Can I get some ideas?

[heromedel]

It was a movie, where a holy text with the meaning of life, immortality, everything on it. IT was also tatooed on his skin.

I think I have seen it once before, but now I know what movie I am going to watch tonight.

 

[Dandu]

Haha, definitely unique to me. Although I think that I need something a little less by chance and more earned or pre-ordained maybe. Well maybe its just the whole board game aspect, haha.

although maybe a god was eating alphabet soup and accidently spilled some.

Perhaps you should make it so that the morals with runes are actually the tiles, and the board is the mortal realm, adventuring parties are word combinations, and the location battles takes place on are those word score areas.

 

[PureGoldx58]

I think I have seen it once before, but now I know what movie I am going to watch tonight.

It was a pretty good movie. And I am pretty sure that would be an interesting campaign hook, I know I would like it.


But when I come up with Plot hooks I am usually reading a list of spells and think to myself "Oh man that could hold some attention."

 

[heromedel]

Perhaps you should make it so that the morals with runes are actually the tiles, and the board is the mortal realm, adventuring parties are word combinations, and the location battles takes place on are those word score areas.

Sweet, maybe enemy runes could be rival gods words. and the church is a dictionary.

I think I might go with the idea that souls that are marked by runes are valuable to outsiders, maybe because of some capacity tht the soul has or just because its like a divine minted currency. so the PC with a rune might have some extra power but is owned by an outsider and might be traded or hunted.

Otherwise maybe a powerful wizard lost his spell book by casting a bad spell and it manifested on peoples skin throughout the land as runes.

but keep the ideas coming please.

 

[heromedel]

It was a pretty good movie. And I am pretty sure that would be an interesting campaign hook, I know I would like it.


But when I come up with Plot hooks I am usually reading a list of spells and think to myself "Oh man that could hold some attention."

I like that idea about reading through spells for plot hooks. I might go with something about maybe a truename or connection to like a tree of life, but enable for the runes to be about the meaning of life I would need to know what the meaning of life for that universe is. Which I haven't come up with yet.

 

[PureGoldx58]

I like that idea about reading through spells for plot hooks. I might go with something about maybe a truename or connection to like a tree of life, but enable for the runes to be about the meaning of life I would need to know what the meaning of life for that universe is. Which I haven't come up with yet.

My campaign I am starting up any day now was loosely brought upon by the idea of the spell "Shatter Soul" From the book "Sword & Sorcery -Relics and Rituals" where the spell fragments a targets soul killing them instantly and places those fragments into the nearest person. In order to resurrect them you need to gather the people/animals/living beings together, perform a ritual, cast wish, and then True Resurrection.

All of that brought so many ideas that I had to do it and our current DM decided to pass me the reigns when his campaign ended because he was intrigued.

 

[heromedel]

Sounds cool.

(it took me an hour to realize there was a post on the second page)

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

First let me say, excellent ideas.

By runes I mean like visible markings similar to birthmarks or tattoos. I imagine very visible so more like a magical tattoo.

I suppose. You could maybe think of the rune child for Arcana Unearthed. Except you can actually be born with them, and its for a new setting not that one, lol.

Um... Eberron?

 

[heromedel]

Um... Eberron?

I don't know anything much about Eberron, does it have runes? Anyway what I ment was this is going to be a homemade setting.

 

[Rhun]

I don't know anything much about Eberron, does it have runes? Anyway what I ment was this is going to be a homemade setting.

Dragonmarks. Similar to what you are looking for, but not quite right for your game, I wouldn't think. You can read about them here.