Grand Theft Auto: Dis City

Creating your character

Bring a character who belongs in a stolen infernal muscle car with bad credit, worse impulse control, and at least one enemy who wants them dead twice. Characters will be created before the first session using D&D Beyond and the 2024 D&D 5e rules. We’ll start at the campaign’s listed level, with details confirmed before play. New players are welcome, but this game moves fast, so come ready to make choices, talk trash, take risks, and occasionally ask, “Is this a terrible idea?” right before doing it. Your character should have a reason to survive in Dis City: money, revenge, power, freedom, fame, unpaid soul debt, criminal ambition, or just a deep personal commitment to making Hell everyone else’s problem. Any official 2024-compatible options are usually fine, but keep the tone in mind. This is not a “humble farm kid saves the realm” campaign. This is a game for warlocks with warrants, paladins with anger issues, rogues with business plans, clerics who have seen too much, barbarians with street racing trophies, and bards who absolutely know a guy. We’ll make sure everyone fits the world, the crew, and the chaos.

Preparing for the session

Before we hit the streets of Dis City, you’ll need two things: Discord and D&D Beyond. Discord will be our voice chat, planning room, meme dumpster, panic bunker, and place where bad ideas become worse ideas with scheduling attached. Please make sure your mic works, your audio is decent, and you can reliably hear the rest of the crew. Push-to-talk is welcome if your keyboard sounds like a goblin falling down stairs. D&D Beyond will be used for character sheets and rules reference. Please have your character created there before the first session unless we have already agreed to build it together. Your sheet does not need to be perfect, but it should be playable, readable, and not held together with infernal duct tape. Before session one: • Join the Discord server • Create or confirm your D&D Beyond account • Build your character sheet • Have a working microphone • Read the campaign description so you know what kind of beautiful disaster you are signing up for • Bring at least one reason your character is in Dis City and one reason they have not left, died, or been repossessed yet No need to memorize every rule. Just show up ready to play, make choices, and survive the consequences of whatever crime the party insists is “basically a victimless felony.”

What Mike Siscoe brings to the table

I provide the city. You provide the bad ideas. Expect a fast, cinematic, player-driven campaign where Rule of Cool sits on the throne wearing stolen sunglasses. If you come up with something wild, stylish, reckless, hilarious, or just barely defensible under the laws of physics and D&D, I will do my best to make it possible, dangerous, and worth remembering. I’ll provide the world of Dis City: factions, gangs, devil bosses, corrupt cops, cursed highways, weird jobs, dangerous NPCs, heists, rival crews, supernatural trouble, and enough consequences to keep the engine smoking. This is a sandbox, not a theme park ride. Your choices matter, your reputation follows you, and the city will absolutely remember who blew up that one building. We’ll use Discord for voice, planning, table chatter, and between-session chaos. D&D Beyond will handle character sheets and rules reference, so everyone can spend less time hunting numbers and more time making terrible decisions with confidence. My GM style is high-energy, flexible, and cinematic. I like big scenes, sharp pacing, character moments, messy choices, dark comedy, dangerous fights, and letting players drive the story straight through the guardrail. There will be tactical combat when it matters, but I care more about momentum, creativity, and memorable moments than stopping the game to argue over three feet of movement. I’ll bring voices, music, atmosphere, custom missions, recurring villains, faction drama, and a world that reacts when you kick it in the teeth. No judgment for chaos. Just consequences.

How Mike Siscoe creates a safe table

This game is Hell, but the table is not. Grand Theft Auto: Dis City is loud, violent, chaotic, profane, and aimed at adults, but player comfort comes first. The goal is dangerous fun, not making anyone sit through something that ruins their night. We can have devils, crime, horror, betrayal, blood, fire, bad decisions, and absolute nonsense without being careless with real people. We’ll start with a Session Zero to set expectations, tone, boundaries, and table rules before the campaign gets rolling. We’ll talk about what kind of chaos everyone wants, what content is off-limits, what should fade to black, and how hard we want to lean into horror, violence, comedy, crime, and adult themes. We’ll use Lines and Veils/X, N, and O style safety tools. X means stop or remove the content. N means slow down, check in, or steer away. O means this is okay and can continue. Players can use these during play by speaking up, messaging me privately, or using whatever method feels easiest in the moment. No one has to explain or defend a boundary. The Open Door is always in effect. If you need to step away, take a break, mute, message me, or leave the session for any reason, that is completely fine. Real life wins. Comfort wins. Nobody gets guilt-tripped for needing space. We’ll also do quick check-ins when needed, especially after intense scenes. The tone may be wild, but the table should feel clear, respectful, and safe enough for everyone to make terrible fictional decisions together.