This was fine with me, so we went with 4d6, drop the lowest, assign the six scores as you like. One person suggested that we fully roll up characters right at the table – and to use dice to generate ability scores rather than point buy. When everyone arrived, they seemed excited about starting a new campaign together. I sent a reminder email about this the day before the session. I told everyone to bring their existing characters for the campaign that we were wrapping up, but also to have a look at the ZEITGEIST campaign guide if they had time and to start thinking about character ideas. I scheduled session zero of the campaign this past Sunday. They seemed intrigued, so I sent them the players guide for the campaign ( which you can get here).
I first floated the idea of the campaign to the players after an earlier session of a different campaign a few weeks prior, just to gauge their reactions. One of my players, Bree, has been in massive crunch time in art school for months and has been out of gaming, but that’s finally done now (congrats, Bree!) and she’s ready for some D&D.īecause ZEITGEIST is a more story-focused campaign than I’ve generally run, I knew it would work better if the characters in the party had a strong connection to the world and to one another.
I’ve known for a while that I wanted to run the ZEITGEIST campaign from EN World, and my regular in-person group seemed like the right people to try it with. This weekend, I tried something different. Everyone creates their own character at their own home, perhaps exchanging ideas via email to make sure that we end up with a relatively balanced party, and then there’s a little bit of trying to make the characters fit with one another story-wise at the first session. Because my players have had access to the extremely useful Character Builder program, character creation has usually been a solitary activity. I had a little experience with 3rd Edition, but nothing before that, and I hadn’t run any games regularly until mid 2010.
I’ve mainly been a 4th Edition D&D Dungeon Master.
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