As the title says I'm new to dnd, I've been in a campaign for the last few months, We're currently still only level 3. And I've been having an absolute blast. Our DM has never actually played as a PC so for his birthday I have offered to run a one shot with the hopes of taking it further. Maybe I'm being a bit ambitious but I've gone off and written a whole load of ideas that I was thinking of using. I only have the player's handbook at the moment, hopefully Santa is kind and helps me out with a dmg and mm, so I was hoping you folks could give me some pointers. "Blueskin" no peaking!
The premise I have is that my bard from ur previous one shot has started to tell a tale in the local inn in Phandalin, about the heros of legend. These heroes' names have been forgotten over time and the players from the previous one shot will slot in to their roles with our dm playing his first character in place of myself.
The origin story involves a creator being forging the universe and starting to create the world as is it's nature it feels the need to create another being/ child. This child shows tendencies towards destruction. Eventually the child disrupts the apparatus that builds the adventure world causing a global catastrophe that shapes the known continents but shatters the child, raining shards of the divine onto the continent.
The heroes must, throughout the campaign, reunify the shards. This is clearly a huge idea and I appreciate that the scope is too big to talk about here, but the parts I was curious was about were these.
I want to have the shards represent aspects of personality and as the adventurers find them this will shape the world. i.e. Shard of hate creates an aggressive kingdom and when it is returned to the divine it will affect the god child's personality. Do you have any ideas about how I could portray something this huge in game?
another part was are there issues with cultural appropriation regarding modelling groups/races etc on historical societies? I have an idea for running a dwarf community based on imperial china with strict rules regarding rank and etiquette. The inevitable breaches that pcs will cause will give ideas for plenty of conflict.
Wow that's a lot of information. Thanks for reading
You seem to be more adventurous than me, I am doing a one shot for my family over Christmas to see if I can get the wife and both of my kids into D&D. It will be open ended because I know the wife (if she enjoys it) will not want a new character. And playing (upto lvl3) Waterdeep Dragon Heist has given me ideas on how to get the party their first home they can operate out of. My wife loves animals so I have created a little quest which is pretty much all skill checks to help a blacksmith out who used to be an adventurer and has a Blink Dog and a Hell Hound he rescued as a puppy (so not as aggressive) and he is breeding them only this crossbreed puppy has "blinked" out of the womb twice already and he needs help keeping it calm and soothed until it can be born properly! For my 9yr old daughter there is a quest to find a mysterious artifact for a wizard who will give her the choice of horses in the stables as payments. For my 14yr old son there will be a fight in which he will pick up a weapon similar to what he is already carrying, but shinier and maybe magical. When they sleep for the night and he is on watch the weapon will start talking to him, turns out it's a sentient mimic looking for companionship. Wife is playing a ranger, my daughter is half orc barbarian who looks more human than orc and still looks like a 9yr old girl (I feel sorry for the bad guys that underestimate her lol) and my son who has played before doesn't know whether to get a new character altogether or resurrect his gender fluid, ginger haired, blue dragonborn wizard! And yup he came up with that all by himself, strange kid lol. Give him a few years though and he will be able to more comfortably roll play it when he has both man and woman trying to seduce him lol
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Hey folks,
As the title says I'm new to dnd, I've been in a campaign for the last few months, We're currently still only level 3. And I've been having an absolute blast. Our DM has never actually played as a PC so for his birthday I have offered to run a one shot with the hopes of taking it further. Maybe I'm being a bit ambitious but I've gone off and written a whole load of ideas that I was thinking of using. I only have the player's handbook at the moment, hopefully Santa is kind and helps me out with a dmg and mm, so I was hoping you folks could give me some pointers. "Blueskin" no peaking!
The premise I have is that my bard from ur previous one shot has started to tell a tale in the local inn in Phandalin, about the heros of legend. These heroes' names have been forgotten over time and the players from the previous one shot will slot in to their roles with our dm playing his first character in place of myself.
The origin story involves a creator being forging the universe and starting to create the world as is it's nature it feels the need to create another being/ child. This child shows tendencies towards destruction. Eventually the child disrupts the apparatus that builds the adventure world causing a global catastrophe that shapes the known continents but shatters the child, raining shards of the divine onto the continent.
The heroes must, throughout the campaign, reunify the shards. This is clearly a huge idea and I appreciate that the scope is too big to talk about here, but the parts I was curious was about were these.
I want to have the shards represent aspects of personality and as the adventurers find them this will shape the world. i.e. Shard of hate creates an aggressive kingdom and when it is returned to the divine it will affect the god child's personality. Do you have any ideas about how I could portray something this huge in game?
another part was are there issues with cultural appropriation regarding modelling groups/races etc on historical societies? I have an idea for running a dwarf community based on imperial china with strict rules regarding rank and etiquette. The inevitable breaches that pcs will cause will give ideas for plenty of conflict.
Wow that's a lot of information. Thanks for reading
You seem to be more adventurous than me, I am doing a one shot for my family over Christmas to see if I can get the wife and both of my kids into D&D. It will be open ended because I know the wife (if she enjoys it) will not want a new character. And playing (upto lvl3) Waterdeep Dragon Heist has given me ideas on how to get the party their first home they can operate out of. My wife loves animals so I have created a little quest which is pretty much all skill checks to help a blacksmith out who used to be an adventurer and has a Blink Dog and a Hell Hound he rescued as a puppy (so not as aggressive) and he is breeding them only this crossbreed puppy has "blinked" out of the womb twice already and he needs help keeping it calm and soothed until it can be born properly! For my 9yr old daughter there is a quest to find a mysterious artifact for a wizard who will give her the choice of horses in the stables as payments. For my 14yr old son there will be a fight in which he will pick up a weapon similar to what he is already carrying, but shinier and maybe magical. When they sleep for the night and he is on watch the weapon will start talking to him, turns out it's a sentient mimic looking for companionship. Wife is playing a ranger, my daughter is half orc barbarian who looks more human than orc and still looks like a 9yr old girl (I feel sorry for the bad guys that underestimate her lol) and my son who has played before doesn't know whether to get a new character altogether or resurrect his gender fluid, ginger haired, blue dragonborn wizard! And yup he came up with that all by himself, strange kid lol. Give him a few years though and he will be able to more comfortably roll play it when he has both man and woman trying to seduce him lol
From Within Chaos Comes Order!