Campaign Crafting #3: Cultures and Conflicts
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Let's talk about the people and factions inhabiting our campaign world!
1. Terrain: Where do they live?
2. Aspects: What do they do?
3. Motivation: What do they want?
4. Inspiration: What are they like?
My video on High Elves: • D&D Races: High Elves
Campaign Crafting Playlist: • Campaign Crafting
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Intro Music: "Path of the Goblin King" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Man keep on doing these vids. They are helping me so much starting my campaigns. My newest one is that the gods have fallen and the races of the material plane escape to this long forgotten world. Its there only escape from the remaining gods struggling for power.
and here was me thinking my campaign was soooo original. Lol.
My first campaign is coming up and it's about Fallen Gods. The pantheon of Gods became too full and the new-comers and less powerful Gods took physical form to go down to earth and garner support for their religion (in this a Gods power is directly related to the number of people praying to it/believing in it) but they realise too late they can not return to the heavens.
They then start going to war with each other to try and find a mystical object they think will help them return to the Pantheon along with all their new found strength. Trouble is all this fighting and then hoarding the magical items they find in an attempt to find the object they need (not got a name for it yet) attracts Dragons (mmm gold, yumyum) and then a massive war between Dragons and Gods ravages the earth and my Adventurers are thrown in after that war. The Gods and Dragons are dead (with the exception of a few victorious Dragons and some hiding, cowering Gods) so the world is there for the taking, but the few remaining, weakened Gods refuse to surrender power so easily.
Man, I'm really enjoying this series. Glad to see this new edition. Thanks!
Bellevue Wa. Anyone looking for Players or DM's..? Good Vid.
Amazing stuff you came up with
+afistfulofdice what happened to this series...?
Nick Schlacter I'll continue it at some point. I got a little burned out because they required a lot of work to produce.
And it was never continued ;`( :C
This series was alot of help to a new DM coming in haha
Meanwhile, my campaign already started.
It is a Cloak&Dagger setting in a human dominated port trading capital city in fertile, hilly savanna. Think, multicultural metropolis built over centuries over an ancient elven city (which was captured at some point) Also corruption and power struggle between noble houses, merchants and guilds are a main theme. The king wisely stays out of most of it, leaving the petty struggles to the nobility. The Thieves Guild serves as the pivot point to start the adventure, as its turf is invaded by a relatively new narcotics dealer ring. I'll leave the grander sheme of politics for the future, once the players gain a few levels. For now, they remain oblivious to what actually happens outside the city, but will receive hints about impending threats from undead pirates and vengeful elves soon enough.
As the saying goes: No campaign survives first contact with the players... Mine already needs an overhaul... cut the pirates and the elves, because there is little desire from the players to participate in large scale war or in fighting ever bigger monsters. So I have to concentrate on inventing a subtle, unseen enemy to the Thieves Guild instead so I can throw more stealth and less combat their way.
Agamemnon You could always keep those parts of your story, but since your players don't want to involve themselves with it, they avoid the war and such... So you can just say they hear news about it. Make it seem like the world's alive and it's not revolving around them. That's about as immersive as you can get. But I'm trailing off really, and your comment's a few months old. I'm just talking.
The setting for my new campaign is an Oriental themed setting. I've been studying Chinese & Japanese history, culture, mythology, etc. I'm glad to see you're incorporated Asian cultures into your setting too.
My favorite campaign to work on so far has been a pocket in space and time away from the original world of the characters. They were literally transported from their reality into this other world, and deposited on a grassy knoll. The area of the campaign was a province of a large kingdom/empire that kept the borders inside and out heavily guarded and little traveled. The races lived together with mostly equal citizenship, with the exception that there were no orcs or half-orcs. One of the players in the group had a half-orc barbarian he liked to play and i was interested in letting him come as part of the group because the npc reactions would be very amusing. The reason they were transported? a nasty necromancer fellow was trying to amass an army of what he thought were cast off souls from hell. He would call them into the province with a special artifact and then use his other magics to plant the thought in them to come to him in his stronghold. He can't always put the call in their minds, though, as it's a once per day power for him, and sometimes he teleports more people than he has power to control. Thus the party escapes that part to wander in the woods til they find the road to the capital city of the province, where they are recognized as foreigners and thrown into prison for the great fear of the nasty necromancer. A high up official who comes to sentence them can be persuaded to help them escape, and she will give them a task to do that is good that will redeem their names to the people, so they can remain free. That task helps to open their eyes a little bit to the circumstances, and they find that they can't return to their own realities until they destroy the nasty fellow and bring the artifact to one of their new friends who can control it enough to send them back. I had several side quests, most of which linked to the bad guy, but some were just for the province, like the bandit problem and the witch coven with the talking goats, so they weren't stuck in some linear tale to escape this strange imprisonment. This was the first real campaign I worked on, and it has been very fun.
At last! I've been looking forward to this video. Thanks for helping me improve my campaign, Matt!
I love all of this, that said it seems odd using standard tropes to make elves such a lawful society. With elves normally being so chaotic it was extremely different to make them so lawful in your setting especially with the caste system. It seems almost out of character for an elf aside from the dark elves who do keep such a strict caste system
Dude, at 9:14 what happened to your eye!?
Lol. Little treats make some videos better rather than worse...
I like your ideas on these races, quite an eye opener to do some things differently. ^^
western Wa? hot? where?
harley drymon It's 95 degrees here today. We have HOT summers now.
So glad to have you back. You're in western Washington? Where at? I'm in Seattle. I had no idea you were in Wa.
Tacoma/Puyallup area. PNW, born and raised!
aFistfulofDice Right on, man. That's awesome. Stoked to have you living so close to me. You're videos have been super helpful, thank you.
Joey Richter Glad I've helped! Always good to hear. The PNW is a beautiful place to live, except right now when we've had 3+ weeks of nothing but heat. I've been pretty miserable.
aFistfulofDice Tell me about it. I moved up here 10 years ago to get away from the heat.
aFistfulofDice Puyallup/Tacoma area? that is near my neck of the woods too, and you do have a point, this heat does not make me happy, well thank goodness fall is coming up.
Sounds like Dwarf Fortress 10:32
Very good stuff. Thanks.
My Elves are like the ancient Greek states.
Cool new haircut! :D
Nice vid. You know your logo is basically the City of Phoenix (Arizona) seal, right?
By the gods, you're right. Thanks for pointing that out.
Great video !
Cool video on high elves too. Can you do a video on your version of mountain dwarves?
That's my next D&D Races video. Look for it soon!
Nice video. But how about religion ? History has shown the importance of religion, even before politics. You divide the high elves into casts: I think you should add a cast with a religious function or add this function to one of the casts (like the nobles for example).
Religion is upcoming.
wait and see then :)
Simon Li And your patience will be rewarded. :)