ME Seitz's Hellspawn

Creating your character

You deserve to feel good in your own skin. You may create your own character with point buy or other similar balanced stats. I'll take a look at your stats and confirm if they are balanced for the game. You can have already made a character or make one in session zero. You can have as much or as little backstory as you desire all I ask is that you engage with the story in each session and roleplay enough to emerse yourself in the experience unique to D&D. I ask this because that is exactly what I am trying to offer and why I feel justified in sharing that service, I want to ensure that it is a high quality and worth your time experience. I encourage but not demand players to give their characters some form of immortality. Races such as Warforged are inherently immortal. Otherwise, you can create your character as usual and simply give them a modifier I have adjusted from the "reborn" and similar lineages that are available within the canon of D&D. My only hard rule would be that celestials are not playable in this campaign as it would be too disjointed from the storyline. I have an app that I use called "Fifth Edition Character Sheet," but other options exist and are typically legal in my games. Difficulty is determined by balance, I'm sorry to say, it is an illusion. If you min-max your character, that is make your character as powerful as possible, I will make the encounters more difficult. So feel free to min-max if that is your form of fun, I can balance it. Furthermore, do not feel afraid of making a character that does not preform well in combat. Combat can still be engaging with "bad" characters. Often, raw damage is the most boring way to win an encounter. I will alway encourage a "dump stat" or "mid stats" in order to give a unique and unforgettable personality to your play.

Preparing for the session

You will be invited to a Discord server and given a role to be part of your campaign. The server will be organized and have a couple of tabs you can keep notes in or talk with your fellow players and me. You are always welcome to direct message me on Discord. I will also introduce some web based websites for anonymous messaging during campaigns.

What Samuel Seitz brings to the table

You can expect the rules to stand as a default but be adjusted in certain situations, perhaps as plot hooks or in order to make the story more interesting. Some level of rules are necessary to keep the story grounded and engaging. Always being spoonfed leads to stale D&D experiences; I will ask that you be creative and intelligent---in your own unique way---to do well in my campaign. There are multiple ways to be cool, sometimes a character who constantly loses fights can still be cool through determination and valor. Rule of cool will apply uniquely as I adjust to the expectations and enjoyment of the party. I will admit that I will sometimes adjust the difficulty of an encounter in the middle of it. However, I will avoid favoritism by applying some level of randomness. I will always count HP (even if I double it when I realize how overpowered you are) and I will give out magic items equally, maybe with a preference towards martials because they need them more. On the topic of magic items, there will be plenty and I tend to make them unique.

Homebrew rules

I adhere to some common homebrew or house rules such as bonus action potions and instant equiping gear in most situations. The settings are homebrew and many enemies will be modified or made up by me. Magic items will often be homebrewed unless I am giving them out as random loot. Homebrew is negotiable.

How Samuel Seitz creates a safe table

Players will be given a free session zero where questions and concerns will be answered. They will also be allowed to direct message me or ask a question as it naturally comes up. I will use anonymous web based message boards to give feedback to me about what I can do to make sure that you are getting the best possible experience. You come before the theme, I always want to make you feel safe and included. But I also invite you to go outside of your comfort zone and experience the complexities of storytelling even when the complexities leave you feeling sad for a moment. Storytelling is sublime and to be sublime one must have melancholy on occasion.