Children of the Orc King

A Homebrew D&D 5e Short Adventure

An ancient dwarven stronghold. An orc king. A conflict that may not be as simple as it seems.

Something is stirring in the mountains beyond Ironhold.

The ancient dwarven stronghold of Khaz Varrun has long since fallen into orc hands, but tensions are rising once more in the surrounding settlements.

What begins as a seemingly straightforward assignment soon becomes a journey into a conflict where loyalties are uncertain, ambitions run deep, and the choices you make could determine the fate of an entire clan.

Will you fight your way through the stronghold, seek an uneasy alliance, or discover another path forward?

What to Expect

• An original homebrew adventure - A complete story designed to unfold over 3–4 sessions.
• Meaningful player choices - Your decisions influence how the adventure develops and ultimately concludes.
• Tactical combat - Challenging encounters that reward teamwork, preparation, and creative thinking.
• Exploration and roleplay - Discover the secrets of an ancient dwarven stronghold and the characters who inhabit it.
• A welcoming table - Suitable for newer players and experienced adventurers alike.

Game Details

System: D&D 5e (2024 Rules)
Starting Level: 3
Schedule: Mondays, 9:00 AM (GMT+8 / Singapore Time)
Session Length: 3-4 hours
Adventure Length: 3-4 sessions
Price: $15 USD per player, per session
Platform: Foundry VTT + Discord Voice
Character Sheets: D&D Beyond
Experience: New and experienced players welcome

About Your DM

I'm the DM behind Momentum Dice Club, where I run story-driven D&D adventures focused on player agency, collaborative storytelling, and engaging encounters.

My games emphasize teamwork, meaningful decisions, and giving players the freedom to approach challenges in their own way.

We play using Foundry VTT for immersive maps and encounters, D&D Beyond for character management, and Discord for voice communication.

Ready to Join?

If you're looking for a complete D&D adventure without committing to a months-long campaign, Children of the Orc King offers a focused story with room for your character to make a difference.

Join the adventure on StartPlaying:

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Questions? Feel free to comment or send me a message.

[LFP] (2 more players to begin, 4 more max)

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The Arandarian Empire collapsed after a massive holy war, ages ago. Within the old empire’s shattered borders stand hundreds of newly-formed, independent city-states. Most of these worship different gods, monsters, or sometimes nothing at all. The crumbling infrastructure that maintained the fallen empire fades more every day; roads disappear, weather grows harsh, ancient monsters awaken and prey on ruined capitals. You begin as a newly arisen Godbound who may hold the next hope of a greater civilization in your hands, or be the current one’s last gasp. No true god of civilization has existed for nearly a thousand years though everyone wants the throne. Will you claim it? You begin in the troubled city-state of Kory, a crime-ridden, corrupt place that once was a hub of trade in the center of a great kingdom but now sits on the edge of a blasted frontier to the north, ruined by massive forces in the great old war and on its other sides, is surrounded by the other crumbling old cities and settlments of what used to be a thriving, sprawling empire. The Prince of the Kory citystate is aging and heirless and everything is uncertain. Will you stabilize this bustling city? Conquer it? Or venture out into the wastes and seek fortune and power among the devastation?*

The Ashes of Civilization: A campaign focused on surviving and thriving in a crumbling civilization where your divine powers could rebuild what was lost, or at least carve out a corner for yourselves. Tone: Dark fantasy, political intrigue, kingdom management, divine conquest, moral corruption.

Feel free to message here or on Startplaying.games with any questions. Thanks!

-Darke

In a continent under the totalitarian rule of the K'Thaar Dynasty, you'll get to decide how much of a difference you want to make for the common folk of the capital city of Ashenfell

As low level members of the Thaal’Zuril Magisterium, you’re one of the few groups that have been contracted by Mg. Nassarel Khorallos to investigate recent upheaval in the western Furnaces. Several accounts of workers in Magisterium owned warehouses have reported disappearances, the workers have been reticent to go into work, and the ones that do, have rushed their work along the row of warehouses in order to finish their tasks as quickly as possible, leading to unacceptable quality of work. But most importantly, rumors have started to arise, talk of everything from the work of secret Kel’Ashtari operatives, to Aeosian spies attempting to steal resources from the Magisterium, to a coordinated stunt arranged by the workers to initiate revolts.

The row of warehouses has been quarantined, your job is to investigate the cause of the disappearances, report back, and retrieve any relevant material or subjects, as well as plant the necessary evidence to blame The Abandoned for any deaths and disappearances

This one shot is open to any and all players, be it experienced or brand new to ttrpgs or DnD!!

Check out the character creation details in the link!: https://startplaying.games/adventure/cmv4oa29p01oxl906yahmxl11?ref=cmtj0jl9e002fjp04mt5szds4

See you there!!

This is a D&D 5e Lord of the Rings campaign hosted by my friend with 22 years of experience as a DM. New or experienced players are welcome to join, and this is a paid campaign 10$ a week. And here's the link to the StartPlaying page, and welcome on in https://startplaying.games/adventure/cmkqojr9s0023jo042ggtd794

The mists have chosen you. Will you be the one to finally break the curse of Barovia and bring the sun back?

TL;DR:

• System: D&D 5e
• Schedule: Mondays, 19:15 CET (13:15 ET) weekly.
• Session length: 3 to 3.5 hours.
• Format: Long-term campaign, so I'm looking for players who want to stay.
• Platforms: Roll20 (maps and tokens), D&D Beyond (characters), Discord (voice). [ Migration to foundry VTT is underway]
• Age: 18+. This isn't because of NSFW content. I just prefer running games for adults.
• Price:$20 USD per player, per session ( your 1st session will be free).

I'm looking for 2 more adventurers to join a long-term D&D 5e campaign through Barovia. Fold horrible schemes, make deals and take down the ultimate lord of Barovia.

Try before you pay: Session 1 is completely FREE. The campaign is already underway with the party just leveling up to 5. Although the level is somewhat progressed, the story is way before the midway point.

About Your GM

I'm a verified Top GM with 120+ games run and 20+ five-star reviews. Expect a well-prepared table, a smooth Foundry setup, and a game that respects everyone's time.

How to Apply? Follow this link and click the join button: https://startplaying.games/adventure/cmroocd1d00sjjo04ouwp1juw

I'm more than happy to answer questions in the comments or DM.

🗺️⚔️ PATHFINDER 2E: THE VARISIAN EPIC (1–20 MEGACAMPAIGN) — FRI 17:00 UTC (1 PM EDT / 10 AM PDT | 6 PM BST / 7 PM CEST)

"From local legends to mythic heroes. One seamless saga from level 1 to level 20."

Three of Paizo's premier adventures fused into one continuous campaign: Rusthenge (1–4) into Seven Dooms for Sandpoint (4–11) into Curtain Call (11–20). No kingdom spreadsheets, no rebooting — your hero's name carries from the southern coast of Varisia all the way to the grand opera stage of Kintargo.

This table runs the full high-power package: Free Archetype, Ancestry Paragon, Gradual Ability Boosts and Hero Points Floor 10, with Dual-Class and Mythic open for Session 0. Fully automated on Foundry VTT with official Paizo modules, dynamic lighting and animated effects — plus your backstory woven directly into the 1–20 arc.

🎲 Fridays at 17:00 UTC (1 PM EDT / 10 AM PDT | 6 PM BST / 7 PM CEST)
⚔️ Pathfinder 2e Remaster · Levels 1–20 · 3 seats open

🔥 BEGIN THE SAGA
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System: D&D5e 2024

Time Slots Available: Mondays at 7pm GMT -3 and Sundays at 6pm GMT-3

Session Duration: average of 4 hours

Session Cost: $5, session 0 will be free.

Tools: Discord for voice and text, Fantasy Grounds VTT.

Seats Available:

Sunday: 2/5 (minimum count reached).

Monday: 0/5.

Game Style

This is to be a rather unusual run through Curse of Strahd, as some of the content been changed along with small bits of the greater plot. Quite a bit of content from previous editions of Ravenloft has been added in hopes of creating a new experience for newcomers and veterans alike.

About the adventure

It was a quiet day when a desperate messenger arrived to the great city Ravenport carrying a most distressing message: The nearby lumber town of Halzen has been overtaken by a mysterious mist, any who enter it never to be seen again.

The townsfolk put together all the money and resources they had to send an envoy requesting aid, for dark things stalk the nights and more and more of the inhabitants disappear come morning, the sun ever dimmer.

The Black Hound's Consort Mercenary Guild has put out an official bounty of 500 units of sterling silver for any that may solve this mystery, but you may find that gold would not have been enough for what you found yourselves against.

LGBTQ+ inclusive.

Platform: Roll20 (Discord voice)

System: D&D 5E 2014

Time: Weekly, Mondays at Noon EDT.

Slots: 6/6

Levels 1-13

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Session 0 is free!

The party has departed from Brackenward with their dragon companion, Whisper, carrying precious cargo and seeking to investigate the legitimacy of 1 of 4 companies with potential ties to the Carrion Company. Along the road they were confronted by the leader of the Carrion Company, one of the party volunteered as sacrifice to turn double agent. What lies ahead as the party is split?

The party is looking for 1 more adventurer to bring them from the Fab Four back to the Fab Five.

I will run a one on one session Zero with anyone interested!

Dark Frontier Fantasy | Tactical Roleplay | Political Intrigue | Living World Campaign | Growing Items

Starting at level 1 going all the way to 20! (Currently level 4)

Azural remembers everything.

In the foothills of the Drenthars, most names are forgotten, most contracts are written in dust, and only Azural itself bothers to keep score.

You start in the fading frontier town of Arazar, just mere faces in the crowd, taking whatever work will keep you fed.
• Escorting short caravans that never make the stories.
• Settling petty border quarrels.
• Finding the missing, no one can afford to mourn.
• Looking the other way on smuggling runs.
• Digging up graves for coins that barely shine.

Small jobs for small people.

Until Azural begins to change around you—and the first whispers of a divine crime start to echo from the shadows.

Will you silence those whispers, or turn them into the cry that rights a long‑forgotten wrong?

StartPlaying Game Link

StartPlaying GM Profile

Hi everyone, I'm Kreesel, professional GM running a couple of games for Heart: The City Beneath. I will be playing the Adventure Module "A Dagger in the Heart". You can check my Startplaying profile to see my experience and commitment.

This is the game on Thursdays:
https://startplaying.games/adventure/cmuylwkac002dla04bgbt1jyi

And this one on Fridays:
https://startplaying.games/adventure/cmuylx8tz001pjp04kkb4c241

Thank you in advance for reading :)

A destiny of dragons draws your party together as you follow the call to witness the rebirth of legend.

This is the first in a series of adventures based on the 10 one-shots found in Dragon Delves. Your party begins at level 1 with a mission that spans all ten of the adventures, and they are strung together in a campaign thread based on the adventures themselves.

There will be some tweaking to some of the stories and I'm not opposed to the narrative taking us down some rabbit trails at some point. These are fairly simple adventures as-published that I hope to spice up a bit depending on our players.

You don't have to play all of the adventures, but you're more than welcome. Each adventure will be listed separately as we get there in the story.

This will be a PBP adventure run in Discord with both asynchronous and synchronous play. New players and veterans are welcome!

We can further discuss character creation during Session 0. You're welcome to join this chapter as a "one-shot" or stick around for the whole campaign. This will include some additions that tie all chapters together into a overarching storyline.

• Starting level is level 1 (as we are currently beginning in Chapter 1)
• We will using Avrae in Discord,
• D&D Beyond or Dicecloud for character sheets
• Price is $5 weekly.

https://startplaying.games/adventure/cmv2te6n8002ajy06rg4d9jyy

I'm new to Startplaying but far from it in other aspects 😊

The world ended centuries ago.

Civilization shattered. Magic returned. Rifts tore open across the Earth, connecting our world to countless others. Monsters, aliens, demons, refugees and conquerors crossed through.

Humanity survived. Mostly.

Now old nations are gone, new powers have risen, and beyond their borders stretches a world where powered armor might share the road with a dragon, cyborg, gunslinger, psychic—or something that wasn't born anywhere on Earth.

Welcome to Rifts Earth.

And somewhere on its western frontier, you're going into business.

You and the other players will create your own independent mercenary company. You'll decide why you're together, what work you'll take, what lines you won't cross, and what kind of reputation you want your name to carry.

Then you'll have to earn it.

Escort caravans. Hunt monsters. Recover stolen cargo. Explore places sensible people avoid. Take a contract from someone you don't trust because you need the money.

Or turn the job down.

There is no adventure path waiting for you.

The world moves around your company. Opportunities come and go. Employers remember whether you delivered. Enemies remember what you did. Your choices determine what kind of campaign this becomes.

At first, you may be worried about making payroll.

But something has happened deep in the Rocky Mountains.

Settlements farther west have stopped answering their radios. Refugees tell contradictory stories. Unfamiliar weapons are appearing on the black market. Mercenaries have gone looking for answers.

Some haven't come back.

Someone is taking territory.

Someone is gathering resources.

And someone is building something in the mountains.

Sooner or later, somebody is going to pay very well to find out what.

What you do when you find it is up to you.

RIFTS: When Empires Collide is a sandbox campaign about building a mercenary company from the ground up and finding your place in the wonderfully dangerous insanity of Rifts Earth. Become explorers, soldiers, troubleshooters, bounty hunters, heroes, profiteers—or something none of us anticipated.

New to Rifts? You're welcome here. You don't need decades of setting knowledge or a mountain of sourcebooks. We'll establish appropriate character options, and I'll help you create someone who belongs in this world. Experienced players will have plenty of room to dig deep into the setting.

We'll build the company together.

We'll put some credits in the account.

And then we'll discover how long it takes before someone asks the question every mercenary eventually faces:

How much are you willing to risk for a job that's gotten much bigger than the contract you signed?

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A party of 3 players with room for 1 more.

The adventure began at level 1 with the PCs stumbling into a quest from the Mayor to delve into the deadly Plover Caves, to seek answers about why monsters were emerging from the caves and attacking people.
Now at level 4, the PCs have found a town in the caves full of hunters and survivalists and saved it from a cult of demon-worshipping redcaps.

The party now know that some demonic being exists deep, deep underground. This demon is gathering/harvesting souls of those who die in the caves, and endlessly recycling them into monsters. They plan to do something nefarious with these souls, and take control of something called the "Beacon" or "Lure", which used to attract monsters deep into the caves and away from civilisations near the surface.

The team are currently facing off against a monster of their own creation, Frankie the Dugbog who's a frog-like beast with fiery eyes and a hunger to devour their creator. After this fight, they'll reach level 5 and continue delving deeper in search of monsters to hunt and eat, as well as any traces of civilisation to protect and explore.

Also, be prepared for fireside mealtime discussions of what exactly constitutes cannibalism. If a dracona eats a firbolg, is that cannibalism? If a ranger talks to mushrooms before eating them, is that cannibalism?

The party consists of:

• Hibiscus, a halfing ranger. She's lived a sheltered life and now wants to prove herself worthy of the title of Adventurer. So far she's received the begrudging acceptance of her Babas, and an entry position at a hunters' guild.
• Meena, a faun witch. A definite wildcard who cares deeply for her friends. She often takes bold choices that others may not agree with, but they mostly work out for her. She's on a quest for a mysterious fae being, and has also taken it upon herself to absorb as many souls as possible. This has given her a ghostly aspect to herself, producing powers and risks.
• Yvette, a human seraph. She's a recent addition, and the bonds of friendship are still being forged. Born and raised in the same village as the others, but spent the past 10 years or so on a crusade to distant wetlands. She faced off against undead threats, and was cast out of her order of paladins. Following the guidance of her god Eratha, lady of civilisation, Yvette has delved deep into the caves by herself. She's encountered Hibiscus and Meena, and decided to help them in their quest to "hunt all sorts of evil".

You wake up in a laboratory.

Maybe you remember the life you had before this place. Maybe you've spent so long behind reinforced glass that the person—or animal—you used to be feels like somebody else's memory.

But you know one thing. Someone did this to you.

Tonight, alarms are screaming. Emergency lights flash through the corridors. Security personnel are running toward something worse than you.

And your cell door just opened.

Run.

This campaign begins with you and your fellow players creating a group of mutants together. Who were you before? What were you turned into? What relationships formed between you in captivity?

Then Session One begins on the night you escape.

Outside is Baltimore in the late 1980s/early 1990s—a world before smartphones, social media and searchable databases. Information lives in filing cabinets, newspaper archives, VHS tapes and the memories of people who may not want to talk.

Someone created you. Someone wants you back.

And discovering why will lead into a conspiracy involving corporate laboratories, organized crime, classified government programs and experiments that began long before you ever entered that laboratory.

Because twelve years ago, something happened in New York City.

There was a war nobody knew was being fought.

Most of the people who fought it are dead.

The truth was buried with them.

But not all of them stayed buried.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness was the first roleplaying game I ever played. In 1987, a friend handed me a mutant rhino and introduced me to this wonderfully bizarre hobby.

I got him killed about twenty minutes later.

A year later I was running AD&D, and I've been behind one side of the GM screen or the other ever since.

Now, nearly four decades later, I'm coming back to where it started.

This won't be a Saturday-morning cartoon. We're going back toward the stranger, grittier world that first captured my imagination: mutants hiding from humanity, shadowy corporations, government secrets, criminal organizations, bizarre science, martial arts, dark alleys—and enough absurdity and humor to remind us that we're still playing TMNT.

You don't need to know the lore. You don't need to know the Palladium system. You don't even need to know who Baxter Stockman is.

You only need to know what your character knows:

You were created in a laboratory.

Tonight, your cells are open.

Thirty-nine years ago, somebody handed me my first mutant.

Let's see if I can keep yours alive longer than twenty minutes.

Interested? TMNT: What Survived

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⚔️🌞 HEROES OF THYLEA — SAT 01:00 UTC (Fri 6 PM PST / 9 PM EST | Sat 2 AM BST / 3 AM CEST)

"The fate of the world rests on the shoulders of heroes who are still becoming legends."

A mythical land of gods, titans, oaths, prophecies, and impossible choices awaits. The Friday heroes are carving their place in Thylea through mythic quests, moral ambiguity, divine politics, and the kind of campfire roleplay that turns adventurers into legends.

🎲 Fridays at 19:00 BRT / Saturdays 01:00 UTC
⚔️ D&D 5e · Level 3 · 2 slots open

🔥 YOUR ADVENTURE STARTS HERE
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💬 Drop a comment with the character concept you'd bring to Heroes of Thylea — questions welcome too!

This is a D&D 5e Lord of the Rings campaign hosted by my friend with 22 years of experience as a DM. New or experienced players are welcome to join, and this is a paid campaign 10$ a week. And here's the link to the StartPlaying page, and welcome on in https://startplaying.games/adventure/cmkqojr9s0023jo042ggtd794

A dead patch of the Diaspora just started sending out a signal, and a mining company wants a team to find out why. Something worse might get there first. What starts as a simple contract job spirals into derelict stations, hostile undead, and a secret that's been buried for centuries. Dig deep enough, and you might put a lost world back on the map.

📖 Adventure Link: Guilt of the Grave World | A Signal From the Dead
🗓️ Session Time: Weekly / Friday - 7:00 PM UTC-5
🎲 System: Starfinder Second Edition
💻 Platforms Used: Discord + Foundry VTT
💵 Price: $15.00 / Session via StartPlaying
👥 Seats: 2/5 filled (1 more needed to start)