Age of Umbra - A Beginner Friendly Daggerheart Campaign
As seen on Critical Role - In a dark and broken age, you are heroic survivors desperately trying to hunt down nightmares and keep your community safe.
$25.00
/ Session
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4 players following this game
Weekly / Monday - 6:30 PM UTC
Session Duration / 2.5–3 hours
Campaign Length / 5+ Sessions
1 / 5 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
**Free Session Zero** A Daggerheart campaign for everyone - whether you've never played before or have been following and playing the game since it was announced! This will be a campaign focused on roleplaying, storytelling and collaboration in which all the players have a real chance to impact the world with their own imaginations, as we build it together. Part Heroic fantasy, part survival horror, the Age of Umbra Campaign Frame draws on the influences of Dark Souls and other dystopic fantasies. This campaign will draw from the players' imaginations as well as mine to create a dark fantasy world of dread, horror, but also glimpses of light and transcendence.
Game style
Roleplay Heavy
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(18)
2 years on StartPlaying
61 games hosted
Highly rated for: Voices, Creativity, Storytelling
Average response time: Under 1 hour
Response rate: 100%
About me
Welcome to my page, adventurer… I’m Josh, also known as Faz and The Thespian Gamesmaster. 🎭 actor 🔮 improviser 🎤 voice over artist, 🧑🏫 acting teacher ♾️ autistic 🐶 dog owner 🏳️🌈LGBTQIA+ & BIPOC Friendly and, most importantly, 📖🧝♀️🐉👻🧛📖 Gamesmaster. I’ve been playing roleplaying games for many decades now, and gamesmastering them for almost that long. I have hosted long running campaigns in every Dungeons and Dragons edition since Advanced, The World of Darkness, Deadlands, Call of Cthulhu and 7th Sea – as well as running one shots and shorter adventures in numerous other systems. At the moment I’m also interested in running Daggerheart, as it leans so well into the collaborative storytelling space where I’m happiest and think I have the most to offer my players. I bring a sense of fun to my games, and want to include everyone in the wonder and joy of creating a world and adventuring together, discovering epic and comic highlights. As an actor, I’ve worked at the Royal National Theatre and Shakespeare’s Globe, as well as London’s West End, among many other fine theatres. My voice over credits include numerous plays on BBC Radio 4, various audiobooks and you can hear me on such films as The Prince of Persia, John Carter and A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey. I’ve taught improvisation at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Drama Studio London, and am currently the improvisational acting teacher on the Musical Theatre course at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In improvisation, I’ve appeared in almost all of the London 50 hour improv marathons, I’ve worked with The Showstoppers and am a founding member of the award-winning School of Night. I recently played the late great Gary Gygax, at the 2026 London Improvathon. "Having played in many 50 Hour London Improvathons with Josh, I can personally vouch for his improvisational and narrative skills! Any players at his table will be in more than capable hands." - Mark Meer, (male) Captain Shepard from Mass Effect, genius improviser and DM.
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Creating your character
You're welcome to look at the rulebook and come up with ideas, and we'll be creating characters together during our session zero. If there's a particular class that you'd like to play, you'll be able to reserve that on my discord server on a first come, first served basis. We'll be using official published classes only, so just the main rulebook until the Hope and Fear sourcebook is released.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You'll need free accounts on Discord, and Fantasy Grounds, which can be found at https://www.fantasygrounds.com/ - it needs to be installed but it's free to play. We may migrate to Alchemy (also free) later on, once they've ironed out their system.
What The Thespian GM brings to the table
I offer collaboration as we shape the world of our campaign together. I'll be led by the players in the sandbox style, shaping our play by what the group is most interested in. I'm a professional actor and voice over artist, and I promise well rounded and differently accented NPCs and dramatic situations. I don't envisage the game being too combat heavy, but what there is will be intense. I embrace the rule of cool - as I think does the Daggerheart system.
Homebrew rules
None
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Webcam
Platforms used
Safety
How The Thespian GM creates a safe table
We will be discussing Lines and Veils in the session zero, and drawing up a document from that. We'll also use the Fantasy Grounds X card add on.
Content warnings
Safety tools used