Lost Mine Of Phandelver | For Beginners | 5.5 Edition

Creating your character

For character creation, we will use options available in the Player's Handbook (5.5 Edition) and Forgotten Realms: Heroes Of Faerun. Once you join the campaign, you'll have access to our table's Discord server, which will include information on how to create your character in D&D Beyond. We will also have a session 0 (free of charge!) where we will go over technology tutorial, character creation, basic rules of play, and answer any questions you may have.

Preparing for the session

To play, you will need the following: *Webcam & Microphone *D&D Beyond Account (for campaign and character sheets) *Discord Account (I encourage to use the app over the web broswer) *Web Browser (to access our VTT, D&D Beyond's "Maps VTT") *Dice (either digital or physical) I'll send you a link to our D&D Beyond Campaign and Discord Server when you join. The Discord server will give you all the information you need in terms of character creation, gameplay expectations, etc. All communications and sessions will take place in Discord. You can create a character and their backstory in D&D Beyond prior to Session 0 (which I strongly encourage) but you can wait until we have our session 0 before creating one if you want assistance. Know that your character and backstory may change during/after Session 0, which is totally fine to do and I will be available to help support you in building your character.

What Crit Hit The Giant brings to the table

We will have a Session 0 (for free!) before we start the campaign. In this session, I will walk you through the technology we will use for gameplay. We will also go through safety tools, gameplay expectations, and have everyone introduce themselves so that you can have a sense of the table and confirm that this is a good fit for you and for everyone at the table before we start the campaign. I will bring the source materials you need to play: The Player's Handbook and the "Forgotten Realms: Heroes Of Faerun" book, as well as some other options. My GM'ing style is: *A narrator that wants to see your character overcome obstacles ad achieve epic moments *Support you all in learning how to play and to have fun while we play. *Use music and character voices in my game style as I try to make it feel as real as possible. I'm always open to answering questions and suggestions from players and allow time for you to follow and understand how the game is played as well.

Homebrew rules

I will provide a full list of homebrew rules that I implement in my games when you join. Some of the homebrew rules that I incorporate that are popularly known in D&D are: - Perkins' Critical Hits (max damage on one dice set, then add your rolled damage dice) - Critical Success on Saving Throws (natural 20 means you take no damage even if you take half) - Group Maneuvers, which allows you to use your reaction to do a cool tag team move with your other party members once you learn it (but be careful - enemies also have this capability as well!) - Heroic Failure (on a natural 1, you can take the automatic success but you can also elect to add more to the failure by adding an additional consequence. In return, you can give your party Heroic Inspiration) - Spell Scrolls can be used by anyone (there are checks that you will have to pass. Failing does result in a consequence) - And more!

How Crit Hit The Giant creates a safe table

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