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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 9559859" data-attributes="member: 467">If finally sat down and started my GM document:----------“In The Shadow of the Stolen Throne”Campaign Overview“In The Shadow of the Stolen throne” is a Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition campaign designed for use with the 2024 rules, as well as additional materials compatible with 5th Edition from various publishers. The campaign will be played via Fantasy Grounds, using Discord for communication and record keeping.The campaign is intended to be a player driven sandbox with a singular motivating factor among the PCs: the long-serving wizard advisor to the Realm has usurped the throne and murdered the royal family except for a singular heir meant to legitimize his reign, and the PCs have all been wronged (directly or indirectly) by the usurper and swear revenge. The PCs are starting the game as neophytes without the resources or personal power to enact their revenge. Play will be built around what the players choose to do in order to achieve that power, until they decide they can finally face the usurper.To this end, I will be using a regional map (called “the Autumnlands”) by Dyson Logos and filling it with both randomly generated and published locations, lairs, settlements and mini-adventures. Players may literally do anything they want within the capability of their characters, with the table agreement that their ultimate goal is to eventually take down the usurper. Of course they will develop other goals as time goes on, and relationships with factions and NPCs, and so on. As such, I am going to establish some foundational information and populate the map to some degree, but prep will often happen on an “as needed” basis based on the choices made by the players.The RulesWe will be using the 2024 5E D&D rulebooks with very limited (if any) player facing supplemental material -- at least at first. It may be as we play that we realize these rules are inferior to other 5E material and we will make adjustments as needed. Initially, though, we will be testing the 2024 rules. Ability scores will be determined using the standard array or point buy, as the player chooses.</blockquote>

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