Hi everybody. I've been DMing a certain group for a couple years, and we're actually getting relatively close to the lvl20 endgame (they're currently 14, almost 15). My question is this - after the current arc will be probably a good while of ingame downtime before the "Final" bit of the campaign starts. I want to run a certain mini arc to set up some of the story threads that will be involved with the "Final" during this downtime. Those threads will be a concert tour that I'd like the party to go on.
Let me explain - actually, first: if you're reading this and you're in my campaign, then please stop reading it. In fact, forget you ever saw this post at all.
Okay, NOW let me explain: in one PC's backstory, he saved a friend from being pulled into a mysterious portal. The PC has about a year or so of lost memories after this, and eventually found himself with the party. Cue campaign start. Over the course of the game, they explored a decent amount of his backstory, even visiting the friend that got saved. The portal in question was revealed to have had some Far Realm creature on the other side, whose touch imparted a bit of eldritch magic to the PC's friend. This was mechanically represented as him being a lvl1 GOO warlock, but in the story basically he just realized that he could read people's minds.
In the time that the PC was adventuring, this GOO warlock friend had worked his way up to become the manager of a local boy band, and turned them into superstars. (This takes place in my heavily homebrewed version of the Sword Coast). The boy band, LTB, went on a huge tour to a bunch of different cities.
Here's the kicker, and my question for anyone out there: I have ideas for ways to tie my PC's year of missing memories to a bunch of different cities and towns where he essentially wandered as a herald for this Far Realm creature. Indoctrination and portals and secret cults and all. And now, I plan to have had the concert tour follow his footsteps in going to all the same places, potentially leaving either weirdness or chaos in their wake.
So the party finds out about it and need to investigate. How do I gently suggest to this group of heroic pseudo-demigods (lvl 15-16 when they do this arc) to go on a concert tour? Or just generally, how do I make this into a fun music filled mystery instead of a normal investigate X and fight Y?
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I know what you're thinking: "In that flurry of blows, did he use all his ki points, or save one?" Well, are ya feeling lucky, punk?
maybe they need to infiltrate a lord's confidences and this existing band just so happens to be going to the same place. and the bandmates all look eerily similar to the party. wow, ha ha, the band would say. ha, wouldn't it be funny if we traded places for a gig or two so we didn't have to cancel the tour while we go off to talk to queen such and such? gee, what a bind we're in if we can't go see her. ha.
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Hi everybody. I've been DMing a certain group for a couple years, and we're actually getting relatively close to the lvl20 endgame (they're currently 14, almost 15). My question is this - after the current arc will be probably a good while of ingame downtime before the "Final" bit of the campaign starts. I want to run a certain mini arc to set up some of the story threads that will be involved with the "Final" during this downtime. Those threads will be a concert tour that I'd like the party to go on.
Let me explain - actually, first: if you're reading this and you're in my campaign, then please stop reading it. In fact, forget you ever saw this post at all.
Okay, NOW let me explain: in one PC's backstory, he saved a friend from being pulled into a mysterious portal. The PC has about a year or so of lost memories after this, and eventually found himself with the party. Cue campaign start. Over the course of the game, they explored a decent amount of his backstory, even visiting the friend that got saved. The portal in question was revealed to have had some Far Realm creature on the other side, whose touch imparted a bit of eldritch magic to the PC's friend. This was mechanically represented as him being a lvl1 GOO warlock, but in the story basically he just realized that he could read people's minds.
In the time that the PC was adventuring, this GOO warlock friend had worked his way up to become the manager of a local boy band, and turned them into superstars. (This takes place in my heavily homebrewed version of the Sword Coast). The boy band, LTB, went on a huge tour to a bunch of different cities.
Here's the kicker, and my question for anyone out there: I have ideas for ways to tie my PC's year of missing memories to a bunch of different cities and towns where he essentially wandered as a herald for this Far Realm creature. Indoctrination and portals and secret cults and all. And now, I plan to have had the concert tour follow his footsteps in going to all the same places, potentially leaving either weirdness or chaos in their wake.
So the party finds out about it and need to investigate. How do I gently suggest to this group of heroic pseudo-demigods (lvl 15-16 when they do this arc) to go on a concert tour? Or just generally, how do I make this into a fun music filled mystery instead of a normal investigate X and fight Y?
I know what you're thinking: "In that flurry of blows, did he use all his ki points, or save one?" Well, are ya feeling lucky, punk?
maybe they need to infiltrate a lord's confidences and this existing band just so happens to be going to the same place. and the bandmates all look eerily similar to the party. wow, ha ha, the band would say. ha, wouldn't it be funny if we traded places for a gig or two so we didn't have to cancel the tour while we go off to talk to queen such and such? gee, what a bind we're in if we can't go see her. ha.
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