![]() ![]() The shorter the better, so here is my campaign pitch in three words: The Campaign Elevator Pitchįollowing the steps in Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master for building new campaigns, we start with a central theme for the campaign. We'd have lots of side threads going on too, but building a full level 1 to 20 campaign arc focused on Yeenoghu's Hunger sounds like a lot of fun to me, so let's dig in. The party witnesses the full transformation (or maybe partial transformation if they decide to blast it to pieces before it finishes) of a hyena into a gnoll.Ī whirlwind of events would take them from that single scene all the way into the Death Dells where they will hunt-or be hunted by- Yeenoghu the demon prince of gnolls and the most powerful minions on Yeenoghu's home plane of existence in the Abyss.Ĭan we build an entire campaign around this central pillar? I believe we can! Of course it won't JUST be gnolls. As the characters watch in horror, the hyena starts to twist and break like the best scene in American Werewolf in London. I had in my head an image of a hyena twitching in the remains of a half-digested corpse of a villager (gory, I know). Reading the section on gnolls in Volo's Guide got my head spinning around the idea of a full level 1 to 20 fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons campaign built around gnolls. ![]() ![]() If you get nothing else out of this article, consider how much value you can get by reading these books cover to cover to steep yourself in D&D lore. Reading Volo's Guide to Monsters, along with the Monster Manual is a fantastic way to fill our head with D&D lore that helps us plan our games and improvise while we're running them. New to Sly Flourish? Start Here! The Hunger: A Level 1 to 20 Gnoll Campaign ![]()
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