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One of my players recently bought me a roll20 module for the new Planescape book that comes with an adventure that lasts around 20-25 sessions, titled Turn of Fortune's Wheel, with most of the work already done so it can be run with minimum prep time. I'm really excited by this! So I decided I would spend some free time every once in a while going through the module and setting up some extra maps for the less important encounters the module neglects (it just gives you a blank generic battlemap to deal with them and that's not my jam), and I should be ready to run it in a couple months.

However. I'm already running a campaign. Mirand Sia has been going strong for 44 sessions with no breaks. I run it on Saturdays, but I really really want more dungeons and dragons (nevermind that I already play on a different group on saturdays later that day). I decided I'm going to be running Turn of Fortune's Wheel on Sundays, so we can have d&d twice a week. it should probably be fine, because all the work is already done, but I'm a little nervous! It's going to be a little test to see how well I can do. It's at least going to be every other week, so that should last a good year.

The same friend that bought me the module is running oneshots for us once every few weeks on the same day. The goal is for us to alternate between oneshots and Turn of Fortune's Wheel, so we're always playing something as long as we're free. But then I started thinking, what about when we finish it?

I already have plans for what I'll be DMing after Mirand Sia: My next campaign will be a megadungeon dungeon crawl capped at level 5 where the players will have multiple characters and will be able to decide which character to bring on each trip to the megadungeon, unlocking new areas and checkpoints they can start from so they don't have to "re-explore" all of it every time, as well as unlocking new player options depending on what they find in the dungeon (For example, if they find an underground village and they befriend it, they can now make characters of the species that inhabits it) I'm very excited for it! However someone else wants to DM first. And I have to always be DMing something, I like it more than being a player.

So I started thinking about what I'm going to be doing after Turn of Fortune's Wheel, and I came up with a list of things I'll be running on Sundays.

Differrent anthology adventures, in the following order: Dragon Delves, Candlekeep Mysteries, Journeys through the Radiant Citadel, Quests from the Infinite Staircase, and Keys from the Golden Vault. I'm also gonna try to have them all be mostly canon to each other. All the previous campaigns we've played are canon to Mirand Sia (not vice-versa) and I want to keep that trend for my stuff.

After these (or in between) I want to run Descent into Avernus, including its prelude story the Fall of Elturel. I've been interested in this one the most out of most official campaigns. I can thank Baldur's Gate 3 for that. Then I'm going to be running Curse of Strahd, Vecna Eve of Ruin including its prelude adventure, and Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep, though I would love to get both the WIldemount and Tal'dorei setting books first.

This is a lot!! But it helps me a lot to have things to look forward to in the future.
To summarize: Plans for one campaign on Saturdays in probably about 2 years, and plans for four different Sunday anthology adventure series that will probably last a couple years by themselves, as well as five official campaigns on Sundays. Super excited and nervous for the future!

On my previous post I mentioned how my dnd world Mirand Sia has a level of technology similar to that of the 1920s, but this isn't entirely accurate. While most of Mirand Sia's technology is like that, there's some wild outliers.

I'll begin by explaining Ironwroughts, the warforged of the setting: Basically, robot people. Name courtesy of Kibblestasty Homebrew. More under the cut!

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Most of the technology of this world comes from arcane magics, meaning it's being powered from the magic flowing through the Leylines and onto the weave of magic around the world. This not only means the energy produces has these soft, pretty cyan colors, but it also means that magic is being used up faster than the weave can regenerate itself, creating pockets of dead magic zones around the world. Arcane generators have to be relocated every few years, and the land is suffering from it. This also means that magic itself is less strong as it used to be, since the weave is weaker than it was before Arcane tech began to develop.

Examples of Arcane technology

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That's all for now, It is 4:18 AM and I'm getting sleepy writing all of this. Nova is being super cute curling on the chair beside me, soon I'll make a post about her!

Just seeing how things work around here!

It is currently 3:18 am, my wife is playing on the switch on the bed behind me, and my cat Nova is sleeping on a chair beside me. It's been a slow, but enjoyable day.

Tomorrow I will try to plan some of my d&d session for Saturday! But for now it's sleepy time.