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MacGuffins, Ltd.

All the information you need as a new or veteran member of our PbP server!

1. Essential Information

Learn the critical details for getting started!

2. What to Do

Learn about the server and what you can do once you're a member!

3. Slightly Technical Stuff

Learn more details about efficiently playing on a PbP server for when you feel more comfortable.

4. Server Story Arcs

Your one stop shop to keep up to date on server arcs

Witch King

Role Playing

2. What to Do

Combat

2. What to Do

Downtime

2. What to Do

Server Leadership

1. Essential Information

Avrae and Commands

3. Slightly Technical Stuff

Character Sheets

3. Slightly Technical Stuff

General Advice

3. Slightly Technical Stuff

Server Operation

3. Slightly Technical Stuff

Questing

2. What to Do

Your Character

1. Essential Information

Server Essentials

1. Essential Information

Draconic Secrets

4. Server Story Arcs

Shadows have been seen flying over Luna Pines at night in recent weeks. Glimmers of colour, flashing in the sky distract merchants and entrance children. One resident even found a small purple scale in their chicken coop one morning. Something draconic is afoo...

Draconic Secrets

Blightspore Beckons

4. Server Story Arcs

Like many of the heroic legends of old, this story begins in a time of relative peace. Children excitedly run through the streets, screaming with mirth, while elves, humans, the fey, and people of countless other backgrounds stuff their faces with meat mies, f...

Blightspore Beckons

Events

4. Server Story Arcs

The Rules

1. Essential Information Server Essentials

We created this server to enjoy 5e D&D anywhere, anytime. We host homebrew quests, campaigns and server-wide roleplaying opportunities under a loose, shared setting. Right now, you can only see some of the many channels in the server; This is intentional. We...

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Essential Information Server Essentials

DnD 5e ruleset has been designed with typically a campaign setting in mind, run within smaller groups. Translating this over to a West Marches style server may mean certain things are tweaked to create an enjoying, fair and balanced platform for all PCs involv...

Custom Background Rules

1. Essential Information Your Character

Custom backgrounds are welcome on Macguffins, Ltd and are a great way to make your character's history fit who they actually are rather than forcing them into the closest published background. We currently supports both 2024 and legacy 2014 characters, the r...

Guide to RP

2. What to Do Role Playing

Welcome to the RP zones! A land of beauty, drama, and character development await you! What you will find here is a few tips and even some rules that will help better your RP experience and help you and your character to grow as a player, writer, and roleplaye...

The Admins and Edgelords

1. Essential Information Server Leadership

The Admins @LightningNevan (Created server 22/08/19) Getting involved in D&D in late 2017 has allowed me to become apart of a genuinely fun and exciting community - where else can you simultaneously slay or make friends with the strongest monsters of m...

Dungeon Masters

1. Essential Information Server Leadership

Quest Master A Quest Master is someone that players should feel safe to reach out to them in regards to quest related issues or enquiries. For example questions or issues related to quest sign-ups or if you are interested in becoming a Dungeon Master. We wou...

Helpers

1. Essential Information Server Leadership

Types of Helpers Welcomers - The first names you see when you join the server! These are the ones who say hello and make sure you are directed to the right place after you check out the rules. Sheet Checkers - The next people on your way to being a member of...

Shops

2. What to Do Role Playing

Whether it's new armor or weapon, healing potions or components, a small furry friend, or even some rare items, shops are where you'll be placing orders and trading your hard earned gold for items! You will need to drop into a channel when you make purchases. ...

Downtime Basics

2. What to Do Downtime

Downtime is a player-focused‌ ‌downtime‌ ‌economy.‌ ‌ It provides the ability for your character to have a continued existence in the world between individual RP scenes, questing, and arena. Downtime is a great way to provide additional development and growth!...

Downtime Activities

2. What to Do Downtime

Not sure where to start? Try finding Work as a starting point! It's low risk, and generally useful for every adventurer. Just pick a skill of your choosing and come up with a job that could describe that. Fill out the form on Downtime Basics and rake in some d...

RP Voting

2. What to Do Role Playing

Role playing is a large part of Macguffins, Ltd and it gives the ability for a large variety of players to find their characters voices, personalities and quirks while simultaneously allowing them to meet new and interesting people to forge friendships...

Server Aliases

3. Slightly Technical Stuff Avrae and Commands

Available to all players on the server. For more information, many aliases accept a ? to see the help. Character Management Character Setup!level - Automatically handle many class-specific things in Avrae (run once per level)!setrace - Handle racial-specific...

Server Snippets

3. Slightly Technical Stuff Avrae and Commands

These snippets are attached to various rolls (!r, !c, !s, etc.) to add common modifiers. Simply add the text as a word after the roll to use them, such as !a greatsword gwm guidance hbc to attack with Great Weapon Master with a Greatsword given Guidance and He...

Using Avrae

3. Slightly Technical Stuff Avrae and Commands

Avrae is the Discord bot we use for dice rolls, character sheets, spells, resources, combat tracking and an impressive number of tiny conveniences that nobody remembers until they need them. If you've just arrived and this page looks like somebody has handed ...

D&D Beyond

3. Slightly Technical Stuff Character Sheets

https://www.dndbeyond.com If you need help with D&D Beyond, please reach out to our expert customer service representatives in #avrae-questions!

Dicecloud v1

3. Slightly Technical Stuff Character Sheets

Dicecloud v1 has been cast aside in favor of the new hotness in Dicecloud v2. You can still access your v1 characters through the website and Avrae at https://v1.dicecloud.com, but moving forward, new characters should be created in v2. Due to changes between...

Google Sheets

3. Slightly Technical Stuff Character Sheets

Sheet Resources Version 2.1 / Version 1.4 Troubleshooting Help! Whenever I try to run !gsheet or !update I get some weird string about Error loading character: Unexpected input on line 1, col 6: expected DECIMAL, D, INTEGER, LPAR, _WS, U_OP 9/10 times ...

Muting Channels

3. Slightly Technical Stuff General Advice

Macguffins is a big server. You are not expected to keep up with every channel. In fact, one of the easiest ways to make the server less overwhelming is to mute anything that is not currently relevant to you. Muting a channel does not stop you from reading it...

Text Formatting Cheatsheet

3. Slightly Technical Stuff General Advice

italics = *italics* bold = **bold** bold italics = ***bold italics*** strikeout = ~~strikeout~~ underline = __underline__ underline italics = __*underline italics*__ underline bold = __**underline bold**__ underline bold italics = __***underline bold i...

The Colosseum (PvE)

2. What to Do Combat

The colosseum is a chance to test your mettle as a team or solo against monsters and baddies! Pick a team or be randomly assigned one, and one of our Arena Masters will select a fight to DM you against in straight combat. Win, and leave with XP and gold! How ...