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Character Spotlight on the Noble: High Society

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The PCs are somewhere in the civilized world when a noble PC happens to run into a fellow noble, who invites the PCs over for a party.  Little do the PCs know, this noble bears a grudge against the noble PC, and is determined to make the PCs look bad.  But when the party is interrupted, the PCs have a chance to save the day!

In order to run this plotline, you’ll require the following ingredients:

  • A player character with the Noble background or a similar high standing in society.
  • Another noble who bears a grudge against the noble PC.
  • The player characters are somewhere in the civilized world, where they might have a chance encounter with another noble.

Running this plotline will accomplish three goals:

  1. Flesh out the noble PC's background, and give them a chance to do noble things
  2. Introduce another noble NPC, who could become a recurring ally or antagonist
  3. Give the PCs an opportunity to make some connections in high society

Plotlines

A plotline is not the same thing as an adventure, but they are similar. A published adventure typically contains set encounters, NPCs and locations. In contrast, a plotline is like an adventure framework, peeling back the layers of set encounters and battle maps to look at the nuts and bolts, the ingredients that go into making an adventure.

In most D&D games, the DM is telling an ongoing story. Sometimes it’s hard to find an adventure to use as a side quest that fits in well. Plotlines are designed to fit into your existing campaign in a way that should feel organic. If you’ve ever used the 5x5 method of campaign design, a plotline will fit right in.

You’ll find a high degree of flexibility built into these plotlines that is unusual in published adventures. For example, if a thieves’ guild features in a plotline, it’s probably going to exist because the PCs have already interacted with a thieves’ guild, not because you want to invent one on the fly. So, the details of the guild, including the names of leaders and a map of their headquarters, are going to be left vague, so that it fits into what you’ve already established.

Because of this somewhat unusual structure, these plotlines are not intended for novice Dungeon Masters!

Spotlights

A Character Spotlight is a short plotline that focuses on one character, instead of the whole group. It’s not that the rest of the party isn’t involved. It’s just that one character gets to have their moment to shine.

Remember that story with the really cool scene where the bard manages to talk their way out of certain death? Or that time when the barbarian single-handedly defeats the necromancer? Or the scene when the whole party is taken prisoner except the rogue, who manages to free them all without getting caught? Those are all Character Spotlights.

In a roleplaying game, the characters are the heroes. All of them. Sometimes, your story has some characters that get more chances to shine, while others tend to hang around in the background. Maybe you’re looking for a chance to bring a background character into the spotlight. Maybe you’ve been running an adventure, but you’d like to give the players a little side quest where it’s all about them, not about what the main villain is up to this week.

A Character Spotlight adventure will give you the opportunity to run a short, character-focused adventure that directly connects to a single character’s background, race, magic item, bond, or some other aspect of their character. Maybe that aspect is one the player thinks is important, or maybe it’s one they forgot they picked at first level. These stories are designed to help you, the DM, flesh out the PCs’ personalities, backgrounds, and connections to NPCs and places, and hopefully give you some fodder for future character spotlights of your own design.

Because Character Spotlights should be character-driven, these plotlines contain an unusual element.  Each Character Spotlight includes a Player’s Questionnaire which should be completed by the player of the character in the spotlight before the plotline begins. It gives the player an opportunity to elaborate on their background in a way that will impact the plotline of the Character Spotlight.

More Spotlights:

Spotlight on the Criminal - A Friend in Need Spotlight on the Noble - High Society Spotlight on the Sage - The Conundrum

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