D&D Around the Corner

Real Life getting in the way, and I’ve got a touch up eye surgery to go to this weekend, so gaming’s been delayed.  Not particularly upset about it (20/20 vision’s always a good thing,) since it buys me time to consider my D&D campaign further.

Just to keep people updated, there’s been a reshuffle of the players for the D&D game since Mawf plans to run a modern day Exalted campaign alternating with my D&D.  Because of that, we’re looking at this division:

Team 1

1. Christine – Wizard
2. Heineken – Warlord
3. Mappy – Warlord
4. Maddie – Cleric
5. Vicente – Fighter
6. Alvin – Paladin

Team 2:

1. Blake – Rogue
2. Mawf – Cleric
3. Rick – Warlock
4. Pilo – Ranger
5. Victor – Wizard
6. Panm – Paladin

So far this hasn’t impacted my planning in the least as I haven’t made large assumptions on groupings, as much as indivdual threats and storylines per character.  Now that things have settled down I can start working on the general storyline, as well as breaking things down into chapter and quests.

I’ll be taking a page out of WoW for this one.  The storytelling outline from what I can see so far will resemble:

1. Overarching Storyline (Metaplot)
   1. Story Arc A
      1. Quest A
      2. Quest B
   2. Story Arc B
      1. Quest C
      2. Quest D
   3. Story Arc C
      1. Quest E
      2. Quest f

Occasionally each story arc will culminate in a dungeon (it’s Dungeons & Dragons after all), or at least involve an interesting major conflict.  Whether or not it’s exposing a changeling masquerading as a Duke in court, or facing down a dragon that threatens the countryside, or trying to seal away an ancient evil, each of these major conflicts will start tying together with the individual storylines, and then finally each story will impact the metaplot.