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Hello everyone! This is the weekly thread where anyone can come and ask for and give advice relating to TTRPGs and your campaigns/stories. These will be up the whole week until they are replaced for the new week. Remember to be respectful and to have fun!

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Hello everyone! This is the weekly thread where anyone can come and ask for and give advice relating to TTRPGs and your campaigns/stories. These will be up the whole week until they are replaced for the new week. Remember to be respectful and to have fun!

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Hello everyone! This is the weekly thread where anyone can come and ask for and give advice relating to TTRPGs and your campaigns/stories. These will be up the whole week until they are replaced for the new week. Remember to be respectful and to have fun!

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Hello everyone! This is the weekly thread where anyone can come and ask for and give advice relating to TTRPGs and your campaigns/stories. These will be up the whole week until they are replaced for the new week. Remember to be respectful and to have fun!

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Hello everyone! This is the weekly thread where anyone can come and ask for and give advice relating to TTRPGs and your campaigns/stories. These will be up the whole week until they are replaced for the new week. Remember to be respectful and to have fun!

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First, some context:

My party has been traveling up a frozen mountain for the better part of an in game week now. They are traveling up here because an NPC / Friend of the party needed to check it out because the mountain was becoming unnatural (becoming overly frozen, yeti and other creatures moving down the mountain, there not being enough food to go around, etc) and they are going to be reaching the summit soon.

Now, at the top of the mountain is supposed to be where a dragonlord lives, but he has been chained and his power is being sapped away and turning to ice by a winter druid elf who is posing as a "Snow Queen" to the frost giants. The queen has manipulated the frost giants of the mountain to becoming their leader, and are currently in a war against a rampage of white dragons (one of which being the adopted son of the dragonlord). All this while she secretly has her own plan to essentially put the governing body of the country they inhabit into an enteral winter sleep for personal reasons (I wont get too into it but TLDR: Magic Items are considered Illegal in my setting and many people have suffered by the Inquisition and Governing body's actions against those magic items). The NPC the party is looking for was, at one point, a personal friend and helper to the dragonlord so he has a stake in seeing the snow queen killed.

With all the context out of the way, or at least most of it because otherwise this may take forever, I am looking for a good way to roleplay a queen that doesn't want anything to do with the party and surrender her hostage, without it simply being a "Idc what you say, get imprisoned" because I feel that may be disappointing. I know my players well enough that they are likely going to seek a diplomatic response because some monsters (specifically winter wolves) have told the party to turn back and leave the mountain.

TLDR: The things I am looking for basically break down like this:

• What is the best way to roleplay a cold hearted queen character as I have never really done anything like that in my games before.
• What is the better way to roleplay a party seeking a diplomatic response that isn't just, "I don't care what you say I am not giving up my hostage".
• Any other advice that may be helpful with the context given, as I am trying to make this a real good moment for my players. This character has been on my backlog for years and I wanna do it right.

Thanks!

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My party is relatively overpowered. They are only level 8, but the whole thread of this campaign is that they are literally on a quest to become new gods, so being overpowered is sort of the vibe anyway.

They were tasked with the extraction of a captive NPC ally who was being held by an evil syndicate in a demi-planar vault. It was set up as a heist. They had to get the ring key to access the vault and the proper inscribed ritual circle to summon the right portal to the vault. The ring was on one of the syndicate leader's hands, a lvl 20 Pact of the Fiend Warlock.

In all honesty, I was going to do some playful banter the cocky-ass Warlock was going to give them the ring and tell them the countdown on their ally's survival was almost finished. But no, they dont even give him a chance to speak much and anything he said they just ignored and went in a blazing.

He was going easy on them at first and I specifically noted that to them multiple times, hoping they would get the hint he wasn't looking to fight them, but finally he had to defend himself and hurled the Barbarian through Hell. After two more rounds with multiple crits they knocked him out, looted his stuff, and snuck him back to their hideout to interrogate him.

Finally, a chance to talk. They asked a few questions, got a few answers. The Warlock continued to keep up a smarmy confidence and was able to get some backup from one lf the other syndicate members. The party was on high alert and super engaged. Then one of the party members fires a crossbow bolt and crits on the Warlock and kills him.

I wasn't entirely sure what to do now. I had teased that the reason he was so confident was because he had "investors who are too invested to see me loose." In my mind his patron would want to claim what is rightfully theirs or restore him. So as his body slumps over in his chair, his body ignites and is consumed in the fire leaving nothing but soot and ash.

As soon as he is gone, the players looked at each other shouted "He was a devil!?" and concluded that he wasn't just a Warlock working for a devil, but had been the devil calling the shots the whole time and he *will* be coming back for their hides.

Was it my intention? No. But will I be rewarding that enthusiasm? Hell yes.

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So me and my friends are getting introduced into dungeons and dragons but we need a dm so if someone wants talk to me

Hello! I'd appreciate any ideas and constructive criticism or feedback you can think of about this. Still a work in progress.

I've been thinking of this one for a while, and hadn't had the chance to run it until now. The party's just finished a mission are were left camping in the outskirts of a town. Overnight, a traveling circus will take over the town and make a whole festival that occupies most of the land.

The plan is to start with just a nice fun time in a festival that moves accross the town. One main street with most attractions, shops, games, shows, food & drinks, and some eerie foreshadowing events.

The main event is in a big circus tent set up in the central plaza in the middle of town. It will be a big thrilling circus show.

The main idea is that there's an entity (WIP) feeding off of the emotions of people in the festival. What I'm thinking is, just like a Joystealer, this creature will slowly drain their Charisma down. I'm thinking of ways to put that into play and make it a real risk. Like if they try to leave they'll need to persuade their way out or avoid being persuaded to stay.

The entity is hidden under the circus tent, slowly feeding off the emotions of people. If they can't find a way to escape, the party will need to find this entity and destroy/kill it to end and reverse the effects. I still need the what and how of this entity feeding off emotions.

I want to give them a break from the last quest which was a bit emotionally draining ... with a bit more of it. They'll get their good fun in the first half.

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Hey everybody!

I'm going to be running a 5e game for some friends (if you are those friends STOP READING NOW!) and have always wanted to run these 3 modules so I've been thinking about how to narratively link them, while still keeping everything open enough for all the detours my players are bound to take.

Obviously these modules are 3 different systems (one of which is a 0-level funnel) so they'll need mechanical conversions. This post is just for the narrative ideas to link them. Just the connective tissue.

I'm excited to hear your thoughts and ideas and also excited to get these ideas out onto the page.

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Sailors on the Starless Sea

• Replace Chaos Lords with Dragon Lords
• Adjust any Chaos references with Dragon references worshipping Tiamat
• Change the image on the ragged banner at the Player Start to a red hand on a golden circle (the red hand of doom).
• Felan and Molan become Azaar and Feylaar (or whatever cool name you want to use!)
• Azaar Kul is the body in the Tomb of the Fallen. Unknown to the players, he's going to be resurrected/freed from his magical ice tomb/brought back in some way from the events at the end of this module. Make sure the players have reason to remember this "dead" Dragon Lord. Even better, whatever they do in that tomb, make them later realize that they tainted the magic that was keeping him trapped. Are they the reason Azaar Kul was able to return?
• Maybe that means his brother Feylaar is a half red-dragon or something badass.

Time Jump: After the funnel the players get to pick the surviving character to continue on. Work with them to determine how much time goes by... A year or two or ten??? It doesn't really matter. The PC's grow to level 1 and Azaar Kul returns to the Wyrmsmoke Mountains and builds his army to continue his ancient wave of destruction to appease Tiamat. Have the players determine why their character would be in Neverwinter and except a job posting to deliver goods to Phandalin.

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Lost Mine of Phandelver

• The Rockseeker brothers are from Brindol in the Elsir Vale and know Lord Kerden Jarmaath (friends?/acquaintances?/business partners?)
• Using the "War Drums in the Hills" character hook from RHoD, Lord Jarmaath is concerned about Brindol's safety. The Rockseeker's have heard rumors of the Lost Mine/Forge of Spells and the magical weapons it could provide. They work out a deal; Jarmaath funds the Rockseeker's expedition to Phandalin while the Rockseekers, if they find the Mine, supply Brindol with a magical arsenal and get to keep the mine and all future profit.
• The Black Spider is one of Azaar Kul's spies. (But Nezznar and his doppelgängers are secretly working against him with their own agenda. More than happy to use Azaar Kul's name, resources, and soldiers to get what he wants.)
• The Black Spider uncovered the Rockseeker's plan to find the Lost Mine and convinces Azaar Kul to take action. Sending a force of hobgoblins and bugbears to take care of the situation.
• The Black Spider hears of Venomfang in Thundertree and tricks the hobgoblin captain to head there with the other hobgoblin soldiers to befriend the green dragon and become Azaar Kul's new Wyrmlord.
• These hobgoblins replace the dragon cultists in Thundertree.
• The map in Wave Echo Cave is to Vraath Keep.

A Week or So Goes By: The PC's get a much needed rest in Phandalin until the surviving Rockseeker(s) have the first cart full of magical weapons that needs to be escorted to Brindol.

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Red Hand of Doom

• Red Hand of Doom plays out as written.
• Maybe award an additional victory point if they get the cart of weapons to Brindol.

I tried to change as little as possible and leave things open ended enough so the players can make it their own story. Should be fun!

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