Mandarin
2016-05-17, 02:02 PM
Alright so I will be DMing for the first time in about 2 weeks and wanted to get some feedback into my master plan since I am hoping this campaign will be going on for a few years.
I will be doing the mines of phandelvar module from the D&D starter set to begin with. I dont have it yet should be arriving this friday so I can start preparing. Group will be about 5 pc's. Most are new to either D&D or just 5e. They havent decided classes yet. I am starting with a module to get my dming feet under me and have some support until I get past the learning curve.... but I have a master plan in mind that I need help with.
Somewhere in the mines I plan on introducing some sort of underground entrance that looks to be an ancient civilization with building abilities surpassing even the dwarves....
Once the mines of phandelvar module comes to a close I plan on introducing some sort of worldwide apocalypse that forces the heroes and surrounding towns underground into said underground complex for the next 100 years while this cursed apocalypse happens... Obviously this complex is going to be thousands of miles vast and hundreds of miles deep.
I plan on doing a sort of zombie apocalypse on the surface... anytime they get close enough to the surface they start running into skeletons and zombies that transmit diseases.Underground there will be sections of giant mushroom forests for miles and miles and lichen that light up the underdark in different color hues.... Giant underground cities... some occupied... some abandoned... massive underground lakes... ancient treasures long forgotten... and ancient foes long vanquished that were never truly gone but just waiting under the surface.... you get the idea though... vast and diverse... I really want to take advantage of the giant mushroom forests and lichen that glows.
So here is the plot.... heroes and surrounding towns are forced underground... (About 200 people) they only have about a months supply of food and water with them and need to find safety. Heroes first forays are finding safe dwelling place for so many and eventually find an ancient underground city that is defensible, has a water source, and even viable food via fishing and underground flora.... but the city has to be cleared out.... while clearing out they find a patrol of goblins.
Over the course of several months they clear out everything, get the town going and even start getting townspeople doing patrols and capable of defending their own town all the while running into various underground monsters and whatnot. They also find a strange magical portal in the city that a friendly sage tells them he believes will teleport them to any other teleporter they have visited before as long as they have attuned to it.
Eventually I want the heroes to be forced to leave on an epic quest to discover and save other people forced underground and to save civilization itself by approaching the source of the apocalypse from underground, maybe to find it was the work of an ancient black dragon and some ancient sorcerer of an unknown race... I dont know yet but you get the jist.
So what do you guys think? Any tips on races and monsters they might find underground and there I could get their stats? Fun plot hooks? General advice?
I will be doing the mines of phandelvar module from the D&D starter set to begin with. I dont have it yet should be arriving this friday so I can start preparing. Group will be about 5 pc's. Most are new to either D&D or just 5e. They havent decided classes yet. I am starting with a module to get my dming feet under me and have some support until I get past the learning curve.... but I have a master plan in mind that I need help with.
Somewhere in the mines I plan on introducing some sort of underground entrance that looks to be an ancient civilization with building abilities surpassing even the dwarves....
Once the mines of phandelvar module comes to a close I plan on introducing some sort of worldwide apocalypse that forces the heroes and surrounding towns underground into said underground complex for the next 100 years while this cursed apocalypse happens... Obviously this complex is going to be thousands of miles vast and hundreds of miles deep.
I plan on doing a sort of zombie apocalypse on the surface... anytime they get close enough to the surface they start running into skeletons and zombies that transmit diseases.Underground there will be sections of giant mushroom forests for miles and miles and lichen that light up the underdark in different color hues.... Giant underground cities... some occupied... some abandoned... massive underground lakes... ancient treasures long forgotten... and ancient foes long vanquished that were never truly gone but just waiting under the surface.... you get the idea though... vast and diverse... I really want to take advantage of the giant mushroom forests and lichen that glows.
So here is the plot.... heroes and surrounding towns are forced underground... (About 200 people) they only have about a months supply of food and water with them and need to find safety. Heroes first forays are finding safe dwelling place for so many and eventually find an ancient underground city that is defensible, has a water source, and even viable food via fishing and underground flora.... but the city has to be cleared out.... while clearing out they find a patrol of goblins.
Over the course of several months they clear out everything, get the town going and even start getting townspeople doing patrols and capable of defending their own town all the while running into various underground monsters and whatnot. They also find a strange magical portal in the city that a friendly sage tells them he believes will teleport them to any other teleporter they have visited before as long as they have attuned to it.
Eventually I want the heroes to be forced to leave on an epic quest to discover and save other people forced underground and to save civilization itself by approaching the source of the apocalypse from underground, maybe to find it was the work of an ancient black dragon and some ancient sorcerer of an unknown race... I dont know yet but you get the jist.
So what do you guys think? Any tips on races and monsters they might find underground and there I could get their stats? Fun plot hooks? General advice?