This is a thread for the established Thursday group to discuss character creation and campaign events. I’ve volunteered to run a campaign to give Grapper a break while getting used to the new rules myself.
This campaign will be run in the 2024 version of the 5E rules. Nobody has to buy anything, I’ve already got the relevant books on D&D Beyond and in Fantasy Grounds.
This campaign will ultimately take place across multiple planes of existence, but the humble beginning will be on Stormwreck Isle just south of Neverwinter on the world of Toril (Forgotten Realms). On the Isle is Dragon’s Rest, a peaceful cloister dedicated to Bahumut. Dragon’s Rest is a place for quiet reflection and meditation; there are many reasons that a person might visit the cloister.
For example:
- You might be seeking a place of quiet refuge away from the hustle and bustle of Neverwinter or Waterdeep.
- You have heard of a wise sage who makes her home on the island, and you are seeking her assistance in quieting a mind haunted by your past deeds.
- Perhaps you are a devout follower of Bahumut, and you wish to pray at the alter in a place you believe to be favored by him.
- You might have been having vivid dreams of shadowy dragons fighting over a burning ocean. You recurring dreams led you to do research where you uncovered some spotty history about Stormwreck Isle, and now you can’t help but go there to try to figure out what is going on.
- You feel the mysterious pull of destiny that led you to board a ship heading to an island off the Sword Coast!
You don’t have to know exactly why you’re headed to the Isle yet though. Set up your character and get a feel for his or her personality. Once you’ve figure out who you are going to play and what your motivations are, I can work with you to come up with a viable reason to visit the Isle.
While you may be able to access the Legacy race/species content on D&D Beyond, I recommend avoiding the Legacy stuff for now. I’m not sure it will play well in Fantasy Grounds if we try to cross the streams. It might be fine, but I’d rather approach with an abundance of caution.
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I just read the rule about rolled stats… I can’t believe you have to witness it. I rolled all 18’s!
Alright, most of you have created characters, but few if any of you have figured out your personality traits, ideals, bonds, and flaws yet. Don’t feel restricted to what the backgrounds suggest; you can absolutely customize something to suite the history you envision for your character. I do need you to get an idea of your character’s personality and write it in though. I need that to determine why you’re headed to the island! Feel free to PM me if you want to discuss ideas.
I struggle with knowing when to dispense justice vs when to exercise compassion. They seem like they can both be answers to the same questions in so many cases. I was told that I would not be able to decide such things without “real world” experience. I was thinking that the priests were just telling me that because they wanted to get rid of me because I ask so many questions. But one of them recommended that I do a fast and pray for guidance. Four days of fasting and I had a vision. I needed to go to “The Island” to seek answers and to find my path. I was very excited and scared about leaving, but the priests seemed even more excited than me! They were soooo very happy… for me. I’m certain that big things are in store for me. I can just feel it!
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I was but a simple farmer when I received my calling. One harvest, while we were threshing grain, a group of bandits attacked our village. Taking the flail I was using in hand, I was guided by Torm to defend my fellow villagers against this attack.
After that day, I sought out the temple of Torm and took up my religious studies. Recently, visions of a shadow creeping across the sea have drawn me to Stormwreck Isle. Perhaps the cloister there can provide answers to the meaning of my visions.
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We will be finishing Grappers homebrew next week and starting this game if your still interested in joining Mak
Beautiful, Grapper. Thanks!
It has been assimilated…
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messed around with Heroforge, this is probly what I will go with. what was the format that you need it in Uggly?
The format before removing the background doesn’t matter too much. After turning the background transparent, it needs to either be a .png or .gif (or other transparent pixel supporting format that I’m not familiar with).
So We accepted the quest to try and find out what is causing the undead to wash up on the shores of the settlement. We were directed to check out a ship the was wrecked 40 years ago (nothing like ignoring a problem for 40 years). When we got to the ship we encountered a few undead on the ship and found the captains logbook. The captain caused the whole problem by asking her evil good to reunite her with her husband/lover (I forget which), which cursed the whole crew and she became undead and made everyone who died nearby turn into undead. we found her locket/holy symbol which was the source of the curse and took it to the grave of her beloved. We burned it on the grave and lifted the curse.
Our next quest is to get magic mushrooms for the potion maker. We ended the session being attacked by wild kobolds on the way to the cave…
oh and we leveled up!
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I realized that I had missed an opportunity after the fact, so I’m going to retcon your encounter with the graveyard guards very slightly. So Uraag had briefly taken out the large desiccated eyeball to show the guards, and when they didn’t recognize it, he put it back in the small bag (I’m assuming a coin-purse type bag here, we didn’t specify during the game). A little later, he asked them if the phrase “Hail the Undying” meant anything to them, and again the guards said they’d never heard of it before. However, what I forgot to mention was that, when Uraag uttered the phrase “Hail the Undying” while holding the small bag the eyeball was in, he would have felt the eyeball jump and twitch a little, like it had rolled to a new position inside the bag in response to the phrase.
Obviously Uraag would have reacted somehow to that, so we can pick up there next week.
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