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What's your favorite way to kick off a campaign, and why? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Zonetrooper@lemmy.world to c/dnd@lemmy.world

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The good ol' fashioned "You all meet in a tavern, answering a poster offering gold for help..."? The action-scene, "You're all engaged in mutual mundane task, when suddenly a band of thugs/goblins/whatever bust in looking for the plot coupon and chaos breaks out"? The "Elder Scrolls classic" - all being prisoners thrown in together? Tie it in to a character's backstory and let them lead the other party members in?

What have you found interesting or successful, and why?

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[–] MercuryGenisus@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So far my best campaign start was I told the group: Look, until I say so, everything you try works. No rolls. Your bad asses. Something will go wrong at some point, but it's imposable for you to die until this opening is over.

They proceed to pull off an amazing heist where they had to break in and tamper with some evidence. Just add they do their NPC teammates betray them, set off a chain reaction that kills a bunch of civilians, and leave them to take the blame. The law is on their trail, they are running out of friends, and finally they dive out of a high rise building and land in a trash heap. Then the campaign starts.

[–] Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's definitely a new one; I'd not heard of that strategy before. It's certainly interesting if you have players who are into actually playing their characters. Did you find the group got bored with being bumped back to Level 1 after being effectively action-movie stars for the opening?

[–] MercuryGenisus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

They seemed to like it! It only lasted the first half of the first session. It was fun without dragging on.