Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus 💫

Creating your character

All players will use 27-point buy for ability scores. We’ll use the 2024 Player’s Handbook rules as written, with no homebrew stat systems or variant character building methods outside the officially published rules. Characters will begin at Level 1 using backgrounds, classes, and species from the new core rules. Older subclasses and pre2024 character options may be allowed with prior approval. Session Zero will also cover safety tools, party connections, and expectations for the campaign’s tone. Whether you’re new to the 2024 rules or already familiar with them, we’ll make sure your character is integrated into the world and ready to descend.

Preparing for the session

Have Discord and Roll20 accounts

What Kevin brings to the table

I bring careful preparation, clear communication, and a campaign shaped around the characters at the table. You can expect:   • Tactical Roll20 maps with dynamic lighting   • Curated handouts, music, and organized campaign materials   • Open rolls, open DCs and consistent rulings   • Encounters adjusted for your party’s choices   • Character histories woven into Baldur’s Gate and Avernus   • A private Discord for scheduling, discussion, and everything you need between sessions I am not running Descent into Avernus untouched. I preserve the adventure’s strongest characters, encounters, and infernal set pieces while strengthening its connective story and adding original material. Your characters will not simply follow the plot through Hell. Their relationships and ambitions will help determine what the campaign becomes. Tactical combat matters, and enemies will act intelligently, but I am always rooting for the players. I do not fudge rolls or manufacture victories. The rules remain consistent so that your plans, risks, and successes feel real. Creative solutions are welcome, especially when you find a way through Hell that neither the devils nor the book anticipated. I use AI tools as part of my preparation and organizational workflow. I review, revise, and make the final creative decisions about everything that reaches the table. I provide the structure, the world, and the consequences. You decide what kind of heroes descend.

Homebrew rules

Rules and Table Rulings This campaign uses the standard 2024 rules. I do not use the optional flanking rule, but positioning still matters. Line of sight, terrain, and partial cover can all change the course of a fight. I rarely but sometimes allow Rule of Cool but when it creates a memorable moment without removing the risk, invalidating another character’s abilities, or overriding the consequences of a choice. Creativity is rewarded, but does not automatically supersede the rules. I may also call a combat once its outcome is no longer meaningfully in doubt. Rather than spending twenty minutes resolving a foregone conclusion, we’ll move to the final narration, consequences, and loot. The adventure’s story contains substantial additions and revisions, but the rules themselves remain consistent.

How Kevin creates a safe table

Digital X/N/O system via chat and Roll20 Session Zero includes Lines and Veils discussion Players encouraged to opt out of themes as needed Aftercare and check-ins post-session available