Guest Players

We had our first guest on stream! Unfortunately, he did not get to join the campaign as I was also missing a player. We decided to do a one-shot instead, but no one seemed upset about that! My players got to pull out some of their old characters, and our guest got to try out a level 20 character!

This also created some unique challenges for me. Not only were they level 20, but the characters had completed world altering adventures in their own worlds. Bringing them all together was…interesting. I pulled out the old trope of falling through a rift for the one character that was not originally from the world.

Then there were the resources that were available to some of the characters. One in particular had created a world business and taken over an underground business. I did not want that character to rely on their resources to run over the plot of the game, so I had to pull my GM card (the one where I can say “because I said so”). I decided that the group was isolated magically from the rest of the world, but thankfully this did not come into play.

Finally there was the battle. What one-shot is complete without a battle? Those of you who GM know that level 20 characters are hard to balance mechanically. I had to dig around and pull together some monsters that could hit hard while not dying on the first round. There also should be many for the characters to focus on (of course that leaves me remembering to have them all take a turn too).

There may have been some moments where we lulled in action. There was an easy encounter along the way. I may have secretly tried to kill a character. However, when it is all said and done, the most important thing is that we all had fun. Mission accomplished!