🌍🌍🌍〰️〰️| Exploration

⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️〰️| Combat

🎭🎭🎭〰️〰️| Social RP & Drama

🧩🧩〰️〰️〰️| Puzzles

😂〰️〰️〰️〰️| Humor

Savage creatures have abducted the living and the dead to their mysterious lair; only you can stop whatever god forsaken plan they have.

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## ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN ##

🩸 Struggle | ☀ Hope | 👁 Desperation

Your group seeks a night of respite after days of travel. The nearby village, however, offers only smoke and iron. An once idyllic landscape is now a war zone, as vile creatures pillage and kill. You are the only ray of hope these people have, showing up at the right time to save them.

## WHAT THIS CAMPAIGN OFFERS ##

⚔️ Tough but Fair Challenge - An intense battle experience, with savage enemies that will try to knock you down and tear you to shreds. However, cunning and charm can always ease the burden.

📖 Interactive Characters – The characters laid throughout the story have their own struggles, challenges and stories. However much you want to engage with them is your choice.

🌍 A Taste of Everything - This adventure has some social encounters, some dungeon exploration, some wilderness exploration, and many different combats. It has the ability to scratch many itches, and introduce many aspects to newcomers.

⏳ A Short Story - This adventure will run for about 4 to 5 sessions, usually; Enough time to explore the story, the game and the character, but not requiring a long term commitment.

📜 Myths and Rumors - Draw your own conclusions from your experiences, against the expectations set by history and by onlookers.

## GAME DETAILS ##

**Campaign:** The Demon of Song - D&D 5E - A short 3rd level adventure

**Number of Players:** 6 players.

**Duration:** Sessions last 3 hours (on average)

**Payment:** US$ 15 (USD) per session via StartPlayingGames.

**Time:** Wednesdays at 11:30 pm, UTC.

**Tools:** We will use Roll20 and Discord only.

## ABOUT ME ##

Hey there! I'm Erick, and I have been a regular RPG player since 2015, but I've been involved in the world of RPGs and have been a fan since I was a little kid, when my brother used to be a GM for me.

I'm a big fan of game design in general; so I also enjoy creating content and tweaking the rules as needed. I've played a few other systems, but D&D 5th Edition is my favorite by far.

RPGs are my favorite hobby, and I believe they have immense narrative, rational and therapeutic value. I am happy to teach newcomers and engage with veterans alike.

Although I embrace heavy themes and take the narrative itself seriously within the game, our communion as writers and players is something very light and comfortable for me.

## GM STYLE ##

I love both narrative and tactics. In long campaigns, I interview my players about their characters and take part in creating a life story for them, to better understand how to challenge and reward them. In short campaigns, I still ask players to get a good grasp on who their characters are, what they want and how they relate to the world, and I quickly get in their wavelength.

At the same time, I'll spend hours fine-tuning classes, spells or items to get them just right in game terms, keeping a good grasp of how intense combat needs to be, and how to make it so. 

## WHAT I PROVIDE ##

You will need a discord account and a roll20 account to play. Once you join, there'll be a link to a discord server where I keep all the helpful links and info I got for you. You are more than welcome to talk to me about any preparation you'd like and any doubts you have, but as long as you feel prepared, we are good to go!

We'll use battlemaps for all scenes that include a scuffle, and mostly use theater of the mind for the rest of the scenes; although I do share the images that I use as reference for locations, when there are any.

We'll use music to set the vibe as we play, as well as some sound effects, all integrated within Roll20.

I got a firm grasp of the rules, and I am lax with them, trying to create a flow on scenes, without losing balance.

## IN-DEPTH CAMPAIGN STRUCTURE ##

If you're looking for a more detailed breakdown of the design of this campaign, here it is: It's meant to quickly introduce the core experiences of the game; Some fighting, the amount depending on both decisions and luck, and their difficulty also depending (or not) on how you engage with the game; Opportunities for social exploration, cave exploration and wilderness exploration, as well as puzzle solving.

Although the adventure is initially aimed at beginner players, it is perfectly capable of being used with veteran players. It is created in such a way that the final result and the impacts of the decisions are Highly volatile based on your engagement; Beginner players and those unfamiliar with RPGs will deal with the "first glance" of things and have a very classic experience, while experienced players can try to delve deeper into the themes and situations proposed and find a very unusual and socially/emotionally complex experience.

## GAMEPLAY DETAILS ##

We will do a session 0 to explain the adventure, talk about styles, create characters and also for new players to learn the system and the tools. We will have macros on Roll20 to digitally use X, N and O cards, I will share a document for everyone's Lines and Veils, and we'll keep an open communication throughout the game as events occur.

By standard, the adventure will include depictions of violence; The creatures you will fight are savages, and viscera will be aplenty. If you delve deeper into the characters the story revolves around, there is a lot of trauma in their backgrounds, but that is only accessible with much intent from the players, so easily avoidable if you'd like.

I always ask everyone how they're feeling after the game, not only to debrief on possible sensitive themes, but also to check on how everyone's feeling about the gameplay.

## CONTENT WARNINGS ##

• Blood

• Body Horror

• Death

• Extreme Violence

• Devils / Demons / Fiends

• Gore

• Mutilation of Corpses

• Violence