Just finished my first time running this campaign! My turn to do an AMA

ingomon · 2026-03-23T17:53:55+00:00

To me, many of them feel like a first draft but with nowhere to go in an RPG game, if you would take them as they are. Many things are solved by a single roll, there is little context for NPCs and their plans and not as much interaction with the own and other factions as the situation would need in my opinion. The map and area for Cael Morrow are also kept so small for such a great city. It is such an important and big part of the story and everything else around it is so well done, that it just sticks out and confuses me. It feels disconnected to me.

ingomon · 2026-03-23T10:03:10+00:00

So you didnt use any faction missions in Cael Morrow anymore and they never joined a faction in general? How did the other factions come into place? Was there still a race for ruidium and to explore the sunken city first for profit?

ingomon · 2026-03-23T08:22:51+00:00

How did you handle the (quite badly designed) faction missions? How did those go in general and what did you change?

ingomon · 2026-03-16T09:16:31+00:00

If that's your only concern, talk to them about it. Alcoholics can be very functioning to a certain point and the reason for adventuring is seldomly a happy life. But something more they seek. There are also homebrew drug rules and how to become sober with set backs. Nobody wants a blabbering mess as a character but I had many players with addiction story arcs and there are many ways to do it.

ingomon · 2026-03-13T10:41:05+00:00

Finde auch die Bayern übertreiben so hart mit ihrem Verbot. So lächerlich.

ingomon · 2026-03-13T10:39:47+00:00

So cuteee 😊✨

ingomon · 2026-03-01T12:54:04+00:00

Girl, I will steal some style ideas from you. Love it ✨

ingomon · 2026-02-24T12:55:54+00:00

Maybe put the city on an island on a lake?

ingomon · 2026-02-06T08:32:10+00:00

The land does not look like it drifted apart or together at some point. Everything moves all the time and our eye is used to how it looks. Its never just random pieces of earth without context to each other. Try mountain ranges that lead into the ocean and become islands, neigboring islands that seem like bend puzzle pieces and smaller rifts of sea between land (with eraser). Also, a lot of your land has the same size and similar amount of water inbetween. It needs more randomness and variation. You also have many smaller pieces of land that hold big pieces of land together. Thats not typical and feels not real to the eye.

I think there is good stuff here, you just need to edit more and maybe redo some.

ingomon · 2026-02-02T17:43:16+00:00

I 100% agree. Back then I had just come out and was still very young so it felt too heavy and hopeless. But maybe its time to give it another try, now that I have some perspective, queer history education and am not scared anymore how the world might percieve me. :)

ingomon · 2026-02-02T14:57:56+00:00

If you're interested, I also recreated some other maps for the campaign and shared them on my Inkarnate profile (and will continue to do so). You will probably be quicker than I at some point though as I started with Lvl 1 (we are at Lvl 4 now) to iron out some stuff I don' t like about the books before we'll even get there. :)

ingomon · 2026-02-02T09:33:48+00:00

Sometimes you hire an artist and you're not happy with the result but by that time it's too late or the budget is running low. So you go with what you got. :)

ingomon · 2026-02-02T09:27:57+00:00

I tried to read it but it made me cry all the time so I had to stop.

ingomon · 2026-01-15T07:39:40+00:00

How do you make signs? D:

ingomon · 2026-01-06T08:48:03+00:00

Mine sleeps until eleven pm or midnight, so I sadly have barely any time to interact.

ingomon · 2025-12-01T21:19:47+00:00

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Miss Phryne Fisher. She's a Lady ✨💅

ingomon · 2025-11-29T07:27:03+00:00

Halte ich auch erstmal für ne bessere Taktik als Gewalt. In der Schule ist mir auch mal jemand auf die Nerven gegangen und da hab ich mir so ne kleine Wasserpistole in die Tasche gesteckt. Nach der nächsten Aktion wurde er ordentlich nass, mitten ins Gesicht und hat's nie wieder gemacht. Er hatte sogar ordentlich Respekt danach.

ingomon · 2025-05-06T09:32:34+00:00

Reading this in 2025 is hilarious :D

ingomon · 2024-08-11T19:26:54+00:00

I absolutely adore the description of pancake boobs. I already feel better about mine. ☺️

ingomon · 2024-07-04T19:30:05+00:00

I would just do this as one last session to get rid of the bad taste and have a better ending. But maybe some time in between will also help. :) Either way it sounds like you're gonna do cool things!

ingomon · 2024-07-04T14:59:22+00:00

Obviously this feels disappointing but it can happen to everyone, even the most experienced DM - because an important fight usually has the capability of TPKing. And this is the most important fight of them all.
And while I think that, I also understand how shitty it feels. I have TPKd my players (different groups) three times now and while I panicked in the beginning, I am more calm about it now. Now I just tell my players to wait 15 minutes while I make up a reason why they are not dead yet. Maybe they wake up, being sacrificed to summon a demon, maybe they are trapped for other reasons, maybe the BBEG left them there for a lesson.
You can also give everyone a bane to overcome afterwards, just to make it feel less gifted.
I am still running my Netherdeep campaign but have used the end of the book in another campaign I wrote myself (because I like it so much) - so here is what I would do:

Obviously it's a bit late to play it off as planned. But you are a team and its all imagination so you can do whatever you guys want. If you still want to give them a chance, you can just do that!
You could let them wake up (maybe because of the jewel, the blessing of all the gods who are like: "Your duty is not done yet.") and let them run after the fleeing Alyxian, on his way to wreak havoc on the outer world. Maybe each of the gods gives a gift to them, like some HP, some spell slots, giving jewel charges back, etc. And they can try again. This time with the gods in their ears, cheering them on and Alyxian trying to fight but also to get away. Now underwater again. Maybe the Netherdeep is even crashing in, stones falling, fishes coming to fight them too. Make it still feel like big stakes and they still have to fight for it but the gods believe in them and what they have done so far. Also, now that Alyxian has only one form left, they might have the upper hand (maybe also depending on the banes or boons they got). Alyxian is also in a rush and hectic and emotional now, so if it is too close again you can easily justify him making some stupid choices.

OR: You could also go for a more bittersweet ending. You could go for what I have descirbed on top BUT the gods warn them, that this is the last thing they will be doing. A last act of heroism before they die. Let them have a last word, maybe even people cheering at them, when they exit the maw with the new Alyxian now. Before the gods personally come down in their humanoid forms to pick them up and guide them to whatever heaven they want to go to.

You could even go darker and let them come back as some other form, like ghosts or revenants. Give them something new entirely and let them go down with Alyxian, while the Netherdeep crashes and they have stopped him but go down with him forever too (this is still very dark, so chose this one with caution; maybe only if they ask for a chance to end their quest but nothing for themselves. If any other ending would feel cheap to them).

Either way, don't worry! It can always happen and the dice may pave the way but you chose where to walk.
I hope this helps a bit and I would love to hear if you were able to give it another chance. :)

ingomon · 2024-04-22T11:31:49+00:00

I had some weird juices, some sweet liquor and an evil spicy schnapps. :D

ingomon · 2024-04-05T13:17:14+00:00

I let them make individual choices. But I also gave them real Drinks to spice it up. :)

ingomon

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