06-05-2026, 12:40 PM
(05-22-2026, 12:37 PM)Thomas Wrote: Wow...a lot of ideas to untangle here. I'll need to do that another time, as I am about to have a full day ahead of me. A couple quick thoughts:
Some of these ideas would make great Lost Tales, others belong in (and are already planned for, in the future) main stories. And a few, I have let fade away on purpose. The first category would include:
- Kronos' past
- Judhon's old party's demise at the hands of Marek
- Paige's old party's demise at the hands of zombies
- the Crimson Blades' battle with Lolth (this one will be challenging, as I'm having more and more trouble writing big battles in fresh and realistic ways)
The questioning of the Crimson Blade monk is already happening in the very near future (that story is written.) Peldor's various associates will also be covered in future stories, once the new city in the desert is fleshed out a bit more.
Whisper will likely return at some point, as will Tenser. All of those are already on my list (and it's a long, chaotic list!)
The VVV (various vengeful vampires) are also on the list, although I am sure that at least one of those elements will realize that they're lucky to have escaped and survived, and therefore will want nothing to do with Belphanior, the Bright Alliance, et al ever again. If I was them, I'd go find a dark, cloudy place to live and stay under the radar and out of trouble.
The mysterious lack of support for the doomed _Odyssey_ mission is a long-term plot that will happen at some point. I love the idea about Leila maybe being offered a Bright Lands naval command in the future, although first they have to build a navy, which first means a port city, which first means a fort there, which means conflict with the Scarlet Brotherhood. It's a long and complex path but it's on the list.
If it isn't obvious, I'm trying really hard to focus on building up and detailing all the many aspects of the Bright Lands right now. They don't even have laws or an economy yet - which has been my current challenge, and a story which I've been trying to start for months. It usually makes my head hurt.
You're building an entire nation, with all the plotlines that are needed for it. With the entire history you've covered of greyhawk so far, you'll never run out of plots to follow!