We’ll be starting a new season of D&D Encounters, March of the Phantom Brigade, on Thursday, February 10th! So if you’ve been wanting to jump in at the beginning, next week is your best bet! As always, game play is from 7 PM – 9 PM on Thursday nights!
If you’d like to see a general overview of Encounters, including how it works, you can find that here.
The March of the Phantom Brigade is a 13-week season that finds the characters facing off against an ancient evil in an effort to save a newly-founded frontier community from its depredations! Players who love the legacy of D&D will note the nods to classic locales, such as the Ghost Tower and Castle Inverness. But as always D&D Encounters remains a great place for new players to get their weekly D&D fix as they learn the game. Characters begin at 1st level and advance normally, so new players can just jump in with a 1st-level character and won’t feel overwhelmed. We will have pregenerated characters available if you don’t want to build your own, although we encourage you to print a character out and bring it with you. Here is the link to the new pregenerated characters.
Character creation is once again a breeze this season, with a limited number of rules options available for players to reference. Players can use Heroes of the Fallen Lands, Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms, and rules from Dragon articles to create their characters. In addition, D&D Insider subscribers can use the Character Builder to generate a character that uses only the above rulebooks with the D&D Encounters campaign setting option.
