I barrowed this idea from someone else for my game, and I need help making it more like a riddle and harder to figure out exactly what to do. This is going to be the starter for a long campaign.
Many eons ago, magic was still one, unified, force. No clerics, no mages, just users of magic. One such user studied hard and tried to make himself into a god. The gods, fearing for their own survival, created powerful magic items to battle this upstart. The war was brutal and long. When this would-be god was finally put down, the gods discovered they were unable to destroy the weapons they had created. They hid them in a protected location and broke the map up into 4 parts and gave one part each to the humans, elves, dwarves, and halflings. The weapons were to remain hidden against a time when they were again needed to fight some terrible evil. They also split magic up into the main parts we know of today, essence magic (clerical), channeling magic (magic users), and mentalism (psionics). Over the generations, these items came to be known as the Timely Treasures. Each of the races developed their own hiding places for the maps and guarded them with their own great items of power, known as the Watchful Wonders.
this will be for level 2-4 charcters. mostly experinced players. i want to keep it as a long campaign.
any ideas?
Many eons ago, magic was still one, unified, force. No clerics, no mages, just users of magic. One such user studied hard and tried to make himself into a god. The gods, fearing for their own survival, created powerful magic items to battle this upstart. The war was brutal and long. When this would-be god was finally put down, the gods discovered they were unable to destroy the weapons they had created. They hid them in a protected location and broke the map up into 4 parts and gave one part each to the humans, elves, dwarves, and halflings. The weapons were to remain hidden against a time when they were again needed to fight some terrible evil. They also split magic up into the main parts we know of today, essence magic (clerical), channeling magic (magic users), and mentalism (psionics). Over the generations, these items came to be known as the Timely Treasures. Each of the races developed their own hiding places for the maps and guarded them with their own great items of power, known as the Watchful Wonders.
this will be for level 2-4 charcters. mostly experinced players. i want to keep it as a long campaign.
any ideas?
