Building a New D&D Campaign Diary - Entry #4: Answers Redux

February 7, 2008 · Filed Under Building a New Dungeons and Dragons Campaign Diary, Dungeons and Dragons

All right, now that you’ve got your juices flowing and have done some serious brainstorming, I want you to take a step back. Read through your freewriting from yesterday, and compare it to the original 41 questions. I want you to choose between three and five questions of the 41 that are, at least in a superficial way, addressed in your freewriting. Today, you’re going to start to provide some answers.

So, for my new D&D Campaign, based on yesterday’s writing, I’ve chosen these questions:

Is this a new world? Is it a remade world? Is it a futuristic/past version of another campaign world?
Are the gods uninvolved? Dead? Evil? Good? Psychotic?
What was the previous age?
Is good or evil in charge? Neither?
What keeps the balance between good and evil, or what is it keeping good or evil in charge?

Time to get to work answering them, and not in the order they appear:

Are the gods uninvolved? Dead? Evil? Good? Psychotic?

The gods were born millennia ago. Theodian and Lucius were twins, born of some long forgotten Mother and Father. Theodian was the good son, honest, hardworking, loving, and kind. Lucius was his opposite; devious, slothful, hateful. The Forgotten Mother loved Theodian, and cared for him closely. The Forgotten Father, however, despised Theodian, believing him to be weak. He created Lenryn, as a trap for Theodian, and convinced Lucius to try to lure Theodian there to be destroyed. The struggle between the twins resulted in the death of the Forgotten Gods; the body of the Forgotten Mother became the Sun, while the body of The Forgotten Father became the moon. Over time, Theodian began to be associated with the Sun, and Lucius with the Moon. The history of Lenryn has been the history of struggle between Theodian and Lucius.

The gods are involved in the world through several means: through the actions of their followers, through the natural world (most creatures identify with one or the other), and through occasional and rare divine events (the occasional appearance of an avatar, etc).

Is this a new world? Is it a remade world? Is it a futuristic/past version of another campaign world? and What was the previous age?

Lenryn is old; very old. It is a world that has been through countless ages. Each age has been a struggle between Theodian and Lucius. Each age has ended in chaos, with the defeat of Theodian by Lucius. Time and time again, the world has remade itself; at the end of each age, an old order is destroyed, and a new one begins. Tales from previous ages sometimes survive, as do a handful of the Eladrin, known as “Sunbearers” and “Moonbearers.” The campaign takes place over 1,000 years into the current age.

Is good or evil in charge? Neither? and What keeps the balance between good and evil, or what is it keeping good or evil in charge?

The balance of power goes back and forth, throughout the ages. As noted, at the end of each age, evil becomes victorious. During the campaign, the current age is nearing an end. The world is dark, overrun by evil. If left unchecked, it will soon consume the world. Only the Player Characters have the chance to put an end to the cycle, allowing Theodian to have his final victory.

Come back tomorrow, and I’ll give you (and me!) an assignment to carry us through the weekend.

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shekaka67 on February 7th, 2008 9:46 pm

Don’t wanna detract or bore you Boffo ,but will lay down my current plans for my campaign:

1. Near future of my long running and finally completed 7 spheres campaign….a multiverse re-invented.

2. The council of greater gods ( my old players’ pcs from the original game)..have re-worked the multiverse in their image…and after the initial chaos of a new existence , some 500 years later, a certain balance/calm has been reached in this new multiverse…and they have new watchdogs as the Council have grown a bit weary of their parental duties and have given rise to Lesser Gods….the ones who are most likely to interact with any new pcs.

That’s about it for now ,but I will be running some emails to my old group asking for input into what they think their old Deified PCs might be doing in a New Age of existance….
The most exciting thing:
this works really well for the new 4e cosmology …if I like 4e, my own cosmology or a return to the more classic 2e or 3e cosmology…love the freedom…
Sorry for the rambling and let me know if this is not the kind of responses you are looking for…
mrboffo on February 8th, 2008 11:51 am

Good stuff, Randall. Feel free to post here anytime, I always am enthralled with your ideas.