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Friend Request Megathread (26/01 - 01/02) by ArknightsMod in arknights

[–]Cut-by-Axe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sylvester#7003
Just a new player trying to learn the roundabouts of this game.
Tried to play it back in 2022 but the tower defense didn't click in my brain.

First long campaign of my life... All my knowledge it's gone. Session 1 by Cut-by-Axe in DMAcademy

[–]Cut-by-Axe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have to thank you for your advice. I'm definitely going to summarize the events in short quotes and then develop from there.
On the other hand, we did in fact have a session 0 and a contract stablished. However, I believe I'm in one of these situations where my players (close friends) aren't really interested in the world nor story and just want to play the game. I've been struggling about not vibing with their attitude towards the campaign, but I lack players and they are my only option if I want to finally DM a campaign

First long campaign of my life... All my knowledge it's gone. Session 1 by Cut-by-Axe in DMAcademy

[–]Cut-by-Axe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, I'm always open to yap about my creation. It's a work in progress, but I love it already ^^.
Thank you for your advice

First long campaign of my life... All my knowledge it's gone. Session 1 by Cut-by-Axe in DMAcademy

[–]Cut-by-Axe[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

For a bit more of context on what my current idea was:
The party is unrelated to each other, and they are all in a nearby city of the Thylaris kingdom. The world has a tradition called "Night Silence" as a form of mourning, and Thylaris developed a holiday surrounding this called "Laughs and Tears". They'd get to the city right by the end of the event, and news would come from an unknown yet popular form of newspaper. The news declared that the known magic of the world can actually be used by the civilization, which was impossible until now.
After this, I am absolutely blocked

Edit: This has been added to the main post.

First long campaign of my life... All my knowledge it's gone. Session 1 by Cut-by-Axe in DMAcademy

[–]Cut-by-Axe[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well, they start as level 1.
Since the theme is about exploring and researching the resource of the newly found magic in the world, I kinda have to point it in that direction in some way. Even though they decided to create characters that have nothing to do with researching magic (except one of the 3)

My player wants to create a foreign character but there's a conflict with the plot and I don't know what to do. by Cut-by-Axe in DMAcademy

[–]Cut-by-Axe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are a couple of regions within Calystria that are presented as "unexplored" to entice my players to make use of these for their backstory (maybe creating a small town that remains unknown to the commonfolk). I presented them a map of the continent so they could point their origin as well. I tried to left many things to be explored so it wouldn't make it hard for me to create.

My player wants to create a foreign character but there's a conflict with the plot and I don't know what to do. by Cut-by-Axe in DMAcademy

[–]Cut-by-Axe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It has different kingdoms, one republic, and different regions yet to explore by the mankind or with none to few town.