The Drowned Coast

The World

Only put here what the characters would know. This page is public — your players can read it too.

[Where is this? Homebrew world, published setting, or a region of one?]

[Common knowledge: the recent history, who's in charge, what's going wrong.]

[The starting town or situation, and why the party is together.]

[A few names players will hear early on.]

This campaign uses the 2014 Fifth Edition rules, plus the site-wide house rules. Anything below overrides those for this campaign only.

Source	Status	Notes
Player's Handbook (2014)	Allowed
Xanathar's Guide to Everything	Allowed
Tasha's Cauldron of Everything	[Allowed / Ask]	[e.g. Customising Your Origin allowed]
[Other books]	[Status]
2024 Player's Handbook content	Not allowed	[Or list exceptions]
Unearthed Arcana	Ask first
Third-party & homebrew	Ask first	Bring a link; I'll decide before Session Zero.

Starting level	[1]
Ability scores	[Standard array or 27-point buy / rolled in front of the DM]
Hit points	[Max at level 1, then fixed average / rolled]
Starting gear	[Class + background equipment, no starting gold purchases]
Levelling	[Milestone / XP]
Character sheet	[Built in Roll20 using the D&D 5E by Roll20 sheet]
Backstory	[A paragraph is plenty. Give me one person you care about and one thing you want.]

[Anything not available in this world — races, classes, subclasses, spells.]

Rating: [e.g. PG-13]. Expect: [themes — e.g. undead, drowning, cults, moral grey areas].

Hard lines and veils are agreed at Session Zero. See safety tools.

Character	Race & class	Player	Status
[Name]	[Race / class]	[Discord handle]	Active
[Name]	[Race / class]	[Discord handle]	Active

Session 1 — [Title] · [date]

[What happened, in a paragraph or two. Players love reading these.]

Session 0 — Session Zero · [date]

[Characters introduced, lines and veils agreed, schedule confirmed.]