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Beginner Adventurers Wanted! 📜 Phandelver, Below and Beyond
A routine escort mission devolves into a mischievous goblinoid plot that reveals threats far more sinister lying in wait below the surface.
$25.00
/ Session
Details
Weekly / Tuesday - 6:00 PM UTC
Session Duration / 3–3.5 hours
Campaign Length / 35–50 Sessions
2 / 5 Seats Filled
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Meet your party members
2/5
About the adventure
Looking for coin? renown? adventure, or just a change of pace? Well, a dwarven prospector is willing to hire you and some fellow capable compatriots to escort his equipment along the road from the great city of Neverwinter to the bustling frontier mining town of Phandalin. Should be simple, right? ⛏️ Delve into ancient ruins left behind by fallen civilisations ⚔️ Face mischievous goblins, forgotten undead and alien aberrations 🎭 Make your choices matter in a living world with vibrant NPCs 🏰 Build your base of operations with a bastion 🌌 Little did you know, this simple escort quest would later reveal mischievous goblinoid plots and deadly eldritch horrors lying in wait below the surface. So, do you dare to delve below and uncover the ancient mystery of the Shattered Obelisk? What can you expect in a typical session? 🤔 🎭 Captivating role-play with voiced NPCs ⚔️ Epic and challenging combat scenarios 📘📕 A range of narrative choices and consequences 🗺️ Premium visuals and sounds for the vibes 🎮 Gameplay breakdown: - Combat encounters: ⚔️⚔️⚔️ - Social roleplay: 🎭🎭🎭 - Exploration and survival: ⛏️⛏️⛏️ This journey will begin with a motley band of beginner adventurers meeting for the first time in a tavern and going on adventures throughout the Neverwinter/Phandalin region of the Sword Coast in the Forgotten Realms. My Session Zeros are free.
Game style
Combat Heavy
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(52)
3 years on StartPlaying
527 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Sets the Mood, Teacher
Average response time: 5 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
🧙🏾 Greetings, Adventurer! And welcome to my table! I appreciate you stopping by. 📚 My time as a biologist has taught me that humans are a storytelling species. It would be my great pleasure to help you tell your heroic story in a fun, engaging and fantastical way! 🛠️ I enjoy constantly experimenting with storytelling tools, game design concepts, world-building, voice impressions and digital tools to create iteratively immersive and fun experiences for my players. 🎲 I have been rolling dice and telling stories with my friends, family, and local gaming club in South Africa for over a decade now. My love of fantasy began with Brian Jacques' Redwall series and other fantasy novels, then moved on to JRPGs like the Final Fantasy series, and now I get to tell my own fantasy stories for a living!
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Creating your character
Characters will be created in a campaign on D&D Beyond and then ported to Foundry VTT. The party will start at level 1 with regular starting equipment. Point-buy or standard array for stats and fixed HP. We will be using the 2024 Rules. To keep things simple, try keeping to the official 2024 published character options. Other sources will be considered on a case-by-case basis, but you're welcome to run it by me.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
🎮 If you don't already, you will need free Discord, D&D Beyond and Sqyre.app accounts. Nothing needs to be purchased. 🎙️ A good mic and headset are recommended for voice communication on Discord. 🎲 A browser plugin called Beyond20 can be used to send your D&D Beyond rolls to Foundry. 🔉 You will receive a link to the Discord Server beforehand, where you can find the rest of the setup information. 🧑 Please send me any pictures of your character ahead of time so that tokens can be created. ✍️ A half-page character backstory would be nice, but is not mandatory.
What Yanas brings to the table
🎮 Most character options on D&D Beyond. 🗺️ Premium battle maps and scenes. 🔉 Syrinscape (sound effects) and music subscriptions. 🎲 Minor homebrew aimed to reduce gameplay frustration.
Homebrew rules
- Maximum healing for potions. - Improved critical damage. - Distraction reaction.
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Headphones
Internet
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How Yanas creates a safe table
In the FREE Session Zero, we will: - Go over some content disclaimers - Go over the safety tools used - Go over some of the major gameplay and introductory lore beats - Go over character creation rules and assistance if needed - Get familiarised with my instance of Foundry VTT - A practice combat encounter to test your character I am open to receiving lines, veils and cards digitally to my DMs before the game and at any point, and publicly at session zero if you are comfortable with that. I will accept feedback after sessions, and you can either let the group know publicly or DM me privately afterwards.
Content warnings
Safety tools used