Welcome to the Red Star Rising Campaign

Overview

The Red Star Rising is a campaign designed to be an immersive experience complete with elaborate plot lines, extensive subplots, and story-twists. It will feature many complex and fascinating characters that inhabit the world of Zyathé (zai-aw-thay), and take you to an elaborate, rich, and continuously growing world. The opening chapter to this campaign is called The Darkest Dream which will run 6-8 sessions.

You will take on the role of a young Frenta of the Hantaz troupe called the Blue Veil, and are now taking on more responsibilities during the final Carnivalle of the year. Tensions are high as the darkest and most dangerous night of the year is approaching - Darktide. You are tasked with keeping guests and your fellow Hanataz safe during the last event of the year, but things quickly start to get out of hand as the everyday trouble grows much larger than expected forcing you to fight weird and dangerous creatures, and explore dark and forgotten places to keep the Troupe safe.

The adventure will continue into a Chapter 2 and beyond where the choices you have made, and characters you become involved with change The Blue Veil's fate forever.

In general this is considered PG-13 to R for the death, prejudice, corruption, fantasy themed violence, and stereotypes about ~~Appalachian~~moonshiners and traveling groups. Not grimdark, but we are starting the adventure in dark times.

Player-Character Info

The world of Zyathé is expansive and contains MANY lands, peoples, and mysteries outside of the Red Star Rising campaign. The Darkest Dream and subsequent chapters will serve as an excellent introduction to the world, so I want to help guide you into taking on the role of a new adventurer exploring this strange new world and uncovering new powers about themselves.

If you love an information dump, and embrace a deep dive into a detailed and intricate history - all of that is available, but to make your character for this new campaign you only need to keep in mind three things:

You are a young (or newish) member of the Blue Veil troupe and have developed strong bonds with these people that have accepted and taken care of you while so much of the world has turned its back on you. You are budding-heroes looking to help your troupe and each other improve their position in the world. Sometimes you'll even help other mistreated people,
You have one or two strong ties to some of the other members of the troupe, and some personal secret, goal, or desire that will be built upon to form your story of growth while guiding the direction of the campaign. The troupe respects most of the good and neutrals gods, but more directly follow the god Jinxx, the lord of the fools and Kizmya, the goddess of luck.
Your character has a "Blood Touch" that makes it difficult to fit in with "normal" society, and this will grow in power with you as the campaign progresses. While it may not necessarily be immediately obvious, or even visible, the world of Zyathé has developed a paranoia and fear of those that are different or out of the ordinary.

That should be more than enough to get started, and I hope it has you eagerly wanting to know more!

Follow the Character Creation Steps using a 5E character sheet, and read up on the Frenta background as an option.
Take a look at the sample characters and their stories for inspiration, or choose one of the characters you like!
Read up on what it means to be Hanataz, and even take a look at the more detailed player primer for guidance on the world and deities.

Hop into the discord where I communicate with players, or reach out to me through the other social channels!