u/Brandyurafinegirl

Have any if you had luck replacing Lulu?

I have a player at my (gnome light cleric) table whose backstory includes a severe memory loss.

I’m considering replacing Lulu with his character. Instead of a Hollyphant, he would have been one of Zariel’s Generals or something along those lines. I’d have him remember important snippets throughout the game. This might also give an extra layer of depth and urgency to the adventure, having one of the PCs be the connection.

Have any of you had experience replacing or leaving out Lulu?

Ps. Player has given me completely free hands with the character’s backstory, down to the name. I’ve triple checked.

I’ve just finished a two-shot with a group of friends who’re now very invested in starting a campaign.

I’ve been DMing for two years. My other campaign (still running) started with Lost Mines and transitioned into DiA.

For this new campaign, I would love to run something I haven’t run before, but which is still fun for newer players and might not take too much preparation as a DM (as DiA does). I’m considering Curse of Stahd, Tomb of Annihilation or Keys from the Golden Vault.

Anyone have experience or suggestions with any of these modules or other recommendations?

The new players are fairly open and up for anything. Luckily, they seem to enjoy both roleplaying and combat. I’ll have 4-5 PCs and I expect we’ll be meeting once a month.

Hi all, hoping for some guidance.

I haven’t played AoE since the late 00s but would very much like to start playing again. In the meantime, I’ve completely lost track of game updates and releases.

Any tips on where to start, considering I’ll basically be starting from scratch and memories?

So (some of) my party has been on a bit of a spree over the last few sessions. It's hilarious but a little insane.

3/5 PCs were staking out Vanthampur Villa and noticed the guard shift around midnight. I had three guards enter and three guards (noticeably different heights) leave some minutes later.

As soon as the guards wandered down the street, my players attacked and just straight up murdered them. No questioning or nothing. To push events along a bit (and remind them that they are in a city), I had Ambra the maid step outside the Vanthampur walls with a delivery, see the carnage, gasp, and run for the door to warn the guards on duty - only to be immediately shot and killed.

My players, being that they are apparently trying to turn this into an evil campaign, looted her and found a homemade tin cup with an etching of love from her mother at the bottom. Like, for shame dumbasses.

They then naturally threw all four corpses down a manhole to the sewer, found their other teammates and spun a complete lie, then flat-out refused to try going through the sewers, citing that it seemed kinda sus down there.

Anyway, last session they finally breached the walls to the villa. Had a good plan and everything. As soon as they were inside the walls, they ran around the house without checking and straight into a bunch of guards. Whom they then proceeded to annihilate.

This is all obviously hilarious and has made for some absolutely insane conversations at the table, but I do kind of want there to be some consequences, at least emotionally.

Considering having them run into Ambra's mum, desperately searching for her daughter, or stumble across a mass funeral for the guards, complete with widows and kids at the works. I'm a little on the fence as to whether the commotion with the guards has been noticed inside the villa (it's the middle of the night). Any suggestions? How would you guys handle this going forward?

Ps. love this community. DMs unite!

Edit: my party is lvl 5 as we transitioned from Mines, but they wanted to keep playing their characters. I’m adjusting by amping up HP and number of enemies where appropriate.