🔒Heist & Hijinks🎉 |🔑Keys From the Golden Vault💎 | 8-Sessions

🔒Heist & Hijinks🎉 |🔑Keys From the Golden Vault💎 | 8-Sessions

A mini-campaign for lvls 1-11. You're hired to execute eight fantastical heists, putting your skills to the test and daring you to go big or go home.

TYPE

Campaign

LEVELS

1–11

LANGUAGE

English

EXPERIENCE

Open to all

AGE

18+
2 NEEDED TO START
$25.00

/ Session

Details

Weekly / Tuesday - 2:00 PM UTC

Session Duration / 3–3.5 hours

Campaign Length / Up to 8 Sessions

0 / 6 Seats Filled

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This game will begin once 2 players have joined
About the adventure

Eleven unique heists will require tactical excellence and imaginative problem solving. Will your crew rise to the occassion, or fall apart under the pressure? As a crew, you will experience... Lvl 0️⃣1️⃣:💎The Murkmire Malevolence🐉 A totally-normal-not-an-eldritch-horror gem was recently excavated, and is about to be put on display at the local museum! Your task is simple (in theory): case the place, develop a plan, and get that damn thing out of the museum and into the bag of holding before it starts to hatch! (at midnight, of course). Lvl 0️⃣3️⃣:✨Reach for the Stars🏦 A family is desperate for your help -- their son hasn't been seen in months and neither has any of his (former?) research team. The last time an adventuring party was sent to investigate, they never came back. But, time is of the essence! Turns out, the man has been working on a magical ritual that will bring about absolute destruction if it isn't stopped! Lvl 0️⃣5️⃣:🖼️Masterpiece Imbroglio🦇 There is no honor amongst thieves, especially if they start stealing from each other. Your task? Retrieve the stolen portrait from a guild of masters. Try not to set the place on fire. Lvl 0️⃣8️⃣: 🪦Shard of the Accursed🪙 An entire city is being held on the shoulders of a petrified goliath--literally. A shard of his heart has been taken, and now the city is plagued with worsening earthquakes. Can you find it, and put it back, without being caught? Or worse, dying? Lvl 0️⃣8️⃣:⚱️Heart of Ashes💗 The city of Ghalasine has shut itself off from the outside world, their King Jhaeros is no where to be found, and a dark void surrounds Castle Cinic, turning the city to ash while taking the souls of the dead in it. All you have to do is steal the King's heart to restore order... should be easy, right? Lvl 0️⃣9️⃣:👹Affair on the Concordant Express🚂 An outlaw known as the Stranger is being transported to Mechanus to stand trial for impersonating an angelic being, his latest offense. The Stranger is suspected to have committed the true names to memory, and you've been tasked with finding him and getting the Stranger to share these secrets with you. Lvl 1️⃣0️⃣:💎Party at the Paliset Hall🏦 It's the winter solstice, and Zorhanna Adulhare is holding her annual grand gala! You've been tasked with stealing Zorhanna's shard solitaire. Only problem is, Zorhanna isn't herself...rather, she's been replaced with a simulacrum while she's trapped inside the shard, forced to watch the outside world with no control over her body! Lvl 1️⃣1️⃣:😈Fire and Darkness🐦‍🔥 Vrakir, an efreeti who has spent centuries burning countless cities to ash, has locked away the Book of Vile Darkness in the prison fortress, Brimstone Hold. With the book, Vrakir's quest to spread and strengthen his evil hold will become nearly invincible. You've been given the task of finding and retrieving this book! Whether or not you survive the heist, much less withstand the book's influence, remains to be seen.

Game style

Combat Heavy

Roleplay Heavy

Rule of Cool (RoC)

Meet the Game Master
LGBTQ+
Neurodivergent
Artist
Educator
Women/Femme Identifying
No Gen AI

Less than a year on StartPlaying

50 games hosted

Highly rated for: Inclusive, Visual Aid, Creativity

Average response time: Under 1 hour

Response rate: 100%

About me

When you love storytelling and have a penchant for chaos, all roads (eventually) lead to TTRPG. I came to tabletop roleplay later in life (2023) but my love for crafting stories and roleplaying online started in 2005. When you're plagued with visions and brainworms aplenty, there's nothing I love more than detailing a scene like I'm storyboarding a movie. Yes, we know where the action is leading us, but how are we getting there? Is it with a comedic flair, or a penchant for angst and dramatics? Those are the details I highlight when setting the scene. Offline, I provide individual and group therapy to children and teens, including a year-round D&D teen night and week-long D&D program in the summer! I have presented at local, national, and international conferences, on my most favorite topic of all: utilizing tabletop gaming to support social skills and emotional flexibility. When I'm not gaming (Sims4, CitiesSkylines), you're likely to find me doomscrolling on tumblr and organizing my 100+ open tabs on AO3. Please note, my games and discord community are firmly AI-free.

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Character creation

Creating your character

Characters should be ready to go at session start, and made on DnDBeyond.com. Standard Array for ability scores should be used. Most homebrew and source material is welcome; just remember we start as Level 1 characters executing a heist in a museum.

The current party

This oneshot is best run with three players involved. However, an NPC (tiefling bard) will be added to the party if there are only 2 players signed up. The bi-weekly campaign will start no sooner than Tuesday, 6/30. There will be no session on 7/14.

What to expect

Preparing for the session

You will need a Discord & DnDBeyond account to play. Both accounts are free to create. My Discord server will be used for audio, and DnDBeyond for VTT. If you create your character within the campaign, you will have access to my source books. You Character's picture on DnDBeyond will be their token during gameplay.

What Erika Kathryn brings to the table

Character sheets, Maps, and Dice Rolling will be ran through DnDBeyond. Discord will be used for audio, including background music to help set the scene. We follow the Rule of Cool here, and make liberal use of in-character dialogue and narration. You can do as much as you are comfortable with, and I welcome the melding of minds if you have a specific vision for how a conversation or action goes down! Creative choices will be honored, 9 times out of 10. If it adds to the narrative, it's likely game!

Homebrew rules

I assume every character comes into session with a potion of healing equipped. One uncommon or two common magical items are welcome.

Equipment needed to play

Internet

Computer

Microphone

Safety

How Erika Kathryn creates a safe table

Once you get set up in my discord server, you can message me any specific lines/veils you want to be observed. Similarly, we'll do a brief check in prior to game start to make sure everyone is comfortable with the set up. Breaks are taken about 60-90-minutes into gameplay, and you are more than welcome to step away should you need to outside of that. I appreciate stars and wishes post-gameplay, even in oneshots.

Content warnings

Language/Cursing
Violence
Blood

Safety tools used

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