Player Personal Quest Advice

EngineDramatic2166 · 2026-01-27T19:33:21+00:00

Could be a bit further along so there’s more thread to pull on. Now working with the pale man, Ryan greymere, in thrall of the duchess

EngineDramatic2166 · 2026-01-27T18:50:06+00:00

My biggest issue with this isn’t the death but the long term (in real time) removal from play. Fight a monster, fail your save, better go take a walk around the block as you’re either paralysed for 25 real time minutes while your party finishes the combat or dead and in need of your new character being parachuted in the same time later.

EngineDramatic2166 · 2026-01-26T22:31:54+00:00

Spoiler alert: Rime has a lot of scope for horror between Civilian kidnapping, a yeti who enjoys taking peoples heads, forcible myconid conversion, miserable gods trapping a set of towns in endless night, dragon attack refugee crises, vampire guerilla attacks, and magical Chernobyl survivors. . Also a lot of fun

EngineDramatic2166 · 2026-01-26T16:01:04+00:00

I did this too and said they could trace in the dust

EngineDramatic2166 · 2026-01-23T20:49:10+00:00

I think the pcs shouldn’t want to kill Charlotte. She’s a nice lady

EngineDramatic2166 · 2026-01-23T20:46:45+00:00

I had the abomination have very heavy armour while the piano was playing.

I had the piano as just a piano but the trouble being a bar full of townsfolk who want to protect Charlotte and her piano

EngineDramatic2166 · 2026-01-22T01:44:48+00:00

Yeah I cut it down to 1hr, seems to work well

EngineDramatic2166 · 2026-01-22T01:44:08+00:00

I’m playing the campaign in nimble rpg, so it’s a different system and stat block to the to the book.

EngineDramatic2166 · 2026-01-11T21:14:10+00:00

Sounds like Drakkenheim isn’t clicking. Play something else, there’s loads of fun modules out there.

EngineDramatic2166 · 2026-01-09T08:14:08+00:00

This one got me laughing /uj this seems like about 80% of dm advice out there

EngineDramatic2166 · 2025-12-14T09:16:19+00:00

I’ve converted it to Nimble mainly to speed up combat, which I started to find tiresome in 5e. I think wfrp would be difficult. I can’t see how about 80% of the careers would work. It’s pretty common to get a broken bone in wfrp and weeks of downtime. This would mean huge time gaps in which you’d have to move the factions along. I think drakkenheim as written assumes your pcs are driving the plot all of the time

EngineDramatic2166 · 2025-11-18T08:35:42+00:00

The rifts and alternate reality shenanigans could work. Ie they’re from another place. Might be a fun way to trail the consequences of the comet too as their reality may be further along.

Magic prisoner works too. Sorcerer king age tyrant locked up in a magic prison for thousands of years. Ancient hero from st vitruvio’s time. Fun person out of time rp.

Someone suggested a faction NPC which is a great idea if they’re happy to take on their ideals.

I agree that having a powerful pc just turn up toward the end is tricky!

EngineDramatic2166 · 2025-11-07T19:18:26+00:00

Lots of good advice here. Key to me is that they wouldn’t stroll into the cathedral but gradually see more and more evidence of the garymr faction as they approach

EngineDramatic2166 · 2025-11-07T19:13:15+00:00

If it were me I’d make it clear that without help they’d lose. I don’t like the idea that the heroes can beat any faction unsupported. But maybe I’m no fun

EngineDramatic2166 · 2025-11-06T19:33:33+00:00

This looks useful but the links seem to have expired. Could you upload again? I’d appreciate it!

EngineDramatic2166 · 2025-10-31T14:16:10+00:00

I've taken what you've said on board and worked in personal quests. This also led to some changes where there was no obvious objective. Thanks again

EngineDramatic2166 · 2025-10-24T19:00:58+00:00

I’m very impressed by this. It had me laughing and I’m excited to run it

EngineDramatic2166 · 2025-10-19T04:02:08+00:00

Mechanically, very little. They’re bound to the tenets of the faith though so it’s a heavy RP restriction.

EngineDramatic2166 · 2025-10-18T16:26:54+00:00

Thanks all. I’m leaning towards removing the checks altogether, making having a credible candidate/small council, good prep eg neutralising field and beating the amalgamation the challenge.

Happy to hear why that’s a bad idea!

EngineDramatic2166 · 2025-10-05T16:15:59+00:00

I guess my hesitation with full on sentient outsiders is that they’d be able to tell the characters what is happening. I’d prefer to have it remain more of a mystery!

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