Orderly Chaos

UNITED BY ELDRITCH HORRORS:

D&D campaigns don't often have the luxury of finishing. They often fizzle out in a matter of months, or in my friends' case, a singular session. It was meant to be a campaign for their first ever characters, but they never got to see the light of play for years after it. So, I decided to change that after hearing how much they yearned for that party dynamic, despite how dysfunctional it was. After a few one-shots of getting my bearings on handling such a unique party, I decided to launch them into a full-fledged campaign with their enjoyment at the top priority. Rules are loose, plot holes are ignored, and mechanics are bent all in the name of fun. The plot itself is also fairly simple: the party is tasked with delving deeper and deeper into an abandoned laboratory, discovering the forgotten experiments that now roam the halls while searching for the source of it all. Oh, and there's also a god-like abomination of a dog that serves as the campaign's main plot device and mascot! Say hello to 002! Isn't he cute?

Battle Maps

All carefully hand-crafted in Dungeondraft with heavy attention to detail as to best convey environmental storytelling. Players are able to move around custom tokens of their characters on the map to better visualize not only the area around them, but aid in combat as well. Certain maps contain dynamic lighting where the visuals change depending on where the players move their tokens around to support immersion.

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049 (Accident) Chamber

The first chamber the Orderly Chaos party stumble upon during their time in the lab. With broken pillars strewn about, blood dried on the ground, and bodies riddling the floor, this map serves as a reminder that this was the tamest it was going to get.

Players and NPCs

Every NPC on the left has a custom backstory that integrate seamlessly with the world I made as well as their own personalities, motives, relationships, and everything else that makes them feel real. Every player character on the right was drawn by one of the party members and contains descriptions for who they are and how I fit them into the story. The NPCs in this campaign are mostly one-off enemies, so their overall lore is lackluster, but is made up for the unique way they fight and interact with the environment.

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089 (Smiler)

One of, if not the most intelligent experiments of the lab, Smiler is constantly looking for a way out in order to wreak havoc on the world. He can turn invisible to stalk prey and use his tail to sink into their skin, drawing from their life essence. Normally blind, his horns act as thermal sensors, allowing him to detect heat waves and use them for vision. He treats every encounter with an unfamiliar face like a game of cat and mouse, except he's the one playing god.

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078 (King)

Bound and hooked up to the life support within his own chamber, King is forced to guard and protect one of the many emergency batteries used to further charge the elevator deeper into the lab. Once an actual king before being experimented on, he still retains that desire to rule. However, his new methods of doing so prove to be a lot more forceful than desired, often taking control of victims' minds to do his bidding.

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066 (Prophet)

A priest injected with The Unknown that became part of the experiments, Prophet served as a reminder to all scientists that the Gods were not above them. Used more as a means to deliver a message rather than results, he laid neglected within his chamber with nothing but the voices of his own hymns to quell his rage. Desperate to feel some sort of connection to the God he worshipped, he dug a cross through his heart. None heard his screams.

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051 (Gorger)

One of the first human experiments, Gorger was known around the lab as having one of the most demanding appetites of all the experiments. It soon became too risky to feed him without the person tasked with doing so becoming his next lunch, and so they did what any good scientist would do: they stopped testing and moved on to the next one. However, rather than dying of starvation, Gorger simply hibernated, standing right in front of one of the emergency batteries needed to charge the elevator. He grows hungrier with every passing day, and assures you that he will not miss another meal if presented the opportunity.

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002 (The Dog)

One of the first victims and only escapist of the lab, The Dog serves as a guide across time and space to other universes of the Orderly Chaos party in hopes that they would be the ones to stop the threat at the bottom of the lab: The Unknown. It's immensely powerful but is limited in how it can use that power. For now, it barks at the party and occasionally lets them pet him.

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089 (Smiler)

One of, if not the most intelligent experiments of the lab, Smiler is constantly looking for a way out in order to wreak havoc on the world. He can turn invisible to stalk prey and use his tail to sink into their skin, drawing from their life essence. Normally blind, his horns act as thermal sensors, allowing him to detect heat waves and use them for vision. He treats every encounter with an unfamiliar face like a game of cat and mouse, except he's the one playing god.

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078 (King)

Bound and hooked up to the life support within his own chamber, King is forced to guard and protect one of the many emergency batteries used to further charge the elevator deeper into the lab. Once an actual king before being experimented on, he still retains that desire to rule. However, his new methods of doing so prove to be a lot more forceful than desired, often taking control of victims' minds to do his bidding.

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066 (Prophet)

A priest injected with The Unknown that became part of the experiments, Prophet served as a reminder to all scientists that the Gods were not above them. Used more as a means to deliver a message rather than results, he laid neglected within his chamber with nothing but the voices of his own hymns to quell his rage. Desperate to feel some sort of connection to the God he worshipped, he dug a cross through his heart. None heard his screams.

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051 (Gorger)

One of the first human experiments, Gorger was known around the lab as having one of the most demanding appetites of all the experiments. It soon became too risky to feed him without the person tasked with doing so becoming his next lunch, and so they did what any good scientist would do: they stopped testing and moved on to the next one. However, rather than dying of starvation, Gorger simply hibernated, standing right in front of one of the emergency batteries needed to charge the elevator. He grows hungrier with every passing day, and assures you that he will not miss another meal if presented the opportunity.

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Shaus

Born to a family of tieflings that had recently escaped the clutches of Asmodeus, Shaus wanted to cut all ties with the devil in order to build society's trust in him; however, after his parents discovered that the devil had made a pact with him at birth, they abandoned him and left him to rot. Shaus now walks the world with his friends, aiming to prove everyone wrong about him, all while Asmodeus quietly listens in the background. Troublemaker at heart, Shaus ensures that the party always know when he's around, for better or for worse.

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Fienyx Tao

While growing up in an oppressive government within a small town, Fienyx, or Fi for short, ended up joining a rebellion against it. During a meeting with everyone, they were attacked. Fi fled with her life while everyone else lost theirs, and she vowed to one day have the strength to come back to them. Now she hangs with a rag-tag group of misfits that she has to babysit, but deep down she wouldn't trade the idiots for the world.

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Chro

Having fallen from her home plane of existence into the Material Realm after being attacked, Chro was taken in by a thieves' guild: the only people that were able to look past her odd physical appearance. There she became a master bow user, but later fled the group after the clan began to dissolve, as she feared that blame would be pinned on her. And so, she fended for herself until meeting the party, to which she happily took part in the chaos that unfolded.

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Gort

Devoted to Kelemvor, Lord of the Dead, Gort left his tribe at a young age in order to pursue his religion, an oddity for dragonborns as they typically hold family above all. Having ventured far and wide, he seems to have found a new family worth fighting for, and aims to ensure that he can both follow his faith and be a friend to all who deserve it.

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Shaus

Born to a family of tieflings that had recently escaped the clutches of Asmodeus, Shaus wanted to cut all ties with the devil in order to build society's trust in him; however, after his parents discovered that the devil had made a pact with him at birth, they abandoned him and left him to rot. Shaus now walks the world with his friends, aiming to prove everyone wrong about him, all while Asmodeus quietly listens in the background. Troublemaker at heart, Shaus ensures that the party always know when he's around, for better or for worse.

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Fienyx Tao

While growing up in an oppressive government within a small town, Fienyx, or Fi for short, ended up joining a rebellion against it. During a meeting with everyone, they were attacked. Fi fled with her life while everyone else lost theirs, and she vowed to one day have the strength to come back to them. Now she hangs with a rag-tag group of misfits that she has to babysit, but deep down she wouldn't trade the idiots for the world.

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Chro

Having fallen from her home plane of existence into the Material Realm after being attacked, Chro was taken in by a thieves' guild: the only people that were able to look past her odd physical appearance. There she became a master bow user, but later fled the group after the clan began to dissolve, as she feared that blame would be pinned on her. And so, she fended for herself until meeting the party, to which she happily took part in the chaos that unfolded.

Stat Blocks

Every creature my players fight has a stat block associated with them that displays their health, core stats, and abilities. All of them were made on Tetra-Cube and my main goal when constructing them is for someone to be able to visualize them solely based on text that describes how they fight. I very rarely use existing monster stat blocks as I not only believe that the way I run combat benefits from modifying monsters or making new creatures entirely, but also because I find a lot of fun out of constructing these stat blocks from the ground up as it better helps me understand how a fight might go.

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Smiler

Documents

Resources containing documentation for this campaign are coming soon!