It's important that your announcement include enough information for players to decide if they want to join in. Here we'll describe the rules for game announcements in a little more detail.
Your announcement needs to include the following information:
- A 1 to 3 level range of character levels your adventure is appropriate for (such as 1, 5-7, or 9-11). Include this in your thread title to make it easier for players to find games appropriate for their characters.
- This is not a strict requirement on character levels, but it does inform players about what the expected challenge level of your adventure is. Characters of higher or lower levels can participate in your adventure at your discretion (and with the agreement of the other players).
- For each character of a higher level than this range in the party, reduce the value of all Challenge Tokens received by -1 CR, to represent the reduced challenge.
- A short summary of what your adventure is about.
- You don't need to spoil every important detail, but you do need to let the players have a general sense of what they're in for. If someone's devil-worshiping cultist joins an adventure ostensibly about clearing out a bandit camp, only to find it's really about battling the influence of a devil cult, they won't be pleased.
- What time you plan to run your adventure, including your timezone, and about how long you expect the adventure to take.
That's all that's required. Feel free to provide additional details at your leisure, such as the range of players you're comfortable with running a game for. Players should apply by responding to you in your thread, or on Discord. Accept players with characters in your provided level range on a first come first serve basis- talk directly with players that have characters above or below the level range of your adventure before adding them to the party. It's helpful to edit your thread with a list of players and their characters as you accept them, so people will know how much space remains in your game.
Players should respond to announcement threads (or in Discord) with the following information:
- The name of their character.
- Their character's level and class makeup.
- A link to their character page.
