The Black Company - An Acquisitions Inc. Campaign - Build a Company, Own the World!

About the adventure

The Black Company is Guardians of the Galaxy meets The Lord of the Rings meets Monty Python, or something like that. It starts with the Acquisitions Inc. starter adventure from level 1 -6 where the “company” has to find and rebuild the Orrery of the Wanderer. Once you have completed this task you will be able to travel across the multiverses and even to other planes. You will be given “rumors” from your network of spies/informants that will let you know about artifacts. These artifacts will come from 5e adventures that you will be able to insert yourselves and go get the MacGuffin. Your company will grow as you build the business, hire people, and make deals during your “downtime”. We will handle many of these in Discord between sessions. The idea is to build a world where anything can happen and YOU decide where to go and what to do. Your only objective is to gather treasures, magic items, and legendary artifacts and then catalog them and place in your vaults. You can then rent them, use them, or just keep them in your museum of sorts. Everything will be for YOU to decide. This campaign will allow you to amass fortunes, buy kingdoms, and rise to level 20. You will be working for The Black Company and your patron Alixtra Black. This will be very heavy role-play, with a lot of exploration and of course high stakes combat. So let’s check off the boxes shall we: 🏦 Character development from Level 1 - 20. 🏦 Fun role-play as you adventure while running a company. 🏦 Explore the Forgotten Realms and even the planes of existence. 🏦 Sandbox where YOU decide where to go and what to do. 🏦 Great boss fights with high powered gear. 🏦 Did I mention a ton of fun? Of course you all want to know what is this company and why should I join. Well that is a great question and so let’s go ahead and give you the elevator speech. “The Black Company is a corporation that is destined to rule the multiverses through acquiring artifacts and legendary devices through whatever means necessary and when adventurers need them they will have to come to us and pay through the nose, IF, we allow them to have them.” What do you think? Now, imagine a world where all of the major arcane items were owned by a single corporation. How would that affect the price of magic items? How about adventuring parties that have to pay royalties for all of their findings as payment to lease one of these items. The possibilities are endless as we strive to build the biggest, well for lack of a better word, hoard in the multiverse. Oh, you heard about a ring that in the wrong hands could put a world in a state of perpetual ice, yeah let’s go get that and see how much someone is willing to pay for it. How about some stupid angelic sword that makes people into sappy good doers, that should not even be out there. Let’s go get it and see how much some holier than thou paladin would be willing to pay. The possibilities are endless when you work for The Black Company.

Additional Details

How to prepare

You only need a free D&D Beyond account, a discord account, and a headset or mic. Webcam is optional and since I will be streaming music and ambient sounds, a headset is recommended.

What I provide

I will bring the shenanigans as well as all of the books on D&D Beyond. Syrinscape premium account for the music and ambience. A boosted discord server for improved connection for talk/video.

Gameplay details

This will be played using D&D Beyond, Discord, and the use of headsets. We will discuss the character creation 1 v 1 and have a Session 0 where we finish creating your company. Lines and Veils will be discussed to ensure that everyone is on board with the content of this game.

Content warnings

(none)

Safety tools used

Lines and Veils
Session 0
X, N, and O Cards

How will character creation work

We will create our characters using D&D Beyond at 1st level. The backstory will be discussed during our 1 v 1 discord call and instructions will be found on the campaign in DDB.

Players can expect

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