Abomination Vaults : Gauntwatch|GM🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️|D&D 5th Edition
"When the fog is creeping, And the moon is low; When the town is sleeping, Gauntlight starts to glow!"
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1 player following this game
Weekly / Monday - 2:00 PM UTC
Jul 13 / Session 4
Session Duration / 3–3.5 hours
4 / 6 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
Otari is a thriving, diverse lumber town and trade port with a storied past and its fair share of sinister secrets. Founded by a group of adventurers over 400 years ago, the town has weathered attacks from kobolds and strange monsters, economic woes and windfalls, and cycles of prosperity and strife. Today, the town is a prosperous community and one of the largest settlements along the island’s southern coast. About a half hour’s walk north of Otari is a sprawling swamp called Fogfen. Ruined Gauntlight Keep lies within, overgrown with moss and overrun with vermin. Over the last several generations, hopeful explorers have poked around the ruins, but they’re generally considered unsafe and wholly picked over today. The most mysterious feature of Gauntlight Keep is a lighthouse that towers above the ruins, curiously far from the shore. The lighthouse hasn’t ever shone its light in living memory, but there’s nevertheless a vague unease about the structure in Otari—if its eerie light shines, sinister things must be afoot. This campaign is a heavily modified version of the popular adventuring path "Abomination Vaults" first published for Pathfinder 2nd Edition and now converted into D&D 5th Edition. This game begins at 1st level and is open to players both new and old. Nearly 500 years has passed since the Gauntlight dimmed and evil was defeated. And after all, in that time, it has only posed a menace to Otari through sinister old nursery rhymes. Or so the citizens of Otari believe.
Game style
Combat Heavy
Dungeon Crawl
Sandbox / Open World
Tactical / Crunchy
Rule of Cool (RoC)
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About me
Hey y'all, I'm Penny your Southern gothic trans femme DM! She/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ I'm an Eberron and Athasian enthusiast who has been running tabletop adventures, creating new worlds, and telling stories for parties of all sizes for over the last two decades. I prioritize community, safety, and party cooperation in my campaigns - no one person may save the world (or destroy it) on their own. Bringing unique, individual character stories together, melding those with memorable NPC companions, and creating dynamic challenges both in and out of initiative is all part of my recipe to deliver a campaign the party will recall for years onward. I've ran sessions for new and veteran players alike; in fact, many of my StartPlaying campaigns have been joined by players starting off on their very first TTRPG adventures. Be you old or new to the wider TTRPG universe, you have a friendly table waiting for you here to teach you all you'll need to know or maybe just polish up those old roleplaying skills. While I am a roleplaying Dungeon Master first an foremost, I do also employ a bit of "shiny" distraction in the way of high-production battle encounters and role-playing scenes. From vibrant battle maps and combat animations to dynamic lighting, sounds, and music, to fully automated character sheets that roll your dice with a single click, you can be assured you'll be immersed in the scene and not thinking about all the numbers all from behind your monitor. Thank you for checking out my profile. I hope to meet you at the table soon! Happy roleplaying!
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Creating your character
You will begin this adventure at Level 1. Please use the Character Creation Document (provided to you upon joining the game); it should hopefully answer most character creation questions. There will be a DNDBeyond Campaign Link for these new character sheets to be built in. You do not need to own anything in DNDBeyond; I own all of the content we will use for this session, and it will be shared with you. We can discuss character stories, themes, etc. before the session and during Session Zero. If you have any questions the guide does not answer, please feel free to DM me to discuss.
The Crow's Cask tavern calls to newcomers to join in for a pint and a story of adventure. Join us each Monday morning @ 10:00 AM EST to catch the tales. Our party is at 1st level and consists of... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Players should prepare by reading the Character Creation Document, creating their character sheets in DNDBeyond via the campaign link, and checking out our FoundryVTT server where they can test out all of the virtual tabletop's features. You will need access to the following: - A desktop PC or laptop. - Discord, headphones, and a working microphone. Webcams encourged. - A reliable internet connection. I have found Edge or Chrome run FoundryVTT well for browser options. - You, and a willingness hop in and roleplay!
What Penny May brings to the table
I will provide you access to our campaign's virtual spaces in DNDBeyond, Discord, and FoundryVTT. As our adventure will be entirely digital, we can travel light on supplies! Please review the list of items above for all necessary tools.
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Headphones
Internet
Microphone
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Safety
How Penny May creates a safe table
~ DM's Note on Content Warnings ~ The list of possible triggers/content warnings contains subjects that may or may not appear in this campaign. If anything (on or off the list) is an explicit trigger for you, I'm happy to talk with you and be sure those subjects are handled however best suits you. Please note this list is not comprehensive and can be adjusted at any time to suit players' needs.
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