Campaign starts by the town getting ready for a festival

>Nobody from your town ever traveled far.

Yeah, it's a classic way to start the game! You can briefly introduce NPCs, drop a little backstory, give a feel for the setting. And even better, you can give the players low-stakes opportunities to roleplay and introduce their characters. Does one show off his strength helping set up? Does another get super-competitive over a children's game? It's a great way to get everyone involved before the conflict starts.

Oh, wait, were you pretending to hate things for no reason? Nah, that would be stupid! I'll just assume you're not a jackass, and were actually talking about how to plan games well.

>able to do side jobs for petty cash to buy basic equipment for level 0 guys
>characterization opportunities
>various ways festival plot can go from nothing happens everyone had a great time to shits fucked we summoned cthulhu
>its not 'you all meet in a tavern'

shit taste confirmed

that pic never gets old

>You all meet in the tavern to discuss the rides available at the festival.

>You meet in a tavern
>You all work there
>The owner expects you to work the entire day during the festival
>You all have to find ways to sneak away from the tavern to have some fun without your boss noticing

Why yes, that is how I plan to start my players once I finish my homebrew setting. Gotta establish the local culture, crops, and traditions somehow.

better than starting off in a tavern

I hope you choke on something, you joyless bastard. We'll hold a festival in your memory

Chrono Trigger too.

>your boss walks out the door
>"Hey, where are you headed?"
>"I'm meeting up with a colleague on 14th and 6th."
>".. That's where the festival is at."
>"Yeah, and?"
>Destroy the tavern

>Festival ends in Druidic sacrificial blood orgy at the end

Why the fuck is it that I can't find porn for this? There needs to be more ritual druid, savage/cultistic worshiper tier porn with an abundance of incest. Bible Black was the tits for this sort of thing.

Applelane reprise...
Or have you never played Runequest?

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what's the problem OP? This sounds comfy with good potential too turn sneaky, grim or weird. I like it.

>Lord of the Rings
It was a birthday party

This is like something that would happen in a persona themed game

>OP starts a greentext thread because he neither has the friends of time to play or GM a game.

The vanilla campaign was the worst part of NWN2

There was one in one hentai I vaguely remember reading, with a young boy getting to fuck some goat-centaur chick during the festival. Sadly, I have never been able to find it again

B6: The Veiled Society
B11: King's Festival

Oh fuck yes, that one. Due to Exhentai's shit tagging goats are under fucking sheep for some reason, you should be able to find it under that context again user.

But user, I don't have a file on that one forum place, so I cannot penetrate past the panda

It was a festival in everything but name.

Crono, it's time to wake up!

>The party awakens an ancient Lich
>It turns out it's a group of Bard Liches

Also Dark Cloud.

Do the dark souls method.

>You wake up in a prison cell
>why am I in jail? I'm lawful good
>dunno
>a knight on the roof drops a body
>wait, what?
>the body has a key and a letter saying "are you man enough to beat a god and light a fire?"

Maybe if you'd give me any fucking reason for your character to be any fucking where doing anything at all I could do some of the narrative crafting that is my role in this shitty endeavor but since you just handed me a sheet of paper with numbers on it fuck you, the campaign starts by the town getting ready for a god damn festival.

Would rather use the festival for the pcs to try to get rewards, contacts, and maybe recognition during the festival games and dances over meme danger or meme fun

Is that Kamen fucking rider? Give source please.

>>dunno
You instantly lose me as a player with that answer.

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To answer that question the DM would have to 'play your character' for you, so it's up to you to make something up.
Spontaneous idea how to do it as a DM though: During session 0 the lawful good character was approached by a desperate commoner whose cart was stuck in deep mud and wouldn't make it to the next town in time to exchange his goods (let's say furs, he's a woodsman). The merchant who usually buys his wares will only be there for a little while longer and pulling the cart out of the mud will take too long even with the help of the PC. The commoner begs the PC to take the wares and exchange them for the regular supplies, and bring them back to him on the road. Should the PC accept, the city guard search the wares and find fault with them i.e. smuggled goods or furs unlawfully taken from animals in the Duke's woods. PC will get thrown in jail until his trial.

This of course presumes an actual jail and not the very specific asylum created for a specific purpose as the previous user mentioned.

You could start everyone off in a flying tinkerer's workshop that crashlands in a hellscape of war between mindflayers and sentient dinosaurs. The players would still be bored.

>and light a fire
Don't be a chump, this is my world now.

> The game starts at a college house party
> Everyone's drunk except the PC's
> There's a knock at the door
> It's the pizza delivery guy, he's got $120 worth of pizzas
> None of the party guests are capable of paying him
> Acquire pizza for your drunk friends

I've done this three times, and had three different responses to the scenario. The first group scavenged throughout the party collecting money from people until they could afford to pay whilst the face distracted the delivery person. The second group invited the pizza guy inside, and were eventually able to convince him that losing his job was worth it for this party. The third group asked the delivery person to leave, then jumped him as he got back in his car, knocking him out and stealing the pizza.

I've wanted to play a more realistic game for a while, what system were you using and how did the campaigns go?

Twice I was using FATE to run Persona games, once I was using Mutants and Masterminds.

> Money collecting FATE Group
The game went really well, the party quickly fell into their roles and were able to efficiently resolve issues as they arose. Lasted just under two years before they beat the big bad, effectively the human avatar of the arch-demon Leviathan.

> Party with us FATE Group
Wound up being a slightly sillier campaign. It fell apart after about four months due to scheduling issues, but was fun while it lasted.

> Mutants and Masterminds Muggers
The players fell into a petty crime syndicate because the plot I had planned was derailed when the assaulted a pizza delivery boy. They played off the 'we're criminals because we made bad choices and regret it' thing really well, and eventually pulled a double-cross, gaining pardons for their assault by helping the local police and super groups dismantle the super mafia. Wound up being pretty fun considering I basically had to change all my plans on the fly.

Destiny 2's new raid. I don't like the game, but it's pretty swell, read up on some blog about it. Kinda makes me want to buy it.

>Campaign starts on a deserted island that's inside the stomach of a incomprehensibly MASSIVE creature that swallowed the boat the PC's were on to the campaign they 'thought' they'd be doing.

>Characters die and wake up in hell together

>the campaign starts a week or so before the festival
>shit starts going wrong
>goblins stealing fireworks, booze delivery is nowhere to be seen, etc, etc
>the party needs to fix.... the party...
>festival goes off without a hitch
>the ancient hero the festival is dedicated to is actually the BBEG

>the campaign starts a week or so before the fetival
>shit starts going wrong
>goblins stealing fireworks, booze delivery is nowhere seen, all tables and chairs are wobbly and need to be plained down, etc. etc.
>the party needs to fix the party
>the festival goes off without a hitch
>the ancient hero the festival is dedicated to is actually the god of menial tasks

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>they just want to perform at the festival
> the price is your body soul
>party has to find a way to haggle the lich's asking cost down to rudimentary monetary goods
>eventually culminates in trying to win a giant stuffed animal for the lich

>he doesn't like festivals
It's okay user, I'm sure you can overcome your autism one day.

Only faggots min max

>I don't want to think.
Good riddance

>campaign centered around the party, a group of people, starts with a social gathering
people that meet! how odd! who would have thought?

Warhammer's The Enemy Within campaign starts like this and it's fucking awesome.

The vanilla campaign was only bad if you took it seriously. It was literally a parody, right up to ending with 'Rocks fall, everybody dies' almost verbatim.

>Not understanding that it's a contextual clue for you to fill out the relevant information yourself

And good riddance, you giant faggot

I sure hope I never get a player like you then

>Man oh man look at all these death flags
>DM are any of these characters going to survive the intro? I want to know before I invest.