[FULL] Zeitgeist DD5

Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition version of the Zeitgeist Adventure Path. We are playing in French, but handouts and other written materials are in English.

Zeitgeist is a D&D campaign in a world between fantasy and steampunk. There are elves, orcs, wizards with fireballs, and all the other content of the D&D rulebooks. But there are also trains, steam boats, muzzle-loading firearms and similar devices of early technology. And there are some interesting conflicts: Magic vs. technology, industrialists vs. unions, man-made religions vs. ancient faiths, etc. One of the features that makes the Zeitgeist campaign special is that there is no simple "alignment" system. In the above mentioned conflicts, players have to decide for themselves with whom to side, there is no simple spell that tells you which side is "good" and which side is "evil". The group represents first a squadron of soldiers, then a squadron of members of the state police. But whether they play those policemen like a bunch of Keystone Kops or like the Gestapo is up to them.

We are playing roughly every two weeks, on the weekends, in sessions of about 6 hours length. First session, without actual gameplay, but with an introduction of the world and character creation, is on Sunday, June 6, at 2 pm. Players are:

• Rhum
  
• Idril Arcamenel
  
• Kalomus
  
• Altaro
  
• Moritz
  

👌. See you sunday

Super à dimanche Tobold

Hello Tobold,

Are you still looking for players for this campaign, I still have my druid. Could I join next game?
Let me know.

Elric
You do as you want, but I advise you against putting your phone number on an open forum like here. Every one, every bot can see it, no need to log in. You risk spams and problems of the sort.

Sorry, I have 5 players, and we are full.

Merci de laisser une message ici avec le nom et portrait de votre perso. J'ai déjà des figurines.

Prochaine session dimanche le 18 août à 14h.

Still not getting notifications for new messages on the forum ... Will be there !

Could you give the notes on the feats we get for the themes please?

James Jones is ready

Fernand D'Ystev

Dancer, Fencer, bon vivant

The notes on the feats are in the Zeitgeist Player Guide. Anybody who hasn't got that document can send me his or her e-mail address by private message on the forum, and I will send the player guide to you.
But I can post the feats also here:

Docker New Feat: Docker’s Jank
In a band, every musician has to know his bandmates’ parts in case
they need to switch places or pick up the slack. Choose up to four
allies; you may change your chosen allies if you spend a few hours
training with them. You and those allies can each use Help as a bonus
action, but only to aid you or one of your chosen allies. Once a
character uses this ability, he or she must take a short or long rest
before doing so again.
Additionally, once per day as a bonus action you can shout a line
from an inspiring song to grant an ally a Bardic Inspiration die, a d6.
The die becomes a d8 at 5th level, a d10 at 10th level, and a d12 at
15th level. Except for the limited use, this functions as the Bardic
Inspiration feature.

Eschatologist New Feat: Proper Ending
With the dire knowledge that the world shall end in ice, you do what
you can to prevent such fate from befalling your allies. As a bonus
action, you can touch a dying creature or a creature that died in the
past round. That creature is restored to life if dead, stabilizes, and
is considered to have failed no death saving throws, but remains
unconscious. The body must be relatively intact. This ability doesn’t
function on decapitated or disintegrated creatures, for example.
As an action, you can concentrate on your own mortality in order
to manifest a zone of cold in a 10-foot radius around you. Once
manifested, the zone is stationary, and it lasts until you dismiss it as
a bonus action, or you fall unconscious.
At the start of your turn, creatures in the zone take 1d6 cold
damage. This increases to 2d6 at 5th level, 3d6 at 11th level, and
4d6 at 17th level. Creatures in the zone cannot heal or gain temporary
hit points. Since you manifested this fragment of the world’s
icy end, you are affected by the zone even if you are not inside
it, and you cannot reduce the damage this power deals to you by
any means. Other creatures’ resistances and immunities can still
protect them.
Once you manifest this zone, you cannot use it again until you
complete a long rest.

Gunsmith New Feat: The Man with Two Guns Is God
You have discovered the coolest fighting style in the world. You can
draw and stow two firearms when you would normally be able to
draw or stow only one. You can use two weapon fighting with dual
pistols (or target pistols) just as with light melee weapons. Any
creature you attack with a firearm cannot make opportunity attacks
until the start of your next turn.
You are proficient in gunsmithing tools. Crafting common firearms
only requires time and money. Crafting a grenade takes 25 gp
of materials. Doing it safely takes 10 days of work, or you can rush
it in 1 day, but then must succeed on a DC 10 Intelligence check or
else the grenade explodes and injures you.
Likewise, you can craft target pistols, rifled carbines, or rifled
muskets by paying half their price for raw materials, then spending
a day for every 5 gp of total price to craft the item from scratch. Or
you can take a normal firearm, spend 25 gp on a rifling kit, and successfully
make a DC 10 Intelligence check to upgrade the weapon
in a single day. If you fail this check, the weapon is ruined.
Whenever you take a long rest, choose two firearms in your possession
to maintain. Those weapons cannot misfire for 24 hours.

Martial Scientist New Feat: Martial Studies
Research is important for science and for combat. If you don’t know
just the right fighting technique, you’re pretty sure someone else
has published a thesis about it. You gain proficiency in one martial
melee and one martial ranged weapon.
In addition, every martial scientist learns the Experimental Strike
technique. During the campaign you will have the opportunity to
learn new techniques. Keep track of which you know. At the end of
a long rest, choose one technique you know. You have access to that
technique for the day.
Experimental Strike (Martial Scientist Technique)
Scientific breakthroughs are born of both careful study and wild
experimentation. Whenever you use the Attack action and miss
with every attack, you may make an improvised attack without
spending an action, such as slicing a rope to pin an enemy with a
chandelier, or smashing a pipe to spray blinding steam on an enemy.
Make an Intelligence check and add your proficiency bonus;
the GM determines the DC based on how difficult the task is. For
example, dropping a chandelier straight down might very easy (DC
5), but slicing it, grabbing it to arrest its fall and make it jostle, then
releasing it at the perfect moment so it swings laterally and flies at
an enemy ten feet away might be hard (DC 20).
The GM should refer to the core rules for guidelines on the effects
of improvised attacks. Circumstances will dictate how many
foes are affected, how much damage is dealt, and whether any
conditions can be applied (such as prone or blinded), but generally
this should do at least “setback” damage.
After you use experimental strike you cannot use it again until
you finish a short or long rest.

Skyseer New Feat: Skyseer Vision
As a bonus action you may touch an ally and give them insight into
future actions. The touched ally chooses one of the following — attack
roll, saving throw, ability check, or skill check — and then rolls a
d20. The next time the ally would make the same type of roll before
the end of the encounter, they may use the previously rolled result
or opt to make a new roll. If the ally has advantage or disadvantage,
only the first roll is replaced.
After using this ability you must take a short or long rest before
you can use it again.
As part of a long rest during which the night sky is visible, you
may focus your mind on the future and receive a prophetic dream
regarding one question. Upon completion of your rest you awaken
with insights into the future as though you had cast a divination
spell regarding a task you plan to take the following day.

Spirit Medium New Feat: Unfinished Business
You possess a deep understanding of spirits and the ties that bind
them to the mortal world. With the simplest of actions and words,
you can stir the recently deceased into action.
With your urging, the spirit of a recently dead person will speak
briefly with you. You can cast speak with dead. The body must be
within three miles of where it died, and must not have died more
than a day ago. You do not require a complete body as the ability
speaks with the spirit and needs no corporeal connection. You can’t
do so again until you finish a long rest.
At the GM’s discretion, you could also use this power to communicate
with uneasy spirits who have not yet moved on, regardless
of how long ago they died.
Using this power against undead, or in any combat situation for
that matter, is possible but very difficult. By expending this power
you can force an undead creature you can see to make a Wisdom
saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma
modifier). If it fails, you may take control of it for one round, as the
dominate monster spell. Alternately you can call up the spirit of a
creature whose body you can see that died in the past five minutes.
It does not receive a save to resist. Its spirit manifests in a space
you choose within 25 feet of you, and performs a single action of
your choice as if it were still alive, then disappears.

Technologist New Feat: Disposable Simulacrum.
By spending 10 gp to acquire the necessary parts, you can craft a
contraption, which functions somewhat similarly to a familiar called
by the find familiar spell. When deactivated it weighs 5 lbs. and can
fit in a pouch or pocket, but you can infuse a bit of your life force
into the contraption so that it becomes animate. As a bonus action,
you can activate your contraption and place it in an unoccupied adjacent
space, at which point it becomes a Tiny construct creature,
with a form roughly similar to one of the animals available with find
familiar. The contraption has that animal’s stats, with the following
adjustments. It uses your AC and save bonuses (if higher), and its
hit point maximum is 2 times your character level.
Your contraption acts on your initiative; it moves where you direct
it. To get it to take any other action, such as Dash, Disengage,
Dodge, or Help, you must spend an action to control it.
Additionally, your contraption can be designed to perform one
special task, such as attacking with a natural or light weapon you
integrate into its body, casting a single spell you store in it, or using
some other ability (like Lay on Hands or Deflect Missiles) you have
access to. You still must spend the appropriate type of action to
have your contraption perform this task, and spells or abilities used
through the contraption count towards your daily limit. Since it is
bonded to you, however, the contraption performs this one special
task as if you were performing the action in its space. Changing this
special task requires an hour of tinkering. Changing the contraption’s
shape requires eight hours at a properly furnished workshop.
You can only control one contraption at a time. Your contraption
only functions while within 120 feet of you, beyond which it
deactivates. While within that range, you can spend an action to
see and hear from its space until the start of your next turn, during
which time you are blind and deaf with regard to your own senses.
If reduced to 0 hit points, the contraption is automatically deactivated
and you must spend an hour making repairs before you can
activate it again. Replacing a lost contraption costs 10 gp and takes
eight hours at a properly furnished workshop.
At 5th level you can spend 100 gp to craft a contraption in the
shape of a Medium or smaller animal of up to CR ½. At 10th level
you can spend 1,000 gp to craft a contraption in the shape of a
Large or smaller animal of up to CR 1. The larger the animal, the
larger a weapon that can be integrated into its body.

Vekeshi Mystic New Feat: Hand of Retribution
You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill, or another skill if you
already have Intimidation.
In battle, a vestige of the power of Srasama waits to punish
those who harm your allies. When an enemy you’re aware of deals
damage to one of your allies, as a reaction you can deal 1d4 radiant
damage to the enemy who made the attack. That enemy sees a
faint burning outline of a six-armed goddess hovering behind you,
which then lashes out in retaliation with blades of fire. You cannot
use this power twice against the same creature in the same encounter.
After you use this power six times, you must take a long
rest before you can use it again.
At 5th level, the damage increases to 1d4 radiant and 1d4 fire. At
11th level, the enemy also catches on fire and takes 1d4 fire damage
each round until it spends an action to make a DC 10 Dexterity
check to put the fire out. At 17th level, using this ability does not
require spending your reaction.

Yerasol Veteran New Feat: Display of Heroism
You unfortunately have great experience rescuing allies on the
battlefield. As an action you can assist an ally who is imperiled. You
can lift the ally to their feet if they are prone, and if you have any
movement left for the turn you can drag the ally with you. Until
the start of your next turn, as long as the ally remains beside you,
any attacks made against that ally have disadvantage. Your heroic
example can rouse your ally’s, even from the brink of consciousness,
allowing the ally to spend a hit die to heal. Only 1 point is actual
healing; the rest are temporary hit points.
At 5th level you can do this as a bonus action. At 10th level this
no longer requires any action, though you can help no more than
two allies this way per turn.

En ce qui concerne la prochaine session, il n’ya que peu d’options pour jouer au club. Je suis en vacances le week-end du 14/15 septembre. Le week-end des 28 et 29 septembre, le club organise le déménagement du mobilier. Il est ensuite fermé pendant tout le mois d'octobre.

Nous pourrions jouer soit le samedi 21 septembre, soit le dimanche 22. Si plus d'un joueur n'est pas disponible ce week-end, nous devrions jouer à une autre date ailleurs, par exemple chez moi.

Faites-moi savoir vos disponibilités.

Nous jouons dimanche le 27 octobre à 14h chez Rhum.

Retour au club dimanche le 17 novembre à 14 h.

Nous jouons au club dimanche le 15 décembre à 14h.

Prochaine partie dimanche le 19 janvier à 14h au club.

Prochaine partie dimanche le 16 février à 14h au club.

Prochaine partie dimanche le 8 mars à 14h au club.