Have you ever written your own D&D campaign that was so heavy, you had problems continuing to write it? I need to watch something cute and campy because my current campaign is taking a very dark turn...
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Have you ever written your own D&D campaign that was so heavy, you had problems continuing to write it? I need to watch something cute and campy because my current campaign is taking a very dark turn...
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The behind the scenes was that the character and this pre-deity were somewhat matching each other in overall beliefs. Not liking what would happen in the future and knowingly felt that if they did this, it would eliminate one particular issue with "seeing the future" so often so it would never be a rush on how to strike with more than 3 ideas. So the character and the pre-deity switch places. The Pre-deity disguised herself as the character in question and the character took… See More
the place of the pre-deity to try her best to match what has happened. However, nothing can ever come to pass the way one player could think, right?
Getting back to the deities, we learn of what was going on. For starters, why it felt off for all arcane users was Corellon was "destroyed" it seemed. Thus, Arcane Magic really wasn't a thing. Our sources of power came from ourselves only. Each of us using Arcane magic effectively was someone of very unique trait that was not seen by other mortals. My "Swordmage" was more of a master sword trickster. Our Wizard was someone of legend who could wield magic thanks to something that happened between my character and theirs (effectively, we temporarily linked life forces to allow him to take up an artifact) and was one of the more gifted ones to be the most powerful sorcerer in existence (yes, sorcerer). But then I had a particular question with all the changes. What happened to the school my character established? What happened to the Genasi unification?
It never happened.
My character never married. In fact, the women is with my rival that was alive instead of dead. The school never happened cause the Genasi are united differently and didn't really give a darn about the outside and already had their own agenda on potential expansion which also meant that the tons of money I earned and dropped onto that just got lost into the ether. On the bright side, corrupted Genasi never existed either.
To top it off, after an epic fight and winning nothing got restored except for Corellon not actually being destroyed. But because of what that player did, so much changes happening that in the end, most of our backgrounds were distorted beyond repair that we were all legends that no one could compete with so the ending was my character had lost all meaning to alot of things, so he would be found as a wondering entity in story, potentially waiting for death to come, but it never could.
So ya. I'm sure you wouldn't possibly get to that point of dark or darker.
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Oh ho ho ho... ya, ok. Lets explain one that was just dark enough that I am unsure how I was only unhappy as I was (instead of expectedly pissed).
In a campaign, we were going on for so long, we decided to semi-power level through because of how long we have been in and to see just how powerful our characters really could go. This was 4e btw.
So we found out that what caused the big bad to be as powerful as they were involved what had happened in the past. So we needed to go back into the past to… See More
find the item that was needed to make use of in the present cause this item no longer existed. I know, time shenanigans is about to play a toll here.
The biggest issue that none of us knew at the time was how the DM was struggling to figure out how to justify what needed to be done without revealing who we were or when we were and still linking to the present.
My character (A swordmage and 1 of the few rare ones) made a comment that as far as he knew, when they would be would involve alot of changes that never happened and to avoid the issues, we don't mess with anything except for the objective. The wizard in our group concurred and said that it is impossible to tell what will happen if we did mess with anything outside the most minute of changes (in this case, getting a piece of an item that hasn't been used since the end of a war which is the time we were going for).
So back to the past we go. We come out, start finding our objective. We needed to party split because some of us, it would be impossible to get things done without running into problems. The time period put someone like my race (Genasi) at a huge disadvantage because the war included my race's type. I managed to find my deity in the past and reveal in a way that what I was was truly a follower of him, just not from that time period and told him for reasons involving time, I cannot tell him much, but I needed something and if he could provide it, it would be given back to him when the time comes up and he'll know when that was. Because of items and auras about my character that only he could see, my diplomacy was extremely low requirement. He believed me and gave it to me. So I dawned my cloak and left at the path he suggested to avoid getting caught and didn't have to deal with stealth issues.
Meanwhile, one of the players who had been playing a shadow assassin found the god that hasn't become yet what she would be in the present. After some talks, this player was intrigued. Suddenly, there was a pause. After a bit (15 Minutes), it continued. This was about expected because this player loved stories, stealth, and intrigue. Anyways, her character said a few last things (that we could visibly see, but we weren't with her) and left it at that.
So its time for us to leave because it is not known if we could return if we aren't returning by the sunset of the same day's arrival if it was missed. Here comes her character and her character was acting somewhat strange. We couldn't figure it out, but we were also in semi-panic mode cause of the limited time. Then she said something and I'm like "What?" because what she said made no sense as it seemed a little abnormal for her character.
Return to the present and..... JUST HAPPENED!? We left, it was bad, but not that bad. We come back and it was pure chaos. Also, all of us arcane users felt off. We begin to return to the deities when the character says another strangeness of how she could let this happen and how she should have just kept on her path. That is when we looked at her asking "What are you talking about?" This player pulled a switcheroo. (To be continued)
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I have done 2 campaigns a lot of years ago.. 2 very short ones. 1 was only an 18 hour campaign other was a shorty of about 4 hours to introduce some new players to the mechanics (based on 2nd editition).
I have spent weeks tweaking and finetuning that first campaign... I had to pull some DM tricks out of my sleeve because instead of getting lost.. they went the right way through the beginning so I had to quickly adapt to lengthen it lol. It was like they read my mind.
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Oh man I always wanted to DM but I think I would do terrible
Good luck, have a cat video
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