PaxVenire
Wasteland Peacemaker
My journey as a DM
Hello everyone. About a year ago, I wrangled my friends together to play a tabletop roleplaying game. After having a blast playing Baldur's Gate 3, we all naturally felt the urge to try and play Dungeons & Dragons. None of us had any real experience with TTRPGs beforehand, so none of us had any idea on how to make or run a game. I decided to learn and volunteered myself as DM.
I got to work learning the ins and outs of D&D 5e as well as the basics of TTRPGs. When I felt confident enough to finally put learning to practice, I created a mini-campaign for my friends. My world was set in the Forgotten Realms, specifically Cormyr. I chose Cormyr because in lore it was a land recently ravaged by war and disease. Around the time of D&D 4e, Cormyr was locked in a two-way war with neighboring Sembia and the resurrected Netheril Empire infiltrated by Sharrans to the north (which was using Sembia as a puppet, idk man Forgotten Realms lore is complicated), while also dealing with the Spellplague. In the present D&D 5e, not much is known about Cormyr except that the war and Spellplague are over and their relations with Sembia has been restored, thus it gave me creative freedom to explore the post-war period that was just glossed over and most likely won't be expanded on.
Well I won't go into detail about our adventures in Cormyr, as the point I wanted to make is that by creating a game set in a world ravaged by war, famine, disease, and overrun with robbers and monsters, I realized I had essentially made a Forgotten Realms Fallout game. After our mini-campaign wrapped up, I knew exactly what to do next, and that was play Atomic Postman's Fallout: Van Buren. Now obviously his system is much different from D&D 5e, so in an effort to learn the ropes, I used Atomic Postman's one-shots to learn to play the game with my friends. After getting into the Vault Archives system and playing both one-shots, we finally started Fallout: Van Buren.
Recaps:
After playing a handful of sessions, my friends thought it would be cool if instead of recapping exactly what happened in their games, the recaps could be dramatized and documented as if they were actual lore. I thought that sounded awesome, and so I started taking their session recaps and formatting it into a more story-like summary rather than just an average description of their game. I finished the first two one-shots, and am working on storifying their Fallout: Van Buren adventures. I'll upload them to this thread as I complete them.
See the attached files below.
Hello everyone. About a year ago, I wrangled my friends together to play a tabletop roleplaying game. After having a blast playing Baldur's Gate 3, we all naturally felt the urge to try and play Dungeons & Dragons. None of us had any real experience with TTRPGs beforehand, so none of us had any idea on how to make or run a game. I decided to learn and volunteered myself as DM.
I got to work learning the ins and outs of D&D 5e as well as the basics of TTRPGs. When I felt confident enough to finally put learning to practice, I created a mini-campaign for my friends. My world was set in the Forgotten Realms, specifically Cormyr. I chose Cormyr because in lore it was a land recently ravaged by war and disease. Around the time of D&D 4e, Cormyr was locked in a two-way war with neighboring Sembia and the resurrected Netheril Empire infiltrated by Sharrans to the north (which was using Sembia as a puppet, idk man Forgotten Realms lore is complicated), while also dealing with the Spellplague. In the present D&D 5e, not much is known about Cormyr except that the war and Spellplague are over and their relations with Sembia has been restored, thus it gave me creative freedom to explore the post-war period that was just glossed over and most likely won't be expanded on.
Well I won't go into detail about our adventures in Cormyr, as the point I wanted to make is that by creating a game set in a world ravaged by war, famine, disease, and overrun with robbers and monsters, I realized I had essentially made a Forgotten Realms Fallout game. After our mini-campaign wrapped up, I knew exactly what to do next, and that was play Atomic Postman's Fallout: Van Buren. Now obviously his system is much different from D&D 5e, so in an effort to learn the ropes, I used Atomic Postman's one-shots to learn to play the game with my friends. After getting into the Vault Archives system and playing both one-shots, we finally started Fallout: Van Buren.
Recaps:
After playing a handful of sessions, my friends thought it would be cool if instead of recapping exactly what happened in their games, the recaps could be dramatized and documented as if they were actual lore. I thought that sounded awesome, and so I started taking their session recaps and formatting it into a more story-like summary rather than just an average description of their game. I finished the first two one-shots, and am working on storifying their Fallout: Van Buren adventures. I'll upload them to this thread as I complete them.
See the attached files below.
