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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pandamonium87" data-source="post: 6377554" data-attributes="member: 6775733">Hi! I'm going to DM a new campaign in the Realms with other 5 people and I would like to share this beginning with you. Tips, suggestions, critiques are welcome and encouraged: this is my first time DMing in 5th edition and I'd love to have some feedback from you!Setting notes<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The campaign takes place in 1396 DR</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The timeline is different from the canonical one, the Spellplague never happens and in 1373 DR there was a huge event (our last campaign ended in June) that was called "The War of the Dragons". In this war Tiamat tried to enhance her power entering in the Faerunian Pantheon destroying the Draconic one (except Bahamut and few other deities). She absorbed Velsharoon (god of Necromancy) and gained control on the Cult of the Dragon to spread her word. The Cult created a new breed of dragons called The Crystal Dragon (which was essentially an improved version of a White Dragon) waking them from the Great Glacier in the North of Faerun. Crystal Dragons invaded Damara, but thanks to the Talon of Justice (an order of good dragons and half-dragons), together with the army of king Gareth Dragonsbane, the enemy army of crystal dragons and frozen evil creatures was defeated. The king and his heirs died during the war, but the barons and the dukes of the land organized a council together with the Talon of Justice leaders (Azhaq in particular which is an ancient gold dragon). In this council they elected the baron Frostmantle king in the Damara.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Myth Drannor was liberated (during the old campaign) and now a lot of Sun elves are coming back in the Realms.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">After the defeat of the Son of Tiamat (made by the PCs), Mystra, Tyr, Corellon, Bahamut and Cyric (which promised to help for a magic ritual conducted by Mystra and Corellon in order to cure his madness) confronted Tiamat and started a brutal fight. The "good" forces were overwhelming, however Cyric betrayed at the end of the fight slaying Tyr from the back. Tiamat was defeted and his essence was imprisoned in the Nine Hells, while Bahamut was accepted by Ao as the new Faerunian god of Justice.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This new campaign will be set in Damara during the reign of Pavel Frostmantle, which is now old (75y) but who lead Damara to shine again reactivating a lot of Bloodstone mines which were closed since the time of Zhengyi the warlock-king. Pavel has a male son called Gregor who is the prince of Damara. Gregor is an hot-head and now that Damara is a rich reign again he would like to punish Impiltur for the neutrality the state chose to have in the fight between Zhengyi and the Damaran and to have kept the same attitude during the War of the Dragons.</li> </ul>Player characters<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Aramil (High Elf Sage/Wizard ): Aramil is a young sage of Myth Drannor who chose to come from Evermeet in the new city after its liberation. He came here with Illephan one of his closest friends and with their master. During one of their journeys in this relatively new land Illephan found a statue of a beautiful winter fairy with an inscription "The crystal could never be imprisoned forever. The Winter fair will rise again". From that day Illephan tried hard to understand the meaning of this sentence, but this drove him mad. When Illephan died on the Moonsea during one of his journey, Aramil took his notes to investigate upon this secret in the honor of the dead friend. For this reason he decided to go nearer to the Great Glacier in the region of Damara.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Alena (Human [Sossal] Hermit/Paladin [Oath of the Ancients]): Alena was born 19 years ago in the barony of Soravia during the War of the Dragons. Her parents came from Sossal (a land in the Great Glacier) whose tribe fled from the invasion of the Crystal Dragons. They lived as refugees near the Rickerwood forest in Damara until they were both killed by mountain orcs. Alena was hidden in a remote angle of the forest where she was found by a druid of the forest. She was raised there until some servants of Auril came to kill her for unknown reasons. The druid protected here but she died during the fight. Her last words were "Reach the mountains of the Great Glacier to find your true destiny". She reached the mountains wandering there until she was nearly frozen to death. While She was unconscious she heard a voice and dreamed a symbol of a snowflake. The voice was in truth of Aurilandur (a Sossal good deity of Cold) which wants to make Alena her chosen one to become the goddess of winter in place of Auril. Alena doesn't know that yet, but her visions led her to Ravensburg.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Perrin (Halfling Outcast/Rogue): born in the lands of Luiren he decided to move from his homeland to travel across Faerun pushed by his halfling blood. He traveled a lor until He reached Ravensburg together with Aramil and Alena to see the Equine fair that takes place every years in Summer.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Grigor (Human [Damaran] Folk Hero / Barbarian): a barbarian of the tribe of the white worm, abandoned his tribe to achieve glory and to prove his valor outside the Macomber Falls (where the tribe is set). He saved the chief of the tribe from some orcs, but the notoriety derived from this act caused him the envy of the son of the leader of the tribe.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">??? (Half-orc Soldier / Bard): he will join us in the next session, but I know he will link his story to the one of the barbarian.</li> </ul>Now they will start in Ravensburg during an equine fair that takes place every year. I plan to let them explore the fair and give them two or three quests to choose from. I would like to link one or two adventures to the background of Aramil/Alena and in general I'd like to focus the campaign on the Aurlandir vs. Auril plot, but I don't want to rush and I want that they discover everything very slowly. I will write the rest after the next session, any comment by that time will be appreciated <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />PS: I'm sorry if my english is not good, but it's not my mother tongue.</blockquote>

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