The Executioner

System: D&D 5e
Format: Solo Campaign Engine / TTRPG Supplement
Status: In Development (Prototype)

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🌌 A boy broken by design. A sky too vast to face alone.

The campaign tracks an original character named Flint. Stolen as a toddler by a subterranean cult and trapped for twenty-five years inside an 18-inch stone sarcophagus, his biology was systematically alchemized into an organic tracking weapon. When a gravity anomaly shatters his prison, he executes a brutal breakout and collapses at the tropical gates of Nicodranas.

Taken in by the Mighty Nein, the campaign replaces traditional XP tracking with three interlocking mechanical progress variables:

• The Posture Alignment Tracker (0% to 100%): Flint’s flattened rib cage and compressed lungs prevent him from standing upright. The rules track his spine physically straightening mid-combat, dynamically unlocking martial freedom and erasing heavy armor penalties.
• The Literacy Scale (Tier 1 to Tier 5): Flint begins the campaign completely illiterate in Common. He spends his nightly campfire rests studying academic lexicons with his companions, slowly evolving his gravelly voice from blunt phonetic fragments into fluent, articulate speech.
• The Vanguard Paranoia Oracle: A dedicated solo engine where wide-open surface skies trigger severe agoraphobic vertigo, forcing his companions to actively deploy tactical sea-mist domes, parrying daggers, and custom shields to ground his nervous system before cult enforcers ambush their line.

And introducing the definitive engine fail-safe...

• The Dual-Familiar & Companion Action Economy: A streamlined solo combat loop designed to completely eliminate player tracking fatigue. Companions and pets bypass tedious hit point pools and spell bookkeeping, functioning instead as a fluid, two-phase kinetic extension of your own turn. They split tactical actions seamlessly between active grid disruption on your phase and passive aura defense on the enemy's phase.

⚙️ One Character, Three Separate Rulesets

To prove the structural balance behind this solo-survival engine is stable, I've translated how Flint's metrics scale across alternative histories:

• The Exandrian Core Blueprint (5e): The fully realized, active launch module. Features automated tactical orbits for Jester and Fjord, fey-weasel companion actions, and dynamic milestone triggers.
• The Faerûn Translation (5e / 1479 DR): A heavy, Gothic Metal conversion set during the Spellplague. Includes blueprints for silent monastic sign-language training, faction-standing metrics with the fanatical Warriors of Suffering, and an historical hunt beneath Chessenta using the legendary lost blade Dornavver.
• The Golarion Conversion (Pathfinder 2e): A raw, visceral cosmic-horror adaptation. Flint is re-coded via the Created Flesh-warp ancestry and Earth-Instinct Barbarian rules, seamlessly translating his structural trauma into PF2e's active condition rules (Off-Guard, Clumsy, Frightened, and Dazzled) to force tactical, three-action turn optimization.

"Break out your dice, and grab a snack. Throw on the playlist, turn up the bass. It's time to break the factory." — The Executioner  [ Contact ]