Currently DMing CoS and my party thinks that's all it is, but I'm actually making the Domains of Dread connection to the shadowfell the way to tie everything into a world heavily borrowed from my favorite fantasy lore. I was working on a homebrew but everyone wanted me to run CoS so I'm using the opportunity to introduce my own world and make the players happy by continuing to level instead of just ending after Strahd.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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Currently running Dungeon of the Mad Mage after we finished Dragon Heist. We're in level 3 and skull port in the dungeon. But the party has taken a way back to the surface of Waterdeep now to deal with their conflicts with the Xanathar guild which has escalated into all out war.
Homebrew campaign is currently deep in the underdark with the players trying to unravel a mystery and looking for a way out!
I homebrewed a thing set on an alternate history future Earth where basically, there's an alternate history divergence with Jimmy Carter not losing reelection and then the US basically turning into a demsoc utopia resulting in world peace and sustainable prosperity, and then three different races of aliens show up. At first things go well with humanity, but then there's complications and tensions both between and within those three races, and the most advanced of the three ends up seeing humanity as a threat to them due to a bunch of other factors I introduced that would take way too long to explain and releasing a viral bioweapon that ended up killing most of humanity in the space of a year before a coalition of scientists and soldiers from all four species banded together to synthesize a cure and stop things. All of the game stuff happens well after, in the ruins of civilization, a la Fallout, but with a post-plague instead of post-nuclear aesthetic.
I have a whole novella detailing all of that lore on my Google Drive, most of which I wrote while unemployed in 2019. So you can imagine how weird 2020 was for me.
But that's on the backburner at the moment because my group is playing through the one with Gundren Rockseeker on the Sword Coast right now, with someone else DMing, because my mental health wasn't great in 2021 but we still wanted to play.