Dungeons & Dragons 5.5E (2024)
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Echoes of Nymorath
Hey all!
I'm working on a homebrew campaign set in the world of Nymorath - a fantasy setting with original worldbuilding, factions, lore, and maps.
The campaign weaves together several story arcs under the working title Echoes of Nymorath, designed to run to completion in approximately 40 sessions.
I'm at the stage where I need a second table to run alongside my existing group for playtesting, so that I can compare how different groups move through the same content.
Planned schedule:
Sundays at 19:00 CET/CEST, every second week, approx. 4 hours per session
What to expect:
- D&D 5e 2024 ruleset; Modules, Player's Handbook and core references already set up in Foundry
- Online via Foundry VTT. I host, you only need a browser; everything is setup with maps, tokens, lighting, and atmosphere
- An absolutely free game - I am covering all needed hosting, subscriptions, modules and similar.
- A homebrew world with developed history, lore, continental and regional maps, city maps, and battle maps for adventures. A shorter and longer form of the history and lore documents will be provided before the game start.
- A small number of custom rules, creatures and homebrew mechanics - very simple and clearly defined stuff, nothing that requires homework
- Session 0 will be a one-shot to get the table comfortable before the campaign starts
- Feedback after sessions is expected - nothing formal, just honest impressions on what landed and what didn't.
- I play with my camera on. You are not expected or required to do the same.
- Campaign in active development: mostly polished, occasional rough edges to be expected.
What I'm looking for:
- 5 players
- Comfortable with 5e 2024 rules, minimum: know the basics, know their character and know where to look for things they are not sure about.
- Sessions are in English, so a decent grasp of the language (I am not a native speaker)
- Good audio setup - a clear mic is a hard requirement
- Reliable and committed, okay with a long-form campaign
- Willing to engage genuinely with the material and flag anything that feels off
- (18+) The campaign deals with some mature themes: moral ambiguity, political violence, darker subject matter, so a degree of maturity at the table is expected. Nothing gratuitous - I would not flag it as NSFW or similar, but this is not guaranteed to be a... sanitized setting. Of course, I will do my best to keep everything within the limits of decency.
The setting:
Nymorath is a continent still finding its footing after a devastating war ended forty years ago. The wounds healed unevenly - some cities rebuilt quickly, some still quietly bleeding, and others left in ruins.
Eversail is not only one of the living ones, but bursting with life!
A smaller port city with deep roots and a complicated present: merchant guilds pulling in one direction, local factions pulling in another, the church doing its best to hold its ground, and the distant capital of Stoneford casting a long shadow over all three.
Trade flows in and out of its docks - not all of it declared, of course. The taverns have regulars with histories, and those histories have their own histories.
Above it all, the Administrators' Guild keeps records of everything, which means someone always knows more than they should... which many find less than optimal.
In the middle of it all, dark forces are beginning to move, the political tensions that have been simmering since the war are coming to a slow boil, the good old "where there is coin, there is trouble" holds itself true... And there's also a mage who would very much like to get back to his card game.
A note on table fit:
This is a story-driven campaign in a world that has history and people in it. Characters who exist to break things, obsessively optimize damage, or treat every NPC as either a target or a vending machine will not enjoy it here, and neither will the rest of the table.
Speaking of that, I do not consider this campaign to be overly difficult, and it will not be needed to squeeze every bit of might out of your character in order to survive; the characters can freely be played for fun and flair first, for combat efffectiveness second.
About me:
I started with D&D 2nd Edition about twenty years ago and spent a long time deep in 3.5, as both player and GM... then life happened, and I took a looong break from DnD.
What you're looking at now is the result of coming back and deciding that the 497 pages of scrawled notes, maps, and campaign material from those years deserved better than finding its forever home forgotten in some drawer in the basement.
I'm in the process of converting all of it into digital format, proper maps, a fully built Foundry module - and rebuilding it for 5e 2024 along the way.
Foundry and 5e 2024 are both relatively new to me in practice, and there will probably be moments where I have to look something up mid-session, miss a rule or apply something from an older edition by mistake. Be prepared and have understanding, please.
I mostly take the game seriously, but without demanding everyone else does - some silliness is very welcome, if in character. Again, I try to do the silly voices and accents as much as I can, but do not expect everyone else does that - whatever works for you.
One thing I need to be upfront about: this campaign is being developed as a commercial release. The people who playtest it are helping shape a product that will eventually be sold. Your feedback genuinely matters, and you should know what you're sitting down at the (virtual) table for.
A note/disclaimer on assets:
Some placeholder art used during playtesting is AI generated. This is a temporary measure for a campaign in development, not a finished product.
Once playtesting is complete, I will be commissioning human artists for everything that needs proper illustration. For now, I need to test where art is actually needed/useful.
Absolutely no AI-generated art will appear in the final release.
To apply, please fill out the form below - shortlisted applicants will be invited to a short "vibe check" voice call before session zero to talk through the campaign and make sure we're a good fit before committing either side's time.
No DMs please, I'll review entries and follow up via Discord.
https://forms.gle/fvuvRwvKiLthmGKg9