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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 2770603" data-attributes="member: 7177">Here's something I always do when working out my campaign: Think up some Bad Guys.These shouldn't be run-off-the-mill Bad Guys you defeat at the end of an adventure. No, these should be enemies whose minions will keep the PCs occupied for a long time. Don't even bother to give them stats at the moment - just think of their general resources, abilities, goals, and minions. They need a Grand Plan, too - a dragon sitting in a remote mountain cave on his hoard might be scary, but if that's all he is doing he is uninteresting. The Bad Guys want to achive something, and this is what will set adventures in motion.Because once you know the Grand Plan, you will be easily able to figure out how to involve the PCs. Perhaps it is as simple as some of his minions riding into town and trying to take it over. But perhaps they are mining a vital resource nearby, using zombies as miners. Or maybe these minions are pursuing a Damsel in Distress who knows Vital Information and whom the PCs can protect, or Free from Captivity (and no, the plot idea doesn't have to be original - all it matters is the execution...   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ). First the PCs will battle the Bad Guys' Minions, then their Henchmen (better minions who often have agendas of their own), and when they reach high level, the Bad Guys themselves.With this setup, adventures pretty much write themselves. I suggest thinking up several, so that you can switch between different storylines if one gets stale. I'd say create one human Bad Guy (a wealthy rancher, a mad wizard, etc.), a nonhuman but still humanoid Bad Guy (an orc warlord or ogre magi) and a truly monstrous one (a powerful undead or an ancient dragon who does have goals for the world around him). Then think up their Grand Plans, their Minions, and you are good to go...Your thoughts?</blockquote>

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