She has moved away from a traditional website and brought the house to Substack. This way we can share updates about gaming and crafting with a lot more ease and the emails we send you (hopefully) wont go to the junk folder anymore.

We hope that this easier platform works well for you, because its been great for us! We notice that we have a lot more time to come up with shenanigans for our D&D game nights and Mom and Aunt Lassie have been able to focus more time on some new crafty goodness in the apARTment.

Moving forward you can expect an email from us on Fridays, we will keep it short and week with a lineup of the upcoming events and any new cool things we have going on. Otherwise, we ask that you hang out with us in person at one of the D&D games or an Art Hang!

Play D&D | Attend an ART HANG

New to D&D? | Check out this post with loads of resources!

D&D 101 | We’ve curated a collection of HOW TOs to help you get started

Hero Stuff | Build or Level Up your cool new D&D Character

Sharing is Caring | We turned on ‘content sharing’ so you can use all our stuff

Thanks for reading and hanging out!

Dad, signing off~!

Joining one of the Mom’s Basement campaigns is not required but it does offer a lot of cool benefits; we have enabled content sharing, which means you dont have to purchase the players handbook and anything we have in our content library is available for you to use too!

This also allows Mom to add magical items, gold, potions and other cool things to your character sheet. Lastly, if you have any trouble or questions along the way in the development and building of your character, hosting your character sheet in our campaigns gives us the ability to help see what you are seeing and walk you through any edits or modifications before or after one of the in-person gaming sessions.

Joining a Mom’s Basement Campaign (on D&D Beyond):

Joining a Mom’s Basement campaign on D&D Beyond will give you access to the 2024 Players Handbook (we bought it and are sharing it with you!) and other source materials. This also gives us the ability to help you build out details in your character upon your request and let’s us add cool loot and magical items to your inventory after a session. This step isn’t required, it’s just a bonus for playing with us.

Join the campaign link to the in-person sessions that attend most regularly:

• Tuesday Night D&D at Northeast Pizza KC:

  https://www.dndbeyond.com/campaigns/join/76795953801437267

  This campaign group meets on Tuesday evenings at Northeast Pizza KC in Pendelton Heights from 6 - 8 PM

  2203 Lexington Ave, Kansas City, MO 64124

• Thursday Night D&D at City Barrel Waldo/Brookside:

  https://www.dndbeyond.com/campaigns/join/75463501283798888

  This campaign group meets on Thursday evenings at City Barrel Pizza & Patio in the Waldo/Brookside area from 6 - 8 PM

  120 E Gregory Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64114

Depending on if you’ve got a blank slate to work with or you have a library of characters to choose from you will have a few options once you click on one of our campaign links.

You may have a lot of characters to pick from, like the example image of our Northeast Pizza KC campaign page. Or you may have zero characters available if its your first time making a character like the example image of our City Barrel Waldo campaign.

If you have a library of characters; pick the one the you want to bring into the campaign by clicking on the “character sheet” and that’s it! You are now in the campaign!

If you don’t have a character already created we have a blog post to help you navigate the creation process here!

Creating Your Character (on D&D Beyond) Within One of Our Campaigns:

When you click on one of campaign link, you will be taken to a page that looks similar to this:

You also have the option to create a “premade character” which are characters that are built out and can then later be customized (we will gladly help you with this!). Keep in mind, these characters are made by D&D Beyond, the Mom’s Basement family has no say or contribution into what they have posted here. This section of the D&D Beyond site is a great resource for finding inspiration and we encourage you to check it out even if you already know you want to go fully custom.

Finally, there will also be a collection of “Available” characters that you can snag. These are characters made by the Mom’s Basement crew and are up for grabs! Silly voices encouraged when playing one of these goofballs!

Going Fully Custom:

You’ll notice a collection of “tabs” at the top of the “Character Builder”

Move through these tabs to make selections that will build out your character in detail.

Below are some suggestions for creating your Mom’s Basement ready (and compliant) hero:

❌ Homebrew (uncheck this option)

✅ When you get to “Ability Scores” select either Standard Array or Point Buy

Your character will automatically start at level one; once you select the “class” you will have the option to adjust the level (see below):

When you “level up” your character, D&D Beyond will automatically increase your HP (hit points), add class features and unlock new abilities

At Level 2, you typically gain:

• More HP

• New class features

• Possibly spell upgrades depending on class

Remember, take your time, there is a lot of choices to be made here (but none of them are permanent). This is where your character can start to get more interesting, develop a personality and you can create a really cool backstory.

Pro Tip: Check Your Equipment!

Make sure that you have selected to “use”, “wear”, “wield” or “equip” the items in your inventory. Do this by clicking on the verb on the right hand side of each item (see above, the green items are “active” and ready to use in game while the white ones have not yet been selected).

Creating a D&D Beyond Account:

• Head to: https://www.dndbeyond.com

• Click on “Sign Up” (top right hand corner)

  • Choose how you sign up.

    For example, you can create your account by allowing Google, Twitch, or Apple to do some of the heavy lifting or you can just create an account with your email address and by creating a password.

• Enter your info and check your email for a verification

• Verify your account

Sweet, now let’s get you added to our Mom’s Basement Campaign (this is optional, but really cool - so eat your vegetables!) and then build your character!

If you still have questions, you can always chat with us before or after an in-person game session or email us!

What is D&D?

D&D, or Dungeons and Dragons is a table top role playing game set in a variety of magical realms. In a Mom’s Basement game of D&D, we encourage laughter, getting off of your screens and making life-long friends!

What is Adventurers’ League?

Adventurers’ League, or AL, is the gaming system that we have modeled our Mom’s Basement sessions after.

Here is some additional information about Adventurers League!

How do I get started?

You’ll need to RVSP for an in-person game using one of our pre-generated characters. Even if you are a seasoned player, we ask that all first timers at our tables play with one of our characters so they can focus on connection and learn some of the mechanics of game play without getting bogged down with intricate rules or heavy spell casting.

After your first session, you are welcome to create the character of your dreams and we will even help you do so!

What’s a D&D Beyond account and why do I need one?

D&D Beyond is the platform and marketplace where character sheets are built. You don’t have to create an account with D&D Beyond if you prefer to manually fill out and math up a character sheet.

If you prefer to use this tool (D&D Beyond) it helps take some of the guess work out of building a character and gives new players some ease in adding in all the math stuff.

We have made a guide to help you get started on D&D Beyond, feel free to use it if it seems beneficial to you.

We are not directly affiliated with D&D Beyond, so any questions directly related to technical or privacy concerns should be directed to the platform.

How do I join a Mom’s Basement D&D Beyond Campaign?

We’ve got you covered; here is a how to guide on joining one of our campaigns on D&D Beyond.

This is not required to play in any of our games, however we offer content sharing, so you don’t have to buy any source material and it allows us the ability to stock your character’s pockets with loot, magical items and potions!

How do I create my character on D&D Beyond?

Assuming you’ve played one in-person session with us, you can now recreate the character you played or build out an entirely new character.

Here is a how to guide to help you navigate that set up on D&D Beyond!