Game Preparation Guide

General Guide

The password will be provided to you when you are ready to build your character.
Some players may experience issues accessing Foundry (usually due to ad-blockers or old browser versions). Please try to log-in to Foundry prior to the first session to avoid delays.
The Foundry Server may be offline between games.
To learn more about using Foundry, please watch this great tutorial.

The following table rules apply to all game systems.

If a PvP action occurs, the receiving Player decides how the action is resolved: the action does not happen, the action succeeds or fails, or the result is decided by dice.
All members of the Party should always be working towards a common goal. Party-betrayal plots, evil characters, or characters willingly working against the interests of the party must be okayed with the rest of the group.
Characters must be provided to the GM at least 24 hours before the first session. Please provide me with an image to be used as your character’s token as early as possible.

The game rules are available for free on DND Beyond or in the System Reference Document.
All games will now use the 2024 ruleset.
Please let me know how you intend to create your character:
- You can build a character in DND Beyond, and I will import it into Foundry. Please make sure that Character Privacy is set to Public, and please provide me with the link at least 24 hours before the first game.
- You can create the character directly in Foundry, which would be very similar to doing it on a paper character sheet.

You can postpone your entire turn to a specific order in the initiative that you must specify in advance. Alternatively, you can prepare one action that can be activated at any point of a turn.
Critical hits double the number of rolled dice. There are no critical fumbles.
To avoid repetitive trap checks, once you have encountered a trap, you will not encounter another one for at least 1 hour of play time.

These are general guidelines, some of these rules may be overridden for specific games.

Any official 5e WOTC source material is allowed. Please check with me before adding any Homebrew or Unearthed Arcana content.
The Point Buy or Standard Array methods are preferred for generating ability scores. If you want to roll for stats, please do so in Foundry using the “4d6 drop 1 lowest” method.
When creating a new character at a starting level above 1, please use the average HP die value to calculate the total hit points. When leveling a character during play, the general rule is to roll for HP.
The encumbrance rules are usually not followed (because I’m lazy), unless really unreasonable things start to happen.
I strongly suggest that you spend some time thinking about the character’s background story. At the very least, you are expected to provide your character’s Ideals, Bonds and Flaws.

The game rules are available for free in the Official System Reference Document, or the user friendly Old Gus’ SRD.
If you want to learn more about the Foundryborne VTT system, you can watch this overview video. It is very detailed (close to 1.5 hours long), so this is not mandatory viewing material. In most cases you can quickly learn how to use the system just by playing.
The best way to create a character is directly in Foundry VTT. The Foundry Daggerheart system (Foundryborne) has an excellent character builder.
- Currently, there is no way to import a character sheets from Demiplane.

The “Massive Damage” optional rule will apply when Players perform a Tag Team Roll. This rule will not be used against the Players.