For the last few years, I’ve been running an Eberron campaign on Patreon. The story and the characters are persistent, but the players change with each setting. If you support the Patreon at the Threshold level ($6) you get access to all of the recorded episodes—and every month, you can apply for a seat at the table of that month’s game. The rules of Patreon don’t let me draw a name at random, so instead I pose a simple creative challenge. In a recent adventure in which the adventurers were going to Graywall, I told applicants tell me which character you want to play and what that character is most looking froward to seeing in Graywall… which leaves me with the terrible job of having to judge a creative challenge every month, but so it goes. The point is that the story is ongoing, and players choose their characters from an established cast… But that every Threshold patron has the opportunity to play in a session.
Why am I bringing this up now? Because after 24 sessions, my current campaign reached a satisfying conclusion and it’s a good moment to start something new. There’s a poll up on the Patreon that runs until Noon Pacific time this Wednesday, and the results will determine the plot of my next campaign. As soon as this is done, I will start an extended session zero process—using a series of polls to allow the patrons as a group to select the cast of characters and define aspects of the campaign. You can see a glimpse of what this looked like last time below. On Wednesday, the result of the poll will determine the nature of the next campaign, and I’ll immediately get started with session zero polls to create the cast of characters. So, if you’re interesting in playing a game with me sometime this year, this is your chance to get on board at the start of the new campaign and help shape the direction of the characters and the story. If that sounds like fun, check out the Patreon! And thanks for your time and interest!
So as I was saying…
The first poll determined that we’d have a Khoravar wandslinger in the cast…
A follow-up poll determined that she would be a Genie warlock—a former smuggler who’d won her powers in a card game with an efreet—who owes a lot of gold to the Boromar clan. And so…
… We ended up with the wandslinger Three Widow Jane, depicted here by Matthew Johnson. I’ll be using this same process to develop the characters for this new campaign; if you’d like to be involved, check out the Patreon!