The Wand of Tenebrous: A Gothic 5e Megadungeon

About the adventure

The world has grown old its sky now fill with grey clouds and snow blankets the world. Along with it the gods of spring and summer have fallen into a deep and silent slumber. It is a time of bitter cold, clinging darkness and the waning of life. An Ice age ruled by the death gods who never slumber. On the northern Archipelago of Alfur a ancient shadow has come creeping up the ancient glass towers like frost, racing over the rolling plains like the slashing wind and casting all it reaches into darkness like the storms overhead. Its name is Tenebrous "the Old Goat" (known to other worlds as Orcus) and it aims to scour the world of life. With this be a final twilight before a still and endless night or will the world claw its way with bloody hands to a new dawn. That is up to a handful of brave Alphurans who come to possess Tenebrous's wand the key to the ancient evils plans as well as the one thing that might thwart them and save Alfur. The Wand Of Tenebrous is an Megadungeon style adventure from levels 1-20 focused around skirmishing battles through the streets of the ancient city of glass and deadly boss battles against the servants of Tenebrous.

Additional Details

How to prepare

A mic is required but webcams are optional. Additionally having a working login for Discord and Roll20 will be nessecary. You may roll your own physical dice or roll through Roll20, though if i am given reason to suspect you are fudging rolls I may require you roll exclusively online. Reading the setting document before session zero is strongly encouraged.

What I provide

Maps will be available in Roll20 as well as token, character sheets and any other resources unique to the game.

Gameplay details

Xs, Ns and Os, will can been sent via chat in Discord and Roll20, or said aloud if that is more convenient. We will touch on the darker themes present in the campaign during session 0. While this campaign is dark and its world haunted by terrible evils this is a campaign about opposing that darkness not about giving in to nihilism or hopelessness (though those themes may be present at times). After each session there will also be debrief to ensure everyone's continued comfort with the story and its content.

Content warnings

(none)

Safety tools used

Debriefing
Session 0
X, N, and O Cards

How will character creation work

Characters will be created during a session 0 and will start at level 1. Character sheet will be provided in Roll20 but if you prefer to keep track on paper that is fine (so long as I can get scans or pictures of your sheets when necessary). A setting document and other resources for the game will be available on the campaign's Discord.

Players can expect

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