r/stormkingsthunder

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I havent played SKT and I havent read the details and I have some issues before running the campaign.

1.The plot doesnt seem to work for a DnD campaing. The villain seems passive and doesnt even do anything in her own story. Are all the Giant factions held back exactly to the point their plans are halted by the people of the north untill the players load in and things magically starts moving? Each giant and the plot of this particullary area seem to be enough for its own DnD campaing, so why are we pushing for 7 dnd campaings in one Module?

2. Why do the Giants no just attack the Storm Giants and take the throne instead of attacking the humans? The Storm giants are just better than everyone else, so why do they not just rebel and change their ranking to whomever supported them? It would lead to the exact scenario if we think about if Hill giants would even be able to suceed in their goal VS the Mighty Frost giants against the people of the north? If they had all attacked the Storm Giants it would have been over in a week and they didnt have to do all their schenanigans.

3. Why in the world is this plot so convoluted with a Kraken and a Dragon involved? Does they really need to even be in the story for the plot premise to work? Giants attack humans, to impress their god and the people have to stop the Giants and or make peace....

4. Iymirth hope the giant will weaken themeselves by attacking the humans, so what was the plan if the Giants suceed(which they obviously do if not they wouldnt be the villains of the story and the players could just relax and wait till the North wins by themselves) Does she Palpatinr both sides to help the Seperatist I mean the Humans win, but at the same time not win to hard...like

My last session with my players ended with the party hearing the horn of the approaching frost giants, so they know they’re preparing for things to turn ugly. I know the book recommends giving players one of the different npcs- Beldora, Augrek, etc.- to help them in the fight, but I’ve got more extended plans for a few of them- mainly Beldora and the sheriff- so I’d rather they don’t die.

Other tips I’ve seen suggest giving them some town militia to control, so I think I’ll go with that.
My question is, if you’ve led the Bryn Shander giant attack, what npcs did you use to help bolster your party’s side?

I have this one player whose characters I never really had an opportunity to "do much" with, but it's not like he wanted a spotlight, however this time he wants to do more, he wants to make his character actually matter in the grand scheme of the story, you know? And of course, I want to give him what he wants but I do need some help/inspiration on what exactly to do.

His character is a divine soul sorcerer who has powers given by the goddess of joy, Llira. His character is meant to be on a quest personally given by Llira herself and the player wants this quest to be tied to giants and the "main plot" in some way shape or form.

I don't mind changing stuff in the story to better accommodate the character, I'm just not sure on what to change in an interesting way. Any tips?

I didn't want to ask him to rework the backstory to use another deity cause Llira herself was already a rework. Initially the character was just related to the goddess of harvest, Chauntea, but she was so "bard-coded" that I recommended the player to look up some more "art related" gods.