid) which are highly recommended to fit the setting and tone of the adventure. The module's weapons list has been narrowed down for this campaign, which can be viewed in the Updated Firearms Table doc. Second, the adventure will periodically make use of a new duelling system, intended to provide a middle ground between full D&D combat and a simple skill check. These systems are all detailed in this Google Drive folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zLfgPM88LeRwWYVChdB7DiK6TU2bXc8I?usp=sharing

How Jacob creates a safe table

Before playing, I'll ask you to fill out a copy of the Monte Cook RPG Consent Checklist so we can establish acceptable content for the campaign. During play, you'll have easy access to X, N, & O cards to regulate play. And after each session we'll have a chat about how everything's gone.