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The Kingdom of Pallaviel has stood in the southern reaches of the continent of Iedda for centuries, fighting off threats of the merciless and greedy. It has suffered great tragedy and great triumph.

You know it well. It has been your home for your entire life. Several years ago the village you lived in, Ardenfeld, was attacked by a coalition of bandits with particular iconography. You were a child then and survived by the skin of your teeth, hiding with your friends. When the smoke cleared you were all orphaned. You parted ways, though you kept in touch as each of you found yourselves part of a new life and creed but none of you forgot the bandits who robbed you of your childhood and your families.

On the anniversary of the massacre, as adults, you reunite in a tavern on the road named The Lying Wolverine. As you will soon learn, your shared bond will start you on a path of great adventure. This is not a single story reflecting that but many.
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I could say it's not like that but memory betrays

Everyone who dares to speak too soon

I would tell you about it but I can't reason with

The tiny child within my past


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I haven’t played Dungeons & Dragons proper for about a year or two. I ended up talking to a few friends in multiple servers about missing the hobby and trying to find a game to play in but that didn’t turn out with any significant results. In conclusion, I decided to dust off my own interest in being the DM again, something I haven’t done for longer than a few sessions in a very long time.

Itiner is the result. I’m looking forward to seeing what happens as we throw concepts against the wall as we test out the prompt detailed above. The world in itself will be a sandbox campaign setting. What this means is there is no grandiose story arc about defeating an evil sorcerer who is bent on conquering the world or a great demon invasion that will bring the end of the world. There will be villains and foes, but this is all done in a reactive way toward player decisions in a low magic fantasy setting.

The RP will not be a “railroad”. The world is what the players make of it whether it is to mock, destroy, maintain, or rebuild it. If players want to play faction builder and create a hamlet of their own, that’s a choice. If they want to go into terrible dungeons, that’s one too. If they want to do busywork in villages, that too. I want to have this be the most immersive escapist option possible as I relearn the fundamentals of DMing in 5th Edition D&D.

Your character will be drawn up as a level one adventurer. They have not done much, if not all. This is the first real journey since becoming an adult. Characters will have a shared backstory as survivors of the town called Ardenfeld which was destroyed ten years ago. You were a child between the age of seven and eleven. The town itself was a human settlement but it was not exclusively one or particularly hateful of other races. There were elven families, mixed race families, tabaxi families, human families, halfling families, and so on. For the sake of the design there were no giant or monstrous race-based families living in Ardenfeld. If you have an idea how to make something work ask in the thread before you app and ensure there’s a sufficient explanation, if we can make it fit we will.

The bandit coalition that robbed you of your family and normal life remains in your mind often. After the attack, you were placed into an orphanage until you were either adopted or released at the age of fourteen. Some of your characters may have been adopted by a famous wizard, religious order, a family of note. They could have studied at a wizard’s circle, a bardic college, or clerical temple. Others may have been left in the streets of Pallaviel and taken up with street urchins, cartels, or some other unsavory lifestyle from not getting adopted. You have many options despite the prompt seeming relatively restrictive.

Before your characters were separated from the other survivors, people they called friends, they each made a sworn vow to one another to reunite on the tenth anniversary of the attack in the tavern overlooking the ruins of Ardenfeld. That is where the story begins.


In this campaign setting we will be using the standard array for the Point Buy system. That’s 27 points with no customization.

I will be accepting all non-core books on a case-by-case basis. So what this means is if you use something from Volo’s or Xanathar’s you will have to ask if it’s okay to use that. Yes, this includes Unearthed Arcana which I distinctly abhor for personal reasons.

I will be using a milestone experience system, so we will not be tracking XP in the traditional fashion. Progression will happen, you will not be stuck at level one for eternity but it may take one or two arcs before level two is unlocked. If this is not your kind of thing I’d advise you to find a different campaign that you are more compatible with.

Your background is your education, your skills and affinities, and unique flavor. You may all be orphans of Ardenfeld but you ended up in lives of your own for ten years whether good or bad. You had life experiences that were different. Choose a background for mechanics, your RPG sheet (non-tabletop sheet) should detail your actual background in the context of the actual story. Additionally, I will not be accepting evil alignment characters as this is a heroic-hearted campaign. And no, chaotic neutral is not an excuse to be a sociopath.






Itiner: Heroes of Ardenfeld will have a dual sheet system—one from mythweavers or dicecloud that will be linked to the sheet and a conventional RPG character sheet to show where your writing and conceptualization is at.

As this is a tabletop-pbp merger thingamajig, the writing level will not be consistently advanced. Short posts will be the name of the game. Rolls too. The below template should get you started:


Once both sheets are finished, post them here in the OOC in a hider so I can review them and delegate who will be our 4-5 characters.


I’m asking everyone to follow a certain rhetoric when applying for this role-play. I’m a little more touch-and-go than other GMs, but I’ve learned a process that works for me that might not work for others.

- I will be checking up on people once a week, if you do not inform me of your status in three weeks I’m going to have to let you go. Myself and other players in your team should hold you accountable just as much you hold me accountable as a GM.

- Real Life takes precedence over this hobby we share, but a short post shouldn’t take all that much time here and there. If something is coming up for me IRL I will tell you and I expect the same from you.

- I expect everyone to be courteous and polite to each other. Banter is fine, but being derisive and hostile is a net negative and if I see attitude problems I will not tolerate them.

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I will have the actual sheet application and more resources up shortly.
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Is there anything we need to know specifically about the deities of the setting? Just wondering for those who may consider playing a Cleric, Paladin, Warlock, Divine Soul Sorcerer or anyone of the acolyte background.
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Is there anything we need to know specifically about the deities of the setting? Just wondering for those who may consider playing a Cleric, Paladin, Warlock, Divine Soul Sorcerer or anyone of the acolyte background.

I'm kind of making it up as we go, so I might just use default Forgotten Realms deities until I think of something more flavorful. Each city will probably have churches/temples/shrines devoted to whatever the population there worships, etc.
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Do you have a closing date in mind for applications? I'm interested in this, but I'm likely to be very busy with work this week.
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Do you have a closing date in mind for applications? I'm interested in this, but I'm likely to be very busy with work this week.

I was thinking Saturday.
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Shout out to 10am me misspelling Forward.
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I also am making a cat named after a tree...Blackbranch vs. Brightwood showdown?? 😏
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Outside of Ardenfeld sometimes being spelled Ardenfel that sheet looks pretty solid, as expected from an Asura CS. Could be interesting if we get along and there's no roadbumps. Quick question: I noticed you use "half-elf" as a race but your picture is more of a, well, catboy. Are you intending to use the half-elf stats for flavor while you write the character as a half-catperson IC? or am I dumb and its as simple as a tabaxi made a go at an elf tailor?
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Outside of Ardenfeld sometimes being spelled Ardenfel that sheet looks pretty solid, as expected from an Asura CS. Could be interesting if we get along and there's no roadbumps. Quick question: I noticed you use "half-elf" as a race but your picture is more of a, well, catboy. Are you intending to use the half-elf stats for flavor while you write the character as a half-catperson IC? or am I dumb and its as simple as a tabaxi made a go at an elf tailor?


Half-elf, half-catperson.
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WITHDRAWN
I'm afraid I think I'm gonna have to withdraw my potentially participation in this for the time being. Still seems like a fun time so I hope y'all do have fun uwu

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That's a cool cat.
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Are we using the Feats from Tasha's Cauldron?
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Are we using the Feats from Tasha's Cauldron?


I will be accepting all non-core books on a case-by-case basis. So what this means is if you use something from Volo’s or Xanathar’s you will have to ask if it’s okay to use that. Yes, this includes Unearthed Arcana which I distinctly abhor for personal reasons.
So sayeth TGM
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Sorry this ended up so long. I got carried away trying to tie a lot of the imagery and stuff in her background together and be all poetic and shit. I'm well aware that it's just overly elaborate high-concept bullshit, and that mechanically speaking, it doesn't entirely line up -- like, yes, she has Produce Flame as a Druid Cantrip, but I had her creating small fires in her backstory even before that and acted like it's a racial ability because it was more dramatic that way. Regardless, I can provide cliffnotes if needed, but I figured I'd leave it as is for initially submitting it since I was kind of proud of the result.

Also on a lighter note, I am officially the first non-cat in this party. Except not really because I'll probably turn into a cat once I get Wild Shape. All cat party anybody?

TL;DR, sorry for being so edgy, and looking forward to RPing with y'all. XD
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I will be accepting all non-core books on a case-by-case basis. So what this means is if you use something from Volo’s or Xanathar’s you will have to ask if it’s okay to use that. Yes, this includes Unearthed Arcana which I distinctly abhor for personal reasons.
So sayeth TGM


I can read. Which is why I asked.
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I can read. Which is why I asked.


Ah. Not trying to be an asshole. I just figured it was already there. My bad, yo

EDIT: Specifically I assumed that that meant that you had to ask about each feat
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This sheet is amazing. Love it.

Also cats ftw. 🐈
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