Elder Tom
2014-11-01, 09:44 PM
Hi, everyone!
I need some advice. We're a group of 9 people (which is A LOT), but only 3 of us want to DM, so instead of doing three individual story arcs, we decided to connect them together to form one big story. To hook the first arc with the second (of which I'm the DM), we were thinking of making my PG a hidden villain in the party.
The story would be something like this: the benevolent king of a peaceful kingdom is almost killed in an assassination attempt. He quickly becomes paranoid, and is convinced by a "secret admirer" that without him his kingdom will crumble and that only he is capable of ruling it. The admirer tells the king to gather up the most brilliant wizards, clerics and druids in the realm and have them work on a way to make him immortal, so that he may never step off the throne. Of course, this experiment is risky and unethical, and most refuse, so the king has them captured in secret and forced to work for him. However, a team of prisoners manages to escape and forms a rebellion in the city. This is where the party of heroes kicks in. They are under the employment of the king, and they have to find the rebels and capture them (but they don't know what the rebellion is REALLY about). Hopefully, since it is a group of mostly good-natured people, they will change their mind upon discovering the truth and go against the king.
The plan is to have my Bard be the secret admirer (and the one who attempted at the king's life). He is extremely devoted to the art of storytelling, so much that he is willing to spread disorder and chaos to "create a story"; he is also using the king to get immortality for himself, since he genuinely believes that without him, the realm will eventually go back to its boring, uneventful peace. Upon the end of the first DM's arc, my Bard will reveal himself as the man behind the whole thing and become the main antagonist of my arc.
Do you think this could work? It's slightly complicated, but we thought it could provide a nice plot twist at the end and help tie our arcs together. Also, what alignment would fit the Bard? I was thinking Neutral Evil, but he really thinks he's doing a favor to the realm by shaking things up, so I don't know if that would fit him.
Thanks for the help!
I need some advice. We're a group of 9 people (which is A LOT), but only 3 of us want to DM, so instead of doing three individual story arcs, we decided to connect them together to form one big story. To hook the first arc with the second (of which I'm the DM), we were thinking of making my PG a hidden villain in the party.
The story would be something like this: the benevolent king of a peaceful kingdom is almost killed in an assassination attempt. He quickly becomes paranoid, and is convinced by a "secret admirer" that without him his kingdom will crumble and that only he is capable of ruling it. The admirer tells the king to gather up the most brilliant wizards, clerics and druids in the realm and have them work on a way to make him immortal, so that he may never step off the throne. Of course, this experiment is risky and unethical, and most refuse, so the king has them captured in secret and forced to work for him. However, a team of prisoners manages to escape and forms a rebellion in the city. This is where the party of heroes kicks in. They are under the employment of the king, and they have to find the rebels and capture them (but they don't know what the rebellion is REALLY about). Hopefully, since it is a group of mostly good-natured people, they will change their mind upon discovering the truth and go against the king.
The plan is to have my Bard be the secret admirer (and the one who attempted at the king's life). He is extremely devoted to the art of storytelling, so much that he is willing to spread disorder and chaos to "create a story"; he is also using the king to get immortality for himself, since he genuinely believes that without him, the realm will eventually go back to its boring, uneventful peace. Upon the end of the first DM's arc, my Bard will reveal himself as the man behind the whole thing and become the main antagonist of my arc.
Do you think this could work? It's slightly complicated, but we thought it could provide a nice plot twist at the end and help tie our arcs together. Also, what alignment would fit the Bard? I was thinking Neutral Evil, but he really thinks he's doing a favor to the realm by shaking things up, so I don't know if that would fit him.
Thanks for the help!