Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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i gave my party a deck of many things and one of them drew Flames.
i have a bit of a plot planned out Need a bit of campaign help - Dungeon Masters Only - Dungeons & Dragons Discussion - D&D Beyond Forums - D&D Beyond
(I’m taking Lord_Thunderfarts idea by the way) So how do I work in the flames card whole staying true to the story/plan
The deck of many things is completely chaotic. It can completely derail a campaign, instakill a pc, cause long term effects like your devil, and so on.
As a dm i hate the deck and they do not exist in my worlds, specifically because when a player draws something like a devil card,i now have several sessions that have to have this stupid devil in it.
If youre the dm and you love chaos, or if you want to dm like a wild magic sorcerer and just roll on tables to see what happens next, the deck of many things is perfect.
But if you introduce the deck and then end up asking "how do i make the chaos less chaotic?" Then the deck may not have been a good idea.
The devil in question takes control of one (or more) of the enemy pirate clans. Either through a fiend warlock, or maybe it shapeshifts and runs the group directly.
And since it wants to torment the character, I’d have it focus on that, even if it means otherwise weakening the pirate clan; after all it doesn’t care about the clan’s long-term health.
So maybe it sends one group to hunt down the PC’s family or friends who are not in the party. Maybe it finds a way to bind some of those family and friends to its service. And it will find ways to ruin the PC otherwise. Next time the ship is in port and the party is away, have some people go sink it or start a fire or rob it, or all of the above. Basically any time something or someone the PC cares about is left unguarded, the devil’s forces attack. I might not even make it clear the devil’s forces is behind it. It wants to torment, that doesn’t mean it wants the credit.
And remember a devil is immortal, it’s got plenty of time to keep bothering the PC. I’d let the party decide to hunt the thing down, but I’d never have it just appear looking for a fight.
Well, your core mistake was giving the PCs a deck of many things, as it is the Destroyer of Campaigns, but in this case I'd just add the devil as an ally to one of the groups (probably pirate group 2; devils tend to like merchants and dislike chaos).