Reflections of Nethril
Karsus tried to make himself a god and destroyed the Weave and the Netheril Empire. Now the barren land is stirring with threatening magic again.
$20.00
/ Session
Details
Weekly / Sunday - 9:00 PM UTC
Session Duration / 3–4 hours
Campaign Length / 20+ Sessions
2 / 5 Seats Filled
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Meet your party members
2/5
About the adventure
The campaign will be focused on exploration, research and problem solving. During exploration combat will be random encounters combined with searching ancient ruins and dungeons for ways to prevent, mitigate, or survive a coming disaster. You are a third child of your family, the family business and inheritance is to be split between your older siblings and their spouses. This is something you have known and it has not bothered you, it meant that while they spent years studying to take over you were free to explore and dream. But you realize you will need something to support yourself once your parents pass. One day while traveling to the city with your family you heard of an organization specifically for third children, whether you are the third naturally or one of your older siblings died the only rules are you must be the third child and have reached age of majority to join. At first they have you running errands but once you have proved yourself you are called into the master's office to be receive some training and a new assignment you are placed with a group who has been assigned to investigate a small valley not to far from the city where crops have begun failing and people continue to fall ill regardless of what the priests and clerics do.
Game style
Hexcrawl / Exploration
Dungeon Crawl
Puzzle / Mystery Focused
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
4.9
(22)
4 years on StartPlaying
349 games hosted
Highly rated for: Knows the Rules, Beginner Friendly, Creativity
About me
I have been hosting in person for seven years and online games for five. I have experience with 1st Ed Pathfinder, 5th ed D&D and the new Stargate SG-1 RPG. I started playing RPGs during college and also enjoy board games, PC gaming, reading and Geology.
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Creating your character
Characters will be created during a Session 0 using standard Point Buy for 5e or standard array. Most hardcover Wizards of the Coast 2014 material and 2024 PHB are available, along with third party content from Helena's Guide to Monster Hunting, Ryoko's Guide to the Yokai Realms(Far East Mythos theme), and Raiders of the Serpent Sea (Norse Mythos theme) player material.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You will need a microphone, speakers, a Discord account, and a Fantasy Grounds account to play (both are free). A webcam and headset are optional.
What Steven brings to the table
Fantasy Grounds Unity(FGU) Ultimate license - allows players with a free copy of FGU to connect and play. Maps as needed—please let me know if you have preferences for Theater of the Mind or everything on a map when you sign up. Sourcebooks and character creation materials.
Homebrew rules
I will be using a modified version of madness that causes character "obsessions" and uses a system of Wisdom saves to resist characters acting on an obsession. Players can choose to invoke the obsession and forego the save as part of roleplay to gain inspiration but strengthening the obsession. If an obsession's save DC gets too strong the character may be lost to madness. During level up, characters can forego a feat or ASI to take a class ability from a different class that is at least 3 levels below the current level (IE a 4th level character can take a 1st level ability) The ability always functions at character level-3 for any level based abilities. Similar to multi-classing, only the best version of similar abilities will apply. The Spellcasting ability is not available this way, but any abilities that depend on it are availible if you have spellcasting. I plan to allow characters to harvest materials from slain enemies using the rules from Helena's Guide and potentially craft or have others craft magic items up to rare quality. I also allow some spell modifications such as booming blade/green flame blade to be used with weapons that have the reach property. If you have something you want to do let me know and I will see if I can find ways to balance it. Example: I have also allowed paladins to select a fighting style that uses charisma as their primary stat for weapons instead of a traditional fighting style and taking levels in hexblade.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How Steven creates a safe table
Safety tools will be available via discord bot for lines/veils and XN&O Cards. The usage will be discussed briefly prior to the start of play. If breaks are needed during the session, or any other issue arises during play that was not previously covered, you are free to send me a direct message in Discord and step away while I re-direct the scene.
Content warnings
Safety tools used