The party has to track down whoever is assassinating a bunch of nobles and burning down their manors. It turns out to be a dragon supremacist who’s upset about the wealthy getting honorary dragon status amongst their kin and decided to cull the soft and weak “infecting their race”.
Bonus points if in their dying moments they declare the party would make great dragons for not forgetting to back up their arrogance with personal might.
Damn it, I might have to write and run this campaign now.
Idea: Trans femme orcish mage who was excluded from their family and started to live with goblins and dwarfs. She kind of lives a happy mage life, studying the arcane until the orcish supremacists want to eradicate all weaker life forms. She has to team up with her group of orcish friends to infiltrate the orc court and help the orc resistance from within, basically being the middle man between Resistorc and DwarfGoblinkind. I’m talking about orcish, because when we lean in the direction that each “race” is socially constructed within the universe than it doesn’t make sense to write “orc” as fixed thing.
Anyway turns out Ork Supremacists made a deal with a dragon-faction which gives them power as long as they bring half of the loot to the dragons.
A side quest could be that they need to wake up a water dragon who’s just really sleepy and fond of natural beauty. They ofc are then way mad of the destruction the other dragonkind wrought on nature with their greed.
Anyway, just some Ideas :3
Oh, supporting a transgender orc could be an entire campaign in itself! I’m of the opinion that transgender issues wouldn’t normally be an issue in a world with permanent polymorph, but for an orc? Even if the tribe had a caster of high enough level, becoming biologically female doesn’t sound great in a traditional orc society (assuming they use their women as baby factories to compensate for their high death rate), and that’s also a culture where not fitting in could have lethal consequences if found out. The orc being a mage adds a fun additional wrinkle if she’s capable of casting it herself but refuses until she gets somewhere safe.
So she’d be putting off the polymorph until after the players help her escape the tribe, while the elders attempt to stop them due to her being one of their few competent mages. Then they have to help her find a place in civilized society that looks down on her for all the things her previous culture praised her for.
I think I fell in love with this character already. Thanks for the inspiration!
Ohhh, that is such a good Idea. You can even make factions within who oppose those ideas which could create so much tension and possibilities!!
The party has to track down whoever is assassinating a bunch of nobles and burning down their manors. It turns out to be a dragon supremacist who’s upset about the wealthy getting honorary dragon status amongst their kin and decided to cull the soft and weak “infecting their race”.
Bonus points if in their dying moments they declare the party would make great dragons for not forgetting to back up their arrogance with personal might.
Damn it, I might have to write and run this campaign now.
Idea: Trans femme orcish mage who was excluded from their family and started to live with goblins and dwarfs. She kind of lives a happy mage life, studying the arcane until the orcish supremacists want to eradicate all weaker life forms. She has to team up with her group of orcish friends to infiltrate the orc court and help the orc resistance from within, basically being the middle man between Resistorc and DwarfGoblinkind. I’m talking about orcish, because when we lean in the direction that each “race” is socially constructed within the universe than it doesn’t make sense to write “orc” as fixed thing. Anyway turns out Ork Supremacists made a deal with a dragon-faction which gives them power as long as they bring half of the loot to the dragons. A side quest could be that they need to wake up a water dragon who’s just really sleepy and fond of natural beauty. They ofc are then way mad of the destruction the other dragonkind wrought on nature with their greed. Anyway, just some Ideas :3
Oh, supporting a transgender orc could be an entire campaign in itself! I’m of the opinion that transgender issues wouldn’t normally be an issue in a world with permanent polymorph, but for an orc? Even if the tribe had a caster of high enough level, becoming biologically female doesn’t sound great in a traditional orc society (assuming they use their women as baby factories to compensate for their high death rate), and that’s also a culture where not fitting in could have lethal consequences if found out. The orc being a mage adds a fun additional wrinkle if she’s capable of casting it herself but refuses until she gets somewhere safe.
So she’d be putting off the polymorph until after the players help her escape the tribe, while the elders attempt to stop them due to her being one of their few competent mages. Then they have to help her find a place in civilized society that looks down on her for all the things her previous culture praised her for.
I think I fell in love with this character already. Thanks for the inspiration!