The Weird Beyond the Witchlight
Step right up! It's Alice in Wonderland meets Pan's Labyrinth in this deliciously dark and decadent reimagining of Wild Beyond the Witchlight.
$30.00
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Bi-weekly / Friday - 9:00 PM UTC
Session Duration / 3.5–4.5 hours
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About the adventure
Step into a carnival that shouldn't exist: a place where wonder and horror dance hand in hand, where every jest conceals a blade, and every song carries a curse. This isn't the whimsical Feywild you've heard tales of. This is Grimm's Fairytales filtered through the prism of Heckna's twisted humour and Ravenloft's creeping dread. Experience Wild Beyond the Witchlight reimagined as an Alice in Wonderland-meets-Pan's Labyrinth journey into a realm where the beautiful is terrifying, and nothing is ever quite as it seems. KEY CHANGES * Start at Level 0: The campaign commences with a single session "flashback" to your character's youth, setting up your tie to the carnival. * Twisted Carnival Expanded: Navigate a carnival filled with both enchanting attractions and genuine horrors, where NPCs wear false smiles that hide sinister agendas. * Grimm-Inspired Darkness: Encounter fairy tale horrors reimagined, with every fey creature imaginable ready to be encountered. * Moral Complexity: Face impossible choices where helping one faction dooms another, and your decisions carry real, lasting consequences * Enhanced Narrative: Experience expanded storylines that weave together the carnival's mysteries with deeper lore about what truly lurks in the Feywild * Heckna-Inspired Atmosphere: Immerse yourself in a setting that balances grotesque revelry with psychological menace. Weird Beyond the Witchlight combines Hecnka's irreverent take on a spooky carnival with Wild Beyond the Witchlight's softer edges. * Unique Spells & Magic Items: Discover dark and whimsical magic that feels truly otherworldly. * Custom Talents System: Access an expanded homebrew talents system derived from Dragonix's framework, featuring 1,000+ class, species, and background talent s for deep character customisation. * Monster Enhancements: Face creatures enhanced with multiple premium supplements, including Bloodied & Bruised, Home Field Advantage, Monster Talents, Monster Manual Expanded, Recharged, and Monster Loot. * Balanced Challenge: Experience encounters designed to push your characters to their limits while providing opportunities for creative solutions and heroic moments.
Game style
Roleplay Heavy
Rule of Cool (RoC)
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Meet the Game Master
5.0
(19)
5 years on StartPlaying
169 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Knows the Rules, Beginner Friendly
Average response time: 2 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
G'day! My name is Chris and I have been DMing games of Dungeons & Dragons for 26 years. I am a professional GameMaster running 40+ hours of PF1e and PF2e every week, with more than 50 paying customers spread across ten weekly campaigns. Not only do I have a pro subscription on Roll20, but I also own every available Roll20 resource for D&D 5e. I also own five Foundry VTT licenses with Forge hosting. Additionally, I have an extensive collection of tokens, a massive collection of high-quality battle maps, custom status tokens, a Syrinscape subscription, a private Discord server with a thriving community of more than 70 players, and a truly colossal collection of third-party reference materials (over 1,000 titles).
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Creating your character
The campaign will use D&D 2024 rules. If your chosen species, class, background, or subclass is not yet updated to the new system, I'll work with you to do this. I am open to using third-party material, although it will require a balance pass from me. Full character creation details will be available in a player's guide upon sign-up, and we'll have a comprehensive session zero before we begin to address any questions.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
All campaigns on the Multiple Nerdgasms server begin with a comprehensive session zero. For now, you'll just need a microphone, headset, and access to Discord and FoundryVTT (Forge hosting).
What Chris brings to the table
* Professional Voice Acting: As a trained actor with voice acting experience, I bring NPCs to life with distinct voices and personalities scheming villains to seductive monsters to comic sidekicks. * Custom Battlemaps: Enjoy beautifully crafted, dynamically lit battlemaps featuring work from Cze and Peku, Heroic Maps, and other premium creators adapted for a twisted fairyland aesthetic * Immersive Audio: Experience the carnival's atmosphere through premium Syrinscape soundscapes. * Handcrafted Landing Pages: Begin each session with beautiful custom landing pages complete with soundtracks from artists like Will Sorvino * Detailed Handouts: Every creature, magic item, and location comes with custom handouts to bring this twisted wonderland to life * Comprehensive Session Notes: Each 4-hour session is followed by an approximately 1,000-word write-up to help you keep track of your adventures **About Your DM** I've been a Dungeon Master since 1996 and have run D&D professionally full-time since 2020, guiding players through approximately 40 hours of adventure weekly. My story-first approach prioritizes character development, immersive exploration, and challenging-but-conquerable encounters—all seasoned with well-timed humor that enhances rather than undermines the experience. I specialize in campaigns that balance wonder with genuine menace, creating worlds where beauty and danger are inseparable.
Homebrew rules
A few carefully curated and playtested house rules will be presented for discussion during session zero, with none being mandatory.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Headphones
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Safety
How Chris creates a safe table
All campaigns on Multiple Nerdgasms begin with a comprehensive session zero, in which safety tools and content warnings are discussed at length.
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