New Homebrew... Thoughts?

[mseds99]

Sounds fun. I like the epic scope of the campaign. My advice would to get one of the scrolls whose alignment corresponds to the party's alignment in the hands of theplayers. I would make this a chance encounter to increase the "fate" factor involved. The best way I think is that the PC's see a suspicious looking person with injuries stalking in a dark city street. 100 feet away, a group of elves are obviously looking for the individual. The elves see the person and shoot him down. The party can interject in this scenario whenever they want too. The person is carrying one of the scrolls. If the PC's allow the elves to gain possesion of it....

Just my$.02.

 

[ThaDium]

Scroll Details

I'm not planning on giving the PC's one of the Nine main scrolls because I'd give them too much power. I'm treating "The Nine" as somewhere between Gods and Artifacts.

They have, however, met a dragon who controls the CG Scroll. He filled them in about the Scrolls and their purpose and told them about the elves' control of the LN, TN, LE and NE Scrolls. I'm calling the Elves who control those scrolls "The Quartet."

The party is currently being tested by the Dragon to see if they are worthy of their scrolls.

I'm treating the party's scrolls as "avatars" of the Nine Scrolls. Which puts the PC's in a similar position.

Incidentally, explaining the scrolls in-game caused me to also explain alignments too. One of my players who has been playing this game forever (1st ed.) was impressed by how I handled it and told me he hadn't seen someone bring alignments into the game before. I took it as a compliment when they gave me DM x.p. for it.