How to Play

General

Setting

Fadren is the setting of this campaign. Approximately 3000yrs ago, a fog fell upon the world, causing humanity to retreat to the protection of guarded cities. In the process, the history of that ancient world was lost. None know what really caused humanity to retreat nor do they know what the world was like before all entered Fadren.
In the year 3232, the fog rose. And now the great unknown world lies before a group of brave adventurers. It was taken from them once before, and, now, it is time for humanity to return.

Mission Types and Difficulties

Players/Adventurers can choose to pursue one of three types of missions: Campaign Quests | Hunts | Surveys. Each one is dependent on the player to pick out a plot hook that they find interesting, and they organize who will join them on the mission.

Dungeons

 
Hunts
  
Monster Hunt 
Quests

Surveys

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Hunts

Monster Hunts and Investigations occur in isolation of the main storyline. They fall together in the same category due to their playstyle nature. These hunts are the heart of the west-marches style of gameplay.

Monster Hunts

Players can pursue interesting and/or unique monsters for study, processing, and protection. These can be homebrewed monster(s) or a traditional D&D Monster. What ever the case, nothing beats a good ol' fashioned combat.

Rewards:

• Monster Parts for Crafting
• Monster-Themed Expendable Resources
• Tokens
• Downtime (2)

See: The Olgard Werewolf | First Encounter an example of a monster hunt, or Wanted: Dead or Alive, Victor the Bandit. as an example of a humanoid causing some trouble.

Quests

Quests is individual stories where players are thrust into a mystery that they must solve. This may be a pursuit of a strange metallic maze in the far west, saving some hostages, or investigating a claim about a weird sword in Passage Woods.

Rewards:

• Tokens
• Money = (CR x Number of Players)sp
• Downtime (2)

See: The Sword of the Whispering Forest Session for a simple investigation or Report of Dexter Felmane's Hostage Rescue

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Dungeons

Players can pursue Dungeons. A thematic, multi-staged and multi-session Dungeons and Dragons session. It is difficult, usually requiring the use of Long Rest Daggers, but also rewards greatly as players decide what item type that they want upon completion of the Dungeon.

Rewards:

• Tokens
• Player-Decided Loot.

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Expedition Surveys

The Expedition Surveys are about building. It is a dual-journey for both the DMs and Players as they decide what is present in the world: monsters, items, cultures, societies, etc. So little of the world has been discovered as of yet.

Build Downtime so you can build items, tame creatures, and build your own organizations.
Acquire bonus downtime for each creature, plant, item, etc you discover!

Build the World Map as you explore it, in addition to finding useful locations like teleportation circles, the positions of campaign enemies and allies, or even more content for the Hunts!

Worldbuild as a player w/ the Boons & Banes system, and as a DM by introducing a new region.

Rewards:

• Tokens
• Downtime((2 x Number of Players)+Days of Travel
• Money: Days of Travelsp
• Sector Map
• Information

DM's Note to Players: Preparation is rewarded greatly, the foolish will be killed mercilessly. Do not forget reconnaissance.

Leveling Up

Leveling Up is decided by an EXP/Milestone system. EXP Players take the standard XP leveling up table and multiply it by the number of players. Such that, the entire west marches party levels up at the same time and all sessions increase that beautiful xp number closer to the next level. Milestones In addition to XP values, the head-dm establishes Milestone challenges as a requirement to level up. This is a method of incentiving particular plot points, reveals, or simply adding difficult obstacles for characters to overcome.