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Welcome to Sword Coast Adventure Realm!

Sword Coast Adventure Realm is a living, breathing open world with adventures, settings and story arcs happening all at the same time in a tightly-knit community of over 20 consistent players and 5 experienced Dungeon Masters. We are a variation of a West Marches server, combining the elements of a sandbox world with story-driven elements. Our server is ever-evolving, improving regularly with new content or fine-tuning mechanics to ensure the games are a fun and fair experience for everyone. The server now celebrates its 5th anniversary in July with both old and new players, and our DMs are always striving to put out the best content. We use Roll20 for game sessions and Chronica for tracking the rest, with a large and organized Discord server for 24/7 chat, Roleplay, and community.


About Our Style

An open sandbox world to make your mark and tell your story

There is no regular set play time.
Every session is scheduled by the DMs in the quests channel in Discord. Quests are posted and available for anyone of the appropriate tier to sign up via a system that prioritizes players based on last day played and character role.
There is no regular party outside of story arcs.
Each play session has the potential to have different characters, drawn from the pool of available players. You will play with other characters within your level tier. If you are part of a story arc, you will see the same few players more often.
There are multiple stories happening at once.
Players have more freedom to decide where to go and what to do. There is no overarching linear plot, but instead an overarching environment. That being said, the DMs each have story arcs running that may interconnect and provide more content and objectives.
Every game session begins and ends at the same point of origin.
Just about every session is entirely self contained. You depart from one of our resident towns, accomplish a task, and return. This allows you to really settle in, establish a home, and make your story.
It's a living world.
As all Player Characters are assumed to spend their downtime within our residential cities, word generally gets round about what happens on each adventure. It's a living world. The same evil wizard cannot be killed by two different groups.
Read the Rules

SCAR Lore TCG

A fun, interactive way to learn our lore!

SCAR offers an automated online trading card system designed to help you learn our lore while getting to collect and trade lovely cards with other members. We currently have over 300 cards! There is no requirement to collect the cards if you have no interest to, but it's a very simple, and bite-size way to view aspects of old story arcs, places, and more! You will need an account, so if you are joining us and are interested in collecting cards, ping @Pidge in the #trading-post channel on Discord!

SCAR Lore TCG

Meet Your Dungeon Masters

The worldbuilders of SCAR, running a combined average of 3 quests every single week

Shunni

Basset Hound, Dungeon Master
Loremaster Nerd Background 358 DM Level
Chaotic Good Alignment Tier 1-4 content and story arcs Primarily
14 Moxie
12 Gumption
16 Chutzpah
10 Childlike Wonder
8 Cut of your Jib
11 Je ne sais Quoi
Current Story Arcs or Settings
  • Containment
  • Future: Seven Nation Army
  • Future: Ascension
  • Future: Apostles of Luck
  • Future: Dark Storm Armada
  • Future: Blood Dynasty
  • Future: Cabal of 13
Attacks & Spells
  • Dad Voice
  • Sassball
  • EmOtIoNaL dAmAge
Inventory
  • Buffalo Wings
  • Kraken Rum
  • Deck of Red Cards

Pidgeon

Bird-like Human, Dungeon Master
Software Developer Background 174 DM Level
Chaotic Good Alignment Tier 1-4 content and story arcs Primarily
14 Moxie
17 Gumption
13 Chutzpah
13 Childlike Wonder
9 Cut of your Jib
10 Je ne sais Quoi
Current Story Arcs or Settings
  • Soulweave
  • Future: The Fray
  • Future: Malakta
  • Future: The Upsidedown
  • Future: Stone Tooth & Claw
  • Future: Myst Echo
  • Future: Dreamoir
Attacks & Spells
  • Disguised Trauma (WIS save DC 20)
  • Spun Story (actually just Disguised Trauma)
Inventory
  • Decaf coffee in a thermos
  • A small pouch of shiny trinkets
  • A large black hoodie

Marnthry

Shadow Entity from Down Unda', Dungeon Master
Jack of All Trades Background 74 DM Level
Neutral Alignment Tier 1-3 content and story arcs Primarily
14 Moxie
13 Gumption
15 Chutzpah
8 Childlike Wonder
12 Cut of your Jib
10 Je ne sais Quoi
Current Story Arcs or Settings
  • Once Upon a Time
  • Future: Ironweave Rites
  • Future: New Kind of Hero
  • Future: Shoulders of Titans
  • Future: A Court Affair
  • Future: Crooked Moon
  • Future: Muse
Attacks & Spells
  • Dropbear Fling
  • Summon - Nightmares
Inventory
  • Coffee
  • Foley Equipment
  • Day Planner

Vimmy

Dragonborn, Dungeon Master
Creativity on the Run Background 50 DM Level
Chaotic Good Alignment EU Times, Tier 1-2 content and settings Primarily
15 Moxie
11 Gumption
10 Chutzpah
14 Childlike Wonder
12 Cut of your Jib
10 Je ne sais Quoi
Attacks & Spells
  • Musical Reference
  • Immaculate Nail Scratch
  • Memes Archive
Inventory
  • Flamingo wine glass
  • Pierogi
  • Head filled with too many ideas

Tristan

Bearded Crab, Dungeon Master
Homeschooled kid with too many hobbies Background 32 DM Level
Lawful Good Alignment Tier 1-2 content Primarily
14 Moxie
11 Gumption
8 Chutzpah
15 Childlike Wonder
12 Cut of your Jib
12 Je ne sais Quoi
Attacks & Spells
  • Really bad pun
  • Tristan noises (agony- delight- and everything in-between)
  • For science! (totally overthinking things within the context of real-world physics or completely not thinking and pushing the red button to see what happens)
Inventory
  • An unnecessarily large spreadsheet
  • Audiobooks
  • Allergy medication and a box of tissues

Brook

Human, Loremaster
Goose Background Chaotic Neutral Alignment

Seri

Human, Loremaster
Impatient Daydreamer Background Neutral Good Alignment