LFP
Paid
D&D Beyond
Deets at the top to help simplify things!
It's time for some classic adventures in a world filled with potential and possibility!
Campaign Details:
Welcome to Winterheart, world of magic and peril! This campaign setting was constructed through years of tabletop gaming, with each group contributing towards its history. In this adventure, you’ll be picking up in the aftermath of the heroic deeds from the Skyfall Brigade - a hodgepodge group of adventurers who founded The Order, the world’s best chance for salvation. While The Order is transfixed on greater threats across the world, it’ll be up to local adventurers and heroes to take up arms and handle the problems on the homefront. From haunted forests to rumors of the Feywild infiltrating the mortal world, there’s a lot that needs to be taken care of in Silnead - but are these truly isolated incidents, or is there some grander machination at work tying everything together?
This campaign features themes of nostalgia, family, horror, and sacrifice, which will serve as the anchors holding the party together and keeping their adventures from failing. Individual player skill levels are not important - what’s most important is the willingness to work together, as a group of players, to keep the game engaging and party connected! That means we are looking for players who don't mind speaking up and joining the conversation!
This campaign will focus primarily on combat, roleplay, and community. There will be many times when the party will have to decide whom they will save, and who will be left to fend for themselves. We will be sticking to the 2024 5.5 rules as written as much as possible, with no current plan to add any of the other rule systems from the Winterheart campaign setting at this time.
This campaign will ramp up with time, with the stakes starting out small and eventually spiraling into something truly epic! Throughout the campaign, there will be depictions of blood and gore, intense action scenes, scheming NPCs that are willing to lie and cheat to get ahead, and a blend of both Lovecraftian and thriller horror genres that will become more apparent over time. If this material is triggering content, I advise people to find a different table to join. (that's not to say it's going to be a non-stop deluge of conflict and gore, though!)
If you’re a veteran looking for something new, or if you’re a new player trying to capture the essence of tabletop gaming without following a strict adventure module, then this is what you’re looking for!
Character Creation:
We will begin creating characters at level 1. We’ll be using tools provided by the DM and from the VTT platform to make our character sheets, and after this, we’ll be doing a session 0 encounter before leveling up characters to level 2 as the official launch of the campaign. Character creation resources will be provided, from books to tutorial videos. All official and partnered Dungeons and Dragons content will be allowed, with the exception of content from the 2014 PHB and DMG. Material published prior to the 2024 rules update will need approval from the DM, which will normally require slight modifications before it’ll be ready. In addition, several new classes - such as the melee-spellcaster support Argent class - will be available upon Session 0 for players to choose from.
Players get to choose how they would like their stats, either from a generous array or from an equally generous roll system. Players may choose between the stats of 15, 14, 14, 12, 10, and 8, or they roll. Our roll system uses 4d6 - players drop the lowest of the die, and the resulting number is the ability score. They perform this 7 times, and drop the lowest total result to get their 6 stats.
Inclusivity Statement:
I pride myself on maintaining a community of players dedicated to standing against bigotry against others. If you stand in opposition to people because of their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or nationality, then you stand in opposition to not just this community, but myself personally. We do not want you at the table. I don't want you at the table. My tables are inclusive, and I will vigorously attempt to keep it that way.
Don’t sleep on Thayd’s tables! Coming in as a newbie it has been a great beginning and I’m very happy to be part of this community! With all the hit or miss stuff (mostly miss) on Startplaying, Thayd is a diamond in the haystack.
Auth makes really fantastic games in their homebrew world, and has a ton of mechanics, interactable moments, and things created for each specific game group. Monsters are homebrewed and tweaked enough that, as a dm for 8 years myself, I can’t use meta knowledge, which is nice as it makes me think and go at creatures with a blank slate. Auth is also very open to letting players do whatever they want and has created rule sets and “mini games” for things we’ve wanted to do in the past. It’s all about how creative you wanna be
Thayd has done some incredible worldbuilding, and is an amazing dm! If you're looking for a weekly game, you won't find a better one!
I've been playing in these campaigns for very nearly 4 years now. With creative worldbuilding, a great care for player input, music, combat, backstories, and villains, this has always been an amazing homebrew world, and I only regret not being able to play sooner. There is so much more that could be said, but others likely talk about that plenty. We love these campaigns, and we hope you will too!
I would like to thank all my current players for giving this message a cool bump! An update on the campaign - we now have only a couple of seats left! Reply fast to reserve your spot!
Been playing with Thayd for almost 4 years now. And I'm playing on 2 of their tables (probably gonna be applying for one more lol). Great worlbuilding and a lot of characters and stories to be part of with this guy. Challenging combat, nice dungeon exploration and fun puzzles. Whatever it is you're looking for in a D&D game, Thayd will almost certainly have you covered.
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