The Rouse
October 12th, 2015, 04:19
Hi everyone,
A little background first.
In my face to face group, I am doing a one night Halloween special adventure. We have all just started playing 5e and are in the middle of the mines of Phandelver campaign. The players regular PCs, who are level 3-4, will be kidnapped by a necromancer to be used in a ritual to make the necromancer a lich.
The players will have to play the high level (level 15) PCs who must rescue the party before they ritual if completed. They will face iconic Halloween characters such as scarecrows, hordes of skeletons, Frankenstein's monster, vampires and lots of other monsters. To create a sense of urgency during the game, I will use a real 4.5 hour burn candle as a prop that will be part of the story. They will have to complete the rescue before the candle burns out or the ritual will be complete and a new lich will be born and their current PCs may be lost.
I will be creating the rescue party PCs before hand so they are ready to go.
If you were a player, would you rather be assigned your PC intentionally by the DM, assigned one by random dice roll (create 6 PCs and assign each pc a number between 1 and 6, let each player roll a d6 and what they roll they play), or be allowed to choose what character to play.
Thoughts?
A little background first.
In my face to face group, I am doing a one night Halloween special adventure. We have all just started playing 5e and are in the middle of the mines of Phandelver campaign. The players regular PCs, who are level 3-4, will be kidnapped by a necromancer to be used in a ritual to make the necromancer a lich.
The players will have to play the high level (level 15) PCs who must rescue the party before they ritual if completed. They will face iconic Halloween characters such as scarecrows, hordes of skeletons, Frankenstein's monster, vampires and lots of other monsters. To create a sense of urgency during the game, I will use a real 4.5 hour burn candle as a prop that will be part of the story. They will have to complete the rescue before the candle burns out or the ritual will be complete and a new lich will be born and their current PCs may be lost.
I will be creating the rescue party PCs before hand so they are ready to go.
If you were a player, would you rather be assigned your PC intentionally by the DM, assigned one by random dice roll (create 6 PCs and assign each pc a number between 1 and 6, let each player roll a d6 and what they roll they play), or be allowed to choose what character to play.
Thoughts?