Bastard Quest (Session 0 Free)

About the adventure

🥛 Embark on a ridiculous quest to find your infamous father. 🏠 Find a brand new family... All of which are also looking for your father... wait. 🎶 Get strung along into much more than you ever intended. (Session 0 runs for free, time slot and frequency negotiable by party) Years ago, your mother was charmed by a human bard with fantastic talent and literally magical music. After having indulged in a night of fun before the bard carried on his way about Faerun, your mother became pregnant with you... And so you would be born yet another of this one bard's half-blooded bastards. Seems his taste is anything bedsides other humans. For one reason or another, you find yourself in want or need of finding your father. Closure, help, vengeance, or perhaps to castrate him lest he continue to wildly spawn more half-siblings for you. Following a request for information on the bard, you hope to find someone already tracking your father with perhaps a lead for you. In the process though, you run into a whole gaggle of your own half-siblings also with the same idea... Welp. Let's get to tracking down this serial lecher. This is my take on the Faerun setting with an absolutely absurd series of quests and missions turning the simple mission to locate your father into a series of compounded ridiculous quests wherein you will perhaps meet famous characters, maybe run into pun and joke made into tangible threats, and ultimately feel like perhaps your life mission has been for the amusement of some divine being. The campaign starts at level 3 and ends at the epic level of 20. I am using Dungeons and Dragons 5e with a few house rules and character creation restrictions to fit the setting. Each of the characters must have their own reason for wanting to find their father strong enough (or perhaps just a personality that makes them determined enough). The reasons can be the same as the others in your party or violently different/incompatible and must be discussed OOC. The position the players are in should be firm enough that they will avoid PVP at least at the start at minimum which may mean concealing your character's true intentions for a time. Your intention may absolutely evolve over time of course. IE a group with all but one that want to murder the bard may have a change of heart. And any overt PVP should be discussed and agreed in OOC first. I operate alignment as a guideline more than hardline. The axis of being Lawful-Chaotic being willingness to obey the laws and work in their confines vs distain for the law and it's restrictions. The axis of Good-Evil being a scale of selflessness to selfishness. Both influenced by your ideals with bonds and flaws being that which either drives you to keep to such or is the exception in which you act against your alignment. I.E. a noble paladin that acts without mercy for 1 particular foe due to their past, and an assassin that could never strike down a child because they have a child at home.