For the last four years, we have offered two kinds of games: $12 four-hour public games involving up to eight players, and $20 two-hour private games or special sessions for one or more players.  We recognize that both of these options involve a great deal of investment; monetarily from our players, but also in terms of energy and effort from both our players and (especially) our DMs.

To help with this, we are now offering a new type of game: the $5 Pop-up Game!

What is this format for?

• Focused help from a GM for: creating a character, spell advice, exploring/learning world lore, practicing combat, learning 5e mechanics, using DNDBeyond/Beyond20/Roll20

• Session Zeros

• Non-canon sparring between PCs and monsters, PCs and NPCs, PCs and other PCs

• Play any of the levels of the game and with any combination of magic items, completely dependent upon what is agreed upon by the GM and the player(s)

• Potentially play at any time of day or night, in store or online (again depending on GM/Player agreement and local game store operating hours)

What is this format of game NOT for?

• Pop-up Games are not intended to be canon (or at least are not automatically canon, GMs may canonize at their discretion) and what happens in such a game will not affect the lore of the world 

• They do not provide PC advancement, nor do they offer permanent rewards 

• Regular, weekly, scheduled play 

• Games consisting of more than four players

• Quick answers to questions that could be asked for free elsewhere on the Discord

How much does it cost?

• Players directly pay their GM $5 for up to an hour of gaming/help

• Each additional player also pays that GM $5

• Any help or game that takes longer than one hour will cost an additional $5 for up to one additional hour, per player

How does it work?

• On our Discord, a Pop-up GM role will be self-assigned to GMs who are available to run Pop-up Games. @ pinging this role in the 🎪pop-up-games channel will contact those GMs.

• Player(s) will @ ping the Pop-up GM role and provide a brief description of what kind of help or game they would like to play

• At their discretion, GMs will reply to these requests and negotiate with the player(s) to schedule the help/game

• Once both the GMs and player(s) have an agreement, the Pop-up Game is scheduled and payment will be due at the time of session

• Alternatively, GMs will announce their desire to run a Pop-up Game either immediately or at a scheduled date/time, and players may request to join these games 

It is our hope that this new Pop-up Game format will provide GMs and Players greater freedom to game with limited time and/or money, receive focused, expert help in making characters for Radiant Realm games, and/or to test their ideas in a more relaxed setting without needing to commit to a full session or play in the canon Myzelis world.