LEPER'S CRUSADE - investigate a holy mystery. Learn VDA. 🏳️‍🌈

Creating your character

The characters will be created in Session 0. We will make sure that all characters belong to a single Prince court, somewhere in central France. I will help you with every step of character creation. You can also use a pre-made character, that's perfectly okay ! Characters will be young Vampires (12th or 11th Generation) from any Clan available in the corebook. Thin Bloods are available. We will use the Dark Ages core book. You can read it before the campaign if you want to. The players should know the basic cheat sheet (it tells them how the base mechanic works) and their character sheet, to help the game flow.

Preparing for the session

The players should have a Roll20 account. The players will have to choose their character and know their strengths and weaknesses. I am very bad at visualizing characters without an image, so a me-made avatar of their characters will be provided if you want (or you can find one that fits your idea). No AI for characters, please. All of this will be taken care of on Discord, so the players will have to join a Discord conversation. You'll get a link when you join the campaign. I also use Watch2gether, a free website, for music, so no need to create an account on it.

What Faisselle brings to the table

I use ambient music on Watch2gether, generally from the real world place I use inspiration for the game. I love roleplay and creating NPCs, making voices or giving them mannerisms. Nobody is a nobody in my games : every single one of the NPCs have a name, a face, a behaviour. I am a history teacher and a Dark Ages enthusiast : the campaign will mix actual historical events and fiction, lots of research, and frequent horror. The weirdness of the medieval period (actual strange things, not just funny anecdotes) will be told here in all its glory. I like to use the rules mostly as written, because I consider that they are here for a reason. I'd rather follow players ideas than bend the rules every time. However, my scenarios are written in a way that allows player agency above all. There is no predetermined ending, no predetermined path, only what the world would logically do and how the players are going to change that - or not.

Homebrew rules

None.

How Faisselle creates a safe table

I ensure that there are a mix of genders at my table, to avoid having tables with only men. Before the campaign, we take time to discuss desires and triggers. I sent to everyone via private message a document that allows to document Lines and Veils. I am the only one to read them all, and then I write the scenario according to every Line and Veil expressed. In Session 0 (written or in vocal) we mostly talk about how to make sure every character has a place in the adventure. I also take care to check of the experience of everybody, to make sure that everyone will be comfortable speaking, expressing themselves... I communicate openly about my own triggers for character backstories. During the game, everyone can use the X Card in the way that is better suited for them (private message, vocal, ping...) no questions asked. We also can discuss any matter at any time, stopping the session to do so. After the session, there is a vocal debriefing to be sure everyone was comfortable, how things can be improved for the next game, if everyone had a good time and wants to go on. I tend to ask questions about every aspect of the game, vocally or by writing them on Discord, so that everyone can answer in their own time, with their own amount of details.