I’m running a DND campaign for three players in a bit more of a hardcore/survival campaign. They are Druids that are apart of a hidden circle that use special totems to always be in wild form. The campaign itself is heavily influenced by National Parks.
I’m watching a documentary about Yosemite park and I’m thrilled by the general vibe it has. I think it would make a brilliant location for my players to adapt to for a mission, speaking of. Their missions are long winded and are usually things of like: the population of deer are becoming unbalanced in (insert location), please go and monitor the area for (anywhere between a week to a month).
For each mission, they are to assume the same wildshape, and have to work together as a group. So like, coyotes, or mice, etc. I really want to play around with being an animal and exploring what that means in a DND session.
So I wanted to ask my fellow DM’s, how would you handle adapting a Yosemite inspired location? What encounters would you consider? What season would you want to run?
These aren’t really Yosemite-specific, but here goes.
Poachers killing off one animal or another. And if you want to make it bigger, they are also cultists who use (insert animal part here) as part of their dark ritual.
A member of an endangered species is trying to find a mate, but they personally dislike every other member of their species in the area.
An evil artificer has set up somewhere and their workshop is polluting air or land or water or all of the above.
A group of naiads have dammed up a waterfall. Why?
While Yosemite is a beautiful wilderness area (except for the limited tourist populated areas) it is basically a mountain and forest terrain as such almost anything could be happening so you need to figure out the mission(s) first. Once that is done then the animal type is a lot easier. You want something common enough to be expected while not something that will have to spend most of its time avoiding becoming something else’s dinner so probably a medium to apex predator (also good for fighting). If the PCs are high enough level consider flying creatures like hawks or crows .
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I’m running a DND campaign for three players in a bit more of a hardcore/survival campaign. They are Druids that are apart of a hidden circle that use special totems to always be in wild form. The campaign itself is heavily influenced by National Parks.
I’m watching a documentary about Yosemite park and I’m thrilled by the general vibe it has. I think it would make a brilliant location for my players to adapt to for a mission, speaking of. Their missions are long winded and are usually things of like: the population of deer are becoming unbalanced in (insert location), please go and monitor the area for (anywhere between a week to a month).
For each mission, they are to assume the same wildshape, and have to work together as a group. So like, coyotes, or mice, etc. I really want to play around with being an animal and exploring what that means in a DND session.
So I wanted to ask my fellow DM’s, how would you handle adapting a Yosemite inspired location? What encounters would you consider? What season would you want to run?
These aren’t really Yosemite-specific, but here goes.
Poachers killing off one animal or another. And if you want to make it bigger, they are also cultists who use (insert animal part here) as part of their dark ritual.
A member of an endangered species is trying to find a mate, but they personally dislike every other member of their species in the area.
An evil artificer has set up somewhere and their workshop is polluting air or land or water or all of the above.
A group of naiads have dammed up a waterfall. Why?
While Yosemite is a beautiful wilderness area (except for the limited tourist populated areas) it is basically a mountain and forest terrain as such almost anything could be happening so you need to figure out the mission(s) first. Once that is done then the animal type is a lot easier. You want something common enough to be expected while not something that will have to spend most of its time avoiding becoming something else’s dinner so probably a medium to apex predator (also good for fighting). If the PCs are high enough level consider flying creatures like hawks or crows .
Wisea$$ DM and Player since 1979.