Are you looking for a place to play Dungeons and Dragons, Magic the Gathering, or board games with a group of like-minded people? Look no further than Cafe Villamor in Kaka'ako!

We host meetups for all of these games and more, providing a fun and welcoming environment for players of all levels. Whether you're a new player looking to learn the ropes, or a veteran looking for a new group to play with, we've got you covered.

Here's the schedule for our upcoming meetups:

Dungeons and Dragons:

Monday - Thursday 5:30pm - 8pm
Saturdays 11:00am -1pm

Magic the Gathering:

Sundays 11am

Brunch and Boardgames:

Saturdays 11am - 1:30pm

To join in on the fun, just come to the cafe during the scheduled meetup time and ask for an invite to our discord server or hit up the cafe on Instagram @CafeVillamor. We'll connect you with other players and make sure you have a group to play with. And if you don't have your own set of dice or cards, don't worry, we also sell them at the cafe.

We are located at the entrance of HiClimb climbing gym in Kaka'ako, so you can make a day out of it and try out climbing after the meetup. And don't forget, we have a great selection of games, snacks and coffee.

We look forward to having you join us for some fun and games at Cafe Villamor, 825 Ilaniwai st Kaka'ako.

Welcome to our weekly after-school Dungeons and Dragons course! In this course, students will not only have fun playing D&D, but also develop critical thinking, communication, teamwork and creativity skills.

Each week, we will navigate through various challenges and obstacles that require players to think critically and come up with creative solutions. Players will also learn how to communicate effectively with each other and be a good team member. The game encourages the players to think outside the box and come up with unique and creative solutions to the challenges they face.

As a supplement to the course, I will be using this website to share some of my D&D content that I've created for the class and for my Cafe Villamor D&D meetup groups. This will include new adventures, character backgrounds, and other materials that will help to enhance the game experience for players.

So if you're looking for an after-school activity that is both fun and educational, come join us for our weekly D&D course!

Welcome to my D&D Blog! I'm excited to share my experiences and insights from running a campaign over the last few years. My goal is to provide a flexible framework for a unique way of playing Dungeons and Dragons that emphasizes the use of downtime between sessions and encourages collaboration between players and the DM in shaping the world and the story. 

Setup follows the Pixar Storytelling formula:
Once upon a time there was [blank]. Every day, [blank]. One day [blank]. Because of that, [blank]. Until finally [bank].

Starting Premise:
This is a Manifest Destiny Westward Expansion world in which players race to claim and tame swaths of a new continent, building towns, cities and developing their own cultures, morals, traditions as they vie for control against several other factions trying to do the same. Most gameplay comes from them deciding how to engage with each of the other factions, all of which represent polar opposite philosophies towards governance, political beliefs and religions.

 In Summary the main story arc is as follows:
Players start in the age after adventurers. Every dragon slain, every dungeons pillaged and the world has congealed into stability under a single royal family who runs the entire continent. Every day life is mostly commerce, paying rent and working odd jobs throughout the city. It's been safe and stable for generations with only bloated bureaucracy and corruption being the only real issues. 

Session Zero

Players and DM design this  "Old Kingdom" based on whatever lore they wish. They select 2 main colors to signify that royal family. The royal family must be 1 race.
In my campaign, the royal family are humans with Purple and White as their colors. They also build a second faction called the Merchant's Guild that acts as the federal reserve for the royal family.

Session One:

Players play the first session feeling the mundane experiences of life in a stable world as working class people, then halfway though the session, usually right in the middle of whatever players are working towards, the DM will announce that there is an earth rumbling arcane explosion and pillar of light off on the westward ocean's horizon. The world is already fully mapped and there should be nothing there but deep sea and dozens of merchant and luxury ships.

Players then have to deal with or take advantage of the chaos of the city as panic and uncertainty on what this new explosion was grips the city.

At the end of the session, one day passes, the royal family has ascertained what caused the cataclysmic event: An entirely new and foreign continent has appeared in the middle of the ocean, it is speculated that it was brought here by a unprecedently tear in realities, or portal or whatever the DM wishes it to be. 

The Royal Family issues a decree that anyone who wishes, can take a royal contract scroll and set out to the new world to lay claim to the empty and untouched lands. They will take one year to muster the entire military might of 150+ galleons and every soldier in the kingdom and sail to claim the continent in one year's time. Upon arrival, any adventurer who has one of these scrolls and has tamed or build up the land will become a fully fledged member of the royal family regardless of race or background and they get to keep the lands as their own as a vassel of the family.

This starts a frenzy in the city as everyone rushes to secure supplies, and passage to the new world. The players can pick any methods they want to get to the new world and secure a scroll.

Session two
Players Find a way onto a ship, steal a ship, or barter with another NPC or faction to join their ship while also trying to find a scroll. Either by legally signing up, stealing, bartering, buying or forging one.

Players set off to sail. Depending on the type of ship, the DM will give me 2-3 encounters to show that many other ships do not make it due to being ill prepared or due to the chaos at sea. They also come across debris from all the ships that were caught in the initial explosion maybe picking up a survive to further explain to the players what  the portal/tear looked like and how big it was.

Session Three

Landfall! Depending on how they did at sea, players either wash ashore with nothing, get raided in the night or are attacked by strange new creatures, or if really luck, land with ship intact.

This new continent is basically a whole new world with none of the WoTC monsters or creatures. The DM and players can find their own collection. For first timers I suggest the free Monster Hunter Worlds DnD Creature book off reddit. 

Players are now off to the races and the world develops as they explore and encounter new native creatures, races, opposing factions and allies.

Downtime:

Downtime between sessions is for crafting, Since there is no gold or merchants, everything has to be crafted and build with what they find and loot. So intsead of a zombie happening to hold 100G, they get bones, leather, feathers and must draw what they create between sessions. When they arrive back the next week, they roll for it's quality and stats up to the DM's discretion.

Florian Warrior

Challenge Rating: 5

Size: Medium

Type: Plant

Alignment: Neutral Good

Attributes:

• Armor Class: 17 (natural armor)

• Hit Points: 90 (12d8 + 36)

• Speed: 30 ft.

Abilities:

• Strength: 18 (+4)

• Dexterity: 14 (+2)

• Constitution: 16 (+3)

• Intelligence: 10 (+0)

• Wisdom: 12 (+1)

• Charisma: 10 (+0)

Damage Vulnerabilities: Fire

Damage Immunities: Poison

Damage Resistances: Bludgeoning, Piercing and Slashing from nonmagical weapons

Condition Immunities: Charmed, Exhaustion, Grappled, Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned, Prone, Restrained

Special Traits:

• Plant Camouflage: The Florian Warrior has advantage on Dexterity (stealth) checks made to hide in any terrain with ample obscuring plant life.

• Speak with Plants: The Florian Warrior can communicate with plants as if they shared a language.

• Healing Nectar: The Florian Warrior can use an action to produce a healing nectar from its flower. This nectar can heal any creature within 5 ft. for 10 hit points. This ability can be used once per short rest.

Actions:

• Multiattack: The Florian Warrior makes two melee weapon attacks.

• Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 4) slashing damage.

• Entangle (Recharge 5-6): The Florian Warrior can use an action to entangle a creature within 15 ft. The creature must make a Dexterity saving throw (DC 14) or be restrained by vines and roots. A restrained creature can use its action to make a Strength (Athletics) check against the Florian Warrior's DC to break free.

Appearance: The Florian Warrior is a tall, humanoid-shaped creature made of various types of plants. Its skin is a deep green color, and its body is adorned with leaves, grasses, and other organic plant parts. A large flower blooms from the back of its head, and its eyes are blackened sesame seeds. They are fierce defenders of their land and their people and they possess a deep wisdom and knowledge of the natural world.

Ecology: Florian Warriors are the protectors of their people, the Florians, and their land. They are deeply connected to nature and the earth and possess the ability to manipulate and control plants to some extent. They live in small communities that are host to a life tree. Their lives and life force are tied to that tree and as long as the mother tree exists, whenever one dies, it's heartseed will regrow over several days and it will revive.

Challenge Rating: 3

Size: Medium

Type: Plant

Alignment: Neutral

Attributes:

• Armor Class: 12 (natural armor)

• Hit Points: 45 (6d8 + 12)

• Speed: 30 ft.

Abilities:

• Strength: 10 (+0)

• Dexterity: 14 (+2)

• Constitution: 14 (+2)

• Intelligence: 16 (+3)

• Wisdom: 12 (+1)

• Charisma: 10 (+0)

Damage Vulnerabilities: Fire

Damage Immunities: Poison

Damage Resistances: Bludgeoning, Piercing and Slashing from nonmagical weapons

Condition Immunities: Charmed, Exhaustion, Grappled, Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned, Prone, Restrained

Special Traits:

• Plant Camouflage: The Florian Mage has advantage on Dexterity (stealth) checks made to hide in any terrain with ample obscuring plant life.

• Speak with Plants: The Florian Mage can communicate with plants as if they shared a language.

• Nature's Knowledge: The Florian Mage has proficiency in the nature skill.

Spellcasting: The Florian Mage is a 6th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 13, +5 to hit with spell attacks). The Florian Mage has the following spells prepared:

• Cantrips (at will): druidcraft, minor illusion, poison spray

• 1st level (4 slots): entangle, faerie fire, longstrider

• 2nd level (3 slots): barkskin, heat metal, spike growth

• 3rd level (2 slots): call lightning, plant growth

Actions:

• Pollen Blast (Recharge 5-6): Ranged Spell Attack: +5 to hit, range 30 ft., one creature. Hit: 8 (2d6 + 1) poison damage.

• Nectar Spray (1/day): The Florian Mage can produce a spray of healing nectar from its flower. Any creature within a 15-foot cone must make a Constitution saving throw (DC 13) or regain hit points equal to 2d6 + the Florian Mage's Intelligence modifier.

Appearance

Challenge Rating: 4

Size: Medium

Type: Plant humanoid

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Appearance: The Florian Trickster Rogue is a Medium-sized humanoid made of various types of plants. Its skin is a deep green color, and its body is adorned with leaves, grasses, and other organic plant parts. A small flower blooms from the back of its head, and its eyes are blackened sesame seeds. They are agile, and their movements are fast and fluid. They often carry short swords or daggers made of branches and vines.

Attributes:

• AC: 15 (natural armor)

• Hit Points: 45 (6d8+18)

• Speed: 40 ft.

Abilities:

• +5 Dexterity, +3 Intelligence, +2 Charisma

• Plant Camouflage: The Florian Trickster Rogue has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in any terrain with ample amounts of plants.

• Plant Manipulation: The Florian Trickster Rogue can manipulate plants within 30 ft. of it as a bonus action. This allows them to animate plants to create distractions, or to create difficult terrain for their enemies.

• Heartseed: The Florian Trickster Rogue's heartseed is located in a small pouch at their waist, if the seed is planted in soil and tended to, the Florian will be able to regrow from it.

• Expertise in deception and thievery: The Florian Trickster Rogue has proficiency in deception and sleight of hand.

Actions:

• Multiattack: The Florian Trickster Rogue can make two melee weapon attacks.

• Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.

• Noxious Pollen: The Florian Trickster Rogue can release a cloud of noxious pollen within a 15-foot radius. Creatures within the cloud must make a Constitution saving throw (DC 13) or become incapacitated for 1 minute.

Appearance: The Florian Trickster Rogue is a medium-sized humanoid made of various types of plants. Its skin is a deep green color, and its body is adorned with leaves, grasses, and other organic plant parts. A small flower blooms from the back of its head, and its eyes are blackened sesame seeds. They are agile, and their movements are fast and fluid. They often carry short swords or daggers made of branches and vines. They dress in a combination of leaves and grasses, as well as scavenged or stolen clothing. They are masters of disguise and can blend in with their surroundings to avoid detection.

Ecology: Florian Tricksters are the rogue-like members of their society, they possess a natural agility and stealth abilities. They are deeply connected to nature and the earth, but unlike their more peaceful counterparts, they use this connection to their advantage by manipulating and bending the plants to their will. They live in small communities that are connected to a large mother tree, their houses, and seed pod structures hang from the branches or roots of the tree. They are not necessarily evil, but they are known for their mischievous and cunning nature. They are often seen as outcasts by their peaceful kin and as such, they tend to form their own communities or live alone. They are opportunistic and will take whatever they can to survive, whether it be through thievery, scavenging or other means. Though they are not necessarily violent, they are skilled fighters and can defend themselves when necessary.

Floating Reefback Leviathan

Challenge Rating: 8

Size: Huge

Type: Aberration

Alignment: Neutral

Appearance: The Floating Reefback Leviathan is a huge creature, resembling a floating sentient reef growing off of a humpback whale. Its body is covered in a thick layer of hard coral, barnacles and other sea life. Its underbelly is adorned with glowing bioluminescent panels that pulse with energy. As it absorbs energy from its environment, the panels start to fill with energy and glow brighter.

Attributes:

• AC: 17 (natural armor)

• Hit Points: 190 (20d12+40)

• Speed: 40 ft, swim 40 ft.

Abilities:

• Solar Beam: The Floating Reefback Leviathan can expend charges stored in its bioluminescent panels to add 1d12 to a solar beam style arcane beam spell. It recharges 1d12 charges per day it has access to nature.

• Amorphous: The Floating Reefback Leviathan has advantage on saving throws against being grappled or restrained.

• Underwater Camouflage: The Floating Reefback Leviathan has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made while underwater.

Actions:

• Multiattack: The Floating Reefback Leviathan can make two melee attacks or use its Solar Beam.

• Bite: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8+5) piercing damage.

• Tentacle: +8 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (2d10+5) bludgeoning damage and the target is grappled (escape DC 16).

• Solar Beam (Recharge 4-6): The Floating Reefback Leviathan expends a charge from its bioluminescent panels to release a powerful beam of solar energy at a target within 90 ft. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw (DC 16) or take 24 (4d12+3) radiant damage.

The Floating Reefback Leviathan is a majestic and powerful creature that dwells in the depths of the ocean. It absorbs energy from its surroundings to power its Solar Beam ability, which it uses to defend itself or to hunt for food. Its tough coral exterior and amorphous body make it difficult to grapple or restrain. It is generally neutral towards other creatures, but it will fiercely defend its territory if it feels threatened. It's a formidable opponent, with its powerful Solar Beam, a bite attack and its tentacles that can grapple its prey.

Obsidian Elemental

Challenge Rating: 2

Size: Medium

Type: Elemental

Alignment: Neutral

Appearance: Obsidian Elementals are semi-sentient manifestations of arcane energy that have taken form within crystals and stones. They have pitch black obsidian bodies that resemble humanoids, with each possessing a unique gem or crystal in their head or torso. The gems are filled with arcane energy, giving the elementals a single spellslot worth of power, which they can use to cast the spell "Witchbolt." Obsidian Elementals are imposing figures, with high strength and constitution, but low other stats.

Attributes:

• AC: 18 (natural armor)

• Hit Points: 45 (6d8 + 18)

• Speed: 30 ft.

Abilities:

• Tremorsense: The obsidian elemental can sense vibrations within 60 ft. of it and is not blinded by darkness.

• Grapple: The obsidian elemental can grapple a creature with a successful melee attack roll. Due to it's immensely dense mass, the weight of it causes 1d6 dmg per turn while grappled.

Actions:

• Slam: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage.

• Witchbolt (1/day): The obsidian elemental can cast the spell "Witchbolt" using the gem in its head or torso as the source of arcane energy.

• Death Throes: When the obsidian elemental dies, it explodes, and each creature within 30 feet of it must make a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw.

• Smash (Recharge 5-6): The obsidian elemental smashes its arms together, shattering them into sharpnel and creating an area of effect attack. Each creature within 15 ft. of it must make a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw, taking 22 (4d10) piercing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. After using this ability, the obsidian elemental loses its arms.

Thunder Lynx

Challenge Rating: 7

Size: Medium

Type: Monstrosity

Alignment: Neutral

Appearance: The Thunder Lynx has a colubrid-like face, with grayish-blue scales covering its slim, squirrel-like body. Patches of white feathers cover its back and a bushy tail, adorned with rows of sharp spikes. Its front limbs also have a few spikes. Its head, claws, back, and tail are all vulnerable to injury. When fully charged, the feather on its back will stand on end.

Attributes:

• AC: 14 (natural armor)

• Hit Points: 84 (8d8 + 48)

• Speed: 40 ft, climb 40 ft, glide 20 ft.

Abilities:

• Static Charge: The Thunder Lynx builds up static electricity in its feathers as it moves, increasing the strength of its attacks.

• Aerial Agility: The Thunder Lynx is extremely agile and has a membrane between its limbs that allows it to glide long distances, similar to a flying squirrel.

• Electrified Hairs: The Thunder Lynx can launch its electrified hairs at foes as an attack.

• Overcharge: The Thunder Lynx can overcharge itself by clinging to a wall surface for an extended period of time. Its body will glow silvery and its thunder elemental power becomes extremely potent, but its movement speed is considerably reduced. If its tail is broken, this ability is disabled.

Actions:

• Multiattack: The Thunder Lynx can make two claw attacks and one bite attack.

• Claw: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) slashing damage.

• Bite: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) piercing damage.

• Electrified Hairs (Recharge 4-6): The Thunder Lynx expends its static charge to launch a barrage of electrified hairs at a target within 30 ft. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw (DC 14) or take 16 (3d10) lightning damage.

The Thunder Lynx is a fierce and agile monster, resembling a cross between a colubrid snake, a squirrel, and a lynx. Its body is covered in sharp spikes and it has the ability to charge itself with static electricity to increase the strength of its attacks. It's also able to glide for long distances, and launch its electrified hair at foes. It has the ability to overcharge itself when clinging to a wall surface, but this makes it move slower and its tail need to be broken to disable this ability.

As the adventurers make their way through the forest, they notice a strange phenomenon in the distance. A dense cloud of mist, tinged with an eerie blue glow, moves quickly toward them. The air grows colder, and the hair on the back of their necks stands on end. As it draws closer, they can hear the crackle of electricity within the cloud.

As the mist envelops them, they realize that it is not just mist, but rather a moving cloud of electrified vapor. The mist is charged with static electricity, and it causes the hairs on their skin to stand on end and gives them small shocks. As they move forward, they notice the source of the lightning - a massive insect queen, perched on a branch above them. She is surrounded by a hive of flying lightning bugs, each resembling a mix between a dragonfly and a praying mantis. The queen's massive wings flap slowly, causing the mist to swirl and the air to crackle with electricity. The insects are fiercely protective of their queen and will swarm and attack anything that enters the mist, tearing at flesh with their sharp mandibles and firing electric bolts from their bodies.

The bugs are a formidable challenge for the adventurers, with a CR of 5. They are quick and agile, using their lightning speed to dodge and weave through the air, making them difficult to hit. They will use their bite and electric bolt attacks to try to bring down their prey. However, the insects have a deadly secret - when they die, they discharge all their stored static electricity as a powerful arc lightning that hits the 5 nearest creatures, friend or foe. The adventurers must use all their skills to navigate through the electrified mist and take down the queen before she and her hive of insects overwhelm them.

Insect Queen

Huge beast, unaligned

Armor Class 17 (natural armor)

Hit Points 195 (17d12 + 85)

Speed 40 ft., fly 80 ft.

STR 21 (+5) | DEX 18 (+4) | CON 21 (+5) | INT 1 (-5) | WIS 13 (+1) | CHA 7 (-2)

Skills Perception +4

Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14

Languages –

Challenge 7 (2,900 XP)

Actions

• Multiattack. The insect queen makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its claws.

• Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (3d10 + 5) piercing damage.

• Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (2d8 + 5) slashing damage.

• Lightning Bolt. The insect queen can cast the lightning bolt spell (DC 15) once per day.

• Static Discharge. When a lightning bug dies, it releases all its stored static electricity as an arc lightning that hits the 5 nearest creatures, friend or foe. Each creature in the area of effect must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 22 (4d10) lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

The queen insect is a monstrous creature, standing at the height of a two-story building. Its body is a mix of dragonfly and praying mantis, with large, razor-sharp forelegs that can easily cut through flesh and chitin. The queen's wings are massive, with each flap generating a gust of wind and a crackle of electricity. It is said that the queen can summon lightning bolts from the sky with the flapping of its wings, causing trees to shake and the ground to rumble. Its eyes gleam with an otherworldly intelligence, and its mandibles drip with venom that can paralyze even the hardiest of creatures.

Lightning Bug

Medium beast, unaligned

Armor Class 14 (natural armor)

Hit Points 52 (8d8 + 16)

Speed 40 ft., fly 80 ft.

STR 12 (+1) | DEX 17 (+3) | CON 14 (+2) | INT 1 (-5) | WIS 10 (+0) | CHA 7 (-2)

Skills Perception +2

Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12

Languages –

Challenge 5 (1,800 XP)

Actions

• Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 3) piercing damage.

• Electric Bolt. Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 60 ft., one target. Hit: 22 (4d10) lightning damage.

• Static Discharge. When a lightning bug dies, it releases all its stored static electricity as an arc lightning that hits the 5 nearest creatures, friend or foe. Each creature in the area of effect must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 22 (4d10) lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

The lightning bugs, on the other hand, are smaller in comparison, standing at the height of a human. They are also a mix of dragonfly and praying mantis, with iridescent wings that sparkle in the light. Their bodies are covered in a hard carapace that glows with an eerie blue light, and their eyes are multifaceted, allowing them to see in all directions. They move with lightning speed, darting and weaving through the mist as they hunt for prey. When threatened, they unleash a powerful electrical charge that can stun or kill their enemies, and when they die, they release all their stored static electricity in a burst of arcing lightning that can hit multiple targets at once.