Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

FORGE YOUR FATE IN HELLFIRE!
Time is tentative but we will certainly be playing on either Sundays or Mondays!

Welcome to Baldur's Gate, a city of ambition and corruption. You’ve just started your adventuring career, but already find yourself embroiled in a plot that sprawls from the shadows of Baldur's Gate to the front lines of the planes-spanning Blood War! Join us for a campaign spanning levels 1 to 13 rife with intrigue, devilish dealings and an adventure spanning the first layer of hell itself!

About the DM; My name's Dylan. I've been playing tabletops for the last 5 or 6 years, mostly 5th Edition D&D and all of it as a player. I'm making a return as Dungeon Master finally after running Lost Mines of Phandelver for my mother and some close friends. It's been a much more enjoyable experience than I expected, so I'd like to keep the ball rolling with an adventure that's been on my bucket list since I saw it in stores. This will be my first time running Descent, and my second time as a DM. Despite this, I'm very excited to run Descent into Avernus for some of my closest friends, and a couple new players.

About the Players; I'm looking to take on two more players, ideally new ones! I've been having a blast introducing my mom and her friends to D&D and would love to continue doing so with Descent into Avernus. The current party consists of some of my closest friends and D&D veterans, and I'd like to offset that with some newer players if possible. Ones not jaded by a million dice rolls like the rest of us to add a good amount of spice and unpredictability to proceedings. As far as characters are concerned we're currently running with a high elf Bladesinger wizard, a duergar bard and one mostly undecided, though I think our pressuring him into playing a happy Tortle cleric is going well.

About the Adventure; Descent into Avernus is an adventure spanning two realms. The players will begin as level 1 adventurers fresh in Baldur's Gate, a famous city of the Forgotten Realms setting. The city is rough and unforgiving, and recently it's on the knife's edge. Refugees flock to the Gate in droves from the east, and they bring dread news. The city of Elturel has vanished from the world, leaving nothing but a crater where it once stood. To make matters worse Ulder Ravengard, the Grand Duke ruling over Baldur's Gate, was on an excursion to Elturel when the city supposedly vanished. No one has heard from him in a tenday, and the city fears the worst. In his absence the mercenary company tasked with keeping the peace, the Flaming Fists, act with autonomy and rule the lower city with brutal efficiency.

About You; This is where you enter the fray. You and your party of adventurers have been conscripted by the Flaming Fists, as is their right, to assist them with problematic cultists taking advantage of the chaos in the city. You as a character might be fresh to the Gate, you may be born of nobility in the city or you may have been raised in its shadow. Whatever the case, the tension in the air is almost visible. You as a player should be at least 18 years old, punctual and comfortable around a group of veterans who aren't shy with their words and are ready to help you dive into a system we're so familiar with we could recite the first three pages of spells by memory. Though we're here to have a good time and roll some dice, we're also here to get a couple new players into the system and the rabbit hole of hobbies that is tabletop RPGs. Don't worry about needing materials, as I've got all the core books and supplements you could dream of. For character creation we're allowing any and all of the core PHB material as well as all official WotC published supplements. Elemental Evils, Xanathar's Guide to Everything, Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide, etc. We will NOT be including homebrewed material of any sort, nor most Unearthed Arcana material. The only exception to this is the UA Ranger for those interested in playing a Ranger.

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