A Whole New World

After a few weeks away from D&D, Matthew requested that we play again over the long weekend. He remains far more interested in DMing than playing, so this time I suggested that we start by creating a unique and well-developed setting for his adventures. We spent a couple of hours brainstorming -- much more time than his little brother would have liked -- and now Matthew's campaign setting has a home town, some key NPCs, and a few storylines that are directly linked to the characters' backgrounds. I tried to help him come up with plot threads that he can use to create adventures and encounters that aren't quite as random and off-the-cuff as in his first attempt at DMing. We played through the first scenario last night, with my bard Jack of Napes (get it?) and Nathaniel's rogue Dylan joining forces with the dragonborn NPC Rhogar. I hope it was the first of many adventures in a whole new world of Matthew's creation -- a world that already has narrative links to the Front Porch multiverse, of course. The minions of Ophion/Ekhis are, indeed, everywhere.