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Dungeons and Dragons


Shadow World





Thousands of years ago, mortals rose up against the Gods, confronting them in a bloody conflict to gain immortality and divine power. As a consequence, the Gods severed the link to the elemental planes from the material world. Cut off from the elemental energies that power the material plane, the world died a slow death. Century by century, the sun grew dim, rains became scarce, beasts died off, and cities fell into decay and became ruins. Ten years ago, the sun set one final time, never to rise again.

It is in this doomed world where our heroes dwell. From humble beginnings they will find they are powerful, and unlock the ability to be a force for change in this age of darkness. Shall they rise to become mighty generals, leaders of fleets and armies? Or perhaps as powerful lords, with entire kingdoms resting upon their shoulders? Or perhaps they will pursue a more sinister fate, pledging allegiance to a dark god and become a twisted sorcerer of terrible power? Your fate is in your hands.

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Greetings and thanks for checking out my interest check for a proposed D&D game. I'm new to the forum, but have run play by post games in the past, as well as currently running a couple live d&d games of my own. This game shall be a West Marsh style game, meaning the players will have most control of the narrative. You all decide what you want to do, with who, and where. It is then up to me to make up the adventure and present it to you.

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~ A homebrew world, with Humans, half-elves, orcs, half-orcs, dwarves, tieflings, and halflings.

~ Players will be responsible for their own character sheets, providing links from sites such as Dicecloud, so their character can be tracked.

~ Players begin at level one, beginning as small scale heroes and growing to be powerful figures in the world, if they survive.

~ A game that focuses on narrative > rules. Our objective here is to tell a great story, bending the rules of the game if need be.

~ We will be making use of Discord for game rolls to relay quick battle outcomes so players may begin IC asap.

~ Unique maps created with Campaign Cartographer to give players the information needed to immerse themselves in this world.

~ A West March game focused on the players, with the freedom to fulfill their own ambitions or take part in the main story at their leisure.

~ A high fantasy setting, with magic elements throughout the land, but magic users are rare, their power stemming from ancient bloodlines, descendents of the warriors that warred upon the Gods, stealing the divine power of magic as their own.


So that's the game, in a nutshell. Please feel free to ask me any questions you might have, or we can begin workshopping a character if you want to start drawing up a back story and begin working on your CS.
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Interested!

I'd be excited to play a darker game.

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Interested, This will be my first D&D session. I've always wanted to do this! I'm going to need some help on the cs though ;-;
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I was looking for a good West March campaign using the 5e rules. Color me interested.

If it helps with any, I do have all of 5e's PDFs, as well as a few D&D Beyond exclusives, should anyone wish to use them. If approved by the DM, of course.
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@BespeckledCeph Would be happy to break you into some d&d. Firstly you'll need an online character sheet. I recommend OrcPub as a nice straight forward option. I'll roll each of you for your ability scores but your background, class, and spells are all up to you.

Check out the players handbook for rules and a guide to creating a character.
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Reading the list of races, and I have to ask... does this mean Elves in this world are extinct, or just very, very rare? Either way, it's given me an idea for a character concept I might utilize.
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Interested, and this will also be my first D&D session.
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I am interested if the username didnt give away that I play D&D in real life.
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Seems pretty swell to me. I am interested. <3
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~ We will be making use of Discord for game rolls to relay quick battle outcomes so players may begin IC asap.


I will we also be playing on Discord or will we only be using it for rolls.
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is this full?, because I'd love to join
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Elves not strong enough to not die out. XD
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Reading the list of races, and I have to ask... does this mean Elves in this world are extinct, or just very, very rare? Either way, it's given me an idea for a character concept I might utilize.


Unfortunately yes, elves vanished from the world in the aftermath of the war with the gods. The few that remained intermingled with humans and died off. I'll have more details in a player handout which should be done soon.

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I will we also be playing on Discord or will we only be using it for rolls.


The ooc and enemy/player actions, rolls/mechanics will take place on discord. With those results players then write their ic.

An important note: XP is only given upon completing an IC. This is casual so you only need a paragraph or two minimum.

is this full?, because I'd love to join


The beauty of a West March campaign is that the game can potentially support more players as they're not limited to a single story thread and party. Your characters can be off doing their own thing, contributing to the main thread as they like. I intend to keep the roster open.
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Would a Half-Elf seeking to renew Elven culture from obscurity be a fitting character in this setting? I was thinking of either accomplishing this by going either a combat-focused Bladesinger or an Arcane Archer.
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@Cu Chulainn that would indeed be fitting.
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I've actually always been more a Pathfinder player, I've only played 5e maybe once, but what are your rules for home-brew things?

Obviously you've outlined the only races here but what of classes?
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@deadpixel101 please feel free to create your own class. As long as it's not OP or contradictory to the setting, ill approve it.
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Alrighty! My character will either be one of those stated profession, or maybe a Cleric of one of the Elven gods, if such exist. For domains, I was thinking of Arcana, Knowledge, or even Forge.

As for our stats, will we be using the standard array or a point buy?
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Lovely! I've never made one myself but there are some floating around the web. I'll make sure to run them by you before making a character though.
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The ooc and enemy/player actions, rolls/mechanics will take place on discord.


You know we can do all of that stuff on this site, right?
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