Or, important items could have been stolen from the order, requiring heroes to find the culprits across a campaign.

An intelligent item can act as your voice, even if that voice is cryptic. When dealing with religious patrons, prophecies or ancient texts can foretell the heroes playing a vital role. In this campaign, the characters can exert great influence, convincing the Gauntlet to change leadership at the camp and to recognize and strengthen the Merchant Princes’ right to rule Chult. Camp Vengeance can act as a base for the heroes as they seek to find clues and a way to the lost city. The patron will help underscore the immediate importance of securing the Gauntlet’s new camp (Camp Vengeance) from the undead, as well as the larger goal of ending the death curse. The death curse could strike as the heroes prepare to head into the jungle. This allows the characters to fully explore Port Nyanzaru. With Tomb of Annihilation, The Order of the Gauntlet in Baldur’s Gate can send the characters to check on the fate of their first camp (Camp Righteous) before the death curse arrives. Such a patron can help underscore the high stakes, both celestial (the war against the Hells) and earthly (the fate of Elturel and Baldur’s Gate, the necessity to protect Baldur’s Gate from cults).Ī faction such as The Order of the Gauntlet can serve as a religious patron, hiring the characters to help them establish a presence in a dangerous area. The patron could be a church, or it could even be a member of the Hellriders of Elturel. As the characters solve missions, they rise in prominence, receiving tougher assignments and increased rewards.Ī religious order swears the characters to secrecy over the rise of a dangerous cult, asking them to infiltrate the Flaming Fist in Baldur’s Gate. It’s easy to lose focus in that adventure, but a patron can help keep the party on track, pointing them in the right direction when needed.Īn occult academy can also work well for a Ravenloft campaign, with the academy providing clues that lead into the mists and perhaps a powerful NPC member or associate such as Van Richten.Ĭandlekeep could serve as an academy patron, directing the heroes on adventures (including those in the Candlekeep book) as they seek rare tomes. The academy member could be in the prison cells, or may have escaped after leaving a few clues to guide play and engage the players.Īn academy devoted to studying elemental forces could instead tie into Princes of the Apocalypse. This now explains the beginning of the adventure, gives our characters goals (find the academy member, learn what they discovered). The academy urges the characters to infiltrate the drow prison where the academy member is held captive.

Our initial premise could be that an academy member was captured shortly after sending a cryptic message saying they had made a critical discovery. Imagine we are running the adventure Out of the Abyss. Was something stolen from the academy? Did a member go missing, go rogue, or turn against the academy? Has the academy fallen on hard times due to a rival? These kinds of situations can tie the campaign and patron together, while placing the characters in a position where they can become the patron’s heroes. For example, an academy studying the occult seeks knowledge, but they can also be looking into matters that tie directly into our campaign.

Along the way, he’ll learn the secrets of “liquormancy” – and the dungeon’s mystical “High Proof Spirit Maidens”.When the characters’ patron is an academy, we can align the academy’s focus with the plot of the campaign. He is left with little choice but to assist her throughout the labyrinth-like underground basements and dungeons that lay underneath the tavern, in order to chase after an evil wizard. One fateful night however, a tipsy princess stumbles through the door – making an encounter that would change his life, However, he has yet to make any progress in the mysterious, seemingly timeless tavern he serves at.

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