I'm trying to write a campaign and have a good idea of where I want it to go, but I'm not sure how to get started. In your current game, what was the main threat facing the party in their starting location?
>>97364443A sorcerer masquareding as a traveling priest having the party do his dirty work for him.
>>97364481How'd that end up playing out?>>97364443They were sent by the local lord to do a fetch quest that spiralled out of control.
>>97364443cult leader to an evil goddess is attracting the local monster population to take over a nearby town and start a war
>>97364443Eachother. It was a Sith Academy start. Winner got to be our force user for the main part if the campaign.
>>97364443>Where does it start?It starts at a point where something creates a pressure that moves the characters to action. If you don't have a point of motivation for them to grab onto, then you don't have a story to have a campaign about.
>>97364993>How'd that end up playing out?It's funny because they figured out that something was up and didn't really trust the "priest" but they still kept doing his work even if they did act erratic at times either to fish for some incriminating response or try to fuck with what they assumed is his plan. Still they did end up doing everything he asked, ultimately retrieving for him a spell safeguarded by the religious order he pretended to belong, and parted ways in more or less friendly terms. He is going to come back as an antagonist again and try to pull the same trick. I want to see if my players learned anything up or if they will keep doing things that suspicious old guys ask them to even if it goes against their current plans.
>>97364443We just escaped slavery and are stranded in the middle of nowhere in the desert.The main threat is the setting itself.
First mystery was a missing city council member who the players are hired to find that, in the middle of their investigation, just reappears and tells them all to leave with a weak explanation for his absence just as they start unravelling the conspiracy behind his disappearance and realize he is an ooze clone created by an Oblex and several of the other NPCs they've been interrogating are too.Served to introduce the PCs to a whole bunch of characters and give them a bunch of connections to tie them into the world and the town and the various other problems going on there and hints of bigger disruptions from the world at large.
>>97365224Kek. I doubt they'd fall for the exact same scheme but you could easily try to pull some "I knew you'd suspect me so I asked you to do the opposite of what I wanted" shenanigans.
