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Okay, I'm starting a D&D campaign for the first time, but I'm having difficulty thinking about story beats.

Instead of your usual D&D stuff, we decided to go with magical girls, and I'm very inspired by the story of Madoka Magica, but I don't just wanna straight up copy the story for my campaign. I already have ideas for main NPCs, villains, side characters, but I want input on what would be interesting for the actual story.

Currently what I have is that they all start in senior year of high school, we let them all meet each other and get along, after which is when the plot starts. Girls in their grade seem to be going missing, no one can figure out why or what's going on. One night of group karaoke later, they come out to a battle between two groups. One seemed to be just one magical girl and the others looked like a bunch of circus performers. The circus performers take something from the magical girl and escape. The group approach the magical girl and learn this is essentially the Queen of magical girls, but her power was just taken from her, the only power she has left is to grant wishes that could turn them into magical girls. Obviously they become magical girls.

After they encounter the circus performers again, and this time they have these terrible looking monsters on their side, distorted wrecks of vaguely human beasts, as well as a clown girl who also seems to be a magical girl like the group. Turns out the monsters and clown girl used to work for the Queen, yet once they were powerful enough, the Queen killed them and took their power. All that remained was the charms which let them turn into magical girls that held the remains of their souls. The circus performers found as many of the charms as they could, and stole the Queens power to try and bring these girls (the girls who went missing at school) back to life, but instead they turned into barely sentient monsters that began to destroy everything, the only one who came back in a stable form was the clown girl.

Basically it turns out that the players were working with the villain the entire time, and have to deal with the fact they killed off monsters that used to be girls just like them.

Now that's cool and all, but how do I fill in the time between the start and end? What fights should there be? Should I change some of the plot I have already? Any side quests I should give them? Anything helps, the campaign isn't until December so I have time, I'm just very nervous with this being my first time dming.

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Azula always lies. 

saw this post by @heavenly-dusk and kinda went insane thinking abt it so i drew it, i hope you don’t mind! 

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Seeing Mio fall off the bed have never been this sugoi.

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pls let this blow up like the other one

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How to surreptitiously stretch within reach of kisses

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