Once I finish running Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, I plan to keep running this game. However, I don't really like running dungeons, so the official follow-up, Waterdeep: Dungeons of the Mad Mage, is not really an option.
Dungeons are fun to play through, but a huge hassle to run in my very limited experience, and this campaign is still sort of an experiment for me so I don't want to trap the party underground from level 5 through level 20. I want to take them through a world, so I am planning some custom adventures for my players.
After the party leaves Waterdeep, we will go overland to Tavin's ancestral barony, where he will attempt to reclaim it and take vengeance on those who framed him for tax fraud. This will be a ridiculously melodramatic, Arthurian situation. I don't have a lot of details for this section of adventuring yet, although I have a large pile of strange and exotic bears to throw at them to cover for any lack of preparation.
Once they finish there, Pearl has a massive bounty in Calimshan that is only going to become more valuable as time goes by. The City of Waterdeep is extremely serious about getting Pulvi Lutum brought back to them, either to interrogate, or to at least confirm that he isn't causing them any more trouble. This sounds like it should be pretty easy, but Pulvi is a spellcaster and he has an Amulet of Proof Against Location and Detection, stolen from a Closed Lord of Waterdeep, so he cannot be found through magical means.
By the time they finish there, I should have everyone up to level 10, and so I will bring in the Big Bad.
Since the end of the Spellplague about ten years ago, the Blackstaff has been working on a method to distance the world from the Feywild and close the portals that can currently been found throughout the world. She has a lot going on, and it's really hard, but she has just made a major breakthrough and started recruiting more capable spellcasters to help with her research. Unfortunately, certain occupants of the Feywild have heard of her new efforts, and so are forming a powerful rebellion, led by a talented and crudely drawn druid.
So they will be facing as many unhappy fey creatures as possible.
Dungeons are fun to play through, but a huge hassle to run in my very limited experience, and this campaign is still sort of an experiment for me so I don't want to trap the party underground from level 5 through level 20. I want to take them through a world, so I am planning some custom adventures for my players.
After the party leaves Waterdeep, we will go overland to Tavin's ancestral barony, where he will attempt to reclaim it and take vengeance on those who framed him for tax fraud. This will be a ridiculously melodramatic, Arthurian situation. I don't have a lot of details for this section of adventuring yet, although I have a large pile of strange and exotic bears to throw at them to cover for any lack of preparation.
Once they finish there, Pearl has a massive bounty in Calimshan that is only going to become more valuable as time goes by. The City of Waterdeep is extremely serious about getting Pulvi Lutum brought back to them, either to interrogate, or to at least confirm that he isn't causing them any more trouble. This sounds like it should be pretty easy, but Pulvi is a spellcaster and he has an Amulet of Proof Against Location and Detection, stolen from a Closed Lord of Waterdeep, so he cannot be found through magical means.
By the time they finish there, I should have everyone up to level 10, and so I will bring in the Big Bad.
Since the end of the Spellplague about ten years ago, the Blackstaff has been working on a method to distance the world from the Feywild and close the portals that can currently been found throughout the world. She has a lot going on, and it's really hard, but she has just made a major breakthrough and started recruiting more capable spellcasters to help with her research. Unfortunately, certain occupants of the Feywild have heard of her new efforts, and so are forming a powerful rebellion, led by a talented and crudely drawn druid.
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