D&D 5E New Campaign Help

[Zardnaar]

I'm starting a new campaign in about a week with session 0.

I gave you the players several choices and they chose the world of Midgard and an Egyptian themed game, starting at level 3 and they want to start in a tavern.

My plan is to run an ad entire of my own design incorporating the maps of The Mummy's Mask AP pt 1 from Paizo for Pathfinder before transitioning to adventures from the Quests of Doom.

They are starting near the city of Per Bastet, run by a god Queen sacred to cats. The plan is to continue exploring a nearby Necropolis Annu Asir.


Anyway if people would like to suggest away the follow things are blank.

Name of Starting Inn.

Some factions. Another 3

I have the following.

Golden Falcon Antiquities
Scorched Hand, rival adventurers

NPC names will be lifted from the Mummy's Mask and Egyptian names from Xanathars.

I have a vague metaplot outline of ancients from 5000 years ago returning to the modern era or the old God's (Ra, ISIS etc) coming back or an ancient race posing as them returning.

Of course mummies and skelitins in the sand are major themes.

 

[Istbor]

Well since it is Bastet's city... The Cat's Meow, for an Inn name?

Though if you want something less, tongue in cheek, I like to mash together a verb and then a noun as my Inn names. Usually works.

 

[Zardnaar]

I normally have something like The Happy or Hungry Halfling.

They won't be straying to far from home base except for one adventure and that might be via magical walkways.

 

[Ancalagon]

I'm going to be vague because I don't know enough about your setting, but when I hear Egypt, I think religion.

So a few factions would be the "main/official/dominant" cult, and a rival/suppressed/upstart faction. If the main religion is so dominant that there is no oppositions, well then there is infighting

This has nothing to do with "war between the gods" - it's strictly human rivalry.

Third example.

The Cult of the Purple Beetle. This cult favors the servants, the laborers and the slaves. The head priest passed away, and the new one is a bit of a hothead. Whispers of labor revolutions are spreading.

Fourth example: If this is not a secret murderous cult, what is?!? Medjed (god) - Wikipedia

 

[ccs]

Name of Starting Inn.

Amun-Re's
The Oasis of the White Palm
Martek's

 

[Zardnaar]

Amun-Re's
The Oasis of the White Palm
Martek's

How about Marteks Oasis?

Nice throwback anyway atm Oasis of the White palm it is

 

[Yaarel]

When I think of Ancient Egypt (in addition to religion), I think of advanced technology, everything from chemistry (such as pigments, artificial gems), math (engineering, astronomy), medicine (honey as an antibacterial, opium to ease pain), zoology (knowing how to raise bees, artificially inseminate elephants), and so on. In their day, Egyptians were probably the most technologically advanced culture on earth. Much of what we credit the Greeks for, they got from Egypt.

I also think of magic, when I think of Ancient Egypt. The culture immersed in the concept of magic in just about every aspect of life. Virtually every piece of jewelry was an amulet that was worn strictly for a magical purpose. The color coding was central for its magical power. Most of what is written or drawn is for a magical purpose (blessing oneself, cursing adversaries, securing afterlife, and so on). They are somewhat like vision boards, describing the way the world ought to be.

In D&D terms, it might work as a place where much of the population are Clerics with knowledge and arcana domains. Also Artificers.

The Nile River and its black soil are life. The desert wilderness is death.

The sky is female. The earth is masculine.

Egyptians are beer drinkers.

 

[Zardnaar]

Nuria Natal is a theocratic magocracy with a Titanic leyline running down the Nuria (Nile).

 

[cbwjm]

A faction could be named the Eye of Ra. A group of holy assassins or at least assassins who think their work is holy. Perhaps they have been waiting for the return of the old gods and now that they are back have been targeting members of organisations that oppose their return.

 

[Zardnaar]

Ra doesn't exist as such but I am thinking of borrowing the old gods idea from Stargate SG1/Pathfinder and having them be in the back ground.

Haven't decided if they are an ancient race, the actual old gods (Egyptian pantheon IRL), or maybe something like Dracoliches. Ra was an adult blue Dragon last time I used "Ra". I like the idea and will steal it though what "Ra" is can wait.