ITT: We Outline a Campaign

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Don't expect anything to come of this, OP. This board is full of people bereft of any and all creative capability, who just want to be hardasses and throw shit at any thread that isn't the usually 40k circlejerk. I will support your endeavor, even if it doesn't pick up steam.

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Come now, /tg/, gimme something.

First four get to draft in a PC each.

>>55421003
It's a festival of death and rebirth. Spring has come, the dead are buried, and renewal is on it's way.

Lanterns hang in every window, and at sunset, they will be lit with the sacred flame of the local temple, in a long procession of each household marching it in, dropping off or picking up a donation (for whoever needs it most, for the new year) and proceeding home.

Then the ruckus begins! Driving out the wicked spirits with choruses of bawdy songs, consumption of heady spirits, and bonfire roasting of long wintered meats

>>55421003
So, a town getting ready to a festival. BBEG attacking in the middle/ after the fest is somewhat over-used. So I suggest that there's a gang of notorious bandits preparing a series of thefts on the festival night. And they are working for a BBEG who wants to gain a certain magical equipment scattered around the town in several rich houses (and make some money at the same time).

>>55421400
Right, so there's heists, and chaos, and clashes, but in the center of it all there's an important theft. One best hidden in the rash of similar thefts, but the target stands out to those who are initiated. Too conspicuous to miss

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>>55421448
Two questions, then:

Are the thieves the first glimpse of the antagonists, or are they the PCs?

What do these magic items they're trying to steal do?

>>55421614
Ooh good question.
I think you could daringly say both. The whole encounter can put PC's of different backgrounds together in the same place at the same time, and then you let kismet do the rest.

So if the macguffin is something related to the festival of life and death, which has a flame motif, I'd say it should stand out; the unextinguishable blue flame is plucked from it's sacred site and the BBEG/his lieutenant unleashes the guardians of the temple (intentionally or not, that can be spun later).

So who are the guardians of the sacred temple of the flame of rebirth?

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>>55421673
Well, with the whole procession dealio going on at the moment, I imagine there would be blindspots in the security. I would suggest the people in charge of taking care of it are priests and priestesses and the festival is of their religion.

Following the theme with the thieves, perhaps this is another possible source of PCs.

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>>55421072
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>>55421673
A subtle gentleman wearing a boar's mask

>>55422035
sorry I was answering about
"Who are the guardian(s) of the sacred Temple of the Flame of Rebirth?"