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Campaign Post Mortem: Part 1, Highlights and links

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I was taught in Project Management classes (I did 6 months of them) that it’s good practice and useful to go over a completed project and do what is called a Post-Mortem analysis.

Well my last D&D 3.5 campaign has been completed for more than 2 weeks and I thought, while I await for my new 4e Core Books, that now is a perfect time to do so.

I won’t get into the actual analysis tonight, but I’ll post the campaign’s Elevator Pitch and the highlights so that late readers can follow without reading the thousands and thousands of words I wrote on this game.

Campaign Elevator Pitch:

Four survivors of the Sphere-wars converge on Ptolus, teaming up with a local noble with a mysterious past. They are determined to end the threat of the Yugoloth Shadowlords who scheme over the destruction of this ravaged world.

The Sphere-Wars were alignment-based interplannar conflicts centered around our homegrown gameworld,. It was the focus of a previous campaign.

Campaign Highlights:

Four Characters were brought together, united in their fight against the Neutral Evil Fiends trying to take over the ravaged world. A fifth character, a super-human warrior escaped from a Prison world joined them in Ptolus.

Arc 1: Getting severely beaten by an incursion of Fiends, the characters retreated, regrouped, made new allies and vanquished the expeditionary force.

Arc 2: Investigating a new Drug appearing on the streets of Ptolus, the PCs uncover the existence of an alien entity that mutates humanoids into plant-like bipedal extension of it’s consciousnesses. Entity is vanquished, but not before it transforms a human Dragon Shaman into a 1/2 Dragon Barbarian!

Arc 3: PCs uncover a Xanathos Roulette plot to take over the world by the Neutral Evil Fiends, The Drow Spider Goddess and a Demon Prince. World is saved from absorption into the Abyss. However, it is being destroyed while the Great Planar Wheel collapses. It is saved by fusing with the Beastlands and linking with the Realm of Shadow, creating a tri-plannar world.

As a reference please find the combined links to my whole campaign:

The Adventure Prepping Posts

The Campaign Log Posts

Up Next:

In the next post, I’ll review the big decisions that drove this campaign (and their consequences). Also, using my usual lists, I’ll go over what I feel my players liked and disliked most about the campaign. I’ll try to quiz them on it too. I’ll finish up with my campaign-wide lessons learned.

Comments

  2. Totally. It allowed me to evaluate the game after each session and act upon the things that needed to be addressed to make the game better.

    For instance, we would not have had the awesome ending we did had I not realized that my lack of enthusiasm was leeching our fun away from the last part of the campaign… So I recharged myself for the Grand Finale and it worked like a charm.

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