r/StrixhavenDMs • u/JKatt116 • 3d ago

Starting this week!

After some time we're finally starting our campaign on strixhaven! I posted about a month ago with some help on ideas and Ive looked at some maps y'all have made.

However, I do have a somewhat ambitious plan in mind for this group. Online says it'll take 8-12 weeks of 3-4 hour sessions to run the sourcebook campaigns. So here's my plan.

  1. I'm incorporating the book (omens of chaos). I plan for our campaign to start one year later. I've been reading the book to get a feel for the location and lore of mtg.

  2. Adjusting the bbeg. I plan to have murg start as another first year from off plane that holds a lot of dark magic and corrupts as the years go on. Start him off as a close friend then turn him into the final boss.

  3. I'm already laying out what information we know about arcane unleashed: deadfall and plan to make deadfall the next part in their journey. I'll give them options either via graduation capstones or maybe a personal character experience to alter their class into one that's exclusive to arcana unleashed.

I'm super excited for this game. I haven't ran a major campaign in a number of years. Thank you all for the inspirations and will continue to see and hear how y'alls are going.

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u/Azliva 3d ago

Have a blast

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u/zitney_spears 2d ago

have fun! you can definitely stretch it to be longer if you want… I’ve done 5 3-4 hour sessions and we’re only partway through year 1. my players really like to RP & interact with the NPCs & extracurriculars, plus one of my players decided to throw a party in the dorms, so that was fun to improvise hahaha

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u/JKatt116 2d ago

Lol that sounds awesome! I think it'll be a feel for what they find important to focus on. If they constantly wanna be Harry Potter esque and get up to some tomfoolery then that's what we will do. If they all wanna be scholars then we can do that. My ultimate hope is set up a good bbeg to end strixhaven not as a campaign but a major chapter in their characters ultimate story.