Hey!
Well my DM and I are working on a one shot that’s a bit on a grand scale. My DM asked me to email him a complete list of the things I want to do for the next few years because were running things kinda fast so we can catch him up to some 25th levels.
He is working on gathering up power, money, and if you can believe it tricking Mournblade (Elric book stuff) to come back to Sword Form. He is going to hell to get his fathers soul back, and is creating a newer better body for his father. Just crazy stuff!
And its all for his father!
So can I ask you to help me with my plan, maybe how to write it better. Anything! I know its long but any help would be greatly appreciated
By the way this Character is cut throat and full evil there is really nothing good about him at all think Dexter in his brutality!
THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW.
So I have a huge Castle now and just bought my self 20 workers a few engineers and a Blacksmith. They can have anything they need to build there lodging at that where we stopped.
The kingdom this my castle is located in has tribes people who toll the roads as highwaymen and are generally hated.
I have money!
Heres the Plan!
Von Moon has his 20 Worker men start to work on building a lodge that will sleep 50 workers in bunk beds. He would like the Engineer to help design it. Then they will build a building to hold all the smiths equipment, basically a Smithy. Then they will build a stable, and a large cafeteria area. Finally they’ll build a large common room.
Von Moon would like to find a highwayman. Capture him and ask him these questions; are they all one tribe or three separate tribes? How many of them are there? Do they like each other? Why? Why not? Do they like the Orcs? Do they like the Drow? Are they aligned with any of the Cites and or Towns? What are the tribe or tribe’s goals? What is the Tribes god? Why do you toll the roads? Are you looking for money, weapons, virgins, women, men, horses, maybe they want their own city? Who are the tribe’s leaders or leader? How do he or she lead and or govern the people? Who are tribe’s enemies? What do you not like (magic? or walls around a city. Basically anything that would be odd to someone out side the tribe.)?
What is the land surrounding the castle like? Is it farmable? Why or why not? If not, Von Moon would like to find a druid to fix that problem. Where, how and how much? If Von Moon can find a druid who will do it, he wants the druid to make the land fertile and began making it habitable by farm animals and able to grow large amounts of produce two things or more for opposite seasons so that there is always food to be bought and sold.
The Reason its all Happening
With the Answers to the questions above Von Moon plans to get shit loads of money and a huge resource of people both alive and dead.
He wants to somehow make a deal with the tribes of the Highwaymen. He wants to know how much they make a month tolling the roads. (He will offer that price and then half again as much Ex. If they make 10 gold he’ll offer 15) (If he can) He will also offer both women, virgins, children, horses or any item they want. He will also offer them a city if they want one. All they have to do is work for him. He can even guarantee fewer deaths a month.
He wants them to attack towns and cities from small to big, starting with Timmy’s parent’s village. Month-by-Month they will strike. The plan of attack will always be around the same and always planed by Von Moon. The norm will go like this:
The highlanders will attack while Von Moon and Timmy and Razac steal thier food and horses along with blacksmith tools and other tradesmen tools, anything valuable, etc. Then set fire from the inside to the buildings. Creating chaos! Then Von Moon under the Guise Sir Logan Grey will come riding in on his white horse! The Highwaymen knowing this is to happen will act scared and run of saying things about the wonderful Logan Grey. The people will have no more home and some deaths and Logan will offer them a place to stay outside his castle and farms and land. His men will then help build there houses with them. He’ll even lend them protection from the highwaymen. (MUHAHAHAHAHAHA)
The people will love him! He gave them land, saved them, and gave them a new chance at life! After a year when the farms are starting to rock out great stuff again and trade is up he will begin to tax. The people wont complain, because he gave them everything! Hes fair and just! He cares, and he gave them both land, and Hope. So they will gladly give him both tax money and a share of food for his castle, along with pure trust and loyalty.
Now Von Moon has Power and Money with no one even knowing he exists!
Eh?
Did I not post enough info or clearly enough?
Maybe this is the wrong area?
Since Von Moon is good at disguises, you'll need a few more. Be prepared to establish a thieves' guild. Once you run out of towns/villages to "recruit" from, the highwaymen will go back their old ways (probably planning on not running from Logan Grey one time and killing him off). Persuade one of the tribes to become the thieves' guild (disguise Von Moon as the new guildmaster). Convince another tribe that there's more stable money in being the constables than in highwaymanship. Use the third tribe (the most monstrous) to continue raiding. The peasants should always be afraid of some "other" outside their idyllic countryside; they won't pay as much attention to what's happening locally if there's an outer enemy and they'll grumble a lot less about paying higher taxes because its going towards their protection.
Unless you're in totally untamed wilderness (and it doesn't sound like you are) you'll need to be ready for other nobles. They're not going to take kindly to Logan the Grey siphoning off their tax base. You may have to deal with their quite legal demands that you repatriate their serfs to them. If you're not ready to do that, better make sure that your army is up to snuff because you might then be at war with established neighbors. But if it gets too out of hand, disguise yourself as someone who will "quietly" take care of the Logan problem. Then you disguise yourself as the other nobles' figurehead who takes over once you assassinate yourself and take over.