GodGoblin
2013-06-11, 06:05 AM
Hey guys so this weekend me and 2 friends are off to a festival and for some evening entertainment im going to run some D&D! They havent played before so its going to be simple and hopefully have the classic D&D feel.
The party will be lv5 and made of a Generalist Wizard and a Barbarian. Ive given the Wizard mainly control and de buff spells to stop him ending encounters before the barb does his thing.
So onto my planned adventure (Warning, Cliches ahead!):
It will start with the two of them just having lost the guards after fleeing a town after they got wrapped up in a brawl. After a further walk up the road they come across a man running up towards them, he begs them for help as he had just returned to his village to find it in flames and its inhabitants ripped apart. Smoke can be seen in the distance. Ill probably throw some smaller encounters at them on the way to the village, beasts fleeing etc.
They find the village as described and look around for signs of life/clues. (Here I might give the barb some stuff to help close the power gap) Once some investigation has been done the great beast will burst out of the nearby forest and monster battle will begin!
Once its dead it will turn disintegrate telling the wizard that it was summoned and they can follow its tracks back to a cove of evil druids and there they might be captured/fight some spellcasters/animals/skill tests etc. Thats still a work in progress.
If anyones seen D&D Wrath of the Dragon God its where the main idea came from. So yeah what creature can I use for them to fight? I want it interesting and a fair challenge, maybe a breath weapon or spell likes to stop it being pure hack slash. Hell would a dragon of a certain age be apropriate?
tl:dr- A level 5 wizard and barbarian enter a wrecked village, whats a cool monster to have waiting for them?
Edit: Any other ideas for the adventure would be welcomed too, something to make the druids more interesting would be nice.
Thanks in advance!
The party will be lv5 and made of a Generalist Wizard and a Barbarian. Ive given the Wizard mainly control and de buff spells to stop him ending encounters before the barb does his thing.
So onto my planned adventure (Warning, Cliches ahead!):
It will start with the two of them just having lost the guards after fleeing a town after they got wrapped up in a brawl. After a further walk up the road they come across a man running up towards them, he begs them for help as he had just returned to his village to find it in flames and its inhabitants ripped apart. Smoke can be seen in the distance. Ill probably throw some smaller encounters at them on the way to the village, beasts fleeing etc.
They find the village as described and look around for signs of life/clues. (Here I might give the barb some stuff to help close the power gap) Once some investigation has been done the great beast will burst out of the nearby forest and monster battle will begin!
Once its dead it will turn disintegrate telling the wizard that it was summoned and they can follow its tracks back to a cove of evil druids and there they might be captured/fight some spellcasters/animals/skill tests etc. Thats still a work in progress.
If anyones seen D&D Wrath of the Dragon God its where the main idea came from. So yeah what creature can I use for them to fight? I want it interesting and a fair challenge, maybe a breath weapon or spell likes to stop it being pure hack slash. Hell would a dragon of a certain age be apropriate?
tl:dr- A level 5 wizard and barbarian enter a wrecked village, whats a cool monster to have waiting for them?
Edit: Any other ideas for the adventure would be welcomed too, something to make the druids more interesting would be nice.
Thanks in advance!