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Post by meribson on Oct 8, 2019 0:26:02 GMT
I was watching a video about green dragons and had an idea for a campaign. The timing is rather fortuitous as I'm looking to get a new group started, with myself as DM.
The background during character creation is that over the last few decades, tensions have been rising between the major political factions in the region: dwarven citadels, elven city-states, and human kingdoms are all on the brink of straight out war. The only reason the three haven't started killing each other yet, is that no one is quite ready to take the last step.
What no one knows, is that the upcoming war is the result of a great wyrm's subtle deceptions and manipulations. Unlike many breeds, green dragons have a deep love for their offspring, and the great wyrm's horde was stolen, her clutch was smashed, and her mate slain by a roaming band of adventurers while she was away. While she was unable to discover the exact identities of the adventurers, she was able to identify the races of those involved: dwarf, elf, and human.
As a result, she is taking vengeance by driving the three races into open war. With the aid of disguise and polymorph based magical items, she has developed identities that are highly placed in all of the royal courts in the region, and has been subtly guiding the seven nations against each other for the last sixty years.
Before anyone says anything, I didn't play WoW until Burning Crusade, after that whole mess with Onyxia occurred.
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Post by 00dlez on Oct 10, 2019 15:45:27 GMT
Sounds great! Do you have any plans on what the actual tensions will be? What clues might you drop to the party to uncover the backstory?
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Post by meribson on Oct 12, 2019 1:11:25 GMT
Just started this up over on Gamers Plane (already full) so I'm not going to go into full detail, but I do have certain plans in motion. The one downside to PbP is that the players can't see me grinning. Afterall, like the saying goes, "Never trust a smiling DM."
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