Here you’ll find info on the upcoming campaigns for Winter Quarter 2024.
Fill out the Player Sign-Up Form by March 16, 2024, at 11:59 PM for priority!
| New Campaigns | Amanda | Hadrian | Mitchell |
| New Campaigns | Ris | Ryan | Xander |
| Continuing Campaigns | Bair | Bobby | Hazel |
| Continuing Campaigns | James |
Likelihood of Running
Some of our DMs are serving as backups. We’ve included them on this list in case you really, really want to play with them, but be sure to keep this in mind! We recommend selecting mostly campaigns that are guaranteed to run next quarter to ensure you don’t have complications getting into a campaign. We cannot guarantee our backups will run.
The ranking system of likeliness is as follows:
- I plan to be a DM this quarter
- I’d rather be a DM but I would be fine playing if necessary
- I’m fine either way
- I’d rather be a player but I could DM if necessary*
- Last resort: if the world ends and every other DM is obliterated, I could DM*
*NOTE: 4’s and 5’s are not posted on the website as they are super heckin’ backups. We only post them if we’re really in a pinch.
Game System, Edition, & Stats
Here you’ll find all the logistic info to consider how badly you want to join the campaign.
First, there’s the game system, meaning which tabletop role-playing game (RPG) the DM is going to run. Most of our DMs run traditional Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), though some run other fun things as well!
Just below that, you’ll see what edition of the game system they’ll be running. Not all tabletop RPGs have multiple editions, but some of them do. This is important because some of the core mechanics (rules) can change from edition to edition. For example, D&D has been in existence since 1974 and has changed dramatically since then. The most recent edition, 5th edition, was published in 2014.
Below that, you’ll see if this is a brand new campaign, or what’s known as a continuing campaign. Sometimes, DMs start a campaign that will last longer than the nine sessions we have in a quarter. They will list their campaign as “continuing” to indicate if they are running the same campaign that they ran last quarter.
You can still join a continuing campaign even if you weren’t in it while it previously ran. Continuing players have priority for open spots, but if someone leaves or the DM otherwise has open spots, you might be able to join!
Silliness Index is an important stat to DUDAD. Some DMs like to run goofy games that are chock-full of memes and jokes and silly times. Some DMs like a more serious campaign that tells a grounded, narrative structure. The scale is from 1 to 5, with 1 being a very serious, grounded campaign and 5 being an overall goof-fest.
The scale of the campaign indicates how high the stakes are, which is also on a range of 1 to 5. Do you like tight-knit stories where your character is solving a small mystery, or would you rather have the fate of the multiverse in your hands? Smaller-scaled campaigns (1) will have those small, focused stories, while larger-scaled campaigns (5) will have much more epic proportions.
Rule adherence is how strictly the DMs plan to stick to their system’s rules. 1 means there’s a lot of flexibility, 5 means this campaign is to the book.
Commitment level indicates how committed the DM expects players to be. A 1 is a low level of commitment, so your DM would probably be chill if you had to miss a few meetings. A 5 is a high level of commitment, which means you will most likely be expected be fully engaged and at every meeting during the quarter.
Features give players an idea of what the DMs play-style is like. Like a lot of combat where death is around the corner? There are characteristics for that. Do you enjoy more role-playing? That exists too.
Campaign Description
This is one of the most important things you’ll find on this page. The description is what the DM has written to let you know what kind of adventure you’ll be going on. If you have a favorite setting (e.g. pirates or space-themed) or you wanna know what your party will be up against, this is where to find that. Be sure to keep in mind the stats above too! If you’re not into zombies usually but you see all their stats are your style, you might be surprised at what a fun time you can have!
Notes
We try to tailor our DM sign-ups to have all the information a DM might need, but occasionally we leave out certain details or the DM has something game-specific they want you, the players, to know. Not every DM will provide notes for their campaign, which is okay. That usually means all the info you need is above! The notes section can have helpful information about the campaign!
If anything doesn’t make sense or is generally gobble-dee-gook, don’t hesitate to reach out to us and let us know! We try to make the sign up experience as easy as we can.
Happy Adventuring!
New Campaigns
Amanda’s Campaign
Likelihood of Running
I’d rather be a DM but I would be fine playing if necessary.
Game System, Edition, & Stats
Dungeons and Dragons: 5th Edition AND/OR Call of Cthulhu
Game Details:
Silliness Index: 2
Scale: 3
Rule Adherence: 3
Commitment Level: 4
Expected Duration: Spring Quarter 2024
Features
5th Edition Campaign
- World-Focused
- Linear World
- Roleplay-Medium
- Combat-Medium
- Horror Themes
Call of Cthulhu
- World-Focused
- Open World
- Roleplay/Exploration-Heavy
- Combat-Light
- Horror Themes
Amanda’s Campaign Description
The stars have aligned, opening up many new possibilities.
Within the 5e Universe, this takes the form of a recurring portal to the city of Glimmingford on the other side of the continent. Few agree on what made it, but most know that most don’t make it out. You, pushed out of your city or desperately trying to make it across the continent, have decided to chance the dangerous route. Meeting up with other adventurers going the same way, you’ll encounter the many inhabitants that have made this path between places home.
Within the Call of Cthulhu Universe, this takes the form of a job offer. You’ve been offered a position assisting a rogue astronomer, seeking to investigate a series of fallen stars and other odd events. While these jobs seem easy, but strange, you begin you realize that you were not chosen simply for your skills, and that some presence has been lurking with you for a long time.
Amanda’s Notes
Each of these campaigns should take roughly 5 weeks, so we’ll be spending half of the quarter on each. If people want, we can extend one or the other campaign for the whole quarter.
These campaigns will both have horror/frightening elements as an overall tone, although the level of description and themes will depend on what people are comfortable with.
Also, no PVP please.
Hadrian’s Campaign
Likelihood of Running
I’d rather be a DM but I would be fine playing if necessary.
Game System, Edition, & Stats
Dungeons and Dragons: 5th Edition
Game Details:
Silliness Index: 4
Scale: 3
Rule Adherence: 1
Commitment Level: 3
Expected Duration: Spring 2024
Features
- World-Focused
- Plot-Focused
- Combat-Medium
- Roleplay-Medium
Hadrian’s Campaign Description
You and your fellow party members, after being cursed by three old ladies’ knitting socks, wake up and find yourselves in the middle of the final battle of the Trojan War. You and your fellow party members have switched places with Odysseus and his crew, and to return home you must make it back to Ithaca. On your journey, you will face lots of challenges: monsters, gods, and potentially face betrayal from within your own crew. Will you and your party be strong enough to make the journey back to Ithaca, or will you fail along the way. I wish you all the luck on your journey, may the winds and the seas favor you as you embark on the Odyssey.
Hadrian’s Notes
Will be starting characters at level 3. Prior knowledge of the Odyssey isn’t required but is welcome.
Mitchell’s Campaign
Likelihood of Running
I’d rather be a DM but I would be fine playing if necessary.
Game System, Edition, & Stats
Dungeons and Dragons: 5th Edition
Game Details
Silliness Index: 3
Scale: 4
Rule Adherence: 2
Commitment Level: 3
Expected Duration: Spring 2024
Features
- Plot-Focused
- Character-Driven
- Combat-Medium
- Roleplay-Medium
- Says “How?” instead of “No”
Mitchell’s Campaign Description
Faerun is under the threat of the Shabbans, a new organization dedicated to controlling all arcane magic – or eliminating it if it cannot be controlled. They’ve been assassinating prominent mages, snaking their fingers into control of the major cities, and stealing powerful magic items. Now they have their eyes set on a lost magic lantern, which they need to complete their plans. You and your party will take on the role of powerful – nearly superheroic – adventurers and find the lantern first. Players of all skill level are welcome!
Mitchell’s Notes
We WILL be having a session zero; please try to keep an open mind about character concepts until then. We’ll likely use Roll20 for combat, even if we play in-person, I just own more resources there. Players of all skill level welcome, I love DMing for newer players. Elements of this campaign are inspired by DC Comics – especially by Green Lantern. Please try to avoid having your characters break the fourth wall. No PVP.
Ris’s Campaign
Likelihood of Running
I plan to be a DM this quarter.
Game System, Edition, & Stats
Warriors Adventure Game
Game Details:
Silliness Index: 3
Scale: 2
Rule Adherence: 2
Commitment Level: 3
Expected Duration: Spring 2024
Features
- This will be my first time playing the WAG
Ris’s Campaign Description
Warriors, the book series about wild cats by Erin Hunter, also has an official TTRPG. I will be running the adventures that were released with the Omen of the Stars series. Situations may include: hunting rabbits and other small creatures (you’re cats) encountering foxes (you are all cats), saving lost kittens (as a cat), curing a plague (I cannot stress enough you are cats), being caught by humans (you are wild cats), and eventually getting your own Warrior apprentice (Felis catus). You don’t need to be familiar with Warriors but you do need to be ready to be a little kitty, collaborate, and have fun 🙂
Ris’s Notes
I go to Shabbat dinner at Hillel or Chabad before DUDAD so I plan on late starts, probably around 8:00 to 8:30.
Ryan’s Campaign
Likelihood of Running
I plan to be a DM this quarter.
Game System, Edition, & Stats
Dungeons and Dragon’s 5th Edition
Game Details:
Silliness Index: 4
Scale: 3
Rule Adherence: 2
Commitment Level: 4
Expected Duration: Spring 2024
Features
- World-Focused
- Plot-Focused
- Character-Driven
- Combat-Medium
- Roleplay-Medium
- Low Mortality-Rate
- Low Difficulty
- Open World
- Heavy Homebrew
Ryan’s Campaign Description
Welcome to the Whilderwest, home of the rootinest and tootinest folks in Shaper’s Quilt. Somethin’ ain’t right here in the Whilderwest— there’s rumors of a ghost rider moseying on in to remote towns and killin’ almost all of the town’s residents. It’s up to you to figger out the who, whats, wheres, and whys of these rumors, and to put a stop to the supposed ghost rider.
Ryan’s Notes
You can have guns.
Xander’s Campaign
Likelihood of Running
I’d rather be a DM but I would be fine playing if necessary.
Game System, Edition, & Stats
Dungeons and Dragons: 5th Edition
Game Details:
Silliness Index: 3
Scale: 2
Rule Adherence: 3
Commitment Level: 5
Expected Duration: Spring 2024
Features
- Character-Driven
- Combat-Light
- Roleplay-Heavy
- High Mortality-Rate
- High Difficulty
- Improvisation heavy
- Player-Character focused
Xander’s Campaign Description
In a grimy steampunk city, you and your party members are new recruits of a shadowy criminal organization known as the Guild. Through a series of heists and missions, you and your fellows will rise through the ranks earning the power and money needed to survive the city. The campaign will have a lesser focus on combat and will be more character and mystery focused. Power Gaming is not banned but is discouraged unless being used as characterization.
Xander’s Notes
Health will be locked near starting health, with the only increase being 1+Constitution per level.
Continuing Campaigns
Bair’s Campaign
Likelihood of Running
I plan to be a DM this quarter.
Game System, Edition, & Stats
Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition
Game Details:
Silliness Index: 2
Scale: 2
Rule Adherence: 3
Commitment Level: 4
Expected Duration: Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
Features
- Plot-Focused
- Character-Driven
- Combat-Medium
- Roleplay-Medium
- Medium Mortality-Rate
- High Difficulty
- Open World
- Open-Ended
- Horror
Bair’s Campaign Description
We are playing through an Old West game of Call of Cthulhu, a horror roleplaying game based on the eldritch horror of the Cthulhu Mythos. Wild West action meets investigative horror in this episodic campaign.
Bair’s Notes
N/A
Bobby King
Likelihood of Running
I’d rather be a DM but I would be fine playing if necessary.
Game System, Edition, & Stats
Dungeons and Dragons: 5th Edition
Game Details
Silliness Index: 4
Scale: 4
Rule Adherence: 3
Commitment Level: 3
Expected Duration: Winter 2024, Spring 204
Features
- World-Focused
- Character-Driven
- Combat-Heavy
- Roleplay-Medium/Light
- Medium Mortality-Rate
- Medium Difficulty
Bobby’s Campaign Description
Eberron has been plunged back into war, the Quori are rampaging throughout the continent, and the lich queen, Lady Illmarrow, has come all the way from Xendrick to seek out the Mark of Death.
Bobby’s Notes
N/A
Hazel’s Campaign
Likelihood of Running
I plan to DM this quarter.
Game System, Edition, & Stats
Dungeons and Dragons: 5th Edition
Game Details:
Silliness Index: 3
Scale: 4
Rule Adherence: 4
Commitment Level: 4
Expected Duration: Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
Features
- World-Focused
- Plot-Focused
- Character-Driven
- Combat-Medium
- Roleplay-Heavy
- Low Mortality-Rate
- Medium Difficulty
- Open World
- PIRATES!!!
Hazel’s Campaign Description
Hey nerd! Do YOU like epic adventures with drama, hardships, good times, and PIRATES? Do you like Lovecraftian horror (without all the bad stuff)? Then my campaign is the spot for you! Journey throughout the Sword Coast, saving it from evil aberrations, monsters from the Astral Plane, and Pirates!
Hazel’s Notes
I use the spell-points variant rule, and give a ton of magic items.
James Steed
Likelihood of Running
I plan to be a DM this quarter.
Game System, Edition, & Stats
Dungeons and Dragon’s 5th Edition
Game Details:
Silliness Index: 4
Scale: 4
Rule Adherence: 3
Commitment Level: 3
Expected Duration: Winter Quarter and Spring Quarter
Features
- World-Focused
- Plot-Focused
- Character-Driven
- Combat-Light
- Roleplay-Heavy
- Low Mortality-Rate
- Low Difficulty
- Linear World
- Don’t take anything too seriously, we’re just here to have fun!
James’s Campaign Description
Do you enjoy spending your Friday nights contemplating questions of existence, death, the afterlife, the true meaning of eternity, and doing a silly voice? No? Too bad. Sign up anyway.
James’s Notes
PVP discouraged unless it’s REALLY cool. Evil alignments must be doofenshmirtz evil, not EVIL evil. Campaign starts in fantasy 1920s and goes back in time, consider what time period your character is from!
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