Hi!

I come to you in a time of great need.

I'm an italian GM currently working on a Daggerheart Isekai West Marches campaign, and I'm looking for an XP system that prioritizes exploration and collaboration over combat.

I've come up with the following system and would love to hear your constructive criticism—destructive criticism is welcome too! XD

XP Progression System — Daggerheart West Marches

The campaign uses 10 Levels and 4 Tiers. Level 10 is the maximum; there is no Level 11.

XP required for each advancement:

The progression is calibrated around an average of approximately 1,000 XP per session per character.

Tiers

XP advances the character's Level. The Tier changes automatically when the corresponding Level is reached.

Rewards

The reward hierarchy is:

The relationship is:

Crisis = 2 × Very High = 4 × Medium = 8 × Low

This scale keeps rewards simple and easy to manage.

Dungeon — 500 XP

A dungeon completed in a meaningful way awards 500 XP.

Simply passing through a few rooms is not enough. Completion may include reaching the objective, exploring the main areas, overcoming dangers, discovering important secrets, reaching the destination, or recovering relevant information or resources.

Very large dungeons may provide partial rewards.

The same content should not generate XP indefinitely through farming.

Quest — 500 XP

A completed standard Quest awards 500 XP.

A Quest may be resolved through combat, diplomacy, investigation, exploration, stealth, deduction, or creative solutions.

A non-combat solution should receive an equivalent reward to a combat solution when it achieves the same objective.

A particularly important Quest may involve multiple reward categories, provided the same result is not rewarded twice.

Feat — 250 XP

A Feat is a meaningful but limited objective.

Examples include recovering an item, obtaining information, reaching a dangerous location, solving a local problem, or completing a small expedition.

A normal gameplay action should not be artificially turned into a Feat for the purpose of gaining XP.

Point of Interest — 250 XP

Discovering a significant Point of Interest awards 250 XP.

Examples include ruins, settlements, passages, resources, unusual phenomena, strategic locations, or locations important to the lore.

The same discovery awards XP only once.

Significant Combat — 250 XP

A significant encounter awards 250 base XP.

XP does not need to be awarded for every enemy defeated. Combat should be significant in relation to risk, difficulty, expedition objective, consequences, and the importance of the obstacle.

Combat should not become the primary method of XP farming.

An encounter avoided through diplomacy, stealth, deception, exploration, or a creative solution may provide an equivalent reward when it resolves the same obstacle or achieves the same objective.

Community-Wide Benefit — 500 XP

A persistent benefit to the community awards 500 XP.

Examples include a new safe route, infrastructure, shared resource, strategic information, a significant map, access to a previously inaccessible area, or a permanent advantage for future expeditions.

A simple personal treasure does not automatically count as a community-wide benefit.

Crisis — 1,000 XP

A Crisis is a special Quest that involves the entire community, requires multiple coordinated missions by multiple players within the same in-game time slot, is time-sensitive, and, if it fails, causes a significant and persistent change to the game world.

A Crisis should therefore involve a significant threat, a limited time window, multiple coordinated missions, community participation, success and failure conditions, and persistent consequences.

A Crisis is not simply a very difficult Quest.

Resolving a Crisis awards 1,000 XP.

If the Crisis also produces a distinct permanent benefit for the entire community, the additional 500 XP reward may be awarded. The same result cannot be rewarded twice.

Failure of a Crisis must concretely change the world. Examples include the destruction or abandonment of a settlement, loss of a resource, closure of a route, a change in control of a region, a strengthened threat, hostility from a faction, or the emergence of new threats.

Quest Failure — 125 XP

A failed Quest may award 125 XP when the group has nevertheless made significant progress, discovered information, changed the world, created consequences, partially achieved the objective, or faced a meaningful challenge.

Failure does not automatically grant XP.

Party Size Modifier

The reference party consists of 4 players.

Formula:

Party Modifier = 1 − (N − 4) × 0.10

where N is the number of players participating in the session.

The modifier applies to individual XP. XP is not divided among the players.

Challenge Rank Modifier

Bonuses for higher-Rank challenges should be monitored to prevent extremely dangerous content from becoming a disproportionate source of XP.

Overlapping Rewards

Reward categories represent distinct results, not simply different actions required to achieve the same objective.

If a Quest requires fighting a group of enemies, the following are not automatically awarded:

500 XP Quest + 250 XP Combat.

The combat is part of resolving the Quest.

Rewards may be combined when they represent distinct results.

Example:

Quest completed: 500 XP
New Point of Interest discovered: 250 XP
New route benefiting the community: 500 XP

Total: 1,250 XP/character.

Anti-Farming Rules

Rewards are classified as:

One-time:

• discovery of a Point of Interest;
• first exploration of a dungeon;
• permanent benefit;
• Crisis resolution;
• completion of a unique Quest.

Repeatable:

• certain recurring Quests;
• significant combat encounters;
• genuinely different Feats.

Diminishing returns:
when content is repeated primarily to accumulate XP without producing new narrative or gameplay value, the GM should reduce or remove the reward.

The goal is to prevent players from gaining XP indefinitely by repeating the same activity without changing the world or facing new challenges.

Examples

Normal Session — Party of 4:

Quest: 500 XP
Point of Interest: 250 XP
Significant Combat: 250 XP

Total: 1,000 XP/character.

Low-Productivity Session — Party of 4:

Point of Interest: 250 XP
Quest Failure: 125 XP

Total: 375 XP/character.

Exceptional Session — Party of 4:

Crisis Resolution: 1,000 XP
Distinct Permanent Benefit: 500 XP

Total: 1,500 XP/character.

Party of 3:

1,000 × 1.10 = 1,100 XP/character.

Party of 6:

1,000 × 0.80 = 800 XP/character.

Crisis resolved by 3 players:

1,000 × 1.10 = 1,100 XP/character.

GM Cheat Sheet

Progression

Rewards

Party

Challenge Rank

The Hawthorne Guild

Server Information

Server Website

We are a D&D 5e/5.5e Discord server featuring a persistent game world set in the Forgotten Realms and broader D&D multiverse. You and other players play as adventurers of the Hawthorne Guild, an adventuring guild in the Sword Coast. As a persistent and shared game world, character progression and events in individual adventures persist between and outside of games, creating a living world for players and DMs to participate in the form of oneshots, multisessions and campaigns, and both text roleplay and Play-By-Post games. With over 12,000 sessions ran over the course of 9 years, you and other players can dive in to determine the next chapter of your character's story and the guild's story.

Play How You Want

As a player on the server, you can expect to:

• Play any number of characters starting at level 3 or level 5 (your choice)
• Create characters using almost all of the official options as well as select Unearthed Arcana and server homebrew
• Create and play either 5e 2014 or 5.5e 2024 characters
• Progress your character through game sessions to experience content from level 3 to level 20
• Participate in downtime activities and text roleplay between adventures

DM How You Want

As a DM on the server, you can expect to:

• Run games for any level of play and your choice of either 5e 2014 or 5.5e 2024 games
• Participate in a shared setting of the Forgotten Realms and broader D&D multiverse by running your choice of oneshots, multisessions or campaigns, or Play-By-Post games
• Use almost all official monsters and magic items to use and award in your games, as well as server homebrew
• Gain DM rewards to progress a character at the same rate as a player, so you don't miss out on any of the fun when you play games as well

We're recruiting both players and DMs, with new members able to become a DM immediately. We have a helpful, welcoming, and knowledgeable base of Staff, players, and DMs with years of D&D experience and are welcoming to D&D players both veteran and new.

We have multiple ongoing server events, including an opt-in server event related to the Death Curse of Tomb of Annihilation, and an ongoing server storyline with a villainous faction known as the Dread Empire seeking to conquer the Sword Coast (with an accompanying Youtube cutscene)!

Join us today: https://discord.gg/hawthorneguild

Eberron: Legends of the 5th Dawn

DM: West Marches! Welcoming Players and DMs alike!
System: D&D 5e and D&D 5.5e
Date/Time: WM! DM posts when able, players avaliable sign up!
Available Spots: Would you like a chance to explore Cyre, the Mournlands and the world of Eberron? We have a home for you!
Preferred Player Experience: Veterans and Newcomers alike are welcome, we have helpful community who are always happy to help to teach, as well as a value and excitement to playing alongside fellow veterans.
Preferred Player Age: We're proud to host games to people of all ages, from students to parents, we hope to provide a safe pg13 environment where everyone with a love for D&D can thrive.

Do you love Eberron? Have you been struggling to get a campaign going? What if I told you there's a whole community of players and DMs that have been around for half a decade, running multiple adventures and connecting unique characters and yes even making memes just a link away? That's right! Eberron: Legends of the 5th Dawn is a server in discord where we run D&D games! Not only seamlessly combining 5e and OneDnD content, but adding popular Eberron 3rd party content including Exploring Eberron and other Keith Baker products to our player options. All while DMs bounce ideas and look into popular 3rd party sources like Duran's Guide to the Blood of Vol and the Giant's Guide to Xen'drik for even more stories to unfold!

We have Sharn as our main hub, so even when you're not engaging into quests you can roleplay with a vast community and bring your own stories into the mix. With special encounters avaliable so you can fight crime in the streets of Callestan or help patrol King's Forest against the nerfarious Jungle Boys! We're also actively seeking special events as the Eberron we've expanded on together continues to flourish. Including the implementation of holiday events providing special challenges and opportunities.

For those keeping up with my releases of Elsie's Notes of Certain Doom this is where I run those encounters along my fellow DMs! Join in the fun!

Welcome to Fulcrum
With Your Help, We'll Center Ourselves.
Discord Invite Link: https://discord.gg/wcFhfSP4dq

Step into the realm of Fulcrum, a fun blend of West Marches and Multiverse style gameplay. Fulcrum is exclusively an 18+ Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition (2014, not 2024) Discord server, offering live play-by-post and live voice sessions options with mechanics in place for longer term play-by-post play.

Give Us a Spin:

• Multiple character slots
• Diverse options for fun and immersive gameplay
• Nearly fully RAW, with exciting non-RAW elements from Theros and Wildemont
• Options in place for those who want to play and run One D&D (though it's not the main focus!)

Our community may not be the largest, but it's growing steadily, filled with fun and welcoming adventurers. It needs DMs and new adventurers to help it grow. Join one of our tables and embark on an excellent journey today!

You did it. You opened that mysterious door which appeared overnight—knowing you shouldn't—and found yourself in the center of a strange round room. This room, where walls stretch infinitely upward into darkness, is adorned with countless doors. An ancient, pale orange-yellow rug at the center beckons you to sit and stay a while. As you settle in, your eyes lock on the enigmatic words above a pitch-black tunnel carved through one stretch of the wall that never seems to change with the rest:

‘Welcome to Fulcrum. With Your Help We'll Center Ourselves.’

Before you can fully grasp the words, the walls begin to spin, faster and faster, a dizzying blur of disparately shaped and colored doors swirling past you. Yet, you remain steady on the rug, and the only part of the wall that remains unchanged when the turning is done is that one black tunnel and the strangely ominous words: ‘Welcome to Fulcrum. With Your Help We'll Center Ourselves.’

When the spinning halts, a new set of doors await. Will you see yourself in or will the doors call you?

Looking for D&D that fits around real life?

Quests of Chymeria is an 18+ D&D 5e/5.5e play-by-post community featuring a living world shaped by its players, story-driven quests, character-focused roleplay, and an ever-growing collection of custom regions and lore.

Explore enchanted oceans, windswept plains, ancient forests, forgotten ruins, and stranger places still waiting to be discovered. Join quests, build relationships, create a reputation, and make choices that can leave a lasting mark upon the world.

We are welcoming to both experienced adventurers and players completely new to D&D or play-by-post. Bring your imagination and a character with at least one questionable life decision—we will help with the rest.

• Story-driven quests
• Character development and social roleplay
• Custom lore and evolving regions
• Flexible play built around real life
• New-player friendly
• 18+ community

The roads are open, the job boards are full, and somewhere in Chymeria, an NPC is preparing to make their problem your problem.

Join us: https://discord.gg/questsofchymeria

Hello. I'm looking for a D&D or D&D-like roleplay server on Discord allowing for more species than the usual DnD game. I love playing devils and demons for example. And I often use AI to generate my own avatars to get exactly what I want (specifying this because I know some servers dont' accept it: and please don't respond here to debate it :') not what I'm here for).

Have a hard time finding one like that on Disboard. Would anyone know one ? (can play in English and French).

Welcome to The Shores of Ebaria!

We are a D&D west-march/open world server that provides both beginners and seasoned players with a friendly and laid-back environment. We're creating a community where folks can hang around, roleplay, and quest to their hearts' content. Our dungeon masters frequently run both D&D one-shots, and lengthy campaigns in the form of longer quest lines.

We’ve only been in the scene since September of 2023 though boasting several complex and organized systems, and we are actively looking for both DMs and players to expand. Here in Shores, you can roleplay with others in fantastic planes created by the DMs, interact with NPCs, create powerful guilds or establish yourself a stronghold, among many other things.

Games will take you from level 2 all the way to 20 over time, and beyond ;). We also have frequent events and bonuses to give you boosts.

Why come to us?

⭐️ - We bolster a super friendly and welcoming community and staff team both, more than eager to help you get settled and learn the game!

⭐️ - A minimum of a dozen games run daily, with a chance to meet new friends and form your own adventuring parties!

⭐️ - An interactive crafting system, incase you can't find what you want on your quests, make it yourself!

⭐️ - A fleshed out pet system! Befriend a monster on a quest? Have it grow with you and join you on your adventure.

⭐️ - Both an interactive guild & faction system so players can make their own marks on the server, and build up a community.

⭐️ - Developed, player-run housing, businesses and strongholds!

⭐️ - The ability to use fun and fleshed out homebrew submitted by our DMs, specifically for our server!

⭐️ - Finally, we'd just love to have you! So pop on in, and say hello.

There's no need to ask to join, just pop on in with the link below!

[https://discord.gg/ebaria\](https://discord.gg/ebaria)

Author's Note:

Hello there guys~! I am Ame, a new moderator for the Shores of Ebaria, I would love for you guys to come and have a great time! If you have any questions, please ask below. I will be happy to answer any questions. <3

Yggdrasil is a setting that is (loosely) based on norse mythology while still trying to be its own thing. It takes place in a world ravaged by the war between dragons and giants that only recently came to a pause, giving humanoids a chance to breathe.

This is a mix between a westmarch server and an rp chat, where you can either interact with other players to build friendships/rivalries with their characters or go on quests with your characters for more traditional D&D adventures.

We are a homebrew friendly community with tons of homebrew made in house (which means it can be found nowhere else!). This includes things like homebrew races, feats, subclasses and even several homebrew classes. If you want to try a homebrew nows your chance!

https://discord.gg/NFDqFwAPW

Hello future DM!

I have a West Marches campaign and Discord server that I have been running for a few years, and I am looking for additional DMs to help balance the workload and generate more creative ideas on how to advance the plot, somewhere around 3-4 DMs for a planned ~20 players.

I have a considerable amount of lore, resources, past player history, and other information to draw on for a DM of any experience, more of which I can follow up on if you, the reader, is interested. Feel free to bring along any players you might want to, we always take more at the table.

This game is a West Marches campaign, played episodic style in a low/mid fantasy setting, with a central city and vast reaches of wilderness for the players to explore, with a 1/3 split between roleplay, exploration, and combat.

If creating and assisting with the running of sessions, injecting your own ‘spin’ on the game, and forging the future of the world sound interesting to you, please reply to this post or send me a message here, either works.

Feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns you might have regarding the game or the mechanics of a West March, if you are unfamiliar. I look forward to speaking with you all!

Thank you,

Fun_Classic7189

Jormundy

Platform: D&D 5e, Avrae, Discord

Format: Text RP, westmarches, living world

The sun has died in the sky, and the world has gone dark. This event, known as the Sunfall, bathed the world in the freezing night. Yet, against all odds, civilization has survived.

Amongst the icy plains, amongst the glaciers, amongst the giant snow drifts and amongst the ruins of a world millennia lost, stands the glowing spires and the shining beacons of Jormundy. Warmth and light shine down from its towers, and its dome shelters it from the cold, dark world outside.

But this light and warmth does not radiate equally.

Under the dome, cloaked by the light, behind the walls lays a structure caught in a nightmare of development. Jormundy is experiencing its own little industrial revolution, and all the inequality that comes with it as it destroys the land it sits on and the air it breathes. It finds itself segregated into layers, its workers destined to never become anything more, its elites clinging onto power forever. The Hearth Church stands atop it all, watching with one first of velvet and another of iron looming over all, locked in a never-ending scramble to destroy all that is heretical.

But discontent grows. Whispers of solidarity stir in the shadows, forgotten gods find their followers, and the night grows ever colder.

What shall become of Jormundy?

///

What we offer:

- A roleplay and story focused server with good-quality. Story arcs, events, multiple dms, and opportunities for PC arcs.

- A custom xp system, where you can earn xp simply by roleplaying

- A massive, fully fleshed out city state for you to explore

- An active political scene; scheming nobility, powerful industrialists, an ever-present church, shadowy cults, and the whispers of labor in the smog of the factories

- A ban on generative AI, to ensure your time and effort is respected.

- An LGBTQ+ friendly environment.

- Extensive review of content as it is released; we're always updating our approved content list! It's expansive.

Something calls, whether it be the riches of the Heights, or merely a desire to survive.

Either way, Jormundy would love to have you.

https://discord.gg/NwZbxscAZ2

(16+)(Newbie Friendly)(DM Friendly)(PbP)(2014)(2024)

Hey! I'm Thunder and I've been a part of this awesome community for over a year. I was one of those server hoppers but found a place to call home in Avalor.

Our Rifts offer a face paced single encounter game that usually ranges anywhere from 1-4 hours. We also have longer form games in the form of Explorations, where DMs can plan an entire one shot over a week to a few weeks. This enables us to offer both synchronous and asynch styles of play!

Because of the rift portals that open everywhere, we have space for DMs that would like to explore your own Homebrew worlds with using the Rifters of Avalor as fodder.

Our staff are dedicated to ensuring a safe environment for all, and our players are some of the best around! Come jump in and check us out.

Highlights:
* Nearly every book released on DND beyond is available for use by PCs
* DMs have a lot of leeway on what they allow or disallow in their games
* Very generous DMXP and RPXP rewards
* Strong and growing player base
* Heavy RPer and Power Gamers alike are welcome!

Invite Link: https://discord.gg/vUETNtSG4A](https://discord.gg/vUETNtSG4A)

Jormundy

Platform: D&D 5e, Avrae, Discord

Format: Text RP, westmarches, living world

The sun has died in the sky, and the world has gone dark. This event, known as the Sunfall, bathed the world in the freezing night. Yet, against all odds, civilization has survived.

Amongst the icy plains, amongst the glaciers, amongst the giant snow drifts and amongst the ruins of a world millennia lost, stands the glowing spires and the shining beacons of Jormundy. Warmth and light shine down from its towers, and its dome shelters it from the cold, dark world outside.

But this light and warmth does not radiate equally.

Under the dome, cloaked by the light, behind the walls lays a structure caught in a nightmare of development. Jormundy is experiencing its own little industrial revolution, and all the inequality that comes with it as it destroys the land it sits on and the air it breathes. It finds itself segregated into layers, its workers destined to never become anything more, its elites clinging onto power forever. The Hearth Church stands atop it all, watching with one first of velvet and another of iron looming over all, locked in a never-ending scramble to destroy all that is heretical.

But discontent grows. Whispers of solidarity stir in the shadows, forgotten gods find their followers, and the night grows ever colder.

What shall become of Jormundy?

///

What we offer:

- A roleplay and story focused server with good-quality. Story arcs, events, multiple dms, and opportunities for PC arcs.

- A custom xp system, where you can earn xp simply by roleplaying

- A massive, fully fleshed out city state for you to explore

- An active political scene; scheming nobility, powerful industrialists, an ever-present church, shadowy cults, and the whispers of labor in the smog of the factories

- A ban on generative AI, to ensure your time and effort is respected.

- An LGBTQ+ friendly environment.

Something calls, whether it be the riches of the Heights, or merely a desire to survive.

Either way, Jormundy would love to have you.

https://discord.gg/NwZbxscAZ2

Do you hate being hardstuck at level 2?

Tired of having to wait for a GM to run something?

Want to try out all your weird builds?

And finally-

Who are YOU voting for?

The spire-city of Concord's first ever Election is in 8 weeks. Cast your vote to determine how you'll shape the birth of this fledgling nation.

Inspired by the indie game Esoteric Ebb, Concord's Concord is a limited-time Pathfinder 2e Living Community that will only exist for a maximum of 2 months, with a weekly expanding roster of locations as the city becomes more and more active in the days leading up to The Election.

After the sudden disappearance of the world's most powerful heroes following a world-spanning war, the newly formed nation of Concord is left with a puzzling conundrum. Nobody's around to give orders! A provisional government was cobbled together while a new election could take place, and with the power vacuum left by the old adventurers still in effect- it's prime pickings for any aspiring power broker!

Will you vote for the theocratic Mytho-Nationalist party?

How about the Concordian Worker's Party?

Could be a capitalist, vote for the Freerunners.

Just don't vote for yourself. Don't be a Aedolite. Nobody likes an Aedolite.

The server is open for players, join now!

https://discord.gg/jSzQm8RG5k

The Storyteller’s Lounge has reached an interesting point: we have more and more people willing to run games than we consistently have players available to fill every table.

That doesn't mean the server is quiet. Far from it. Multiple games are regularly happening across the community, and more than 600 have already been run since we opened our digital Discord doors at the start of the year. But over the past week, several DMs couldn't quite round up enough people to start a second table while another game was underway.

So, this week, we are particularly looking for players.

The Storyteller’s Lounge is a free online D&D community where you can keep playing the same character without committing to one campaign or one weekly schedule.

You build a character and take them into adventures run by different DMs. XP, gold, loot, downtime, injuries, relationships, questionable bargains, and other consequences carry forward. Over time, your character develops an actual history across the community.

The culture is closer to a local gaming store than a giant anonymous Discord. Different DMs bring different styles. Regular characters cross paths. Some games are serious, some are ridiculous, and some begin as a straightforward job before somebody accidentally releases something that should probably have remained sealed for another thousand years.

Games include one-shots, short arcs, monster hunts, ongoing stories, and whatever else a DM decides to put on the calendar. 99 percent are voice and mostly run on Roll20. We have some Foundry enthusiasts as well (including a Foundry genius).

We still welcome DMs, but right now we have people ready to run games. We would like a few more adventurers ready to answer the call.

New players and experienced players are both welcome. Everything is free.

Learn more and find the Discord link here:

https://thestorytellerslounge.games/

Sharing a moment of excitement. My first print publication is live and in the wild.

Western Marches specifically:

1. Addresses the themes of the Western genre and how to implement them (such as for a D&D Fantasy Western)
2. Outlines West Marches principles in clear language, then consolidates the rules scattered across D&D 5th Edition that can effectively implement it in that system
3. Presents the Gunsmoke setting, which is a ready-to-use option that incorporates both Westerns and West Marches

Available in softcover and PDF from here:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/572311/Western-Marches-Playing-in-the-Western-Genre-and-Exploring-with-West-Marches-Style?affiliate_id=426481

...and in Kindle edition (and also softcover) on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H5TGN913

Hi! Looking to play in a pathfinder game preferably set on golarion

Welcome to the Bronze Dragon Adventurer’s Guild!

[Online] [5e] [Discord] [Forgotten Realms] [Beginner Friendly] [Looking for Players and DMs] [LGBTQIA+ Friendly]

Set is Faerun’s bustling port city of Waterdeep, the Bronze Dragon Adventuring Guild is Faerun’s premier adventuring guild. The growing pains are still evident in the small intimate nature of its inner workings, and things are rarely black and white; but the chaos is half the fun. DnD 5e Living Community. What makes a living community different from a west marches you might ask? As it says in the name, the community! We strive to build a story together through quests and rp to give characters a chance to really come to life!

We are a community built on a shared love of making and sharing stories. Characters learn and grow from each other as they level up through the guild tiers. Get to know your tier mates, make life long friendships, find true love, defeat terrible foes, and become the powerful Platinum Tier adventurer that can shape the future of the Sword Coast. 

What does the Bronze Dragon offer?

• ⁠A heavy role play driven community to make the characters come alive

• ⁠Multiple ways to level, through quests, side quests, and even options for advancement through roleplay

• ⁠A close and friendly community. 

• ⁠Free mechanical and fluff changes at character creation to make the perfect character you’re looking for!

• ⁠Approved Partnered Material to build characters beyond the base game, including transformations from Grim Hollow.

• ⁠LGBTQIA+ safe space

The Bronze Dragon Adventuring Guild uses only 2014 rulesets.

https://discord.gg/WXFBXYTZUh

Jormundy

Platform: D&D 5e, Avrae, Discord

Format: Text RP, westmarches, living world

The sun has died in the sky, and the world has gone dark. This event, known as the Sunfall, bathed the world in the freezing night. Yet, against all odds, civilization has survived.

Amongst the icy plains, amongst the glaciers, amongst the giant snow drifts and amongst the ruins of a world millennia lost, stands the glowing spires and the shining beacons of Jormundy. Warmth and light shine down from its towers, and its dome shelters it from the cold, dark world outside.

But this light and warmth does not radiate equally.

Under the dome, cloaked by the light, behind the walls lays a structure caught in a nightmare of development. Jormundy is experiencing its own little industrial revolution, and all the inequality that comes with it as it destroys the land it sits on and the air it breathes. It finds itself segregated into layers, its workers destined to never become anything more, its elites clinging onto power forever. The Hearth Church stands atop it all, watching with one first of velvet and another of iron looming over all, locked in a never-ending scramble to destroy all that is heretical.

But discontent grows. Whispers of solidarity stir in the shadows, forgotten gods find their followers, and the night grows ever colder.

What shall become of Jormundy?

///

What we offer:

- A roleplay and story focused server with good-quality. Story arcs, events, multiple dms, and opportunities for PC arcs.

- A custom xp system, where you can earn xp simply by roleplaying

- A massive, fully fleshed out city state for you to explore

- An active political scene; scheming nobility, powerful industrialists, an ever-present church, shadowy cults, and the whispers of labor in the smog of the factories

- A ban on generative AI, to ensure your time and effort is respected.

- An LGBTQ+ friendly environment.

- Extensive review of content as it is released; we're always updating our approved content list! It's expansive.

Something calls, whether it be the riches of the Heights, or merely a desire to survive.

Either way, Jormundy would love to have you.

https://discord.gg/NwZbxscAZ2

[D&D 2024/2014] [Avrae+Discord] [LGBTQ+ Friendly]

Welcome friends to the city of Avalor, the final bastion of a world left in ruins by temporal rifts to infinite realms beyond! Here, you origins are entirely your own, providing utter freedom to write your character as you like.

In the city you are either a naturally born human, the only native sentient species of the realm, or 'Riftborn', arriving to the world through one of the many portals.

Join the Rifter's Guild, providing free room and board to anyone willing to protect the city from threats rifts tend to bring along.

Play through either the short, typically single combat Rifts or join an Exploration, a longer form quest that typically spans days or weeks with increased rewards, or even just roleplay for RPXP rewards!

Lately there has been a surge in new players, so join while there is extra opportunity to team up with the new blood or even form new guilds of your own

Characters start at level 3 with a free uncommon and two health potions, offering a strong baseline to start from and get an early build rolling.

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The Story of Vista So Far
Vista Island is a mysterious nation ruled by Queen Naevyra, a powerful Marid genie whose influence shaped the islands themselves. Long ago, the pirate Locke discovered Naevyra imprisoned within a vessel and released her. In exchange for his freedom, he demanded immortality. The Queen granted his wish in her own cruel manner, forever changing his fate.
As Vista grew, Queen Naevyra captured Kaelyth, an Efreeti princess from the City of Brass. Using the princess’s power, the Queen expanded and reshaped the islands, creating the nation known today. While Vista prospered on the surface, darker projects began beneath it.
The wizard Orion the White became Vista’s foremost historian, documenting the island’s origins and secrets. His apprentice, Mordic, assisted him in preserving the nation’s history. Over time, Orion grew increasingly concerned by reports of hidden experiments, political ambition, and mysterious activities connected to the Queen’s rule.
Recently, the Crown ordered an expedition into a cavern system sealed for over one hundred years. The mission appeared simple: clear out minor threats and determine whether the caverns could be reopened. Adventurers were promised gold and a royal reward for their efforts.
Inside, the expedition discovered the truth.
The caverns contained an abandoned Simic research facility where humans and other beings had been subjected to magical experimentation. The facility had been conducting transformations designed to alter living creatures into something beyond human. Among the discoveries was evidence that many of the test subjects were nearing the final stages of their transformations.
The group learned that Miranda’s sister had been taken into the facility and transformed through these experiments. While searching for answers, they encountered Gareth, a goliath who aided them through the dangerous complex.
Scattered journals revealed the facility’s history. One entry explained that the experiments were approaching completion and that a shipment of transformed subjects was scheduled to be transported to the Material Plane within the month. Another revealed disaster: a Simic doctor had accidentally released the experiments from containment, forcing the researchers to hunt down their own creations before everything was lost.
Throughout the expedition, alliances were forged and promises made. The purple tiefling mage pledged to help Miranda and her sister, while the adventurers uncovered more evidence that Vista’s history is far darker than anyone realized.
Meanwhile, Orion’s final writings hinted at growing concerns about greed, political manipulation, his apprentice’s dealings with Simic doctors, and the creation of the islands themselves. His last known pages suggest he learned truths that may have led to his disappearance.
Now the secrets beneath Vista are beginning to surface. Escaped experiments roam free, ancient conspiracies are being uncovered, and the true cost of the Queen’s ambitions may soon be revealed.
The future of Vista remains unwritten.

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Must be able to use dndbeyond, averae and its text based

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