A bit of Context: My first time DMing, was with The Lost Mines of Phindelver last year. One of my brothers, who was playing a Human Noble Fighter (pregenerated character), throughout the campaign, he had recruited 6 goblinoids. 3 out of 6 of them was one I specifically made to help out during the party's split, and the other two were won in a one on one duel to the death. Fast forward to after they beat the campaign, and only one of my brothers wanted to keep the character from the campaign. I had gotten the essentials kit, and got my mom to join in. There was one problem though. My brother, with the human fighter noble, was already level 6, while my eldest brother and mom would have to start at level one. So instead of making him babysit their characters, and at the moment my eldest brother didnt want to play until my mom (who was sick at the time) was ready; I got storm lord's wrath. As got through the first session of that campaign, a thought of an idea, "why not make a shared universe?" My mom and eldest brother would go through the dragon of icespire peak, while my other brother goes through Storm lord's wrath. And once they get to level 7 or 8, I'd have them meet up with my other brother's group (which consists of pregenerated characters, and the young green dragon, from lost mines of phindelver. A lot stuff in that campaign got transferred over for Dragon of Icespire Peak), in a Avengers style team up. Any tips on how to make this idea work? Or is this too ambitious of idea?
So what does the Fighter brother do during Icespire sessions? And what do your mom and other brother do during SLW sessions? Do they have other level-appropriate characters? If you’re running two different games for two different sets of players, sure you can progress the lower level ones fast enough to catch up to Fighter Bro. If everyone’s playing both games, what’s to say by the time they reach level 8, Fighter Bro won’t like his new character just as much and won’t necessarily want to leave him to pick back up the Fighter?
Absolutely, shared universe works. That’s what the Forgotten Realms setting is. I love throwing in easter eggs for my family playing Icespire Peak after we’ve played Lost Mines. Things like “The mansion on the hill east of town is undergoing some construction. They’re putting a new roof on.” When we played lost mine, I played the pregen noble fighter, and my thing was I wanted to buy and rennovate that mansion and become a Lord of Phandalin.
So let’s default assume they’re shared. It’s your job to drop easter eggs to remind the players of that until they get their team up. And if your Fighter Bro decides to play his new character instead. Just drop the Fighter in as an NPC, or familiar face in the crowd, or on a wanted poster or something.
I had a bit of a prologue for My brother, is the fighter. He had left his monsters (2 goblins, 2 bugbears, 2 hobgoblins, 3 orcs, and a ogre) in Phandalin, to protect the people living there, from the young white dragon Cryovain (as of this moment is missing an eye and arm). while he and 3 pregenerated characters, and the VenomFang (the green dragon from the lost mines of phindelver.) Leave for a supply run in Leilon, which is the starting point of SLW. And during that time, my mom and eldest brother start dragon of icespire peak .
I have a house rule. Whenever a player starts a new character (the old one died or retired for example) they start at the minimum XP required to match the lowest level character in the group. That way they are not so far behind that the rest of the party needs to babysit them, but they still have some catching up to do.
eg.- Say there are 4 characters, two at level 6, and two at level 7, and one of the level 7 characters dies. That players new character would start at the minimum XP for a level 6 Character. Even if the other two level 6 characters are almost at level 7 (say 20,000 XP for example) the new character would still start at level 6, but with only 14,000 XP.
I have a house rule. Whenever a player starts a new character (the old one died or retired for example) they start at the minimum XP required to match the lowest level character in the group. That way they are not so far behind that the rest of the party needs to babysit them, but they still have some catching up to do.
eg.- Say there are 4 characters, two at level 6, and two at level 7, and one of the level 7 characters dies. That players new character would start at the minimum XP for a level 6 Character. Even if the other two level 6 characters are almost at level 7 (say 20,000 XP for example) the new character would still start at level 6, but with only 14,000 XP.
Sounds fairly reasonable. I'll use that when My mom and brothers have big team up moment.
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A bit of Context: My first time DMing, was with The Lost Mines of Phindelver last year. One of my brothers, who was playing a Human Noble Fighter (pregenerated character), throughout the campaign, he had recruited 6 goblinoids. 3 out of 6 of them was one I specifically made to help out during the party's split, and the other two were won in a one on one duel to the death. Fast forward to after they beat the campaign, and only one of my brothers wanted to keep the character from the campaign. I had gotten the essentials kit, and got my mom to join in. There was one problem though. My brother, with the human fighter noble, was already level 6, while my eldest brother and mom would have to start at level one. So instead of making him babysit their characters, and at the moment my eldest brother didnt want to play until my mom (who was sick at the time) was ready; I got storm lord's wrath. As got through the first session of that campaign, a thought of an idea, "why not make a shared universe?" My mom and eldest brother would go through the dragon of icespire peak, while my other brother goes through Storm lord's wrath. And once they get to level 7 or 8, I'd have them meet up with my other brother's group (which consists of pregenerated characters, and the young green dragon, from lost mines of phindelver. A lot stuff in that campaign got transferred over for Dragon of Icespire Peak), in a Avengers style team up. Any tips on how to make this idea work? Or is this too ambitious of idea?
So what does the Fighter brother do during Icespire sessions? And what do your mom and other brother do during SLW sessions? Do they have other level-appropriate characters? If you’re running two different games for two different sets of players, sure you can progress the lower level ones fast enough to catch up to Fighter Bro. If everyone’s playing both games, what’s to say by the time they reach level 8, Fighter Bro won’t like his new character just as much and won’t necessarily want to leave him to pick back up the Fighter?
Absolutely, shared universe works. That’s what the Forgotten Realms setting is. I love throwing in easter eggs for my family playing Icespire Peak after we’ve played Lost Mines. Things like “The mansion on the hill east of town is undergoing some construction. They’re putting a new roof on.” When we played lost mine, I played the pregen noble fighter, and my thing was I wanted to buy and rennovate that mansion and become a Lord of Phandalin.
So let’s default assume they’re shared. It’s your job to drop easter eggs to remind the players of that until they get their team up. And if your Fighter Bro decides to play his new character instead. Just drop the Fighter in as an NPC, or familiar face in the crowd, or on a wanted poster or something.
I had a bit of a prologue for My brother, is the fighter. He had left his monsters (2 goblins, 2 bugbears, 2 hobgoblins, 3 orcs, and a ogre) in Phandalin, to protect the people living there, from the young white dragon Cryovain (as of this moment is missing an eye and arm). while he and 3 pregenerated characters, and the VenomFang (the green dragon from the lost mines of phindelver.) Leave for a supply run in Leilon, which is the starting point of SLW. And during that time, my mom and eldest brother start dragon of icespire peak .
I have a house rule. Whenever a player starts a new character (the old one died or retired for example) they start at the minimum XP required to match the lowest level character in the group. That way they are not so far behind that the rest of the party needs to babysit them, but they still have some catching up to do.
eg.-
Say there are 4 characters, two at level 6, and two at level 7, and one of the level 7 characters dies. That players new character would start at the minimum XP for a level 6 Character. Even if the other two level 6 characters are almost at level 7 (say 20,000 XP for example) the new character would still start at level 6, but with only 14,000 XP.
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Sounds fairly reasonable. I'll use that when My mom and brothers have big team up moment.