This is follow up to my last post about the genie, the players have taken quiet nicely to the genie, I have introduced them to one of the factions that are trying to obtain the genie. I need some advice on other enemy factions I made or suggestions for new factions.
The factions I have so far
Obelisk the ancient black dragon queen, she is an insane ancient black dragon that is sending her children to take the genie in order resurrect a butterfly she used to talk to.
The city of Heleon, a technological city state that one of my PCs are from, they will send their war forged and other tech to get the genie in order to use it as a battery for a magic eating automaton.
the genie factions, just trying to get the genie do to her being an oddity or she slighted them a thousand years ago.
The ninja cat, a lone mentally unstable tabaxi that is reveled to have an ancient evil partially possessing it, the evil is connected to a majority of the party's backstorys.
An suggestions for new factions or improving the existing ones?
The quick second thought I'll throw this out, a secret faction called the Advancement of Heleon, who replace their body parts with technology to achieve the next level in humanoid enlightenment. Their goal is to find ways to usurp current leadership with their own people to change the city to their way of thinking.
Maybe the faction is various types of Artificers which could explain their technology improvements are be based on that class focus.
I certainly wouldn't add any more. Five is already so many it'll be hard for the players to keep track. Also, the motives of most of these factions would seem pretty inscrutable to your players. You know the dragons want it, but you wouldn't be able to guess why.
Broadly, in something like, for example, Lord of the Rings, you have a bunch of factions who all want the Ring. There's roughly a "good" faction, but it's riven with leadership problems in Rohan and Gondor, and the Ring will test even Galadriel. Then there is roughly an "evil" faction, with one main fracture: Sauron/Saruman. Then there's a wild card: Gollum. That's plenty to give each of the factions a few scenes to make the world feel fleshed out and lived in. More than that and you're only going to confuse yourself.
I certainly wouldn't add any more. Five is already so many it'll be hard for the players to keep track. Also, the motives of most of these factions would seem pretty inscrutable to your players. You know the dragons want it, but you wouldn't be able to guess why.
Broadly, in something like, for example, Lord of the Rings, you have a bunch of factions who all want the Ring. There's roughly a "good" faction, but it's riven with leadership problems in Rohan and Gondor, and the Ring will test even Galadriel. Then there is roughly an "evil" faction, with one main fracture: Sauron/Saruman. Then there's a wild card: Gollum. That's plenty to give each of the factions a few scenes to make the world feel fleshed out and lived in. More than that and you're only going to confuse yourself.
Your right I'll just have the genies' take a passing interest in the genie not going after her if it's to demanding, and I would group the two Healion factions together until the party gets far enough into it to where they would be the only two faction that matter,
then the evil that is possessing the tabaxi is revealed to be Dramo Azkabane, he is an evil sorcerer who a few of my players have ran into in my oneshots, his end goal is to reserect the 4 other villains from the oneshots I both run and didn't run.
The Lichlord Orobos.
The Engineer , the original maker of the war-forged.
The ancient Aboleth.
The shadowed mind, it looks like a butterfly, and it likes talking to a particular black dragon.
For any given valuable thing, there may be a lot of people who think "I'd like to have that", but the number who are actually going to be viable contenders is low.
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
This is follow up to my last post about the genie, the players have taken quiet nicely to the genie, I have introduced them to one of the factions that are trying to obtain the genie. I need some advice on other enemy factions I made or suggestions for new factions.
The factions I have so far
An suggestions for new factions or improving the existing ones?
The quick second thought I'll throw this out, a secret faction called the Advancement of Heleon, who replace their body parts with technology to achieve the next level in humanoid enlightenment. Their goal is to find ways to usurp current leadership with their own people to change the city to their way of thinking.
Maybe the faction is various types of Artificers which could explain their technology improvements are be based on that class focus.
I certainly wouldn't add any more. Five is already so many it'll be hard for the players to keep track. Also, the motives of most of these factions would seem pretty inscrutable to your players. You know the dragons want it, but you wouldn't be able to guess why.
Broadly, in something like, for example, Lord of the Rings, you have a bunch of factions who all want the Ring. There's roughly a "good" faction, but it's riven with leadership problems in Rohan and Gondor, and the Ring will test even Galadriel. Then there is roughly an "evil" faction, with one main fracture: Sauron/Saruman. Then there's a wild card: Gollum. That's plenty to give each of the factions a few scenes to make the world feel fleshed out and lived in. More than that and you're only going to confuse yourself.
Your right I'll just have the genies' take a passing interest in the genie not going after her if it's to demanding, and I would group the two Healion factions together until the party gets far enough into it to where they would be the only two faction that matter,
then the evil that is possessing the tabaxi is revealed to be Dramo Azkabane, he is an evil sorcerer who a few of my players have ran into in my oneshots, his end goal is to reserect the 4 other villains from the oneshots I both run and didn't run.
For any given valuable thing, there may be a lot of people who think "I'd like to have that", but the number who are actually going to be viable contenders is low.