D&D 5E Pick three big adventure books and mash them together for a new campaign

[darjr]

Take three big adventure books and mash them together for a new campaign.

I’ll start with
Strixhaven
Witchlight
Candlekeep

StrixCandleLight

At Strixhaven the Library invites the Carnival and shenanigans ensue.

Many university artifacts and books are lost, scattered in the carnival and the feywild.

You must retrieve them and deal with thier new awakened state, ie the adventures within.

All while trying to graduate!

Milestones and a rearrangement of Candlekeep books and Witchlight events as players go back and forth to the carnival and then the feywild in a Lion Witch and Wardrobe fashion.

 

[Retreater]

Curse of Strahd
Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

Strahd of the Dragon Queen Heist

Strahd's body has been hidden throughout the realms. The cult of the Dragon is assembling the body parts to resurrect Strahd as a champion of Tiamat. The party must steal the body parts before the cult gets them.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Expedition to the Barrier Peaks
Temple of Elemental Evil
The Forest Oracle

Expedition to the Temple of the Evil Forest Oracle of the Barrier Peaks

The party must defeat the forces of the Oracle who are spreading indecipherable prophecies and chaos. The “temple” is actually the remains of a crashed terraforming starship, whose insane, malfunctioning AI is sending out cyborgs to recreate the world in accordance with the last working program it can access- a low-rated LARP adventure a crewman was using when everything went haywire.

The cyborgs are made by animating defeated organic creatures with faulty control tech. Their numbers are numerous but uncertain. They are not consistently purposeful in their actions, but neither do they tarry or merely wander. Those with hands may carry things, but may not.

 

[Hussar]

Neat

 

[el-remmen]

I sense a new IRON DM category developing.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Been here a while, and I’ve seen the threads on occasion, but…

what IS Iron DM?

 

[humble minion]

Ravenloft
Strixhaven
Frostmaiden

in the bleak northern moors there is a … unique … boarding school, where problem pupils are sent. Those with dark secrets of their own or hidden in their family tree, the ones caught dallying with the duke’s daughter, or vivisecting their little sister’s kitten, or reading the chained, lead-encased books that grandfather SWEARS never get let out of his rune-warded safe. Those whose stepparents or guardians wouldn’t be overly concerned if they didn’t come back.

School life is bad enough - but it gets worse when the snows set in and summer doesn’t come. The roads are cut off, form 4C is offering human sacrifices to ward off the cold since Scruggs the groundskeeper still hasn’t got around to fixing the holes in the walls, and everyone studies REAL hard in Professor Skeanley’s class because failing students get invited to personal tuition sessions which seem to end up with the student not being seen around again and Skeanley somehow discovering another tasty stash of ‘ham’ in the cellars.


Get good grades
Get out alive
Get even

 

[UngeheuerLich]

I usually do
- Trasure hunt first...

then probably:

• essential's kit
• curse of strahd

 

[Sepulchrave II]

The Great Pendragon Campaign
Pirates of Drinax
Masks of Nyarlathotep

Masks of Pendrinax

Bespectacled investigators in plate armor chase clues to an Elder Horror across an entire sector over five generations in a steam-powered starship in a quest for glory.

It takes the players the rest of their lives, and they still don't finish it.

 

[el-remmen]

Been here a while, and I’ve seen the threads on occasion, but…

what IS Iron DM?

The first thread of this post explains and then gives context and some history. But basically, contestants get a list of ingredients they have to use to construct a game scenario which are judged head to head by one or more judges.