How my first campaign is starting off · Game Master's Laboratory

How my first campaign is starting off

Essentially the adventuring crew defeated a blue wyrmling helping to prevent it from completing a ritual to gain dangerous ancestral power. They obtained dragon scales, skin, and blood from dragons. Our warlock particularly interested in the blood.

In this chaos, an old powerful looking wizard crashes into the observatory the crew is in. When things settled down, Ebeneezer introduced himself as coming from a different time period and possibly parallel timeline-is holding a time staff. Says that Moander (evil deity) has a small but growing following, however he has some defectors and there are rumors there was another time period where he was imprisoned/robbed of his powers somehow. Ebeneezer asks adventurers to join him there to fight Moander amongst other things as there are so many competing factions where he comes from it’s hard to know who to trust. It is explained that Blepp took on a caricature type of persona to gain intel from the adventurers and assess them. Moander (the patron) is striking our Warlock with psychic damage throughout this conversation.

There was some explanation of time travel and using the time staff, that it had almost run out of magical energy and had to be restored at this specific celestial event. Ganzon (sorcerer) asked if they couldn’t just come back to this specific event to recharge it if they need to, this was discussed as a possibility but also that they had already done this so may not be possible.

Ebeneezer tells the crew there are many powerful magic items from the time period and parallel timeline he is from, centering on the large island state of Aeridor. Also shares he has defected from The Trust of the Song, the group that is after Al (wizard) for sword training. Al asks repeatedly about finding dinosaurs and Ebeneezer hesitantly shares that there are mutant psychic dinos on Aeridor that are used in fighting rings but also other ways, he is hesitant to share more. The group agrees to work as a team and go with Ebeneezer to Aeridor with Blepp, it is also revealed his real name is Plebb. Plebb offers a weak apology for hiding his true identity. The group allows Ebeneezer to transport them to Aeridor at his home base.

I also have tons of factions prepared, probably too many lol. I thought a good way to explain weird/random magic and things like mutant dinos would be to blame Moander and his evil use of magic, but open to other suggestions if you have any otherwise I'm just kind of sharing how it's going ! Thanks!

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