The Cosmic Opal

Creating your character

I use point buy with an extra feat at 1st level, allowing only rules-as-written characters—no monstrous or innate flying races, setting-specific, this includes: UA, Ravenloft, Ebberon other third-party subclasses/backgrounds/feats. All that being said it is not a hard rule! If you have an idea or just want to to use it cause you think its cool, I am open to anything! For hard rules: I disallow evil characters (unless the group agrees or a really good idea), PvP combat, stealing from fellow PCs, Large PCs and mute PCs. Leveling is XP to 3 and then Milestone from then on. I am aiming for 1st to 14th level. A short session 0 handles housekeeping before the first paid session, and depending on when you see this I might even have a choice of one-shot to get the party into the campaign!

Preparing for the session

You are just going to need a discord and a mic! Some familiarity around Foundry will help but is not necessary. I can help with anything rules or character related and its totally ok to learn the game as we go!

What Apex/Brandon brings to the table

I will provide you with a wholly unique experience and countless stories to share with friends. My only real goal every session is to walk away knowing everyone had fun. DnD, RPGs, and tabletops are my LIFE. No question is too small, no character unimportant. This is a homebrew campaign within the unique gameworld I have crafted called "Primora". Primora is a planet with two moons and is a place defined and literally shaped by colossal conflicts in the deep past. It is both high and low magic depending on the locale and retains immense wilderness with civilization being spread and isolated. The campaign will move throughout the game world. I have a profound love for writing various and unique cultures and environments, I hope to be able to share them! There is both a unique pantheon and magic system that shouldn't conflict with any existing mechanics. The character sheets will be based in Foundry and we will use Discord for audio/video. I use rule of cool as philosophy and the campaign has an emphasis on player agency. The themes can definitely be heavy but I will tailor it towards the group playing and their individual wants and needs. It will be a mix of both combat and roleplay encounters. I would like to work with the players to create a collaborative experience so that no two versions of the campaign will be the same. The starting location is an area of low magic due to suppression by the ruling class.

Homebrew rules

I use quite a few including but no limited to: double healing (Number of dice and bonuses are doubled for all healing sources.) crunchy crits (When roll crit damage, base damage is automatically maximized and you maim the target in someway. Goes usually just for player and legendary monsters) Potion use as bonus action is a roll, Action or Out of Combat is maximized rolls I dont tend to use material components until 5th or 6th level spells. Heroic rounds after PC death

How Apex/Brandon creates a safe table

I will go over all of it in the first session or the session 0, but I want to make sure that everyone feels safe, comfortable and ready to have fun!