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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chaochou" data-source="post: 5509853" data-attributes="member: 99817">At the risk of sounding grouchy, what that reads like to me is a novel not a game.Or to put it another way... Assume I'm a player in your game. What significant decisions do I get to make? It looks like it's all planned out for me.I don't want to mention the 'R' word, but the thing I've learned about campaigns is that success is all about player buy-in. You, as a DM, can have what you think is the coolest, most epic setting and plot in the world and it's almost worthless if the players aren't down with it.I like the core concept of a world ruled by greedy, petty ex-kings-turned-vampires who usurped a noble dragon. Why not start with that idea and see what characters your players want within that setting and trust them to inject some more coolness into it, instead of planning the whole thing out?Maybe someone wants to play one of the long-lost heirs of a now vampire king. Another wants to play one of the vampire goon squad who's having second thoughts about slaughtering villlagers... what about dragonborn? Might be persecuted? Might be a relative of the good guy? What about a religious insurrection who've discovered the vampire secret?Lots of potential there, but IMO you want to rein in the 'plot' and just pitch the setting at the players and see what ideas they have and where they want to see things go - I think if you impose the above ideas on the players they'll likely be 'meh' but if you let them come up with their own ideas you're on a winner. Give them some room to breathe.</blockquote>

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