📖It's a Campus Kerfuffle!🐸|🔮Strixhaven Year 1️⃣| 4-Sessions
Strixhaven, within the city of Silverymoon, is about to start the academic year. It's your Freshman year, surely nothing could go wrong.
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Bi-weekly / Friday - 12:00 PM UTC
Session Duration / 2.5–3 hours
Campaign Length / 4 Sessions
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About the adventure
Whether you're the first in your family to go to college or a legacy student, there's room for everyone at Strixhaven! Enrollment is competitive, but you made it! Everything from here should be a piece of cake! (when is college ever that easy?) 📖Your first day on campus flies by as you find yourself in the middle of orientation. It's more than just getting your books and meeting co-eds, as you've stumbled into a scavenger hunt, of all things?? 🐸You've finally settled into classes (and maybe got yourself a campus job or joined a club or two!) when a popular campus cafe is over run by...frogs? Don't get too distracted, though, or else you might miss the first round of exams! 🦉Now level 2, you're well into the swing of things! Rushing from tavern games to exams is no sweat for you. Until you're challenged to execute a heist, in Captain Dapplewing's Manor of all places! 🦕Level 3 starts with your third and final exam for the year, and ends with the dazzling Rose Stage Festival! Whether you plan to perform or eat popcorn from the stands (tomatoes at the ready), the entire school is planning to be there. ⭐⭐⭐ This four-session series is the first in a set of four mini-campaigns. Individuals can jump in at any time (we love late-term transfer students!) or take a semester or two off while traveling the world (no long-term committment required or expected, to stay on for future campaigns). Freshman Year takes players from levels 1 through 3. Sophomore Year starts at level 4, Junior Year at level 6, and Senior Year at level 8. Graduates leave Strixhaven at level 10, with a college degree (and hopefully not a dragon's hoard's worth of student loans) and lifelong friends (at least until you all move away and stop talking after a few years. But hey, you'll always have the memories [...and scars]!)
Game style
Roleplay Heavy
Combat Lite
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
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Less than a year on StartPlaying
19 games hosted
Highly rated for: Inclusive, Visual Aid, Creativity
Average response time: 2 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
When you love storytelling and have a penchant for chaos, all roads (eventually) lead to TTRPG. I came to tabletop roleplay later in life (2023) but my love for crafting stories and roleplaying online started in 2005. When you're plagued with visions and brainworms aplenty, there's nothing I love more than detailing a scene like I'm storyboarding a movie. Yes, we know where the action is leading us, but how are we getting there? Is it with a comedic flair, or a penchant for angst and dramatics? Those are the details I highlight when setting the scene. Offline, I GM for my friends on the weekend and during the week, I lead social skills groups for neurodiverse adolescents (including a bi-weekly D&D night!). When I'm not gaming (Sims4, CitiesSkylines), you're likely to find me doomscrolling on tumblr and organizing my 100+ open tabs on AO3.
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Creating your character
Characters should be ready to go at session start, and made on DnDBeyond.com. Standard Array for ability scores should be used. Most homebrew and source material is welcome (i.e., 2014 when the feature hasn't been updated for 2024); just remember we are playing as Level 1 characters about to start their first year in college! While this campaign does not include character selection of “colleges” (freshmen are “undecided” the first year) the module does include recommendations regarding which classes/subclasses are best suited for the five different colleges. A more detailed breakdown of this will be available on the discord, and guidance is available! If you have a specific college in mind, I can detail some PC build ideas. Similarly, if you have a specific class/subclass in mind, I can detail which colleges may be best suited to that build. It’s not all warlocks and sorcerers and wizards here! Clerics and Druids and even Paladins can find themselves enrolled at Strixhaven! (Or maybe you’re a Fighter who’s thinking of multiclassing and decided what better what to do that than enrolling in the local university!). We can make most anything work — if you have an idea, we can spin it to make it happen.
This module is best run with four to six players. If we start with three, an NPC will be added as the fourth. The game will start no sooner than 4/24 or 5/8. No matter when we start, there will be no session on 5/22 or 6/19.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You will need a Discord & DnDBeyond account to play. Both accounts are free to create. My Discord server will be used for audio, and DnDBeyond for VTT. If you create your character within the campaign, you will have access to my source books. You Character's picture on DnDBeyond will be their token during gameplay.
What Erika Kathryn brings to the table
Character sheets, Maps, and Dice Rolling will be ran through DnDBeyond. Discord will be used for audio, including background music to help set the scene. We follow the Rule of Cool here, and make liberal use of in-character dialogue and narration. You can do as much as you are comfortable with, and I welcome the melding of minds if you have a specific vision for how a conversation or action goes down! Creative choices will be honored, 9 times out of 10. If it adds to the narrative, it's likely game!
Homebrew rules
I assume every character comes into session with a potion of healing equipped. One uncommon or two common magical items are welcome.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How Erika Kathryn creates a safe table
Once you get set up in my discord server, you can message me any specific lines/veils you want to be observed. Similarly, we'll do a brief check in prior to game start to make sure everyone is comfortable with the set up. Breaks may be taken about 60-90-minutes into gameplay, and you are more than welcome to step away should you need to at any time. I appreciate stars and wishes post-gameplay, even in oneshots.
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