CarlosDosBrickos
Explorer
I'm in need of a steer. I have the germ of a cool idea, but I can't figure out how to make an exciting encounter out of it.
Here's the setup; whilst tracking a missing wizard the party have stumbled across his domain in the Elemental Chaos. The domain is made up of a number of earthmotes. The wizard is long gone.
One of these earthmotes happens to be sentient, a gigantic non-humanoid earth elemental called Terrain. He used to be best buddies with the wizard before back in the day. His surface is crawling with mud mephits grumbling and complaining about anything and everything.
And... that's it. I love the idea of a location that turns out to be a person, but I just can't find a fun player experience in there. What happens when they get there? Where's the drama, the challenge, the conflict?
I'm happy for either combat or a cool RP encounter, and could really use some inspiration to help turn a vaguely interesting concept into something that will be awesome for my party to play.
Help!
Here's the setup; whilst tracking a missing wizard the party have stumbled across his domain in the Elemental Chaos. The domain is made up of a number of earthmotes. The wizard is long gone.
One of these earthmotes happens to be sentient, a gigantic non-humanoid earth elemental called Terrain. He used to be best buddies with the wizard before back in the day. His surface is crawling with mud mephits grumbling and complaining about anything and everything.
And... that's it. I love the idea of a location that turns out to be a person, but I just can't find a fun player experience in there. What happens when they get there? Where's the drama, the challenge, the conflict?
I'm happy for either combat or a cool RP encounter, and could really use some inspiration to help turn a vaguely interesting concept into something that will be awesome for my party to play.
Help!