I'd like to get some inspiration for my campaign if possible. We've recently finished forge of dury and are running into Red Hand of Doom. The first few levels before forge of fury were homebrew and the characters started out in a nearby city.
After the downtime following forge of fury, one of my players expressed a desire to have an internal good/evil struggle by coming across 'evil' magics (a wizard). He visited the arcane academy in the city, failed to find much, except something, buried, forgotten and untouched for centuries -the book of vile darkness - found him.
The book started to gradually reveal itself to him, some dark spells included. In our first session kicking off red hand of doom, the player showed this book to the party paladin who...well you can guess what happened next.
The party did everything they could to destroy/get rid of the book with the wizard protecting it. They eventually bagged it, sent it off with the parties giant owl mount and dropped it in a nearby river - with the wizard left unconscious and apparently unable to wake up.
The player then made a new character - another paladin with an oath of vengeance, sworn to find and kill this wizard - who the party currently have hidden in the upstairs of an Inn.
My original plan was for the book to reveal a recipe to become a lich and continue to lead the wizard to lichdom and evil deeds, though this all happened much sooner than expected!
Where would you take it from here? An opportunity for the party to travel into the shadow fell, confront the devil and bargain for his soul back? Or a convenient NPC villain, sent back to find the book and reek havoc and vengeance on his once party?
Linking into red hand of doom would also be super useful. Any ideas much appreciated!
My first thought was to find the devil through some means of adventure "Here There Be Devils" and then confront the devil and make a bargain to free the soul, which of course he is lying about what he is really after. The bargain could be to find and kill a Lich who is trying to take over the territory of the devil who already has his forces divided by other armies who are invading. What he really wants is a jewel from the lich that can help him turn the tide of the invaders.
Or something like that...I don't know...I was just typing.
I like it, there is actually a lich later on in red hand of doom, however the invading army of hobgoblins currently has its phylactory and is holding it, in exchange for being given undead creatures to bolster their ranks. Maybe i could tie it in somehow when I get there
What if the wizard was not the first to possess the book, what if the new paladin character is actually not looking to kill the wizard but is a previous possessed soul of the book looking to claim the wizard.
think nazgul
maybe there are more of them banished below the magic library where the wizard found the book
So the player has two characters one in a magical coma and the other possessed so the player can build to the opportunity to free one in the arc finale. The other lost forever to the book.
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I'd like to get some inspiration for my campaign if possible. We've recently finished forge of dury and are running into Red Hand of Doom. The first few levels before forge of fury were homebrew and the characters started out in a nearby city.
After the downtime following forge of fury, one of my players expressed a desire to have an internal good/evil struggle by coming across 'evil' magics (a wizard). He visited the arcane academy in the city, failed to find much, except something, buried, forgotten and untouched for centuries -the book of vile darkness - found him.
The book started to gradually reveal itself to him, some dark spells included. In our first session kicking off red hand of doom, the player showed this book to the party paladin who...well you can guess what happened next.
The party did everything they could to destroy/get rid of the book with the wizard protecting it. They eventually bagged it, sent it off with the parties giant owl mount and dropped it in a nearby river - with the wizard left unconscious and apparently unable to wake up.
The player then made a new character - another paladin with an oath of vengeance, sworn to find and kill this wizard - who the party currently have hidden in the upstairs of an Inn.
My original plan was for the book to reveal a recipe to become a lich and continue to lead the wizard to lichdom and evil deeds, though this all happened much sooner than expected!
Where would you take it from here? An opportunity for the party to travel into the shadow fell, confront the devil and bargain for his soul back? Or a convenient NPC villain, sent back to find the book and reek havoc and vengeance on his once party?
Linking into red hand of doom would also be super useful. Any ideas much appreciated!
My first thought was to find the devil through some means of adventure "Here There Be Devils" and then confront the devil and make a bargain to free the soul, which of course he is lying about what he is really after. The bargain could be to find and kill a Lich who is trying to take over the territory of the devil who already has his forces divided by other armies who are invading. What he really wants is a jewel from the lich that can help him turn the tide of the invaders.
Or something like that...I don't know...I was just typing.
I like it, there is actually a lich later on in red hand of doom, however the invading army of hobgoblins currently has its phylactory and is holding it, in exchange for being given undead creatures to bolster their ranks. Maybe i could tie it in somehow when I get there
What if the wizard was not the first to possess the book, what if the new paladin character is actually not looking to kill the wizard but is a previous possessed soul of the book looking to claim the wizard.
think nazgul
maybe there are more of them banished below the magic library where the wizard found the book
So the player has two characters one in a magical coma and the other possessed so the player can build to the opportunity to free one in the arc finale. The other lost forever to the book.