[Online][5e][Roll20] Building a small group for fairly traditional campaign

I'm interested in joining. Have a few questions too. Is this pre-planned plot, or would characters have a more sandboxy experience? I'm fine with taking out a BBEG, just wondering how ingrained characters will be to the world. I also love a more "realistic" setting, in that heroes starting small and growing to great powers.

The other questions: feelings on characters learning/creating unique/reskinned spells? Crafting/tinkering to create items (magic or not)? How open are you to, not necessarily rule of cool, but just taking out of the box solutions to problems? Don't mean begging for advantage or bonuses, but being able to avoid battles, or even pick fights we shouldn't.

I'm EST but can play at that time (an hour earlier would be ideal,but still a-ok).

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