I'm pretty new to DMing, and have just finished my first campaign with a group of friends (most of which are new players).
Our 1st campaign, was based on the Lost Mines of Phandalver, but modified with a major plot twist that sends the PCs on a much grander adventure. The campaign ends with the characters arriving in Zerth'Ad'lun a Githzerai monastery in Limbo, and we kick off the next adventure a few months after, as they are still there (no matter the larger story).
According to the lore on the monastery, the Githzerai are receptive of guests offer hostipality and for travelers to train in the monastery if they wish to do so. Now that we are kicking off the 2nd campaign six months after they arrived, and relevant to the story, I want the characters to have gained some form of training that is relevant in context (they have unrelated to that just moved up levels to level 6). Thing is i'm not sure how to approach those skills learned. I started with looking into the Githzerai monks monster sheet but I'm not sure what would be a nice ability for them to learn. One of them is a human monk (which I want to have had the training closest to that of the Githzerai), and the others are a dwarven fighte, a dragonborn paladin and an elf cleric.
For the monk, i'd see if there's an easy psionic ability you could give him. Being a monk, seeking further enlightenment through psionics makes sense. Dwarven fighter could do some light hand to hand training with them, gaining him the tavern brawler feat (flavor it as they taught him to fight even when he isn't ready to fight). You could do the same with the paladin, or even just give them an additional fighting style that would make sense for the githzerai to teach. The cleric is maybe a bit tougher, but maybe they could get something similar to the monk. A psionic ability, access to a sensible spell not on their list, etc.
Don't be afraid to ask your players what they'd like to gain from the experiance. Maybe your cleric knows he can use the extra-planer monks to further learn the nature of the divine planes and wants to research while he's there. Perhaps the paladin is haughty towards the differing beliefs of his hosts and trains only for the chance to prove the might of his beliefs againot theirs. Ask them what their characters did without the canonization of training or gaining a benefit and tailor the boon to that. The cleric found a loose link between divine magic and psionics, and can better defend against it. The paladin, humbled by the monks beating him in multiple sparring matches despite his own vigor, decides to learn how to use a special weapon or style from them. If you don't make the reward the point in explaining how they passed the time, then it'll be all the more surprising and RP geared when you bequeath it to them.
Thanks a lot those are good suggestions to build upon.
I always involve the players in these sort of questions. We are all friends experiencing table top for mostly the 1st time so we are figuring stuff out together. I'll definitely think around what you said.
Hey all,
I'm pretty new to DMing, and have just finished my first campaign with a group of friends (most of which are new players).
Our 1st campaign, was based on the Lost Mines of Phandalver, but modified with a major plot twist that sends the PCs on a much grander adventure. The campaign ends with the characters arriving in Zerth'Ad'lun a Githzerai monastery in Limbo, and we kick off the next adventure a few months after, as they are still there (no matter the larger story).
According to the lore on the monastery, the Githzerai are receptive of guests offer hostipality and for travelers to train in the monastery if they wish to do so. Now that we are kicking off the 2nd campaign six months after they arrived, and relevant to the story, I want the characters to have gained some form of training that is relevant in context (they have unrelated to that just moved up levels to level 6). Thing is i'm not sure how to approach those skills learned. I started with looking into the Githzerai monks monster sheet but I'm not sure what would be a nice ability for them to learn. One of them is a human monk (which I want to have had the training closest to that of the Githzerai), and the others are a dwarven fighte, a dragonborn paladin and an elf cleric.
Wondering if someone has any suggestions.
Thanks a lot
For the monk, i'd see if there's an easy psionic ability you could give him. Being a monk, seeking further enlightenment through psionics makes sense. Dwarven fighter could do some light hand to hand training with them, gaining him the tavern brawler feat (flavor it as they taught him to fight even when he isn't ready to fight). You could do the same with the paladin, or even just give them an additional fighting style that would make sense for the githzerai to teach. The cleric is maybe a bit tougher, but maybe they could get something similar to the monk. A psionic ability, access to a sensible spell not on their list, etc.
Don't be afraid to ask your players what they'd like to gain from the experiance. Maybe your cleric knows he can use the extra-planer monks to further learn the nature of the divine planes and wants to research while he's there. Perhaps the paladin is haughty towards the differing beliefs of his hosts and trains only for the chance to prove the might of his beliefs againot theirs. Ask them what their characters did without the canonization of training or gaining a benefit and tailor the boon to that. The cleric found a loose link between divine magic and psionics, and can better defend against it. The paladin, humbled by the monks beating him in multiple sparring matches despite his own vigor, decides to learn how to use a special weapon or style from them. If you don't make the reward the point in explaining how they passed the time, then it'll be all the more surprising and RP geared when you bequeath it to them.
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Thanks a lot those are good suggestions to build upon.
I always involve the players in these sort of questions. We are all friends experiencing table top for mostly the 1st time so we are figuring stuff out together. I'll definitely think around what you said.
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