🔥Descent into Avernus - Elturel's Doom 👹 Beginners Friendly
The Companion, Elturel's second sun, is slowly cracking... But nobody minds since the Cult of the Dead Three is doing something in Elturgard Woods!!!
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Weekly / Thursday - 11:00 PM UTC
Session Duration / 3 hours
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About the adventure
Welcome to Elturel, the capital of Elturgard, a realm in the Sword Coast. Meet its commoners and buildings, and the Companion!! Of course! The Second Sun of Elturel- we all love the Companion, it saved the capital from an old plague... The Companion will forever protect Elturel. Or that's what people think... Welcome to Descent into Avernus - Elturel's Doom (can you tell what is going to happen in this game?), an adventure based on the module "Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus". Why based on? I'm not going to run the book as it was intended. What can you expect from this campaign? A lot of roleplay-focused encounters, Avernus as a sandbox, combats against demons or devils, some real cinematographic moments I'm keeping from the book, a lot of NPCs to love (Even the BBEG^^), and, as in any of my games, character-driven storytelling. I feel the obligation to add that since this is my own version of the campaign module DOES NOT contain Baldur's Gate. You can go to Baldur's Gate, yeah, why not? But it is not related to the Main Adventure. We start at level 3 and will go up to level 13 in D&D 5.5e (2024).
Game style
Combat Lite
Hexcrawl / Exploration
Roleplay Heavy
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Sandbox / Open World
Game themes
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About me
I'm Facundo. I'm 22 years old; I'm from Argentina, and I'm crazy for D&D. I love acting and making stories; D&D arrived in my life to be a safe place where I merged both things and cover it up with my love for videogames and tabletop games đź‘» My tables are for people who want to feel like they are in a theater show where improv makes the story go to places we never thought about. My final goal is to hear one of my players say "yeah we play OUR Curse of Strahd". My style is more related to telling you a story where I know the start and the end but not the middle; that's full in your hands. I adapt and merge the NPCs, the items, and all the ideas I have to try to make the perfect story with you^^ -Sometimes with a lot, A LOT, of cosmic horror, unknown dark magic, and the presence of a BBEG behind your neck... From time to time, I design something or add an obscure rule/mechanic from an old book. Two examples. 1. I designed "The Wrestler" as a new class for D&D and for the beta testing, I made a whole WWE-Style campaign đź’– 2. I'm working to apply the piety system from "Theros" for my "Dungeon of the Mad Mage" game since one of my players is worshiping Loth. I love to put so much work into each of my games. I don't do drawings for all my NPCs, but I try. For Original Campaigns, I do original maps with programs like Canvas of Kings or Dungeon Alchemist; sometimes even in official modules. I try to give every game a unique twist. Being a Dungeon Master is my favourite thing to do! I can add that I love movies; I'm always looking to give a cinematic feeling to any of my games. I love Baldur's Gate 3 so I play a lot of the soundtrack in my games. And I don't know - send me a message for more!!
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Creating your character
If you are new to D&D: I will help you with the character creation or give you an already-made character!! We are going to start the character creation by texting and follow it with a Session 0 so you can bring a lot of possible ideas! You can make your character sheet on any platform of your preference and send it to me so I can upload it to Fantasy Grounds. Start Level - 3 Available sources: PHB 2024, Heroes of Faerûn, Ravenloft: The Horrors Within, Arcana Unleashed. For the beginning of this campaign, your character needs to be affiliated with at least one of the following factions: -Order of the Gauntlet. A body of faithful justice seekers who seek out and eradicate evil. -Flaming Fist. A mercenary company based in Baldur's Gate. It is led by the city's grand duke, Ulder Ravengard. -Hellriders. An elite company of mounted warriors that protects Elturgard.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You need to make an account in Fantasy Grounds and download the Fantasy Grounds VTT (when the installer asks for a key, just press continue). You will need a Discord account and need to join my server too. Both accounts are free; you don't need to buy any Fantasy Grounds book!
What Facundo brings to the table
I try (awful) character voices; sometimes I start repeating, but I try my best to give every NPC a good and unique personality! I play some ambient music! I'm trying to implement sounds too. I like difficult combat with a bit of roleplaying. I'm not tactical and don't pay so much attention to cover and stuff like that, but if you do, you will get inspiration! I love to drop lore and put your backstories into play (especially in this game). Love when players try crazy plans or very cool attacks. Lately, I'm more into Rule of Cool than ever. I will provide all available D&D 5.5e books through Fantasy Grounds VTT.
Homebrew rules
I have a few homebrew rules, and we'll talk about them in session 0!! Besides that, the usual ones: drinking a healing potion as a bonus action, etc.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How Facundo creates a safe table
I will send you to complete the Game Expectation Sheet form DMG 2024 to get to know your triggers, phobias, and expectations at the time of playing. We are going to do a Session 0 where we can all present ourselves to everybody; be ready to say bye-bye to shyness. At the end of every session, I set the tone and a hook for the next session and invite you to talk for a few minutes about the things you enjoyed and the ones you don't. I'm open to the critics! We're here to play and be happy!
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