stark nacelle
Campaigns DM: @stark nacelle
Campaigns Name: Beneath the Golden Sun
Time: 7pm EST on Tuesdays
Genre: High Fantasy, Western, Dark Fantasy, Survival, Political Drama, Action-Adventure, Mystery
System: D&D 5e 2014(Homebrew), D&D Beyond (Character Sheets)
Players: 0 / 5
Description:
The year is 1883. Halcyon pushes west into the Dead Wastes — a scorched penal county on the edge of the Forsaken Frontier. You are convicts, exiles, or the inconveniently forgotten, shipped under armed guard to carve rail lines through dragon-haunted canyons and dinosaur-stalked plains. The law rides hard but thin, and beyond the watchtowers lie ghost towns ruled by outlaw gangs, Warforged deserters, bounty hunters, rail barons, and black-market spell-slingers firing illegal component bullets beneath a burning sky. Survival means choosing who you ride with — the federal wardens, the gangs, the frontier settlers, or yourself.
But the Dead Wastes are older than Halcyon. Ancient gods stir beneath buried ruins, strange monoliths hum at dusk, and something golden burns beneath the desert at night. Dragons circle sacred sites, druids guard forgotten groves, and whispers speak of a buried city swallowed by sand. In this High Fantasy Western of gun smoke, divine ruin, and frontier justice, freedom is never given — it’s taken at the end of a barrel. Out here, everyone’s running from something… and something is always watching back
Notes:
- Starting Level 3
- Firearms universal (Custom Mastery Rules)
- Cover rules enforced
- Arcane Clause active (illegal magic has consequences)
- Component bullets exist (black market)
- Addiction & withdrawal Mechanics
- Survival elements and mechanics (heat, storms, water scarcity)
- Morally gray choices are encouraged and will be brought upon you
- Backstories tied to criminal sentencing
- Cinematic, gritty Western tone
split ore
wary hawk
shrewd willow
oblique sierra
hard shoal
craggy ledge
undone ingot
eager sleet
crimson slate
prime kite
tiny heron
unborn path
barren gazelle
pearl sundial