SolsticeGelan
2016-11-20, 01:52 PM
This is a tale of a group of intermediate size, a Dungeon Master weirder and more insane than most of his players, and almost entirely made of people who have no idea what they're doing... because this is their first time playing Dungeons and Dragons.
Including me.
The DM
The DM; Me, the potential pretentious and aliteral moron placed in charge of the next several sessions and campaigns between a group of people who have met each other only once or twice before, and who’s only experience DM’ing comes from online RP’s, the rulebook, and the internet in general.
The Silver Dragon; The only person in the group who has ever played before in person, and numerous times at that. Will absolutely try to derail the plot on a Henderson scale or play a thief. Has a reputation for all things implied by being either the former or the later, but still a generally fun player.
The Dragon Elf; One of the first time players, Aerie is quiet. He is also a munchkin, and total wildcard. When imagining what he is like, imagine what I am like on this forum. This is him when he jokes around or decides to speak up.
Sin the Tiefling; A first time player who has absolutely no idea what he is going to do and couldn’t figure out the rules, and is generally along for the ride and the loot. And the RP. Has the potential to either be an amazing player or horrifyingly effective character
Mongol the Dwarve; A Dwarven Ranger, the Silver Dragons friend, and the only other person with actual Tabetop Gaming experience; only with Pathfinder rather than DnD. I know literally nothing about him.
The World itself is one of my own creations, spurned up and existing purely so I can make things up as needed due to it's lack of actually defined locations. Not to say that it doesnt have them; It's just that asides from many different plot points and kingdom borders and capitals, it's blank.
While the World is currently nameless, it's only land mass is a single super-massive continent named it Alteria, and a small chain of islands to the north, one of which is a Volcano which once housed an ancient Greco-Roman empire. Over two-thirds of Alteria is a wind swept desert, separating the Humans kingdoms and lands from the Elves and Dwarves in the North. There is, of course, an abundance of normally unused races and monsters that inhabit the desert:smallbiggrin:.
Alteria has three different "Pantheons.", possessing 7 gods in total. Three Good Gods for each alignment, Three Neutral Gods for each Neutral alignment, and a single Evil Goddess. Each Race has a different name for the Good and Neutral gods, as well as appearance, yet they are the same; the Evil Goddess is an outlier yet again in that she possesses the same appearance to all races, and the same name; Sin. Mostly because she's a Demon who killed the 3 evil Gods thousands of years ago.
For our first little campaign set in this world, we're.... er.... using the Lost Mine of Phandelver from the Beginner's Set. Mostly due to a lack of confidence in my own skills to weave an original session or campaign without much experience DM'ing yet, I've simply changed around a few names and added plot hooks.
Now, a few things to keep in mind while I finish up records of the first session. As one could guess by the title, there is going to be Homebrew classes and races involved in this, mostly plucked off of the internet and then approved of by myself. The second is that we've had two sessions so far, with the third scheduled late novemeber or early december. The final thing is that when writing the journals themselves, I'll keep my status as DM from interfering with their amusement too much, or from creating an enjoyable narrative.
Index
Including me.
The DM
The DM; Me, the potential pretentious and aliteral moron placed in charge of the next several sessions and campaigns between a group of people who have met each other only once or twice before, and who’s only experience DM’ing comes from online RP’s, the rulebook, and the internet in general.
The Silver Dragon; The only person in the group who has ever played before in person, and numerous times at that. Will absolutely try to derail the plot on a Henderson scale or play a thief. Has a reputation for all things implied by being either the former or the later, but still a generally fun player.
The Dragon Elf; One of the first time players, Aerie is quiet. He is also a munchkin, and total wildcard. When imagining what he is like, imagine what I am like on this forum. This is him when he jokes around or decides to speak up.
Sin the Tiefling; A first time player who has absolutely no idea what he is going to do and couldn’t figure out the rules, and is generally along for the ride and the loot. And the RP. Has the potential to either be an amazing player or horrifyingly effective character
Mongol the Dwarve; A Dwarven Ranger, the Silver Dragons friend, and the only other person with actual Tabetop Gaming experience; only with Pathfinder rather than DnD. I know literally nothing about him.
The World itself is one of my own creations, spurned up and existing purely so I can make things up as needed due to it's lack of actually defined locations. Not to say that it doesnt have them; It's just that asides from many different plot points and kingdom borders and capitals, it's blank.
While the World is currently nameless, it's only land mass is a single super-massive continent named it Alteria, and a small chain of islands to the north, one of which is a Volcano which once housed an ancient Greco-Roman empire. Over two-thirds of Alteria is a wind swept desert, separating the Humans kingdoms and lands from the Elves and Dwarves in the North. There is, of course, an abundance of normally unused races and monsters that inhabit the desert:smallbiggrin:.
Alteria has three different "Pantheons.", possessing 7 gods in total. Three Good Gods for each alignment, Three Neutral Gods for each Neutral alignment, and a single Evil Goddess. Each Race has a different name for the Good and Neutral gods, as well as appearance, yet they are the same; the Evil Goddess is an outlier yet again in that she possesses the same appearance to all races, and the same name; Sin. Mostly because she's a Demon who killed the 3 evil Gods thousands of years ago.
For our first little campaign set in this world, we're.... er.... using the Lost Mine of Phandelver from the Beginner's Set. Mostly due to a lack of confidence in my own skills to weave an original session or campaign without much experience DM'ing yet, I've simply changed around a few names and added plot hooks.
Now, a few things to keep in mind while I finish up records of the first session. As one could guess by the title, there is going to be Homebrew classes and races involved in this, mostly plucked off of the internet and then approved of by myself. The second is that we've had two sessions so far, with the third scheduled late novemeber or early december. The final thing is that when writing the journals themselves, I'll keep my status as DM from interfering with their amusement too much, or from creating an enjoyable narrative.
Index