Wild Fields' Allure

People settle Wild Fields at their own risk. Lawlessness, wandering giants, stinging Khanat raiders and the eerie vicinity of abandoned elven woods. No one's first choice, truly – but the alternative is serfdom, just about to be invented. Runaways here live from farming, animal husbandry or hunting-gathering – but such labors weren't for you. You're an "adventurer" – and you've just heard that something weird is going on the northern frontier

Hello from Ukraine, everyone! My name is Mkola. I'm 24, discovered D&D a couple years ago via "Critical Role" and have been playing/GMing here, on Roll20, since last December. Big fan of "The Burning Wheel" system; sincerely enjoyed Netflix's "Mindhunters" and "Maniac" series; Brandon Sanderson's "Way of the Kings" and Vernor Vinge's "Deepness in the Sky" are probably my favorite books.

Game details

• Campaign duration: about 2,5 months, until Spring. I don't have any hard deadlines there – but I suspect the adventure would take us about as much to finish.
• Session duration: ~4 hours.
• We'll dedicate the first session to flesh out the world and create 1st level characters. I don't have any vetos on races/feats/stats generation methods.
• Setting: low-fantasy wilderness. I plan to keep the world mundane-ish – so when the party encounters something weird and supernatural it's properly highlighted. All non-human humanoids will be reskined as human cultures or plane-touched: "elves" are folk influenced by the fey, "dwarves" are ones marked by primordial elements, etc.
• Fights: I prefer to run then on the gird, it usually one or two encounters per session. The rest is roleplay – by which I mean: "solving problems via talking to NPCs and each other".
• Self-direction rate: medium. I appreciate when PCs have goals; the story is what happens when they meet a pushback.
• Politics rate: medium. You can be sure that factions are always scheming and negotiating in the background.
• Player buy-in: for some reason and another your character left civilization proper and didn't settle as a farmer, deciding to adventure.
• Discord will be used for video&voice chat. Webcameras ease communication (and I gesture a lot).