Ep 13. How We Planned & Ruined a 3+ Campaign

Eric and Philip discuss ways to you can ruin a campaign, with examples of how they made the sequel to their epic three-year game fail.

News

 * Force Grey
 * Tomb of Annihilation miniatures

DM's Guild Highlight

 * Gear Up

Summary

 * 0:00:26: Intro
 * 0:04:28: News
 * 0:09:06: DM's Guild Highlight
 * 0:12:21: Main discussion—Mark of Vengeance
 * 0:13:46: The glorious epic premise
 * 0:19:36: Excerpt from Philip's notebook
 * 0:21:44: Summary of the Mark of Vengeance campaign
 * 0:23:35: How they avoided all the things the players didn't care about in the first game
 * 00:25:46: What went wrong
 * 00:42:22: What they could have done to fix it

Philip's Notebook
An excerpt from Philip's notebook titled "Fifteen Ancient Dragons."

''They foresaw a war between dragons and quori in which mortals would be collateral damage. Fourteen of them mixed their bloodlines with mortals, creating lineages that would result in the dragonmarks. The marks were a way to give mortals a fighting chance. Along with their magical abilities, the mind of the dragonmarked are immune to quori possession. The fifteenth, the Betrayer, was secretly an ally of the quori and traveled to Sarlona to prepare a place for the quori. Fourteen killed themselves to block draconic magic from functioning in Sarlona, preventing humans there from manifesting marks and basically writing them off as long. These are the Storm Guardians, the spirits of these fourteen dragons, who defend the resistance movements in Sarlona. The quori conquest of Sarlona through the Inspired convinced the spirits to act. They raised the mountains of Adar as a bulwark against Riedra and now guard Adar as the Storm Guardians.''

Trivia

 * Philip's character in the Mark of Vengeance campaign was a goliath fighter.

Plugs

 * d20 Radio
 * Dice For Brains
 * The Workshop – The Vroc Brothers (D&D 5e)

Mentions

 * Aurala ir'Wynarn
 * Cersei Lannister
 * Dragon Talk
 * Eberron Renewed
 * Hogwarts
 * Indiana Jones
 * Manifest Zone
 * Mark of Vengeance on Obsidian Portal
 * Mummy's Mask
 * Ozymandias
 * Pathfinder
 * Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
 * Secrets of Sarlona
 * Star Wars RPG
 * Ultimate Campaign (Pathfinder sourcebook)
 * Wrath of the Righteous