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Dream Roll Presents: Waterdeep Dragon Heist | Lvl 1-8
Waterdeep. The City of Splendors. Untold fortune and fame await those who make the right allies... and avoid the wrong enemies.
$30.00
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1 player following this game
Weekly / Thursday - 9:00 PM UTC
Sep 24 / Session 0
Session Duration / 3.5–4 hours
3 / 5 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
This campaign (or more specifically the Alexandrian Remix of this campaign, for those in the know,) lets players loose in the grand city of Waterdeep, where a city-wide hunt has begun for a hidden cache of unimaginable wealth, secreted away somewhere under our very noses! Players will come into contact with a great number of influential NPCs, and nearly a dozen powerful factions, all vying for the same prize, and must carefully decide where their allegiances lie, and who to trust. Will they join forces with the Lord's Alliance and use the treasure to gain good standing with the united cities of the Sword Coast? Will they rise through the ranks of the Black Network and secure their place as rulers of Waterdeep's criminal underbelly? Will they swear their swords to the Order of the Gauntlet and quash all enemies of righteousness, ill-gotten gold be damned? Opportunities abound in Waterdeep for those with the guts to sieze them, and the choice is yours!
Game style
Puzzle / Mystery Focused
Sandbox / Open World
Roleplay Heavy
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(15)
Less than a year on StartPlaying
51 games hosted
Highly rated for: Storytelling, Sets the Mood, Voices
About me
Hi friends! I've been a professional theatre and TV actor for 20 years, and a role playing fan for nearly as long! However, when video game rpgs could no longer scratch the itch, I dove into ttrpgs in 2017 and haven't looked back. I've run many multi-year campaigns for friends, both in person and online, and I'm excited to make take the leap into professional GMing! Take a look at the Dream Roll Gaming channel on YouTube, a short-lived but very rewarding project I had with a few actor friends of mine. In those videos you can get a sense of my style as a GM. I prefer games with an open-ended world which sets problems for the player characters, and lets the plot unfold as a consequence of their behavior. If you are looking for a space to bring a character to life and to have a hand in crafting a world, I'm your guy.
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Creating your character
We will create all characters during Session Zero to ensure that they fit well within the world and the campaign, and with each other. We will be using the 2024 Fifth Edition rules and rolling for stats. Feel free to come to Session Zero with concepts in mind, but refrain from building characters until we can do it together!
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You will need accounts on DndBeyond, as that is where you will build your character sheets, and that is also the VTT we will be using. You will also be invited to my Discord server, and we'll be using mics and webcams through Discord so please have suitable tech for both!
What Dream Roll DM brings to the table
In all of my games, my first goal is to set a tone and a mood. My only job as a DM is to elicit a feeling in my players. To this end, I utilize ambient sound effects and dynamic music, careful attention to pacing, and full commitment in narration and NPC performance. I am a character-first, story-second, powergamer-third kind of DM. Although I have a deep understanding of the mechanics of the game, I am prepared to bend and break these rules, but only as is necessary to facilitate the tone and narrative. You can always trust that the game will function as you expect, but I'm not afraid to negotiate rulings and allow for edge cases and story-driven exceptions, as long as there is consensus amongst all at the table. First and foremost, I want you to be storytellers! And I'll shape the world around you to help you do just that.
Homebrew rules
Gritty Realism Resting Variant: Short rests last for 8 hours, and a long rest requires 5 days of downtime. Exhaustion will be removed by a short rest. Alternate Criticals: Instead of rolling your damage die twice, we will instead treat one of the rolls as max. So, if you crit on 1d8+4, it instead becomes 1d8+8+4. Exhaustion: Every time you drop to zero hit points, you gain one level of exhaustion.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Webcam
Platforms used
Safety
How Dream Roll DM creates a safe table
We will be going over boundaries in Session Zero, and where our personal yellow and red lights are. Anonymous X cards are available in the Alchemy RPG application and you are welcome to use it as any time. My Content Warnings below are quite extensive! Just want to cover my bases.
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Safety tools used