In our STAP we’re using the FR setting. We’re going to start in the late spring of 1375 dr. This means that Sasserine has already went through the huge lightning storms of the previous year and the worst dragon rage ever the year before that. While I don’t have to use either of these big happenings in our campaign I can’t help but think I would be missing out on a great opportunity as two players have ties to dragons in their backstories or have taken or plan on choosing draconic classes.
I was thinking of maybe having something happen to Sasserine during these years, perhaps a dragon turtle attack or some other dragon went mad and ravaged the city? During the year of lighting storms I was toying with the idea of having a couple of those ‘special’ lightening strikes blast the region in certain areas and now the churches of Tiamat and Bahamut are sending agents to Sasserine in order to launch expeditions into the surrounding jungle in an effort to bring back any dragon eggs that may or may not have been left by the lighting.
This would possibly make an excellent side adventure or intro adventure for PC’s that could be hired by one draconic group as guides/henchmen/slaves or similar.
What do you guys and gals think?
The 'special' lightning idea would be a great way to plant an FR-flavored adventure seed for your party while they're still in Sasserine. You could also leave the option open for them to return to Sasserine later in the AP, so they could deal with more powerful agents of these organizations. It would give another way to cement the players' ties to Sasserine without using just the STAP material. And since the timeline for STAP is so flexible, you could easily grow this into a great parallel storyline... :)
It may be a bit of a workload, but it sounds like it could pay off nicely for everyone - great ideas R-type!
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