Reaches of Altharion

Seeking more players for a Homebrew D&D 5e campaign focused on combat, glory, and daring feats. This is an open recruitment—all levels of experience are welcome! Campaign Setting: The city of Ferina Fortunae, a floating cloud city built for one purpose: eternal entertainment. Here, the greatest gladiators, champions, and warriors across the planes come to test their mettle, promising untold riches and power to the victor. But what happens when the gladiator becomes more than just a pawn in their deadly game? The Plot: Your adventure begins as new arrivals to the city of Ferina Fortunae. Whether you are a disgraced hero seeking a second chance, a thrill-seeker with nothing to lose, or a political prisoner forced into the pits, your path to freedom and power leads through the arena's blood-soaked sands. Survive the gauntlet of monstrous creatures, rival gladiators, and deadly traps to earn your place among the city's elite. But what awaits you inside is more dangerous than any beast you'll face. What to Expect: Action-Packed Combat: A high-octane campaign with a heavy emphasis on dynamic and challenging combat encounters. Including secondary objectives beyond mere survival! Intrigue and Betrayal: Navigate the treacherous alliances within the arena. Glory and Riches: Earn fame, fortune, and legendary status in the cloud city. Roll the Dice! Bring your sharpest wits and a sturdy character, because you'll need both to survive. Game Details: System: Dungeons & Dragons 5.5 (2024), some (2014) Platform: Discord for voice, FoundryVTT for tabletop Schedule: Weeknights!!!!!! at 9:00 PM Central Time Zone! Come hang out for a session and see if our vibe matches your vibe!

I wasn't finding enough games to join that had everything I needed and that would also get back to me. So, I decided I'd try to find the right people for me this way! Hello, I am Grill! I am a silly gal and you can find some basic info about me in my player profile ^^ I am not the GM, and I am willing to let the future GM have full creative freedom for the story. All I ask is that the campaign we do be suitable for both teens and adults. And please let me be able to be silly and whimsical! Perhaps a fairy!!! Homebrew is very much allowed!

The Helix Initiative was introduced to the public as a revolutionary leap in environmental adaptation, biological medicine, and survival science. Officially, the organization claimed it was developing new ways for humanity to survive ecological collapse, disease, and resource shortages. Behind closed doors, however, Helix operated hidden research divisions dedicated to experimentation far beyond legal or ethical limits. Somewhere deep within those divisions, a scientist identified in surviving records only as Dr. W██d████ T████ developed a machine capable of shrinking living organisms to less than an inch tall. The technology was presented internally as a breakthrough in resource efficiency and medical research—but many of the subjects brought into testing were children between the ages of eight and sixteen. Most never returned. You are one of the survivors. After undergoing the procedure, you awaken inside an ordinary city park that has become an impossible wilderness at your scale. Blades of grass tower like trees. Puddles become lakes capable of drowning entire groups. Ants patrol the dirt like armored soldiers, while spiders transform sections of the park into web-choked death zones. Every inch of terrain matters. Every storm is catastrophic. Survival depends on learning how to weaponize the environment itself—crafting tools and defenses from thorns, sap, insect shells, broken plastic, roots, and scavenged debris left behind by previous miniature civilizations that clearly did not survive for long. As you explore deeper into the park, you begin discovering abandoned outposts, collapsed shelters, and fragmented Helix logs detailing increasingly unstable experiments. The records reference attempts to create “evolutions chosen suvivors” capable of evolving beyond normal biological limits. Again and again, one phrase appears alongside heavily censored personnel files: MARROW SYNDROME. The disease slowly destroys the body in stages—first decaying bone tissue, then muscle structure, and finally flooding the lungs with blood. Somewhere among the corrupted files are hints that Dr. W██d████ T████ never joined Helix out of loyalty. Some logs imply he infiltrated the organization to expose its corruption, free the surviving test subjects, and continue researching a cure for a terminally ill child connected to the syndrome. Whether those rumors are true remains uncertain. Helix officially denies the existence of both the disease and the scientist. Not every strange thing in the park comes from Helix laboratories. Survivors occasionally encounter a bizarre figure known only as Rock—a hyper-muscular talking bee obsessed with shouting “MUSCLE” at every possible opportunity. Most groups dismiss him as insane until they realize he understands far more about the park than he should. One moment he acts like a reckless coach forcing terrified children to become stronger, and the next he casually references erased facilities, failed experiments, or “previous attempts” that nobody else remembers. Near the edges of abandoned Helix sectors, Rock sometimes becomes unusually quiet, staring into empty space before muttering warnings that sound less like jokes and more like genuine fear. HE IS WATCHING YOUR EVERY MOVE...