I’ve just completed the first session of my new campaign, and I don’t know where to start with fronts – there’s just…
I’ve just completed the first session of my new campaign, and I don’t know where to start with fronts – there’s just too much going on.
It wasn’t what I expected but I appear to have a deep political intrigue, with an off screen necromancer, a scheming duke, his lecherous son (who appears to be working against him), the old befuddled imprisoned king (although its unclear who imprisoned him – he was thought dead) , elves who appear to want to protect the king but for whatever reason do not want him reinstated to power, an elvish hero outcast from him people but once betrothed to the Kings daughter (presumably the princess). Finally I appear to have an order of inquisitor monks, who appeared less than two years ago from nowhere, heavily funded by someone and built a number of monasteries across the country. The built a reputation with the people
As if this wasn’t enough we appear to have a magic hating theocracy to the south, an expansionist xenophobic (non-human hating) dictatorship to the north, shamanistic orcs in the mountains and the very real threat of the war on two or three fronts if these various nations see the kingdom weakened by strife.
Finally we have a magical disease, created by the off screen necromancer which appears to be spreading through the country
I’ve also got a host of minor characters – in the form of a blacksmith and his family, a young man who wanted to be a monk, and various members of the local city guard.
So many threads I don’t know where to start – and from that lot I need to find a Campaign Front and an Adventure Front.
I have a plan though. I’m going to sleep on it and see if things are clearer in the morning 🙂
