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- 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