ducttapebandit
2014-03-06, 10:54 PM
According to one of my players, my first mistake was to volunteer to DM.
I decided to try my hand at running a non-"canned" adventure, but I wasn't sure where to start. I told my players to all pick an organization for all members to be part of so they would have common goals (we've got a large collection of D&D 3.5 books to choose from). I also gave them the option of being the same race. The plan was to build the adventure, and possibly longer campaign, on that common goal. I thought level 8 would be a good level because we've mostly done lower level stuff.
They decided to all be Spellscales. Chaotic Neutral Spellscales. For those not familiar, Spellscales choose a different Draconic deity to honor each day. They take on aspects of said deity for the duration of the day.
The party then decided to take the insanity a step further and all be binders. So, in addition to having their personality influenced by the deity, the vestiges can change things further. The party then decided the vestiges found in Tome of Magic are insufficient. If they kill the Draconic deities, there will be more vestiges to choose from! But they need an in-game reason to do so. Why not do it to bring sanity their people? No longer will their people face the confusion of having to choose a new deity each day! The Spellscale people will finally be free! The party may or may not be planning to install one of their own as a deity.
So, that's happening and I'm now morbidly curious to see how this will go. This is either going to be epically amazing or completely crash and burn. To help make this survivable, I let them go gestalt and roll 5d6 for character generation.
The group is now trying to get me to allow them to all have awareness of the fact they are in an RPG. I had to draw the line at Spellscale Deadpools. There is a thing as too much.
I decided to try my hand at running a non-"canned" adventure, but I wasn't sure where to start. I told my players to all pick an organization for all members to be part of so they would have common goals (we've got a large collection of D&D 3.5 books to choose from). I also gave them the option of being the same race. The plan was to build the adventure, and possibly longer campaign, on that common goal. I thought level 8 would be a good level because we've mostly done lower level stuff.
They decided to all be Spellscales. Chaotic Neutral Spellscales. For those not familiar, Spellscales choose a different Draconic deity to honor each day. They take on aspects of said deity for the duration of the day.
The party then decided to take the insanity a step further and all be binders. So, in addition to having their personality influenced by the deity, the vestiges can change things further. The party then decided the vestiges found in Tome of Magic are insufficient. If they kill the Draconic deities, there will be more vestiges to choose from! But they need an in-game reason to do so. Why not do it to bring sanity their people? No longer will their people face the confusion of having to choose a new deity each day! The Spellscale people will finally be free! The party may or may not be planning to install one of their own as a deity.
So, that's happening and I'm now morbidly curious to see how this will go. This is either going to be epically amazing or completely crash and burn. To help make this survivable, I let them go gestalt and roll 5d6 for character generation.
The group is now trying to get me to allow them to all have awareness of the fact they are in an RPG. I had to draw the line at Spellscale Deadpools. There is a thing as too much.