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Spire Sessions 0: Jodi's Hierarchy of Villainy

Howdy. It's been a minute since, uh, my first post, but I'll likely be using this thing more often in the near future. That's because I'm about to begin GMing a campaign using Spire , Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor's fantastic 2018 TTRPG about playing as drow revolutionary cultists fighting against oppressive high elf gentrifiers/colonizers in a massive tower-city. Check it out if you haven't--seriously, 5E wants what it has. My campaign won't be using any pre-existing Spire campaign modules, but will instead be using my own original stories. I say stories, plural, because I'm also taking a West Marches  approach to running the game. The party is huge but players will drop in and out session by session, multiple story arcs could occur at once, and I'm generally just taking a collaborative approach to storytelling. Hell, I may even move over to Spire's  Heart  sister title every once in a while if the story calls for journeys into a body horror-f...