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Sunday - 5PM Mountain time (Edmonton Canada) Dark & Gritty Fantasy | Evolving Artifacts | Character Driven Homebrew world, Your own starting & evolving Artifact & Unique Character builds, ambition, flaws, secrets, and unfinished stories. About the adventure Abaella – Dark Fantasy D&D (2014 + 2024 Builds Welcome) - {Party just reached Level 2 | New Players Welcome} Dark Fantasy. Meaningful Choices: "Real Consequences. No Safety Nets.” “Your Choices Don’t Reset. They Echo.” Abaella is a rich & deep character developed D&D campaign set in a living world where your decisions matter, your power evolves, and the story reacts to you. Each character carries a unique, evolving artifact—growing in strength, presence, and influence as your journey unfolds. Built using a hybrid of 2014 and 2024 D&D rules, this game offers maximum character freedom with smooth, approachable gameplay. A Living World — Not a Theme Park - This world does not scale to you = Some encounters will feel easy = Others may be overwhelming Success depends on: - Strategy and positioning in and our of combat - Diplomacy and negotiation - Investigation and awareness - Deception—or knowing when not to fight This is a dynamic, reactive world, not a scripted experience. What Makes This Game Different: - Custom Character development - Rich & Intense - Customized Skills development - Meaningful encounters — no filler, every situation matters - NPCs and monsters with personality, motives, and moral ambiguity - Deep character creation — you build a person, not just a stat block - Violence has lasting consequences - Diplomacy is powerful and often the best path forward - Your actions don’t reset—they shape the world long-term. - Exploration & Ancient Magic - Travel uses a point-crawl system, focusing on impactful decisions instead of slow tracking. - Ancient Rune Portals allow instant travel across the world— if you discover how to use them. Sometimes correctly. Sometimes… not. Character-Driven Storytelling: - Your character is central to the narrative. - Flaws & Alignment matter - Choices carry weight - The world responds and evolves - This is a story shaped by player decisions, not a fixed plot. System & Structure: - Beginner-friendly — learn as you play - Veteran depth — meaningful challenge and decision-making - Playstyle: Roleplay with impactful combat Why Join Now: - Party is Level 2 — ideal entry point - Easy onboarding into the story - Early decisions will influence long-term outcomes Perfect For Players Who Want: - Dark fantasy storytelling - Intense, Fast and unpredictable combat encounters - Roleplay and Strong character development - A reactive world with real stakes - Freedom in character creation (2014 + 2024 builds) Step Into Abaella: - If you’re looking for a campaign where: - The world doesn’t wait for you - Your choices actually matter - Power comes with risk Then Abaella offers something most games don’t: - A world that pushes back.

This is a game for a particular cast of PCs: Carver Hawke, Anders, Fenris (already adopted as a PC), and Zevran from Dragon Age II. Schedule: weekly sessions on Saturdays, starting at 5 PM CET, ending about 9:30 PM Voice: Jitsi Platform: Either Owlbear Rodeo (as a player you don't have to have an account) or Roll20 Starting Level: 1 Player requirements: - Age: 21+ - LGBQTIA+ friendly (this is in fact a game for preferably gay characters) - Reliable attendance for weekly sessions - Willing to roleplay gay romance with their PC (I'm not talking about explicit content. Just romantic gestures like kissing or embracing) About the game: Having defeated Knight Commander Meredith at the Gallows, you were making your way back to the Kirkwall Docks when your boat was swallowed by a thick fog that felt like a living thing when it began choking you. Within a couple of heartbeats, it rendered all of you unconscious. When you wake up, you find your boat washed ashore, Maker knows where, but you certainly don't. Only one thing is clear: this is not the Wounded Coast. You are nowhere near Kirkwall. All too soon you discover that this place is gripped by fear and plagued by terrors you haven't encountered before. Something evil is trapping the souls of the dead and draining life from all who have been raised from death by magic. This curse not only prevents the raising of the dead, but also causes creatures that were previously raised from the dead to wither and eventually die. Unfortunately for you, you have all been brought back from the dead at some point. On one battlefield or another, you have all known the blessing of the Revival spell. And thus, stranded now so very far from home, you are under the effect of the curse that has befallen this foreign place. You have already lost most of your power, be it magic or might, and it is only a question of time until you perish. Unless you find a way to thwart this inglorious fate and save yourselves, the land, and its people. The tone of this campaign is dark, horror-like at times. I'm looking for a cohesive party, willing to work together. We have 3 slots open (Fenris has already been adopted as a PC). In this version of events: 1] rivalry between Anders and Fenris has been resolved in Kirkwall. They needn't be the greatest of friends when this story starts, but both must be able to trust the other to have their back in events to come. 2] all four men have been together on the Deep Roads Expedition (if you'd like to play Zevran, give him a plausible reason why he was there) 3] Carver might or might not have contracted the Blight while on the Deep Roads Expedition (if you'd like to play him, please indicate whether he ended up as a Grey Warden or a Templar) To apply, tell me whom of the four men you want to play, and: 1] His Class (Any class from Player's Handbook 5e, except from Monk. Acceptable source material for subclasses: Player's Handbook 5e, Xanathar's Guide to Everything, Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft) 2] His dream/ aspiration: 3] His greatest fear: 4] His willingness to have an otherworldly Patron: (this option isn't limited to a Warlock in this game, which will feature only one possible Patron. Ideally, a bond with Him should give a character another strong reason to want to resolve the mystery of stolen souls. At this point, I'm looking for players who can imagine their PC having a bond with a powerful being from Shadowfell. He's neither good nor evil, so you needn't be afraid of moral corruption of your PC). 5] Your age: Please note that I'm new to DMing, and to make things a bit easier for me, we won't do multiclassing in this game. Anyone invited will have a voice interview. If you'd like to play, drop me a message, and we'll take it from there.

In the twisting sub-streets of Ward 46 of the Greater Los Angeles Protection Area lies a little bar called the Nob. That's where you hang out, waiting for your fixer to hook you up with jobs that might be enough to break even on your shitty-ass apartment. Then she walks in: Piranha. Tall and lithe, an elf who clearly comes from money. She goes up to Sam, your bartender and fixer, insisting on the best damn runners in the city. You happen to be the lucky sobs who are the only runners in the bar at the moment, so he points her to your table. And that's how you get started on a job that will take you deep into the heart of Renraku's R&D department, tangling with lethal security forces, where you will risk drawing the attention of Haruhiko Nakada himself, the infamous CEO of Renraku. But you still have no idea how deep this rabbit hole actually goes... * * * We will be using 3rd edition, the classic that I grew up on. Reviews of more recent editions have not inspired me to switch. 3e may be a beast, but I've got pages of reference material that I've put together to help make it more accessible, as well as a custom interactive pdf character sheet, which you can find here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Shadowrun/comments/1b08mi4/shadowrun_3e_character_sheet_and_quick_reference/ This is a stand-alone mini-campaign of 3-5 sessions, including a session 0 for character creation. However, it could also act as "Episode 1" for a longer campaign. We could move on to "Episode 2" after this one is done if folks have had fun and would like to continue.  The cost is $25 per session on StartPlaying.games. It is open to both experienced and new players.