Adventure sessions are advertised on the Kantas Forum, where characters can initially reserve a place for themselves before they are moved to the Discord. Sessions marked as Beginner Friendly will have reserved spots for players new to the campaign. Rumours include level requirements, date, and location.
Join our Discord and ask for details and links to our forums, rumours, and write ups. All our players and DMs will be there to help you getting started in Kantas.
If you haven't played in a Kantas session before, make sure to join our Discord, and then fill in the form here to ask for a first-timer boost. You can get into the next Beginner Friendly game much faster!
The Kantas Expanse campaign is a persistent campaign world and adventures are planned by the DMs in a similar way to most episodic television shows; each session is a standalone one-off adventure, but there are a number of key sessions that progress overarching storylines and grander plots. There are also times where a single adventure spans over two or three sessions.
Time passes in Kantas like it does in real life. In between adventures your characters carry on living and so they do if you do not play for a few weeks. You can find our Downtime Rules here.
Dungeon Master in the Making?
We are absolutely open to having anyone jump in the Dungeon Master's seat! If you're a player with an adventure in mind that you'd like to run, drop a line to the DMs and we'll gladly help you!
The Kantas Expanse forum is where new rumours are promoted, and where post-session write ups are shared for all to read. The campaign world lives and breathes here as players are encouraged to write up the actions of their characters here. Whether it's the recounting of last week's session, the results of some downtime activity, or a collaborative interaction about a story arc, all are welcome to contribute their stories here and make the Kantas campaign come alive.
Please do join the forum and ensure you get on a Beginner Friendly game first.
Sharing is caring. Let others know what you got up to in your last adventure. Maybe your character has a unique perspective on the events that transpired? Share it as a write up! Whether it's bullet points, a poem, or a detailed play-by-play of the adventure, we'd all love to read it and find out what happened.
This way your collective knowledge of the region will grow and other characters can follow up on any new rumours you encountered, if you don't do that yourself. It will also keep the DMs up-to-date with what has happened. The DMs also give out inspiration for write ups. You can post write ups on the Kantas Expanse Forum.
If you see something during the course of your many adventures you'd like to investigate more - a plot thread you want to follow up, an area you'd like to explore or even something you want to pursue for your own character's story, you can submit a Hook for a session. The DMs will review all Hooks and try to get to as many as they can, though it is not guaranteed.
For more details on Hooks in Kantas, go to the Discord server and use the '?khook' command. For advice on great hook writing, see A Quick Guide to Excellent Hooks
Please note, you can only have 2 active hooks per character at any time. If you have 2 hooks already submitted, but realise you have something you'd rather pursue more, still submit the hook as normal, but let the DMs know which hook you'd like to withdraw in its place.
We have a tradition after a finale or grand event that the following week we run a handful of games known as 'Breathe' games. These stem in part from not knowing after a finale how much of the Dawnlands may still be standing, and also giving DMs as much as players the chance to, you guessed it, breathe!
A Breathe game is a very loose and freeform game based entirely on what the players want to do. You sign up as usual and generally the DM will reach out to the players and ask what they want to do. It can be literally anything - RP a couple of specific scenes, run some errands, find an aboleth and fight it because you always wanted to, or maybe dissect and reflect on something that happened during the finale.
The DM is there to facilitate it all, to set the scenes or voice some NPCs, but the content of the game comes from the players. The players might not get to do All The Things they want because it's still collaborative story telling, but they can request anything under the sun.
No two Breathe games are the same. There is no right or wrong way to run them, there are no right or wrong things to request, and anyone can sign up.