The Godless Valley | Fantasy Exploration Campaign

Creating your character

Characters will be made with the 2014 Dungeons and Dragons 5e rules set. Characters can be made with options from the 2014 Players Handbook, Sword Coast Adventurers Guide, Xanathars Guide to Everything, Tasha's Cauldron of Everything and Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse. Starting level is 1, stats are made using the point buy method, hit point increase is fixed upon level up (take average instead of rolling). I will say that due to the story divine casters would be so nerfed as to not be worth playing so Clerics, Paladins, Druids, and Rangers are not allowed. Characters will be finalized in the first session if you want to have an idea for a character before then go for it, but be aware things may change in the session. Character sheets will be hosted on roll20 or dndbeyond. Leveling will be milestone/story based. Starting items can be the given equipment or the variant gold option, any gold can be spent on non-magical equipment.

Preparing for the session

We will use Discord for voice chat and text discussion about the game. We will use Roll20 as the virtual tabletop for maps, rolls and character sheet hosting. Accounts for these two are required. Optionally you may want to use dndbeyond for your character sheet and you can, but if you want to roll you either have to do it in roll20 manually or with the beyond20 extension for Chrome, Firefox, or Microsoft Edge. Dndbeyond does require an account. Beyond20 requires being downloaded to work. For both dndbeyond and roll20 I have the books listed for character creation and am able to share them with the group.

What Tony B brings to the table

I like to try and do voices for NPCs to add a bit of fun. I do try to stick to rules but if you can convince me to use a skill or ability in an unconventional way I will allow it. What I really like to do is shape the world around the players, taking details and integrating them into the story. I also like to personalize magic items for characters.

Homebrew rules

Besides the class restrictions, I play things pretty rules as written.

How Tony B creates a safe table

I have a Google form I will send out for players to put anything they'd like excluded and set up a document for these things so we keep track of them. During session 0 we will go over the document and make sure everyone who's playing agrees to follow the document. We will also cover the in game safety system. During the game players will have access to X, N, O, and ♡ cards to signal if they feel something is being too much. After the game I will check in with players for feedback about what they liked or what they would like changed going forward.