I'm DMing a campaign and I need ideas, The bbeg is a undead abyssal humanoid, he is currently unable to get onto the material plane and is working mainly on that, I need some ideas for encounters and things he could have some of his followers do in order to get him back on the Material plane. Currently I'm just stuck in a creature of the week type loop having it be a random town overtaken by undead but that doesn't do anything for plot and i'm really struggling to come up with things for my party to do. Thanks for any ideas and suggestions. The party consists of three level 5's, One is a grave cleric of a hombrew goddess who detest undead, the other is a Eldritch Knight fighter who pretends to be a paladin but the party knows he isn't, the last one is a undead warlock who tells the party he is a sorcerer (his patron is the BBEG but he and the party do not know this)
If he’s abbysal, maybe have the undead try to collect certain items needed to create a portal that he can go through, maybe they need the blood of a powerful demon, the corpse of a vampire lord or something.
Give his minions a plan of sorts, have the smarter ones enact them under his behalf, like maybe a town is slowly being poisoned in order to weed out someone of divine origin, who's blood is to be corrupted as one of the ingredients needed for the ritual. This could mean that the party has to protect the npc, find out who’s poisoning the village and a variety of other possible problems, also don’t be afraid to go move the plot forward.
BBEG Plan 1: infest the dreams of susceptible humanoids and build a cult, a following, that will seek out the [Magical Mcguffin] to tear open the world between the world and allow him to escape.
Defeat: Party recruits an army and located the base of the cult & attack them, retrieve the [Magical Mcguffin] and lock in it a uber-secure vault.
Tiers: Tier 1 = doing jobs to build reputation to recruit army, a bit of Tier 2 to locate the cult based & fight them, then go on a whacky road trip to deliver the Mcguffin to the vault.
BBEG Plan 2: create a massive machine, a "reality cannon" that can fire demons across the planes into the material world to round up the fragemented remains of the cult after the party defeat it. However, these demons are armed "dimensional anchors" that they will lodge into the surface of the material world and pull it closer to the Abyss causing magical leakage that starts transforming some regions into abyss-like terrain, and allowing low-level abyssal creatures to leak through.
Defeat: Party travel the world finding the "dimensional anchors" and destroying them and the demonic lairs around them.
Tiers: Tier 2 = hunting down rogue demons and investigating the changing landscape, a bit of Tier 3 to hunt down the demon leaders and destroy the dimensional anchors.
BBEG Plan 3: kidnap a [Uber-powerful being] and attach them to the "reality cannon" enabling it to feed of their power and maybe get powerful enough to launch the BBEG all the way to the material plane.
Defeat: Party travel to the Abyss itself, located and rescue [Uber-powerful being] and use the "reality cannon" to blast the BBEG into ectoplasm.
Tiers: Tier 3 = travelling to the Abyss and exploring it to discover the lair of the BBEG, a bit of Tier 4 : mounting the rescue and defeating the BBEG.
I'm DMing a campaign and I need ideas, The bbeg is a undead abyssal humanoid, he is currently unable to get onto the material plane and is working mainly on that, I need some ideas for encounters and things he could have some of his followers do in order to get him back on the Material plane. Currently I'm just stuck in a creature of the week type loop having it be a random town overtaken by undead but that doesn't do anything for plot and i'm really struggling to come up with things for my party to do. Thanks for any ideas and suggestions. The party consists of three level 5's, One is a grave cleric of a hombrew goddess who detest undead, the other is a Eldritch Knight fighter who pretends to be a paladin but the party knows he isn't, the last one is a undead warlock who tells the party he is a sorcerer (his patron is the BBEG but he and the party do not know this)
If he’s abbysal, maybe have the undead try to collect certain items needed to create a portal that he can go through, maybe they need the blood of a powerful demon, the corpse of a vampire lord or something.
Give his minions a plan of sorts, have the smarter ones enact them under his behalf, like maybe a town is slowly being poisoned in order to weed out someone of divine origin, who's blood is to be corrupted as one of the ingredients needed for the ritual. This could mean that the party has to protect the npc, find out who’s poisoning the village and a variety of other possible problems, also don’t be afraid to go move the plot forward.
Those are great suggestions thank you
BBEG Plan 1: infest the dreams of susceptible humanoids and build a cult, a following, that will seek out the [Magical Mcguffin] to tear open the world between the world and allow him to escape.
Defeat: Party recruits an army and located the base of the cult & attack them, retrieve the [Magical Mcguffin] and lock in it a uber-secure vault.
Tiers: Tier 1 = doing jobs to build reputation to recruit army, a bit of Tier 2 to locate the cult based & fight them, then go on a whacky road trip to deliver the Mcguffin to the vault.
BBEG Plan 2: create a massive machine, a "reality cannon" that can fire demons across the planes into the material world to round up the fragemented remains of the cult after the party defeat it. However, these demons are armed "dimensional anchors" that they will lodge into the surface of the material world and pull it closer to the Abyss causing magical leakage that starts transforming some regions into abyss-like terrain, and allowing low-level abyssal creatures to leak through.
Defeat: Party travel the world finding the "dimensional anchors" and destroying them and the demonic lairs around them.
Tiers: Tier 2 = hunting down rogue demons and investigating the changing landscape, a bit of Tier 3 to hunt down the demon leaders and destroy the dimensional anchors.
BBEG Plan 3: kidnap a [Uber-powerful being] and attach them to the "reality cannon" enabling it to feed of their power and maybe get powerful enough to launch the BBEG all the way to the material plane.
Defeat: Party travel to the Abyss itself, located and rescue [Uber-powerful being] and use the "reality cannon" to blast the BBEG into ectoplasm.
Tiers: Tier 3 = travelling to the Abyss and exploring it to discover the lair of the BBEG, a bit of Tier 4 : mounting the rescue and defeating the BBEG.