- **Campaign Name:** Ashes of the Hollow Crown
- **System:** D&D 5e
- **Party Size:** 4-6 characters
- **Starting Level:** 5
- **Ending Level:** 20
- **Tone:** dark, gritty heroic fantasy
- **Setting:** homebrew
- **Core Hook:** A dead king’s crown still commands broken oaths, and the land is collapsing under a century-old curse that feeds on war, sacrifice, and forgotten gods.
- **Premise:** The characters begin as capable regional heroes hired to stop a spreading blight of ash, plague, and undead. Their investigations reveal a buried empire, a shattered divine covenant, and a living crown that can either remade the world or end it.
- **Campaign Goal:** Unite rival powers, uncover the truth of the Hollow Crown, and confront the entity using it to harvest souls across the realm.
- **Primary Themes:** survival, sacrifice, corruption, legitimacy, redemption, the cost of power
- **Endgame Choice:** destroy the crown, seize it, or bind its power to restore the world at a terrible price