The Red Venom Plains is a gaming campaign loosely based on the Chaos Seeds books by Dr. Aleron Kong. It is a fan-made LitRPG project that allows players to explore alternate parts of the world based on his literary masterpieces, shaping the future of the world in amazing ways. This will be an “Interactive” campaign, and your choices will have consequences that affect other players around the world.
We are using Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition as our primary rules system, and have additional character options inspired by the adventures of popular LitRPG characters. The Red Venom Plains draws lost souls from all realms into this massive story world, and you will have many options to develop your character in its rewarding and dangerous environments.
The “Red Venom Plains” is a continent of the world from “The Land”, separate from the books but following many of the rules established by Dr. Aleron Kong’s world building rules. As it is part of the LitRPG genre, it is very “meta”… aspects of other worlds have been dragged into this one, as people have fragments of memories from their previous lives.
*Spoiler Territory* To help you understand what those that have read the books know, here are some small story notes that will help you understand The Land:
- Your character was stolen from whatever world it was previously in, whatever timeline, whatever genre, and teleported through a sea of chaos to this world. In that process, your character had to be remade to fit this world, so it may have been a Space Orc Marine, but now it is a sprite archer. In the Chaos Seeds series, the main character was a video game player, on Earth, sucked into the world while playing a MMORPG.
- Your character has lost all but the smallest fragments of its memory of its past life, but it retains its emotional growth from previous experiences. You character may not remember that time a tiger ate it limb by limb, but will remember it has an unnatural fear of big cats in this world. Similarly, it may not understand why it can talk to Dragons… but for some reason, it can speak Draconic.
- The Red Venom Plains is an ancient and unchanging continent. You character is called a “Chaos Seed” because its soul has a shard of pure chaos – which is why you were summoned here. Someone (and it is still unclear who) realized the best way to change the order of things is to introduce a huge amount of Chaos into the world, and stealing Chaos Seeds was the best way to do that. If you die, your Chaos Energy will be absorbed by The Land, allowing those who brought you here to manipulate the chaos in their favor.
- A higher power (whom you do not know) has decided to give you a fighting chance, grouping you with allies, starting you with armor and weapons, and giving you one mission – survive. If you live long enough, you can change The Red Venom Plains to your will, and perhaps even find a way home if you desire to do so.
We hope that you enjoy our game. As this is an “Introductory” adventure, it can only be played by 1st level characters, and does not give true experience points or treasure; its just a way to test out the game, learn a bit about D&D and our world; and give your character a small bonus for when they start in our world. Whatever character you play here does not have to be your final version – you are simply embracing the Chaos and sticking your toe in the water.
You can find more about the works of Dr. Aleron Kong on his Amazon profile: https://www.amazon.com/Aleron-Kong/e/B0176S6G6A
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