Previously on NerdyDad family game day. my family and I are playing the starter set campaign. It was the first time playing for my wife and son, so I started with just the first encounter, and ended with them taking a long rest before hinting the goblins down in their lair. My son and wife haven't really gotten into a grove with the role playing. So, I decided that i needed to help this in a way where its with out any risk of them really losing anything.
I decided that this long rest is a alien obduction with a shared dream state. The dream is a small one shot of how they lost their loved ones. Also the "aliens" are never seen its a light that comes zipping around the sky getting closer till a beam of light comes down and they get pushed back and fall asleep.
Ones dream section is a arena style. Weather they win or lose the arena my characters daughter dies. The second one is a puzzle where the a necromancer has my wife's characters family trapped with a cursed door where they have to translate a phrase and answer the riddle. No matter what the family dies. Lastly my sons character gets an offer to save his dieing parent and he gets an offer to get powers to save then, by the way he's a 16 year old warlock. After this deal he finds out the life force of his parents is what makes him a warlock. With the guy saying he will be calling on my sons character for a favor.
Anyway, they wake up from with a vine like mark up their arm, in the middle of a camp is 3 potions of invisibility, bag of beans, and a gray bag of tricks
My wife and son love alien obduction stories. I didn't want it to be little green men doing experiments on them, but I wanted to give the type to develop their players better, and get more comfortable role playing. Its a small party so I don't want them to get into the major game and die. Also with it being a dream like sequence the hit points don't matter, because its set up for them to fail.
Previously on NerdyDad family game day. my family and I are playing the starter set campaign. It was the first time playing for my wife and son, so I started with just the first encounter, and ended with them taking a long rest before hinting the goblins down in their lair. My son and wife haven't really gotten into a grove with the role playing. So, I decided that i needed to help this in a way where its with out any risk of them really losing anything.
I decided that this long rest is a alien obduction with a shared dream state. The dream is a small one shot of how they lost their loved ones. Also the "aliens" are never seen its a light that comes zipping around the sky getting closer till a beam of light comes down and they get pushed back and fall asleep.
Ones dream section is a arena style. Weather they win or lose the arena my characters daughter dies. The second one is a puzzle where the a necromancer has my wife's characters family trapped with a cursed door where they have to translate a phrase and answer the riddle. No matter what the family dies. Lastly my sons character gets an offer to save his dieing parent and he gets an offer to get powers to save then, by the way he's a 16 year old warlock. After this deal he finds out the life force of his parents is what makes him a warlock. With the guy saying he will be calling on my sons character for a favor.
Anyway, they wake up from with a vine like mark up their arm, in the middle of a camp is 3 potions of invisibility, bag of beans, and a gray bag of tricks
My wife and son love alien obduction stories. I didn't want it to be little green men doing experiments on them, but I wanted to give the type to develop their players better, and get more comfortable role playing. Its a small party so I don't want them to get into the major game and die. Also with it being a dream like sequence the hit points don't matter, because its set up for them to fail.
What do you think?
I forgot to mention, We are playing it sunday night.
It's set up for them to fail, and the way you're going to get them out of it is with the old "it was all a dream" trick? Good luck; you'll need it.
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