Magical Murder Mansion /// Find the Spellbook. Save the World!
A wizard altered the moon's orbit right before he died. His house is full of deadly wizard nonsense. Find his spellbook before it's too late.
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Session Duration / 3โ3.5 hours
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About the adventure
๐โณ๐ PREMISE ๐โณ๐ Hubert Nibsley was the most beloved man on this remote island. Wealthy, eccentric, endlessly charitable, a legendary practical joker, and โ as it turns out โ the kind of wizard who "accidentally" knocks the moon out of orbit while showing off. He died in a tragic, but hilarious accident before he could fix it. Now the sky is getting a little more crowded every night and somewhere in his sprawling, booby-trapped, thoroughly cursed mansion is the spell that caused it โ and, hopefully, the one that fixes it. Unfortunately, you are the only ones who can find it. ๐๏ธโ๏ธ๐ฒ FUNHOUSE DUNGEONS ๐ฒโ๏ธ๐๏ธ Classic 'funhouse' dungeons are notoriously weird, dangerous puzzle-boxes where traps, monsters, and magical nonsense challenge you to think sideways. Magical Murder Mansion plays the genre straight, but fair. Traps have patterns. Lateral thinking gets rewarded, and the obvious answer is often wrong. Everything can be disarmed, avoided, or seen coming if you look. Thereโs rarely one โcorrectโ solution. Make a plausible plan, experiment, and see what happens. The goal isn't to outguess the GM - itโs to figure out how this strange place works. Even the deathtraps should earn a delighted "I can't believe we walked into that" instead of table-wide frustration. In this game: ๐ฐ Go through 80+ rooms, some of which will not try to kill you! ๐ฐ Collect bizarre and wonderful loot to level up! ๐ฅ Fight Vegetables! ๐ช Fight Furniture! ๐ Fight the desire to resurrect Nibsley just to kill him again! ๐ Interpret terrible rhyme. Your life depends on it! โก Pull the lever marked DO NOT PULL. You know you want to. ๐ And hopefully... Save the World! ๐ฒ๐๐ค About Our Game ๐ค๐๐ฒ โ๏ธ We will use D&D 5e 2024. You'll start off at level 3 and make it to 4 or 5, depending on how well you loot the place. โ๏ธ If you're a beginner I will happily teach you and if you're a vet, you'll still have fun! โ๏ธ I expect this game to last about 4-8 sessions. โ๏ธ Everyone is welcome! My goal is a friendly, respectful table where everyone feels comfortable and has fun.
Game style
Dungeon Crawl
Meet the Game Master
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5 years on StartPlaying
122 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Beginner Friendly, Voices
About me
๐: ๐โ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ? A: I'm a thirty-something man from the Baltics. I've been a huge RPG nerd for, dang, almost two decades now. ๐: ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐๐? Iโm not a professional actor, improv guru or a celebrity GM, but I run a pretty good home game! ๐: ๐๐ก๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐ฌ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐? A: It would be nice to be able to justify spending more time on tabletop RPGs by paying my bills with it. ๐: ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ ๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง? A: I really enjoy running prewritten campaigns. It gives me a foundation to work off and lets the players know what to expect from a GM they havenโt played with before. So Iโll be running various published modules for 5e, Call of Cthulhu, OSR, Pathfinder 2e, etc. ๐: ๐๐ก๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ฌ? It's one of those things where I've been 'mega' online for so long, it just feels weird when people call me anything else, y'know?
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Creating your character
We'll be using the 2024 rules. Official 2014 material will be considered on case-by-case basis. No other 3rd party content allowed. There will be a few bans like Silvery Barbs (see below in homebrew). Starting Level: Level 3. Stat Generation: You can decide individually if you want to do standard array, point buy or 4d6 drop lowest. Character Tone: Good-natured, heroic characters who work well in a group and want to do the right thing encouraged! If you use D&D Beyond, you can make your character there and I will be able to import your character from there to Foundry.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
We'll be using Foundry and Discord so you should be able to use both. (Please test before applying, or message me if you need help with this.) Also, using a headset or headphones+mic will be appreciated by everyone involved. Hearing everyone else echoing on a player's speakers is not fun! It's perfectly fine if you never played before, but if you don't own the D&D 5e rules skim them here: https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/br-2024
What GM mega brings to the table
I'll set up a game on Foundry, provide a Discord server, provide a personal wiki for information and recaps and share the necessary materials. (I use a Discord bot to record, transcribe and create recaps for your convenience.)
Homebrew rules
Inspiration will be grouped into a single pool that every player can contribute and pull from. This character options are banned: Spells: Silvery Barbs, Conjure Minor Elementals 2024 Subclasses: Twilight Cleric, Peace Cleric, Chronurgy Wizard. (These are 2014 classes, but to re-iterate.)
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
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Safety
How GM mega creates a safe table
We'll do Session 0 and go over character creation, expectations and any topics we might want to avoid (or 'lines and veils' as some people call them). Then we'll start playing if there's time left. The adventure is mostly wacky, over-the-top violence in a goofy, Looney Tunes sort of way. There are plenty of things that can kill you, but the intended tone is ridiculous rather than grim or disturbing.
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