D&D latest session talk
So our little group gained an extra player and after our last session two people were going away for sometime (married couple) so our DM came up with a fantastic way to introduce our new person, our DM asked all of us to come up with a backstory for our characters and what he did was very creative.
We are playing The lost mine of Phandelver, our last session we had run into a Nothic not long after we had a long rest. So our DM set the scene that our married couple would watch over us while the rest of us went to sleep, this is where the backstories we created came up. We all had reoccurring nightmares about the worst moment in our lives and had to change the pivotal point of the dream, as each of us changed the dream they would pop up into the next person to help along the way. Once the dreams were all complete we found ourselves in a 5th dream with an unknown Gnome wizard who fought a necromancer and became cursed and was the Nothic, once we broke that spell our new member joined the party.
I should add this was the first time our DM tried anything like this and since we are all rather new to the world of table top RPG it was really great.
So how was your last session? anything fun or not so fun happen?
That's an excellent idea to handle the character change situation, I really like it.
I DM a regular group and recently I've been swamped with uni and work so for our last session I had next to nothing prepared. I was up for the challenge of improvising a whole session though, as I know my original world pretty well. The party decided to take a shortcut to their next destination across a cursed sea, so the bulk of the session was effectively an extended chase sequence as they were harassed by mutant slavers. It was the first time we'd done any naval combat, and it was loads of fun. When the enemy ships closed in I had them boarding (initiating player scale combat) and trying to knock out the players and take them back to the slave ships. It made for some extremely tense situations. It kind of felt like Mad Max but at sea.
that sounds awesome. I honestly haven't got the creativity to try and DM let alone improv a whole night.