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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wannabehero" data-source="post: 5117180" data-attributes="member: 88634">Re: Campaigns in a nutshellAs a GM I find the hardest sell to my players, from a RP perspective, is coming up with the reason they form the party.  For my newest campaign I devised the following adventure (and excuse), which my players loved.The CrucibleThe players awaken in the *regional state-power*'s arcane academy with no recollection of who they are or why they are there. A member of the academy (Professor) explains to the PC's that they were brought there to undergo a magical ritual to protect them from being magically tracked.  Unfortunately, the ritual was interrupted part way through when the academy was invaded by a small force of unknown assailants who are seeking the PC's for nefarious purposes.As a result of the incomplete magical ritual, the PC's have awakened with their memories fragmented but with their knowledge (read: skills and class) generally intact.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">As they further quest in later adventures each player is provided the opportunity to rediscover their past and regain their memories (wonderful RP possibilities, and fantastic adventure potential focused on the PC's).</li> </ul>The assailants belong to a group/cult/power from which the magisters of the academy sought to protect the PC's with the botched ritual. Each of the PC's has qualities, signs at their birth, and/or family lineage that prophesies their greater destiny in the world (the plot-line of the rest of the campaign).The Professor leads the players to the only "safe" exit of the academy (a secret exit).  It is through a training dungeon, known as The Crucible to students of the academy.  This dungeon serves as a final exam to students training to be field-agents for the *regional state-power* and is stocked with real hazards and monsters (suggest vermin, undead, and animated objects).The dungeon is not located in or under the academy, but rather is hidden underground at a considerable distance. Students enter the dungeon through a portal in the academy and exit through another portal at the dungeon's end.  However, there is also a secret passage at the end of the dungeon that leads to the surface, and therefor escape for the PC's.  The Professor will seal the portals in the academy after the PC's enter the dungeon, protecting them from pursuit.  The players must then face the dangers, tricks, and challenges of The Crucible.-FinI apologize for this not exactly being an "Adventure in a sentence". <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/angel.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":angel:" title="Angel    :angel:" data-shortname=":angel:" /></blockquote>

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