D&D 5E Heroes of Baldur's Gate is a D&D Adventure From Bioware's Baldur's Gate Designer

stadi · Apr 26, 2019

Regarding those epic background. There are four of them but the adventure can played with 4-6 players. Are you supposed to reuse them? Or are only some of the characters supposed to have them? Are they your backgrounds if you choose them or do you also get a regular background?

ldonyo · Apr 26, 2019

Bought a copy of the PDF. I just might have to do a TPK so I have an excuse to start one of my groups in this. ;-)

BBShockwave · Apr 27, 2019

Hmm, is this official WotC product or just third party release like the Kobold Press stuff? Might check it out for the nice artwork, but not that interested otherwise.

Also might wanna correct the article title as the link says hereos.

Paul Farquhar · Apr 27, 2019

stadi said:
Regarding those epic background. There are four of them but the adventure can played with 4-6 players. Are you supposed to reuse them? Or are only some of the characters supposed to have them? Are they your backgrounds if you choose them or do you also get a regular background?

It doesn't really specify, but I think it would be a bit silly to have a whole party of "chosen ones". I wouldn't allow more than one or two, with the rest of the party normal backgrounds.

If you have the kind of group who might consider it unfair I would randomise it, perhaps by writing the epic backgrounds on cards, along with several "normal background", and have the players draw one.

Storywise, you could have multiple bhaalspawn, but the others are unique.

CapnZapp · Apr 27, 2019

BBShockwave said:
Also might wanna correct the article title as the link says hereos.

Cheerios!

CapnZapp · Apr 27, 2019

Paul Farquhar said:
If you have the kind of group who might consider it unfair

Isn't the best solution to explain to the group this adventure draws its inspiration from a computer game where everybody (but one) plays expendable NPCs in the protagonist's story...?

Joking aside, maybe the best option is to keep it a secret who's the chosen one, and only determining who it is through play? (Unlike the CRPG every player around the table is equally invested)

Paul Farquhar · Apr 27, 2019

CapnZapp said:
Isn't the best solution to explain to the group this adventure draws its inspiration from a computer game where everybody (but one) plays expendable NPCs in the protagonist's story...?

Joking aside, maybe the best option is to keep it a secret who's the chosen one, and only determining who it is through play? (Unlike the CRPG every player around the table is equally invested)

The epic backgrounds, as written, don't really allow for that. I did do something along those lines in my current campaign though. I created two mundane-sounding backgrounds ("squire" and "village healer") and suggested that a couple of my players might choose to play them (which they did). One of them in particular had a bit of chosen-oneishness hidden behind it.

Burnside · Apr 27, 2019

stadi said:
Regarding those epic background. There are four of them but the adventure can played with 4-6 players. Are you supposed to reuse them? Or are only some of the characters supposed to have them? Are they your backgrounds if you choose them or do you also get a regular background?

They're entirely optional. I find them increasingly ludicrous, but that doesn't necessarily mean they wouldn't be fun to play. And yes, you could potentially have a party of four with every player using one of the epic backgrounds, or a party where up to four have epic backgrounds and additional players have "normal" backgrounds, or additional epic backgrounds created by the player and the DM, or a party where one person has an epic background and the other characters are ham-and-eggers.

Regarding re-using them, that's not what's intended, but with the Bhaalspawn and clone backgrounds there's no reason why you couldn't have more than one (Bhaal did spawn a lot of spawn, and clones are clones).

Personally, as a player, I would find the clone, emperor, and dragon backgrounds very difficult to RP as written. As a DM, I'd keep the mechanics of those backgrounds but make the fluff a bit less over the top just so the whole party isn't composed of weirdo aliens struggling to understand this strange place your kind calls "The Sword Coast."

Burnside · Apr 27, 2019

BBShockwave said:
Hmm, is this official WotC product or just third party release like the Kobold Press stuff? Might check it out for the nice artwork, but not that interested otherwise.

Also might wanna correct the article title as the link says hereos.

It's a 3rd party product but releasing products on DMsGuild allows indie creators to make use of WoTC's IP (Forgotten Realms, Ravenloft, Eberron, Ravnica settings & associated characters included) and certain creatures that are not in the OGL (mind flayers, etc). WoTC gets a cut of every sale on DMsGuild.

Morrus · Apr 27, 2019

BBShockwave said:
Hmm, is this official WotC product or just third party release like the Kobold Press stuff? Might check it out for the nice artwork, but not that interested otherwise.

This branding stuff is getting scary.

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