Hey y'all!
I figured I'd update you guys on the status of my first ever full fledged DND campaign.
Rather than doing the Dragon Age 2 thing, I decided to create my own special story.
Introducing, my own original story: The Isles of Dramora.
"The Isles of Dramora are a series of islands surrounding a volcanic island of the same name. Ranging from grasslands to tundras to a straight up crater, a new group of adventurers will uncover the mysteries of these isles, finding out the truth may be more than they bargained for."
Basically, my group will start off just taking care of goblins and bandits and zombies and whatever, but around level 7 or 8 they'll meet the first of the villains, and at level 10 they'll meet my BBEG.
My first villain for this is a level 15 human fighter (brute, great weapon fighting) named Elise Starlight. She's neutral evil & her background is iron route bandit. Her backstory is she was in a bandit clan but her group was arrested, and the BBEG saved her from being arrested.
My BIG BAD is a level 20 chromatic black dragonborn blood hunter (order of the mutant) named Kahrish Saantel. She's chaotic evil & her background is also iron route bandit. Basically she went mad after her clan was killed by a group of holy warriors who worshipped Bahamut, and now she seeks to destroy the volcanic island at the center of the isles and bring about the destruction of everything. (Won't reveal what's at the volcano just yet :3)
Other characters I have for this campaign include our lovely group of NPCs known as Maiza Wyrmheart, Arielle, and Azura. They are known as the Lost Marbles, and they travel from island to island helping wherever they can.
I'm also planning on having my own little inter-dimensional merchant show up: a half goblin half firbolg gal named Michi. She will be the newest apprentice to my friend's vampire merchant aka Dimitri (aka the bane of Kristan's existence.)
(SHE'S SO CUTE!!!!!)
Others include: Varric Tethras, Flemeth aka the Witch of the Wilds, and characters based on Fenris, Isabela, Anders, and Merrill.
I'm also planning on making an NPC that'll basically be based on Dolly Parton because right now I'm OBSESSED with Dolly so I wanna pay homage to one of my favorite women in the entire Milky Way galaxy.
I'm literally so excited for this campaign, I've been doing so much planning when I'm not working it's not even funny.
I even had my DM friend help me workshop my villains just a tad. And I'm planning on having my birth mom's boyfriend make me minis of my villains. It's a fun process and I'm LOVING IT.
No idea when my campaign is starting yet. I'm still in the process of workshopping it. And I have to make Fenris, Anders, Isabela, and Merrill yet. Plus I have to write the encounters for when Namira, Lunara, and Lucy show up.
But two of my players have already made their characters. Only one of them makes me wanna cry XD
I need to come up with a theme song for this campaign. I could use that song I've been hearing people cover on TikTok (Valhalla Calling I think it's called, it's at the beginning of this chapter) but I could use some ideas.
I'll update you all when I officially start my campaign! This'll be my second time DMing (the first time being that Backrooms one shot that my group absolutely loved.) so I'm very excited.
As always, take care of each other & be good people :)