Addendum: I'd definitely like to talk more to anyone who is interested to get an idea of what sort of character you have in mind, and probably what your sensibilities are like as a player because I want to make sure the player group is going to be compatible as far as their expectations as well as availability. I will try to sit down and reach out to everyone who responds, but feel free to message me either through DNDB or at my Discord, which is Scriba.
I’m a fairly experienced casual player and DM (5ish years?). I wanted to give this story idea a run, so I’m here to see if there’s some interest. I have a friend who plans to play, but am otherwise looking for new players. If there’s enough interest, I plan to run a Session Zero for the group to come together, set boundaries, and possibly retool characters if decided. Full disclosure, I’m not sure yet if I’m going to actually run it, but I’d like to.
I’m going to be perfectly transparent with this prompt: this concept is absolutely inspired by Suicide Squad.
The short explanation is that, long long ago, in the before time, a young and newly-crowned Elven Emperor released the majority of his Empire to form their own sovereign states, and encouraged the pursuit of cultural self-determination. 400 or so years later, the now-aged Elven King has grown jaded with his youthful ideals and sees the squalor and oppression that has taken root in much of his former territories. He has set out to correct the follies of his youth by re-annexing those relinquished territories and bringing them back into his Empire, for the good of the people that live in them.
You are a notorious criminal within your society, and have been given the opportunity to commute your life or death sentence through participation in a clandestine program. Your task? You, and others in the program, travel to a recently re-annexed territory and sow all the discord.
Still with me? Here’s the serious stuff.
Game: D&D 5e
Group type: Online
Experience: Experienced preferred, but not necessary. I am a relatively inexperienced homebrew DM so I fully expect to struggle with balancing.
Location/Timezone: DM is in EST. Games would likely be Discord/Roll20.
Schedule: TBD based on availability. Nights and weekends are generally good for me and the friend who is signed on.
Roles sought: Seeking 3-4 players.
Game style: This homebrew campaign is meant to be fairly casual. Rules apply but will be, shall we say, flexible? Rule of Cool reigns. Roleplay optional based on party preference. The campaign will be a story-driven sandbox but is intended to have chaotic shenanigans and room for murder hoboness.
Please note, this is an Evil campaign and will likely have some fairly flexible morality. My intention is to invite the party to discuss ahead of time what their limits are; certain themes will need to be reserved for subtext and/or off-screen.
PC Concept: You are a notorious villain/criminal from a fairly isolated kingdom (but not necessarily born there). Within the kingdom, you’d be famous for your exploits and featured on Wanted Posters everywhere you turn; outside of the kingdom, nobody would have any idea who you are. You aren’t just a hitman; you’re Altair. You aren’t just an agent of chaos; you’re The Joker. You aren’t just a crimelord; you’re Wilson Fisk. I’m looking for overpowered villains with their own trademarks and claims to fame. Don’t worry about trying to fit it into the setting beyond being fantasy appropriate; I’ve left enough room to mold the world around the characters, and will be happy to work with you to tweak it to the setting if needed.
It’s not likely your characters are long-time friends, but they may know each other professionally. It’s fine if you base your character off an existing character, but make it a creative adaptation.
Upbringing and career:
How did you get arrested?:
What’s your trademark?:
Player availability:
I’m not asking for character sheets at the moment, but if you wanted to design something to get the creative juices flowing, here are my working parameters. I may hard veto items but I don’t expect to. Soft veto is possible within the world.
Creation specs:
Two character sheets: Starting at level 13 and 8. (In-world explanation; you are level 13 but depowered to 8 by a Plot Device)
Heyy this concept sounds really awesome and I’d love to be a part of it! I’m only free Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights though. My discord is Hayden34
Hey my discord is DEMONICcottonCANDY, I have little to no experience but am interested if you have any available space open. I loved the Suicide squad moves, in a lot of the story's I've partisapeted in I was more on the side of villiany and would normally lean twords a cult leader
Fun fact some of my dnd charictors would collect eye balls and store them in ressen to keep as momentos.
sounds like a really fun idea. friday/sundays would work best for me. could maybe do monday or tuesday if it starts late enough. my discord is masterethereal
Hi everyone -- I'm not sure if this counts as a significant update, and I'm going to update the first post as well, but I wanted to make sure anyone who was interested saw my reply, too.
I really appreciate the amount of interest this has generated! I'd definitely like to talk more to anyone who is interested to get an idea of what sort of character you have in mind, and probably what your sensibilities are like as a player because I want to make sure the player group is going to be compatible as far as their expectations as well as availability.
I will try to sit down and reach out to everyone who responds, but feel free to message me either through DNDB or at my Discord, which is Scriba.
Addendum: I'd definitely like to talk more to anyone who is interested to get an idea of what sort of character you have in mind, and probably what your sensibilities are like as a player because I want to make sure the player group is going to be compatible as far as their expectations as well as availability. I will try to sit down and reach out to everyone who responds, but feel free to message me either through DNDB or at my Discord, which is Scriba.
I’m a fairly experienced casual player and DM (5ish years?). I wanted to give this story idea a run, so I’m here to see if there’s some interest. I have a friend who plans to play, but am otherwise looking for new players. If there’s enough interest, I plan to run a Session Zero for the group to come together, set boundaries, and possibly retool characters if decided. Full disclosure, I’m not sure yet if I’m going to actually run it, but I’d like to.
I’m going to be perfectly transparent with this prompt: this concept is absolutely inspired by Suicide Squad.
The short explanation is that, long long ago, in the before time, a young and newly-crowned Elven Emperor released the majority of his Empire to form their own sovereign states, and encouraged the pursuit of cultural self-determination. 400 or so years later, the now-aged Elven King has grown jaded with his youthful ideals and sees the squalor and oppression that has taken root in much of his former territories. He has set out to correct the follies of his youth by re-annexing those relinquished territories and bringing them back into his Empire, for the good of the people that live in them.
You are a notorious criminal within your society, and have been given the opportunity to commute your life or death sentence through participation in a clandestine program. Your task? You, and others in the program, travel to a recently re-annexed territory and sow all the discord.
Still with me? Here’s the serious stuff.
Game: D&D 5e
Group type: Online
Experience: Experienced preferred, but not necessary. I am a relatively inexperienced homebrew DM so I fully expect to struggle with balancing.
Location/Timezone: DM is in EST. Games would likely be Discord/Roll20.
Schedule: TBD based on availability. Nights and weekends are generally good for me and the friend who is signed on.
Roles sought: Seeking 3-4 players.
Game style: This homebrew campaign is meant to be fairly casual. Rules apply but will be, shall we say, flexible? Rule of Cool reigns. Roleplay optional based on party preference. The campaign will be a story-driven sandbox but is intended to have chaotic shenanigans and room for murder hoboness.
Please note, this is an Evil campaign and will likely have some fairly flexible morality. My intention is to invite the party to discuss ahead of time what their limits are; certain themes will need to be reserved for subtext and/or off-screen.
PC Concept: You are a notorious villain/criminal from a fairly isolated kingdom (but not necessarily born there). Within the kingdom, you’d be famous for your exploits and featured on Wanted Posters everywhere you turn; outside of the kingdom, nobody would have any idea who you are. You aren’t just a hitman; you’re Altair. You aren’t just an agent of chaos; you’re The Joker. You aren’t just a crimelord; you’re Wilson Fisk. I’m looking for overpowered villains with their own trademarks and claims to fame. Don’t worry about trying to fit it into the setting beyond being fantasy appropriate; I’ve left enough room to mold the world around the characters, and will be happy to work with you to tweak it to the setting if needed.
It’s not likely your characters are long-time friends, but they may know each other professionally. It’s fine if you base your character off an existing character, but make it a creative adaptation.
Upbringing and career:
How did you get arrested?:
What’s your trademark?:
Player availability:
I’m not asking for character sheets at the moment, but if you wanted to design something to get the creative juices flowing, here are my working parameters. I may hard veto items but I don’t expect to. Soft veto is possible within the world.
Creation specs:
Two character sheets: Starting at level 13 and 8. (In-world explanation; you are level 13 but depowered to 8 by a Plot Device)
Starting gear: 2 uncommon major, 1 rare major, 1 legendary major (character trademark), 5 common minor, 5 uncommon minor, 2 rare minor.
1 Bonus Feat
Point-buy or Standard Array.
Species restrictions: Spelljammer, Constructs. Simic and Dragonmarks are okay with justification for their existence.
Classes: No restrictions. Don’t worry about it being thematically-appropriate; we’ll flavor it to fit in. Play what you want.
Heyy this concept sounds really awesome and I’d love to be a part of it! I’m only free Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights though. My discord is Hayden34
I'm interested. Deledius_Vastor on discord.
I’m interested. My schedule is open evening Sunday thru Saturday. BBFCB on discord
i would be interested in playing im ultimateredfire16 on discord
I like this idea, if you need a player my discord is Somerandomguyaj but I am new at the time of writing this.
Hey my discord is DEMONICcottonCANDY, I have little to no experience but am interested if you have any available space open. I loved the Suicide squad moves, in a lot of the story's I've partisapeted in I was more on the side of villiany and would normally lean twords a cult leader
Fun fact some of my dnd charictors would collect eye balls and store them in ressen to keep as momentos.
sounds like a really fun idea. friday/sundays would work best for me. could maybe do monday or tuesday if it starts late enough. my discord is masterethereal
Hi everyone -- I'm not sure if this counts as a significant update, and I'm going to update the first post as well, but I wanted to make sure anyone who was interested saw my reply, too.
I really appreciate the amount of interest this has generated! I'd definitely like to talk more to anyone who is interested to get an idea of what sort of character you have in mind, and probably what your sensibilities are like as a player because I want to make sure the player group is going to be compatible as far as their expectations as well as availability.
I will try to sit down and reach out to everyone who responds, but feel free to message me either through DNDB or at my Discord, which is Scriba.
This is definitely very interesting! My discord is SkittlePsycho, I would love to hear more on this campaign!