Players Beware You’re In For A Scare

Probably not going to post super frequently, but I guess if you’re into DnD (and possibly other TTRPGS later on) you can stick around.

That’s starting to form together, and I’m finally getting a sense of my bad guy. This is probably a deep cut, but they’re very much going to be inspired by the Marquess from the Fairyland books. More of a changeling/foundling than a Narnia Gone Wrong type beat though. Also thinking of experimenting more with animism or nature spirits and having religion take more of a backseat. In Magtheraia, I invented an entire pantheon (with only some planes and a name taken from The Forgotten Realms) and the gods have a major role in the story, almost to the point of it being a mythic fantasy. In this one, I’m thinking it’s more of a background thing, with some influence on the plot but not as big. Also relatively low magic? Maggie was too, so I still gotta think in that one.

I’m curious about this because my players spared Doru and he went on to live the whole campaign, eventually becoming a free vampire. But in my best friend’s Curse of Strahd campaign (who was a player in mine) they killed Doru. I think that most people probably killed him, but wanted some info. I have a feeling the results might be skewed away from killing him here, but I could be wrong.

Genuinely, I do plan on pitching 3-5 of my more developed ideas (and tbf two are modules I’d like to run) when it’s time for a new campaign to be planned and having my players rank them so it’s not all on me to choose. But still having these ideas is weird/hard cause I feel the need to start something new and accidentally overwhelm myself again lol.

“If this campaign were a show, I’d probably have binged it all already. And then started writing fanfic or something”

My NPC companion pacing: we need to name everyone