The Philosopher's Parade

About the Campaign

Featuring an event known as the Great Modron March, an event that occurs in the DND universe once every 289 years. This campaign follows a band of criminals and their wizard caretaker as they have been tasked with following the march and learning why it occurs. As well as guarding the march from those who would seek to use the newly wide spread philosopher's stones. Stones that trap the souls of those who die and empower the owner.

Project Information

Date of Project: Fall of 2023 - Current Day

Developers: Jacob Davis

Developer Role: Dungeon Master

Development Engine: Google Suite, Roll 20, Inkarnate

Keeping Players Engaged

For most of the players in the campaign, this is their first DND campaign and as such, they struggle to stay engaged and motivated. To help with that, sessions are generally 1 to 2 hours longs. Additionally, rules aren't exact and there is a lot of homebrew. One player has even become a horse by sucking on a horse summoning whistle!

Map Creation

While creating maps to be used during the campaign, I frequently use a website known as Inkarnate. While creating these maps, I ensure they have plenty of doors and corners as I want to ensure the players feel uneasy and have to creep around these areas as they are often full of enemies. This also helps force them to be more cooperative and consider how their spells and attacks could affect one another and be a bit more creative.

Player Stats

Given the prominence of philosopher's stones in the campaign, I must keep track of the player's kills. To do so, I have a Google sheet that I fill out during sessions that they can easily check over following each session. Originally, there was no chart, but following suggestions from them, I introduced one.

Dissuading "Murder Hobos"

To help keep the peace and prevent the players from exercising their agency too much. There are a series of NPCs that have been hired to dissuade players from just killing the modrons themselves. While they could still act on it if they wanted, they are incentivized to not do so. As that would remove a character they can interact with in the future and probably kill a few of them before they went down.

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