Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is LIVE! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Running Tales from the Yawning Portal as a single campaign
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7103926" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>The modules were never meant to be run together as a single campaign, so if you want some thread to tie them together you're going to have to do it yourself.</p><p></p><p>So you start with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots" target="_blank">TheSeven Basic Plots</a></p><p></p><p>Overcoming the Monster</p><p>Rags to Riches</p><p>The Quest</p><p>Voyage and Return</p><p>Comedy</p><p>Tragedy</p><p>Rebirth</p><p></p><p></p><p>If you decide on Overcoming the Monster, there's some nefarious ne'er do well organization that you need your PCs to hunt down. There are clues to who they are in each of the dungeons and they have to get through all of them to find out who's really behind it all. Personally I think it's Elminister and he's been playing us all along but that's just my choice.</p><p></p><p>Of course there's just Rags to Riches. Someone sells the group maps to the different dungeons and promises they'll be rich beyond their wildest imagination if they succeed.</p><p></p><p>Another option would be The Quest. You have to find a piece of a magic gizmo in each of the dungeons.</p><p></p><p>And so on. If you want an overarching campaign you do have to kind of weave it into the story, adding it on top. I'm debating this myself, I just got the book so one option I'm thinking of is to just tell my players (all experienced players) that we're just doing old school dungeon crawl and not worrying about overall story arch like we usually do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 7103926, member: 6801845"] The modules were never meant to be run together as a single campaign, so if you want some thread to tie them together you're going to have to do it yourself. So you start with [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots"]TheSeven Basic Plots[/URL] Overcoming the Monster Rags to Riches The Quest Voyage and Return Comedy Tragedy Rebirth If you decide on Overcoming the Monster, there's some nefarious ne'er do well organization that you need your PCs to hunt down. There are clues to who they are in each of the dungeons and they have to get through all of them to find out who's really behind it all. Personally I think it's Elminister and he's been playing us all along but that's just my choice. Of course there's just Rags to Riches. Someone sells the group maps to the different dungeons and promises they'll be rich beyond their wildest imagination if they succeed. Another option would be The Quest. You have to find a piece of a magic gizmo in each of the dungeons. And so on. If you want an overarching campaign you do have to kind of weave it into the story, adding it on top. I'm debating this myself, I just got the book so one option I'm thinking of is to just tell my players (all experienced players) that we're just doing old school dungeon crawl and not worrying about overall story arch like we usually do. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Running Tales from the Yawning Portal as a single campaign
Top