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Operation Deadfall | Thayan Spy Thriller [PBP][Async]
A lich is raising an army of undead to take Thay. You are the answer: a cell of spies, false names, and one way in. Levels 11 to 20.
$20.00
/ Session
Details
2 players following this game
Play by Post (Asynchronous)
Billed Weekly / Wednesday - 6:00 PM UTC
Session Duration / 2–3 hours
4 / 5 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
Thay is ruled by Red Wizards, and the worst of them has stopped pretending. Szass Tam is a lich, a zulkir of necromancy, and he is midway through a ritual that will tear the veil and hand him a nation of corpses. The other wizards who could stop him are too busy circling each other. One isn't. A zulkir with more nerve than allies recruits you into Operation Deadfall. You get a safe house in the capital, a code name, and missions nobody will ever admit to authorizing. You are not an army. You are the thing that goes in quietly while the army is still arguing. This is a spy thriller that happens to be D&D. Scrying and greater invisibility instead of a rope and grapple, mass suggestion instead of a bribe, a disguise that holds up because it's real magic. Every mission has a secrecy mandate, and blown cover has teeth — agents die, patrols double, safe houses get raided. Get compromised badly enough, and the next mission is cleaning up after yourselves. Levels 11 to 20. That's tier 3 and tier 4, the part of 5e most campaigns never reach — you start powerful and end legendary. Fully asynchronous play by post on Discord. No scheduled sessions, no timezone math. And a spy game is the one thing text does better than voice: your private channel is real, compartmentalized intelligence, so you'll genuinely know things the rest of your cell doesn't.
Game style
Roleplay Heavy
Play By Post
Tactical / Crunchy
Theater of the Mind
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(22)
3 years on StartPlaying
66 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, Beginner Friendly
About me
I run play-by-post. Not as a sideline — it's the format I've built everything around, and 66 games and three years later I'm still here, still posting, still finishing campaigns. If you've never played by post: we play in text, on Discord, with no scheduled session. You read what happened and write your character's part when you get a moment. It works for people with unpredictable jobs, people in an awkward timezone, and people who'd rather write a good paragraph than think of something clever during three seconds of silence on a voice call. What I care about is your character mattering. Tell me the impossible thing you want to pull off and I'll help you find the road to it. I know the rules well enough to bend them when bending them makes the better scene. And I split my attention on purpose — quiet players get as much room as loud ones, which is the thing text genuinely does better than voice.
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Creating your character
Starting level will be 11. When you get to Discord, I will give you access to a D&D Beyond campaign for character creation, and we will discuss magic items as a group.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Have a D&D Beyond free account ready upon joining
What Shadow brings to the table
Massive Library of DND Beyond content as well as Owlbear Rodeo for maps.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How Shadow creates a safe table
We will go over session 0 before starting, and I will address any issues you have at any time.
Content warnings
Safety tools used