Hi guys -

I am going to start DMing this next week and I am pretty excited. My schedule hasn't been open to doing anything and it will be great to connect with friends again.

My group is in other states so we will be using shard vtt for play and discord for voice.

I love to incorporate everything into games so I plan on using red sky social challenge rules and advanced 5e journey system.

I'll have a party of 3. Firblog monk, Goliath druid, and goblin paladin. We will all be starting at level 2.

I have built out in my shard up to killing the boar.

In the opening scene at the inn I am going to give my players a chance to rally the towns people around them and give hope they can defeat the boar. I'll do DCs of 13 and the party will need to make 2 successes before they get 4 failures. If they win that rumors of the party will spread and I'll give them 1 fame.

I'm going to use 3 hunters, giving each player a scout to use.

On the way to find the boar, using the journey system, the party will come across a large group building a new cemetery for those killed by the boar. It will be newly blessed ground and the party will be asked to go around. If the players help build the cemetery they can move through the group, if not they need to go around and refund the tracks, losing a few days and supplies.

For the boar encounter I don't plan on weakening it. And I don't plan on giving it actual hit point. They party will fight it until it has triggered each trap they set and killed at least 1 hunter. That seems like sufficient enough drama for the fight.

Any thoughts on my ideas? Thanks.