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Me again looking for campaign advice!

Working on developing my first campaign. Looking for general advice on how to tie it all together, have appreciate the advice I have received so far but I feel like I needed to make some sort of general plot concept to start to look into those resources more. This is long so no need to read or reply but if you have the time and interest I appreciate it! I mostly want to know if my general plot actually makes sense in some way outside my own mind!

Started with Dragons of Stormwreck Isle DnD starter set with the idea of having a time portal appear at the end.

PC’s include

Paladin Aasimar-goal is to find his grandfather (or more likely information) who was allegedly carried away from the island by a dragon a long time ago

Tabaxi Rogue-No clear goal yet but following the will of Bast, ((ancient Egyptian goddess of home, domesticity, fertility, childbirth, and protection)) was suggested here to help her find a powerful form of catnip

Sword-wielding human Wizard-being chased by a Wizards guild because they don’t like him pursuing training in sword fighting etc. Guild is called The Trust of the Song

Warlock with a patron called the Deity Moander, which I’m just learning is an actual deity in DnD materials. Warlock wants to find some dirt on his patron so he can no longer be manipulated by him. How can you find dirt on a deity? Or am I missing something? Can they just kill him in a future time period?

Sorcerer-occassionally when he rolls on the wild magic table he gets pulled to the elemental plane, so he would like some type of power to stop doing this. and/or maybe learn additional wizard magic more easily.

The idea is they have just defeated a dragon (in a clifftop observatory) that wanted to perform a magic ritual during a celestial event, they have gotten rumors of some type of time portal potentially opening up during this event.

So the next scene would be they’re in the observatory with the dead dragon, and they see the celestial event cause the observatory and telescope to glow and they see someone appear holding a large staff. This is a wizard human named Ebeneezer holding a time staff (I found online has certain stats etc.)

Ebeneezer more or less tells the Paladin that his grandfather has been trapped by a guild of Wizards called the Trust of the Song, because he seemed to be able to travel through time without the staff and for no known reason and they were afraid of his power. In the far distant future this guild has become very powerful, rich, with a hoard of spell scrolls (that our sorcerer might be interested in), and seems to be getting resources from the deity Moander. Ebeneezer was a former high wizard in this guild who defected when he saw how the grandfather was being treated amongst the guild’s green and corruption. ((I think this would help the whole party be motivated to find dirt on Moander))

So they decide to use the time staff and go save grandpa to start. I guess I’ll have them go to some time in the future. I’m going with the idea there are different time periods but also parallel timelines. This group has mentioned interest in spaceships, so I’m thinking I’ll use some of the materials recommended on another thread to work that in. They’ve also mentioned liking dinosaurs. I was thinking of working that in at a later date or there being some type of jurassic park style place somewhere in this setting.

So does this make general sense? Any suggestions for tying things together more or potential encounters? Open to any thoughts at all, thanks!

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