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Prison may just be the perfect place to start a roleplaying game campaign - watch to find out why!

[prjonku]

The campaign I’m in started with everyone being hired by the Lady of a Manor to solve an undead problem. Cleric wants to purge the undead, wizard is curious, rogue wants to get paid, it was a pretty good start IMO

[macdjord]

"So you all meet in a jail..." is nearly as classic as "So you all meet in a tavern..."

[GypsySlyp]

i do love this style of themed campaign in the best i ever ran the party were a secret autonomous scout (SAS) division for their counties army. the party ended up having a bad run in with a superior officer and defected... accidently becoming the figure heads of the resistance and triggering a nationwide manhunt. the game just plays better when the party has a defined direction but no rails and a theme creates that feeling almost effortlessly.

[passioninprocess]

Thank you! I’m writing a campaign where the first half takes place in prison and you’ve given me a few ideas to add to to the web

[johnnyd]

Stormlight Archive’s first book The Way of Kings is a perfect example of this. If you haven’t read it and you love D&D, you should drop what you’re doing and pick it up now.

[OgdenM]

Or, get goals and backstories for all your players. (Make sure they know to keep them reasonably short). Weave them into your campaign (even if it's a module!!!) and have them start at some kind of party where they all can get info about their goals... and make sure that you create a reason for ALL of them to act out at the party and throw them all in jail.


*coughs* My fave DM ever did that and told us after we got ourselves thrown in jail that it was his goal in the first place. And there was NO way we were not going to act out the way we did. He was super clever in the reasons why it happened. Then again, we pretty much handed it to him. He said the area we were in only a few races were common and all others were considered monsters.... well guess what? 80% of us picked some kind of "monster" as our race because of it.

I was annoyed at first but it made sense for all the reasons you mention.

As for the escaped prisoner thing, he handled it by making us meet the people who threw us in jail later. They were the big bads anyway and had other stuff going on and quite frankly thought we couldn't stop them anyway so they didn't care.

Seriously, they made it painfully obvious that they felt utterly superior to us in everyway every time we saw them. They ALSO kept doing stuff like working with my daemon patron that was supposed to be helping me out but was backstabbing me.

The DM was great! I miss him.

[alessamarfan]

"You ... I've seen you...(Zoom in) Let me see your face... You are the one from my dreams... Then the stars were right, and this is the day. Gods give me strength."

[Byssa]

One of the characters I have in mind is a Dragonborn Rogue who’s a thief, so this would be the perfect start for a campaign including him.

[StevenPorter-ep]

This is Dad, need to get a user name set

[Edyremoh]

Really clever idea, I'll probably use this for my next players!

[grimmtales]

Excellent video! Your production and editing are really picking up pace.

[PregnantAdamSandler]

Unfortunately the movie section at the start has been muted

[Frederic_S]

I did tho once. My players did not say they didn’t like it but I saw they had to actively try to say nothing negative 😆 you realy should tell your players before times their characters start in jail and why they are there. Maybe to free the rouge how is there for a reason (she or he is a rouge after all).

[mikomiko]

Nice
How about being imprisoned because the king wanted kidneys ?