Missions for Hallowed Creeds | Dragons, Gods, & Cooking | Lvl 7

About the adventure

A divine culinary tournament, the Tenkaichi Shokushin Taikai, begins in the city of Hearthearth. This tournament is to honor Noma, the deity of sustenance. The winner of this continent-spanning competition gains the ability to change the culinary world with a single added rule - the ramifications of which can change the fates of empires and gods. You have all been summoned by a mysterious benefactor to the city of Hearthearth. In exchange for your participation on behalf of this benefactor they have promised to pay you handsomely, with anything from money to information. The competition will take you from great grassy plains to the forested elector states in the south to the dragon-ruled lands to the east. Along the way, you will be allowed time for your own pursuits while also working for your mysterious benefactor. You enter a land fueled by magic, rising deities, dragons, and empires jockeying for dominance. I DM games using the FoundryVTT software that helps me run faster combats and more jam-packed sessions. My aim is to minimize the parts of the game that are tedious and maximize the epic moments you want with your characters. This game will seek to strike a balance between combat and roleplay while combining it all into an engaging and deep world. This is a homebrew, custom campaign that will never be run again. This is the first arc of a campaign setting I built with heavy input from players/player characters and their choices. The plan is to follow generations of player characters through different eras of time and see how they affect the world. I am a believer in player agency, player buy-in, and allowing players to develop things within a world. To bring these things to the forefront I want to give you more control over what makes up the setting of your campaign. At the beginning of the campaign/arc each player will choose an element of the world to add and help develop (how involved you are in the development would be up to you); this element could be anything from a playable race to a criminal organization to a god and their religion. Once these aspects are chosen I will weave them all together to create a world and campaign for us to play. In a perfect world, after each campaign all the players would introduce, or choose to advance existing, parts of the campaign setting to add more depth as we move the campaign up through time.