**Campaign setting**

This campaign setting will take place in the embercore. You're a person that has lived in this horrible place as long as you can remember.

You might have once supported the ideals of the empire or you were always against it. 

Maybe you finally had enough or something is forcing you to flee. Maybe some of the ideals still linger in your mind and you have a hard time leaving them behind. Either way somehow you find yourself in a search for something that can change your current situation. You're looking for the resistance. A group that only seems to exist in the hopes and dreams of the people struggling to stay alive. But you've found some clues that it's not just talk amongst the poor. You found out there might actually be a group hiding on the Lost isle. An island that once was alive until the empire cut it off completely. 

You gathered your courage and left your life behind in search for the resistance.

Nestled atop the cliffs that rise from the Sword Coast, the citadel of Candlekeep houses the finest and most comprehensive collection of writings on the face of Faerûn. It is an imposing fortress, kept in strict isolation from the intrigues that occasionally plague the rest of the Forgotten Realms. It is secluded, highly regimented, and it is home.

Within these hallowed halls of knowledge, your story begins. You have spent most of your life within this keep's austere walls, under the tutelage of the sage Gorion. Acting as your father, he has raised you on a thousand tales of heroes and monsters, lovers and infidels, battles and tragedies. However, one story was always left untold: that of your true heritage. You have been told that you are an orphan, but your past is largely unknown.

Today, Gorion has appeared more agitated than ever, and now he has uncharacteristically interrupted your chores in the middle of the day. Imparting hurried instructions for you to equip yourself for travel, he has handed you what gold he can spare but given no clue as to why. Nevertheless, you now stand before the Candlekeep Inn, ready to purchase what you need for an unplanned and unexpected journey.

This adventure is a 5e conversion of the video game Baldur's Gate 1.

This table is beginner friendly. If you don't know how to create a DnD 5e character, pm me here or on discord (letabot#3490)

Character creation:

- Only races from the Player's handbook (Human, elf, half-elf, dwarf, tiefling, halfling, gnome, dragonborn, half-orc)

- Point buy, average (fixed) hp on level up

- Even though you start in Candlekeep, you don't have to pick the cloistered scholar background. You can decide what your character was doing before going to Candlekeep.

- Except for the race options, all the official content is allowed.

Troy is besieged! Come and help King Priam!

You are a loyal citizen of Troy. Your king has asked you to gather allies against the Greeks.

Don't believe the story that Helen of Sparta was kidnapped by Paris. It was a trick of the greedy king of Mycene, king Agamemnon. He don't want revenge. He wants the riches of the city. He has sailed across the sea to sack Troy. And without help, the city is doomed. So king Priam has summoned you and is about to give you an important task...

• My tables are always beginners friendly. Always.
• Only official content allowed. For the more experienced players: only use the official things, ability score use Standard Array or Point Buy, Fixed HP, only starting equipment, etc.
• If there are non-Dutch people, the table will be in English.
• My primary goal is to create a fun evening for ALL players involved.

Note: Please try to get into the Greek mythology. Thus only choose (greek) human, satyr or minotaur race.
And limit the classes to those that would appear in this era, like fighters, thieves, rangers, barbarians or bards.

The story continues.