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D&D Beyond
Hello! I'm Jor (she/her), a long time viewer, fairly new player, and now first time DM. I've created a homebrew, 3-ish session hack-and-slash that is linear, designed to take players from one combat to the next with long rests in between, as an opportunity for new players to get a chance to practice their combat and try out a class before committing to a longterm campaign without any experience.
I originally designed this for a group of 4, which I have - and they are a wonderful, friendly group from our conversations so far! We are set to start playing this coming Thursday, 10:30am GMT+3. However, the party currently does not have a healer, and while I can compensate by granting access to potions and the like, I think it would be great if we could get a healer on board. I'm more than willing to set up a time to go through character creation with you if you aren't sure how, and we will work together to figure out a backstory that makes sense in the setting and helps you understand and fall in love with your character.
I cannot stress enough that this is a linear hack and slash taking players from encounter to encounter in sequence, not an open world exploration scenario.
If you're interested, able to get a character to me by Tuesday, and able to play weekly on Thursdays at 10:30am GMT+3, please send me a message or reply to this post. Thanks!
General Table Rules
The Story
The year is 32 P.N.C. (post-new interplanar cataclysm) in a world called Nelir (NELL-eer). About seventy years ago, there was a great interplanar cataclysm which released dangerous creatures onto the prime material plane. Demons, fiends, aberrations, and worse rolled through Tyfilyr (TIE-fill-eer), the largest kingdom on the biggest and most central continent in Nelir. They entered from the west and worked their way east toward the center, killing, destroying, and stealing what they could along their path. After a four-decade-long battle, the intruders were finally fought back to the planes from which they came, although some still remain in hiding, attacking from time to time. Much was stolen and destroyed, so the survivors have since been rebuilding the world and trying to understand what was lost by searching for ancient relics and ruins.
Our journey takes place 32 years after the attackers’ retreat. You, the adventurers, are the hired hands being sent to explore Ondilith (ON-dill-ith) Isle, a crescent-shaped, rocky island four months away from mainland Tyfilyr by ship. You were contracted by Atican Pearlman, the head of The King’s Watchers, an underground explorers guild whose primary cause is to counter Tyfilyr’s current ruler, King Pelared, and his council. The King is widely believed to be corrupt, perhaps even having a hand in the cataclysm in order to maintain and extend his own power. Atican and his crew have caught wind that the portal may have opened to the west as a distraction from the east, where the Enelial Elite School of Arcana lies beneath the mountains on Ondilith Isle. Hidden somewhere inside the school’s private library is said to be a powerful arcane relic - exactly the sort of item that could be dangerously misused by King Pelared and his council if you do not beat them to it.
You have been hired by Atican to scout the island, killing any foes left lingering there before finding the hidden entrance to the school, a tunnel concealed within an opening between the long mountain range taking up the majority of the central isle. You should then enter the school, find the library and the relic, and extract it to bring to Atican. There should be an exit to the east taking you to the other side of the island, where the ship that drops you off will retrieve you in seven days. They will wait three additional days if you are not yet there, but if you do not surface by then, they will be forced to depart before King Palared’s crew arrives, assuming you were lost during your mission.
Hey, I'd love to join!
I'll private message you my discord.
Game is full with Gorgogi! Thanks all.