The fish market of Waterdeep’s dock district was teeming with life.  Ships slowly brush past one another amid soft calls of sailors in the harbor.  Spring was firmly upon Waterdeep’s economy and the dour winds of Deepwinter and the Claw were finally Melting… as the month of Melting is greeted fondly by all of Faerun.  THOOMB!  A cataclysmic rumble jolts the streets as birds take to the sky! Gouts of flame erupt from sewer grates and a tsunami like wave spews from the entrance to Skullport!  The streets creak and moan a final death rattle and in moments a TWO-MILE crater collapses the whole of the Docks District of Waterdeep!  Water rushes into the streets, toppling buildings and washing street vendors young and old into broken walls, glass and livestock, then slowly steadies and finally drags thousands of souls back out to sea!

This was the first break in the Lord’s Alliance of the Sword Coast, and somewhere Szass Tam let slip a smile.

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The War of Melting – Defend the Sword Coast is a continuation for many party members who have played Dragon Heist into a homebrew’d sequel The Bloody Pieces of Jarlaxle Baenre.

This party begins this next session at 10th level and will play through level 20.  The party’s actions have been harrowing and led to the defeat of Manshoon, and Lord Cassalanter as well as the possible death of Xanathar itself!  Their actions however in accomplishing these amazing feats have unwittingly allowed the deposed Arch-Devil Moloch into the prime material plane.  This fiend arrives amid a huge arcane bomb erupting in Skullport that indiscriminately reaps the lives of tens of thousands emboldening the devil and strengthening his foothold.  More tragically in the blast is the late Blackstaff leaving Waterdeep without its most fervent protector.  Lady Silvermane is rallying all heroes that survive the tragic event to keep order and save as many as they can.  This reveals that many of the Harpers, Emerald Enclave and Order of the Gauntlet’s leadership are culled from the blast… yet hope remains.

This campaign will endeavor to mix story with a sandbox style of play that allows for large scale battles and more intimate quests and dungeon crawls.  Waterdeep’s wound is known to the Red Wizards of Thay and they will act quickly to strike against the jewel of the Sword Coast.  Their tenuous alliances with great Drow houses of the Underdark may prove useful as war seems inevitable.  Yet only our party of heroes knows of Moloch’s presence away from the grips of the plane of Hell.

This campaign will have a couple of slots open (looking for new players to join the mostly formed group).

——Player Requirements——

We use Discord for our voice chat and narratives (I encourage players to write between sessions if inspired).

I use Roll20 for our VTT (virtual table top)

I use DnDByond for our character sheet record keeping and I share all my books with the party to help with making the characters you want to play!

I have some homebrew rules that will come into high-level play.  CONCENTRATION in DnD will be changed.  The players will be able to concentrate on multiple spells at a time based on their Intelligence bonus and maintaining spells will be at disadvantage should you choose to chance it.

DEATH’S DOOR is also deadlier.  I will hyrbid in 1st edition AD&D with 5e/2024 = if you drop to 0 hit points and are healed back to positive hit points, you come back with 5-levels of exhaustion.  Gone are the days of Yo-Yo healing/fighting (Grave Domain clerics will have less restrictive results resulting in only 2-levels of exhaustion keeping in theme with their build).  Players will be pushed to their limits and I hope that this will pull some wonderful strategy from min-maxers and great role-play in dire moments to beat back the forces of evil!

Waterdeep, the Lord’s Alliance and the Sword Coast need you!