Anime inspired full campaign
Jan 3, 2018 14:38:43 GMT
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Post by dday1987 on Jan 3, 2018 14:38:43 GMT
So this is my first campaign and completely home brewed with lots of anime inspiration. The anime I've been inspired with are escaflowne, akame ga kill, chaika coffin princess, steamboy, naruto, pilots love song) and full metal alchemist brotherhood with a touch of berserk.
So thousands of years ago the mind flayers ruled the material plane and many others. The high elves from the fey wild for reasons lost in time went to war with the mind flayers starting in the elemental planes, where the high elves took a massive floating island and rode it into the material plane (pilots love song). (In my world the high elves are way technologically advanced like Atlantis). After they defeat the mind flayers they eventually run into resource wars amongst themselves for the magical ores they used to create their advanced magics and machines. They nuke themselves basically, and all their great cities and advanced knowledge are lost.
Fast forward a few thousand years and a wizard warrior turned into an emperor after leading a war(Madara form naruto). Through his brutal unnatural 200 year reign he was searching for anything having to do with the ancient high elves lore and artifacts sending in teams and expeditions into the dangerous wilds looking for ruins. The magical radiation from high elf destruction mutated the life around the old ruins which is the reason for monsters and these dungeons to exist. His main goal was funding a way to reach the floating island which still exists over the land but cannot reach with magical flight it's to far for anything other than perhaps a dragon to reach. Just as the gnomes make a break through with an airship design to get expeditions up there, a revolution breaks out culminating in a huge world War ending at the Capitol where a group of adventurers now famous killed, the emperor and raided his famous treasure room of ancient high elf artifacts.(chaika coffin princess).
With the emperor defeated the empire broke up into its Old borders. Rumors have spurred that an ancient high elf secret was on the verge of being discovered and the secret lie in the emperor's treasure room that the heroes of that war raided.an arms race ensues as any ancient technology from that era has famous deadly weapons and machines (escapeflowne mechs, and weapons with magical properties like akame ga kill) causing paranoia so countries send out expeditions to strengthen themselves.as not all the nations after the war were divided evenly (Versailles treaty).
A little dm behind the scenes is some full metal play, where it was the defeated mind flayers looking to make another invasion after thousands of years. They set the emperor up to win his war and be a puppet(dunno to make him a humunculus or mind flayer in a body), and they are the ones searching for the high elf weapons that were used to destroy their ancient empire. So the mind flayers are manipulating governments and countries behind the scenes making promises of rule (full metal alchemist) trying to get their hands on the newly found secret from up on the floating island.
So the players start out as broke adventurers after the civil war with no jobs and choose to get hired as an expedition party by their cities lord. Through some basic starting Info they journey to a great library with the emperor's main research department, to learn the where abouts of the heroes who dismantled the treasure room of the past emperor. By finding each hero they retrieve a piece of treasure that when put together is a map pointing to a city on the back of a giant mechanical turtle that only surfaces randomly and can only be found with that map device. Inside the turtle city powering it is an orb, basically an engine (steam boy). When the players find it they will be betrayed by an npc who rushes to get it back to the mindflayers or who ever they have placed in charge. That's when the plot of mind flayers comes out to the players or when they confront their lord or whoever hired them. The mind flayers discovered a detachable floating fortress with extreme power capable of dominating the land (chaika coffin princess) , and need the orb to power it. It's what they have been looking for and only recently with the last emperor's break through of sending one of the new airships to the floating island, days before the empire fell.
The players now need to reach their old contacts and allies to insight a war to stop the mind flayers who are now pouring out an army mixed of orcs humans dwarves and drow who they have been manipulating and enslaving over centuries. A few ideas (my first npc was a dj wizard who played music and intros when the players proved themselves in the arena to get the job. Thought it would be cool when all hope was lost to have him riding in on a dragon flanked by a couple more playing flight of the valkryes apocalypse now style. Or the players get dropped in with gnome parachutes onto the floating island from a githyanki ship blasting out of the Astral plane like a sneak attack. A return of the Jedi feel where a castle is being attacked but is shielded by witches in the woods, pc have to go have a broom stick chase through red woods and destroy the shield barrier generator at the witches base.
So thousands of years ago the mind flayers ruled the material plane and many others. The high elves from the fey wild for reasons lost in time went to war with the mind flayers starting in the elemental planes, where the high elves took a massive floating island and rode it into the material plane (pilots love song). (In my world the high elves are way technologically advanced like Atlantis). After they defeat the mind flayers they eventually run into resource wars amongst themselves for the magical ores they used to create their advanced magics and machines. They nuke themselves basically, and all their great cities and advanced knowledge are lost.
Fast forward a few thousand years and a wizard warrior turned into an emperor after leading a war(Madara form naruto). Through his brutal unnatural 200 year reign he was searching for anything having to do with the ancient high elves lore and artifacts sending in teams and expeditions into the dangerous wilds looking for ruins. The magical radiation from high elf destruction mutated the life around the old ruins which is the reason for monsters and these dungeons to exist. His main goal was funding a way to reach the floating island which still exists over the land but cannot reach with magical flight it's to far for anything other than perhaps a dragon to reach. Just as the gnomes make a break through with an airship design to get expeditions up there, a revolution breaks out culminating in a huge world War ending at the Capitol where a group of adventurers now famous killed, the emperor and raided his famous treasure room of ancient high elf artifacts.(chaika coffin princess).
With the emperor defeated the empire broke up into its Old borders. Rumors have spurred that an ancient high elf secret was on the verge of being discovered and the secret lie in the emperor's treasure room that the heroes of that war raided.an arms race ensues as any ancient technology from that era has famous deadly weapons and machines (escapeflowne mechs, and weapons with magical properties like akame ga kill) causing paranoia so countries send out expeditions to strengthen themselves.as not all the nations after the war were divided evenly (Versailles treaty).
A little dm behind the scenes is some full metal play, where it was the defeated mind flayers looking to make another invasion after thousands of years. They set the emperor up to win his war and be a puppet(dunno to make him a humunculus or mind flayer in a body), and they are the ones searching for the high elf weapons that were used to destroy their ancient empire. So the mind flayers are manipulating governments and countries behind the scenes making promises of rule (full metal alchemist) trying to get their hands on the newly found secret from up on the floating island.
So the players start out as broke adventurers after the civil war with no jobs and choose to get hired as an expedition party by their cities lord. Through some basic starting Info they journey to a great library with the emperor's main research department, to learn the where abouts of the heroes who dismantled the treasure room of the past emperor. By finding each hero they retrieve a piece of treasure that when put together is a map pointing to a city on the back of a giant mechanical turtle that only surfaces randomly and can only be found with that map device. Inside the turtle city powering it is an orb, basically an engine (steam boy). When the players find it they will be betrayed by an npc who rushes to get it back to the mindflayers or who ever they have placed in charge. That's when the plot of mind flayers comes out to the players or when they confront their lord or whoever hired them. The mind flayers discovered a detachable floating fortress with extreme power capable of dominating the land (chaika coffin princess) , and need the orb to power it. It's what they have been looking for and only recently with the last emperor's break through of sending one of the new airships to the floating island, days before the empire fell.
The players now need to reach their old contacts and allies to insight a war to stop the mind flayers who are now pouring out an army mixed of orcs humans dwarves and drow who they have been manipulating and enslaving over centuries. A few ideas (my first npc was a dj wizard who played music and intros when the players proved themselves in the arena to get the job. Thought it would be cool when all hope was lost to have him riding in on a dragon flanked by a couple more playing flight of the valkryes apocalypse now style. Or the players get dropped in with gnome parachutes onto the floating island from a githyanki ship blasting out of the Astral plane like a sneak attack. A return of the Jedi feel where a castle is being attacked but is shielded by witches in the woods, pc have to go have a broom stick chase through red woods and destroy the shield barrier generator at the witches base.
