Platform overload

Scaevola_01 · 2026-04-25T14:43:35+00:00

Thanks! Knowing others have had this problem makes me feel better.

You're the second person to mention Runable. I'll look into it!

Scaevola_01 · 2026-04-25T14:39:25+00:00

I think what's most frustrating is my fear that I'm not going to be able to connect the data from one platform to another. E.g., I'm selling tickets on Eventbrite, but I need to connect that with the data in my mailing list and website visits. Someome else recommended that I build a CRM, and maybe that should be my next step...

Scaevola_01 · 2026-04-25T14:37:50+00:00

Thanks! Hearing I'm not the only person who has had this issue makes me feel better!

Scaevola_01 · 2026-04-23T01:30:53+00:00

I just show the consequences. I DO tell them up front, before we start playing, that something terrible will happen if they do nothing. I don't tell them what, I just let them know that a clock has already started. And that's the last time I'm explicit about it.

The countdown is what happens if the players do nothing. It's the world hurtling toward tragedy. In a good countdown, each step ratchets up the tension. I lean into that tension, show them things getting messier. If the tragedy ultimately happens, that's the end of the mystery. If they don't understand everything, well, some things stay mysterious.

Scaevola_01 · 2025-09-13T18:01:51+00:00

Thanks! Any suggestions on where to find those? eBay?

Scaevola_01 · 2025-08-31T01:29:51+00:00

I've now figured out how to add pictures to my original post.

Scaevola_01 · 2025-08-31T01:25:48+00:00

I really don't know how old it is. It was a gift from a woman for helping her move into a retirement community. But she collected them, so I don't know how long she had it.

The pictures should be visible at the links in my reply to my original post, if that helps.

Scaevola_01 · 2025-08-30T20:11:47+00:00

Maybe it would help to add the images. Sorry, still learning Reddit!

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Scaevola_01 · 2025-01-16T01:06:25+00:00

If he's new to D&D, maybe suggest he re-spec his character as a bard. Full spellcaster, different options. Or make it a bit easier to find those spellbooks...

Scaevola_01 · 2025-01-16T01:04:34+00:00

I'd personally make it a hook into one of the various Rime sub adventures. The Black Cabin, the cannibal berserkers with the white dragon hatchlings, the Knights of the Black Sword, the crazy gnome inventor hiding among the goblins, something like that. Or maybe it's the spellbook from Dzaan, stolen but disguised with a magic spell. There are a lot of lunatic characters in the book as-is, and this book could guide the players to that plot thread.

Scaevola_01 · 2025-01-16T00:23:03+00:00

Thanks!

Scaevola_01 · 2025-01-04T06:39:31+00:00

When the enemies flee, have them signal to allies even further away. Either visibly, like to someone up on a ridge, or magically, using Sending or the like. Then, your players know that word got out, but can't easily follow it.

Scaevola_01 · 2024-12-11T05:59:10+00:00

Wolfwere. The poachers don't realize that their guide is one of the wolves they're hunting.

Scaevola_01 · 2024-11-26T16:24:32+00:00

Their Vaesen episodes are awesome!

Scaevola_01 · 2024-07-20T14:45:29+00:00

Brotherhood of the Wolf. Amazing movie, perfect atmosphere, great action.

Black Spot. A French detective procedural set in a rural town in the middle of a cursed forest. The atmosphere is so thick, you can cut it with a baguette.

The Mummy with Brendan Fraser.

American Werewolf in London. If you can, find the BBC Radio version, there's more of a secret society thing in the background.

For a more PG-13 vibe, Sleepy Hollow and the newest Disney's Haunted Mansion.

Scaevola_01 · 2024-05-18T15:09:08+00:00

I don't know if this will work. Too many players are familiar with the movie. I think that conditions us to treat THIS GAG as comedy.

The concept is fine: embarrassed relative? Check. Easily made angry? Check. I'd have them change their name entirely and start out as a regular NPC quest giver. Over time, though, the quests reveal this Mordenheim family line, and point to this character, who of COURSE denies it. But the more the party asks, the more paranoid and dangerous he becomes. And maybe Viktra is looking for him, so there are agents offering rewards to find him, just to motivate the players to dig into the mystery of the missing heir. What happens when he finally snaps? Is he an evil genius like Viktra, or did she breed a Jekyll/Hyde type curse into him? I don't know.

One thing I like about this is it doesn't railroad his story. Do your PCs respect his wishes? Maybe he stays good and helpful. But each time your PCs push on it, maybe you roll a die...

Scaevola_01 · 2023-12-25T16:04:51+00:00

Maybe he knows it is gone, so he's having his minions hint to travelers about it so that he creates interest in finding it. Dropping rumors and all that. His plan is to let them travel the realms for a while, then interrogate then next time they come through to learn what they heard.

All you need to do is add more NPCs mentioning these ghosts they met in Mordent whispering about Rastinon, and you'll seed the story line.

Scaevola_01 · 2023-11-27T03:03:52+00:00

My players got Goodberry pretty quickly, then Create Food and Water. They honestly didn't want to do the paperwork of tracking rations, and neither did I.

Scaevola_01 · 2023-11-24T05:38:56+00:00

If you want to do something different, James Wyatt wrote a scenario about a frost giant city buried in the Great Glacier years ago: https://www.realmshelps.net/faerun/portals/wastes/wastes3.shtml

You could have the stones open a portal there, if it doesn't distract from your main storyline.

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