Hello everyone. I am trying to complete a campaign and need some help writing. My PCs are currently marooned on an island after their ship sank. The island was inhabited at one point but only ruins remain now. It was actually destroyed by a Lich 100 years ago. They have explored part of the island, which is pretty much mapped out thanks to several people’s help with one of my previous posts.
The backstory is that a lich was summoned here inadvertently and then killed most of the inhabitants. The island has pieces of an epic weapon scattered out over it. I want to leave clues on the island to the PCs about what to do next. After they (hopefully) re assemble the weapon, they need to find a journal or log or something, perhaps in the ruined keep. I was going to tie the island into another city I created years ago but never got to use. That city was part of the same trade network and ruled by twin brothers, lifelong bachelors and good monarchs. I am considering linking the two realms by marriage. The twins niece is married off to the island’s prince (note and present from the twins, the girl’s uncle, in one of the sunken ships in the harbor to help them piece together the story). After the marriage, the twins nephew misses his sister so he starts snooping around their magical laboratory, in efforts to communicate with her, and/or teleport to see her. The lich destroys the island. The nephew then inadvertently summons the lich to the twins kingdom and it destroys that island as well.
Any ways to improve the above?
Where would the lich be at this point? How would the PCs kill it? Being an astronomer, I am thinking of linking the lich’s power to the two moons in this world or to some other astronomical phenomena.
Any advice would be helpful.
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I am a 40 something year old physician who DMs for a group of 40 something year old doctors. We play a hybrid game, mostly based on 2nd edition rules with some homebrew and 5E components.
What if the twins actually had a love triangle. The warrior twin ended up marrying the woman but not before the mage twin impregnated her, unbeknownst to the warrior. The warrior twin and the woman were moved to the island and ruled over it for some time. At some point, the warrior twin discovered what happened and he killed/tortured his former wife and/or nephew. The magic user twin then came to the island and killed his brother and destroyed his kingdom.
The magic user continued to grow in power and became a lich, to escape death and lives to torture and torment the living after his life of tragedy. He lived on another island nearby.
There are letters, engravings and statues on the current island to suggest these ideas to the PCs who will then piece back together the epic weapon, which belonged to the warrior twin, and eventually seek to destroy the lich.
I am a 40 something year old physician who DMs for a group of 40 something year old doctors. We play a hybrid game, mostly based on 2nd edition rules with some homebrew and 5E components.
The warrior king discovers his nephew has magical abilities while he has none and despises magic. He begins to question his "son's" lineage. As the boy continues to grow, his resemblance to his uncle becomes more striking. When the warrior is convinced the son is a bastard son of his brother, he kills his wife. The teenage son, torn by grief, throws himself down from the top tower of the keep, splashing into the fountain in the courtyard. His spilt blood curses the keep and the entire island island, giving killing numerous palace guards who rise again as undead. The young man's body remains, impaled on the fountain stature, tattered robes flattering in the ocean breeze. The warrior dies of grief. The magic user twin visits the island only once, to see for himself what happened. Appalled at the carnage and loss of life, he splits the warriors epic war hammer into pieces. The magic ruby in the pummel is used to animate an iron golem, to keep out all intruders and grave robbers. He leaves the new undead soldiers alone, to further guard the site.
He spends the next years pursuing power and magic, the only things he still loves. At the end of his life, he becomes a lich, to both cheat death and wreck havoc on the living.
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I am a 40 something year old physician who DMs for a group of 40 something year old doctors. We play a hybrid game, mostly based on 2nd edition rules with some homebrew and 5E components.
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Hello everyone. I am trying to complete a campaign and need some help writing. My PCs are currently marooned on an island after their ship sank. The island was inhabited at one point but only ruins remain now. It was actually destroyed by a Lich 100 years ago. They have explored part of the island, which is pretty much mapped out thanks to several people’s help with one of my previous posts.
The backstory is that a lich was summoned here inadvertently and then killed most of the inhabitants. The island has pieces of an epic weapon scattered out over it. I want to leave clues on the island to the PCs about what to do next. After they (hopefully) re assemble the weapon, they need to find a journal or log or something, perhaps in the ruined keep. I was going to tie the island into another city I created years ago but never got to use. That city was part of the same trade network and ruled by twin brothers, lifelong bachelors and good monarchs. I am considering linking the two realms by marriage. The twins niece is married off to the island’s prince (note and present from the twins, the girl’s uncle, in one of the sunken ships in the harbor to help them piece together the story). After the marriage, the twins nephew misses his sister so he starts snooping around their magical laboratory, in efforts to communicate with her, and/or teleport to see her. The lich destroys the island. The nephew then inadvertently summons the lich to the twins kingdom and it destroys that island as well.
Any ways to improve the above?
Where would the lich be at this point? How would the PCs kill it? Being an astronomer, I am thinking of linking the lich’s power to the two moons in this world or to some other astronomical phenomena.
Any advice would be helpful.
Velstitzen
I am a 40 something year old physician who DMs for a group of 40 something year old doctors. We play a hybrid game, mostly based on 2nd edition rules with some homebrew and 5E components.
I thought some more.
What if the twins actually had a love triangle. The warrior twin ended up marrying the woman but not before the mage twin impregnated her, unbeknownst to the warrior. The warrior twin and the woman were moved to the island and ruled over it for some time. At some point, the warrior twin discovered what happened and he killed/tortured his former wife and/or nephew. The magic user twin then came to the island and killed his brother and destroyed his kingdom.
The magic user continued to grow in power and became a lich, to escape death and lives to torture and torment the living after his life of tragedy. He lived on another island nearby.
There are letters, engravings and statues on the current island to suggest these ideas to the PCs who will then piece back together the epic weapon, which belonged to the warrior twin, and eventually seek to destroy the lich.
Thoughts?????
Velstitzen
I am a 40 something year old physician who DMs for a group of 40 something year old doctors. We play a hybrid game, mostly based on 2nd edition rules with some homebrew and 5E components.
The warrior king discovers his nephew has magical abilities while he has none and despises magic. He begins to question his "son's" lineage. As the boy continues to grow, his resemblance to his uncle becomes more striking. When the warrior is convinced the son is a bastard son of his brother, he kills his wife. The teenage son, torn by grief, throws himself down from the top tower of the keep, splashing into the fountain in the courtyard. His spilt blood curses the keep and the entire island island, giving killing numerous palace guards who rise again as undead. The young man's body remains, impaled on the fountain stature, tattered robes flattering in the ocean breeze. The warrior dies of grief. The magic user twin visits the island only once, to see for himself what happened. Appalled at the carnage and loss of life, he splits the warriors epic war hammer into pieces. The magic ruby in the pummel is used to animate an iron golem, to keep out all intruders and grave robbers. He leaves the new undead soldiers alone, to further guard the site.
He spends the next years pursuing power and magic, the only things he still loves. At the end of his life, he becomes a lich, to both cheat death and wreck havoc on the living.
Velstitzen
I am a 40 something year old physician who DMs for a group of 40 something year old doctors. We play a hybrid game, mostly based on 2nd edition rules with some homebrew and 5E components.