Echoes Beyond Realms

Brief Description of setting: General vibe has fun daftness of a mostly at sea adventure set in high fantasy homebrew world with some modest Lovecraftian cosmic horror aspects on serious story details while also taking some mild inspiration from Ebberon, and various comic/anime nods.

Setting is based in a world with odd occurrences of rifts to various planes, usually dangerous but somewhat controlled in parts. It is a more exotic race/species friendly world, so not human or preferably not human-esk or commonly used fitting in types.
In its origin and in the present some of the average in power common races would be Dragonborn, Drow, Varied Genasi, Tiefling of many coloration and minor mix, Goblinoids, Kobold, and various more animal related folk. I do play in some personalised design flavour with such eg: an aarakocra may be designed to be like a bluejay, robin or cardinal.
Other bigger world history topics relevant to some lack of human populace, cosmic phenomenon and certain hostilities/indifferences between other types of species can be discussed.
I try to make good use of character backgrounds and their specific connections to the world to fuel the story, adding and altering as things evolve.

You'd be joining the group of Women now known as The Clam Slams in their adventure through planar rift threatened lands of my homebrew world where the inhabitants are stalked by other worldly threats, entities of incredible powers and a dark force creeping across the seascape, but the Clams are chasing more than monsters, they’re hunting for answers in the hope of understanding their aligned fates and preventing horrors from claiming their loved ones and maybe this world.
Battling a terrifying cult, lead by an elusive old Tortle and his close high rank group gifted powers by their ancient ocean deity, evading murderous mycelium clones at the hands of an ecumenically slimy Tabaxi druid, creating distance and hopefully time from a sinister sect of bounty hunters and seeking the truth about who they really are, are you brave enough to join their endeavours ?

-Recently the group are on a quest taking them to Sigil in aim of helping a member of the group who kind of lost their body due to a particular magic card selection gamble that resulted in their body being turned into a swan shaped teapot that's seemingly a high value artefact up for grabs in Sigil and sought after by various potentially problematic beings.-

When the game is: A fortnightly Sunday eve 5 till 10, start and end is likely a bit odd in ways of player chatter on occasion and pending such chat with ease in timing of game start if we get straight in, then may end early some times, but either way we usually have mini break.

Time/Country: due to prior difficulty I prefer all players be located within UK and therefore be GMT.
Rule/Play Style: High magic with mild steampunk pirate stuffs but mainly Fantasy Horror vibes, RP and combat varies 60/40. Chunks of story can be capable to lean the odd bit to one more than other. Various Hombrewy/rule cool set ups- but mainly character story lead for well formed character design and in play character related ideas.

Resources/VTT needed: Discord, dnd beyond, roll20 --

Player Character starting level: Group currently 7 (up via milestones)

As a Gm iv a few years irl Gm experience and still working to best my very creative freedom based ideas to in session operation. I try to shape my world and story to player background so to add more for personal connection. The group and myself are more left aligned politically with LGBTQIA friendly space and greatly opposed to use of AI for creative purposes that take away from real creatives, therefore anyone not of such ideals should not apply.

PLEASE NOTE AND BE AWARE NO ACCEPTION TO DETAIL OF AI USE - I Illustrate my own work and as a group we don't agree with nor accept its use in our game and prefer to not be aligned with anyone ok with its use, thank you.

Experience level desired: Played a bit maybe advanced beginner, intermediate+. Having watched a fair bit via streams maybe. Creative rp character driven. age 24+ ok with dark horror themes and depictions.

Though the game began with Dnd 5e 2014 set up during the added Tashas couldron stuff and my own more homebrewy rules add ons we have modest power level evolutions of hte game mechanics akin to the 2024 stuff ad do utilise some but not all the newer 2024 stuff (eg: certain previous subclass glow ups and spell changes in addition to my own changes to subclasses and various other tidbits.. though Counter spell is 2014 version)

I'm fairly loose of potential character craft options in that ill take stance of *yes" you can have that "but" also this applies or "no but" something similar in my altering's my main hard no's are - no duplicate class stuff, making obvious tropes in class/race op mash up as if you think im not gonna notice and im greatly opposed to subclasses that take the mick like Peace cleric...some i may just tweak for fun ideas but peace cleric is not a thing with me.

Current group is lvl 7 consist of a hombrewed Kalashtar variant (mix of homeworld not human species with quori dream spirit of ebberon setting) Blood hunter -- Water Genasi Warlock -- Fairy Bard ----we have had a our Cleric HalfGoilathOrc had to drop out due to new work opportunities so other changes may be in occurrence due to recent player leaving ..still in talks for figuring some parts of affect for current arc. That cleric along past characters is currently on side-lines for a story aspect as NPC -
Species and class wise I tend to try not to have what is already in play - with that and having had Aasimar or average Elf come up a few times id like to change it up from that. Please specify species and class fully in applications.

-- Group open to in order of more needed - Druid, Cleric, Sorc (divine favorable). we have a new player just started as Barbarian so our martial dish is pretty set that said discussion to options of healing access support stuffs may be valid aside what said in casters this may be limited to speedy item/potion caddy Rogues maybe, we have had Artificer and with so much altering to recent version I'm not fully on board with it, so its pretty big maybe to those and we have a fair bit of Familiars/pets already, the stated Casters may be more considered though as healer options may be remaining position to fit.

We also tend to steer clear of minmax multiclass and the tad overdone tropey stuffs.

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