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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goonalan" data-source="post: 7571889" data-attributes="member: 16069">We D&D.Lost Mine of Phandelver #14d Next?The plan from the very start was that we would play Lost Mine of Phandelver as a sort of a one off, maybe we’d look at other adventures for the Blessed Avengers, but the Lost Mines was really about making sure that people (particularly the noobs- Sandy & Jackie) were in to it (D&D) enough to play on.I’ve DMed Lost Mines maybe 5-6 times so far, so it was just a very easy scenario for me to run, one that I was confident I could make a fun story for the guys, and so all the time- while the sessions were going on, I was thinking- what next?Then some things happened in-game that got me thinking, they were-1)    The conversion of the Dragon Cultists in Thundertree by Myrium, four NPC/bad guys that see the light in a road-to-Damascus style conversion, and take to worshiping Lathander, and following Myrium around like lost puppies. They become The Brothers of the First Light- Watt, Lumen, Lux and Ray the Zealot. I enjoyed this moment (almost as much as the players did), it however started me thinking.Also-2)    Not so much one event as multiple events, on a variety of occasions the Blessed Avengers proved themselves to be very adept at the chat, by which I mean roleplay. They seemed to enjoy RPing their way through various situations- pretending to be Redbrands, pretending to be Dragon Cultists, et al. I’m not saying they are the world’s greatest but because all of the players know each other well (and are sufficiently aged to not give a stuff) they are much more likely to risk playing the giddy-goat (making fools of themselves) in order to roleplay well, or else just to play their part. They do voices, impressions even- talk in character quite a lot, particularly when we are in a scene, and generally have no issue with going toe-to-toe RP-wise with NPCs and enemies alike. I think it helps that three out of the four players work jobs that involve them getting on their feet in front of other folk on a regular basis. Last bit- I wanted to DM one of the WOTC epic campaign modules…So, I have players that like roleplaying, and a bunch of ex-Dragon Cult members who have recently seen the error of the wanton ways.Obvious really, of course I didn’t tell the players which scenario they would be playing next but I sold the idea well to them- a large campaign, multiple chapters- travel all over the Sword Coast, a terrifying enemy, intrigue and adventure aplenty, money and experience, also a chance for the PCs to meet high ranking officials- faction leaders, Lords etc. and possibly (in the end) to save the Sword Coast from destruction.Of course, they went for it.However they were more than a little disappointed/weirded out when I told them that their PCs for this next adventure would be The Brothers of the First Light, but we’ll get to that in the first session.Keep reading, there’s more…</blockquote>

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