Ralif Redhammer
Legend
Yeah, my guess would be that Ao would show up and initiate some sort of Ragnarok-style protocol.
D&D 5E What If the players lost every adventure path so far in the realms?
Yeah, I played in an Under the Shadow game using Iron Heroes - perfect for Middle Earth. Unfortunately we became a bit corrupted and vanquished a few villages (unbeknownst to us) but did finally manage to destroy the One Ring.
transtemporal
Explorer
Yes, thats probably true but if you were one of these powers, wouldn't you put the big guns in check before you initiated your scheme?
In another game, our party had determined that one of the big bads of the setting was basically trying to push the universe towards a state where absolute physical manifest god existed. We debated whether this would be a good or bad thing but given the scheme was hatched by The Lord of Corruption, we figured it would be bad for everyone. We also knew it was beyond our lowbie characters, so we told one of the biggish guns of the setting and he told the really big guns and they went off in their voidships and etherchariots to the edge of existence to fight the Lord of Corruption.
Only it was a trap for the big guns, they got ambushed and trashed by the Lord of Corruption and his surprise allies and limped home barely alive. And that was how the GM justified why the big guns couldn't do anything about the coming threat and why it was all on the shoulders of our silly lowbie bunch of misfits. That was a fun campaign.
Jester David
Hero
Tiamat rages across the Sword Coast for a bit, destroying a few cities and claiming a vast horde, and the moves to the outer planes to be with the other gods.
The surviving Cultists summons their Elemental Prince (there's no timeline to this so only when the heroes are being enough of a threat does this happen, so only one is really summoned). The Primordial rampages through the valley, destroys a few villages, and then returns to its home plane.
The demon lords continue to rampage through the Underdark, destroying much of thee subterranean world.
The giants continue to kill the small folk in an attempt to rework the ordning, but since the heroes all fail, all placate the gods and maintain their position. But nothing much else *really* happens as none of the bad guys really have an end game.
All and all, unless you live on the Sword Coast, the North, or the Underdark very little changes. And the large cities are so well defended and have powerful figures at their call, that they're likely unaffected.
The surviving Cultists summons their Elemental Prince (there's no timeline to this so only when the heroes are being enough of a threat does this happen, so only one is really summoned). The Primordial rampages through the valley, destroys a few villages, and then returns to its home plane.
The demon lords continue to rampage through the Underdark, destroying much of thee subterranean world.
The giants continue to kill the small folk in an attempt to rework the ordning, but since the heroes all fail, all placate the gods and maintain their position. But nothing much else *really* happens as none of the bad guys really have an end game.
All and all, unless you live on the Sword Coast, the North, or the Underdark very little changes. And the large cities are so well defended and have powerful figures at their call, that they're likely unaffected.
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Ath-kethin
Elder Thing
TL;DR: you have no impact of consequence on the setting, because you had the misfortune to not be created by R.A. Salvatore.
Happy gaming!
Jester David
Hero
Drizzt's impact on the setting is pretty much entirely confined to a series of arctic hamlets, a remote dwarves kingdom, and the area surrounding both. And he's never done anything that has remotely had impact of consequence on the setting.
Ganymede81
First Post
On the other hand, Mordenkainen definitely would not.
TarionzCousin
Second Most Angelic Devil Ever
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few villages.
Jester David
Hero
I love Midnight. That was a great setting.
One pan to rule them all, and in the darkness fry them.
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