Odzihodo | Exoplanet exploration, base-building, and combat
Explore an unmapped planet, gather resources, research tech, build bases, and figure out why every previous landing party disappeared.
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Weekly / Friday - 10:00 PM UTC
Session Duration / 3–4 hours
0 / 5 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
Attention [PIONEER NAME]: You are currently entering the atmosphere of exoplanet Tabaldak. You and your team will land planetside within ten minutes. Due to the abundance of resources on the planet and the low capacity of this lander, once you recover from the effects of cryosleep your team will be responsible for establishing a sustainable outpost. Per the terms of your agreement with Trailblazer Industries, your primary objective is to map as much of the local area as possible and establish a footing for future operations when and if they occur. Please note that forty-five previous landing missions on Tabaldak have all failed. Sporadic final transmissions suggest that a hostile form of alien life is responsible. Caution--and heavy weaponry--is advised. --- Inspired by exploration and survival games like Subnautica and No Man's Sky, Odzihodo is a D&D 4E campaign about exploring an unknown sci-fi world. It involves venturing into unknown lands, discovering new forms of life, startling freedom in equipment management, handwaved technology based on my limited understanding of how science works, and cool future guns.
Game style
Hexcrawl / Exploration
Sandbox / Open World
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(4)
1 year on StartPlaying
2 games hosted
Highly rated for: Knows the Rules, Creativity, Rule of Cool
About me
I hit the 10,000-hour mark in tabletop roleplay years ago, but golly there's still so much neat stuff I haven't played. I wrote D&D Stats in Simple Language, which you can still find scattered all over the web today, and I DM according to The Laws (below).
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Creating your character
For character creation, we pick the power level of the campaign and roll five stats; the sixth stat will be assigned to balance things out (that is, if you roll 15/14/13/12/10 you'll get a worse sixth stat than the person who rolled 16/10/10/10/10). The game will probably begin at L1, and we'll discuss the party composition and character traits during Session 0. I prefer to keep things to first-party books; anything that's not standard is subject to approval so nobody's using six playtest documents and a spell you found on Stack Overflow.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You will need Discord and a microphone but not a webcam. I'd prefer to run game using Maptool but I might be able to muddle my way through Foundry. You should have *some* understanding of the rules of D&D 4E; novice players are welcome but I expect you to have read your powers and learned what they do before your turn starts.
What MssngrDeath brings to the table
I use MapTool as a VTT, though I'm comfortable sharing it on Discord et al so not everybody has to install it. It's mostly for tactical positioning and to show off pretty pretty maps and pictures. I encourage roleplay and reskinning in characters--the campaign concept more or less requires heavy reskinning--and I'll usually tell you if you're about to do something that will get everybody killed because I don't want to end the game early either. The mechanical challenge rating in my campaigns can spike pretty high but it's not there all the time; players deserve a chance to run roughshod over minions now and again.
Homebrew rules
There will be a lot of reskinning; the Arcana skill will become Science, Dungeoneering will become Engineering, etc. I have a healthy disrespect for the rules, so I try to follow them but I generally have leeway for something that's clever, entertaining, or likely to succeed (pick two).
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Microphone
Computer or Mobile Device
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Safety
How MssngrDeath creates a safe table
Session Zero involves discussion regarding The Laws (https://www.dmingwithcharisma.com/the-laws/) and the Same Page Tool (https://bankuei.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/the-same-page-tool/) to make sure we're all playing the same game. X, N, and O cards may be vocalized or sent via DMs during the session and may always be discussed after the session
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