The Guild of Unfinished Business - 5E - Play-by-Post

Creating your character

- D&D 5e - Official published material welcome - homebrew allowed with permission - New and experienced players encouraged - Character backstories will matter - Personal goals, flaws, and relationships will be incorporated into the campaign - Need to have a reason to be willing to take jobs for money. We will discuss character concepts before beginning the campaign to fine tune them for the campaign.

Preparing for the session

You will need a Discord account and a DnDBeyond account. VTT can be determined as a group (Owlbear Rodeo is nice and won't require you to make accounts).

What Nikki brings to the table

My games are first and foremost about collaborative storytelling, character development, and creating memorable moments together. While combat absolutely has a place in the story, it isn't usually the centerpiece. Expect encounters with meaningful stakes, opportunities for creative problem solving, and conflicts that grow naturally from the narrative rather than existing simply for the sake of having a fight. Because this campaign revolves around an adventuring guild taking on contracts, there is room for an enormous variety of stories and settings. One assignment might send you into a classic high-fantasy kingdom to investigate a dragon cult. The next could involve a gothic manor filled with restless spirits, a strange sci-fi ruin left behind by an ancient civilization, a mystery in a bustling modern city, or a surreal journey into a dreamlike realm where reality itself behaves differently. The guild structure allows us to explore different genres, themes, and tones while still maintaining a consistent cast of characters and an ongoing story. You can expect a world filled with recurring NPCs, rival adventuring groups, guild officials, strange patrons, allies, villains, and people whose lives are changed by your actions. I love building relationships between player characters and NPCs, and I enjoy giving characters personal story arcs that evolve alongside the larger campaign. As a GM, I tend to favor character-driven storytelling over strictly sticking to the rules as written. I enjoy rewarding creativity, clever ideas, and dramatic choices. I generally lean toward Rule of Cool when it enhances the story and creates exciting moments, while still maintaining enough structure and consistency for your choices and abilities to feel meaningful. Rules matter, but the story comes first. Roleplay is heavily encouraged, and players who enjoy developing relationships, pursuing personal goals, engaging with the world, and helping shape the narrative will likely get the most out of this game. Whether we're solving mysteries, exploring forgotten ruins, negotiating peace between rival factions, surviving a horror scenario, or uncovering secrets buried across worlds, my goal is always the same: create a story that feels uniquely shaped by the characters at the table.

How Nikki creates a safe table

Each player will be given a consent sheet full of different possible triggers to mark as green, yellow or red that I will keep on hand - to be completed before we start the campaign. Since we are playing asynchronously, any time a player needs to stop a scene or moment, I ask that they please DM me as soon as they can and I will step in and pivot the convo as necessary.