Beneath the Cypress Tree Session 0
I revamped Beneath The Cypress Tree to be more cringe but fun for me and have started playing it with my brothers during our summer roadtrip.
Unlike the last time I hosted this campaign with them (Speak No Harm), I've hardly planned anything and so they've been loving it. The world is super open ended even if it's more stressful for me haha!!
We played our first session yesterday and my youngest brother wouldn't let me stop. Then he proceeded to bug me to run two sessions today as well ahahaha!!
The world has four core elements (Earth, Sky, Sea and Blaze) who all dislike each other for a variety of historic and false reasons. Everyone is an animal race and has Elemental magic, but the study of magic in use and practice is very rare! Druids in particular are quite hard to find and dragons are royalty. I'll reveal details about the main town as my players discover them as my brother seems kind of engaged (he's drawing the crew right now), and I can't be bothered to lore dump haha.
Our current party consists of a Sea, crocodile, ranger Deinosuchus (Deino), a salt water crocodile whose ancestors of nomads never bought land in their local town and just lived off selling fish. His customers have been leaving of late, saying they've found better quality with the new business in town run by cods.
A Earth, worm, rouge Worm Tongue (Mr Tongue), the towns most eligible bachelor who actually steals all his wealth from the banquets he attends. He was one of Deino's black market customers, as he used 'The Wreck' as a way to launder money and avoid suspicion.
A Earth, dog, druid Merry Christmas Brandy-Buck Moss, an excitable pup who's modelled after our own pet, that I don't know what todo with in game until it's time for the plot twist I wrote.
And two other characters made for our parents who are yet to be revealed.
