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<blockquote data-quote="UltimaGabe" data-source="post: 5063882" data-attributes="member: 16019"><p>Hello!</p><p></p><p>I'm in need of your help, Enworld. I'm starting up a campaign in a couple days, and I need a list of names. Not just any names, no- names that will someday destroy the world.</p><p></p><p>Allow me to explain. The PCs will, over the course of the first adventure, come across an extremely powerful magical artifact dubbed simply "The List". At first glance, it just looks like a list of names- but the catch, revealed to the trained diviner, is that this isn't just a list of names. Every name on the list is that of a person (or organization, or creature, etc.) that, if it is not killed or somehow completely incapacitated, will, someday, cause a chain of events that will eventually lead to the world's destruction. The PCs will find this list, and, after learning its purpose, proceed to systematically hunt down and kill or otherwise thwart these plans, thus setting up a simple framework for the campaign (with each adventure focusing on eliminating one or more names from the list).</p><p></p><p>When I first came up with this idea, I planned on the list itself being blank when first found, and later on names would start popping up (as I came up with adventures to fit them). However, it occured to me that it would work better if, instead, the list started off with a bunch (say, 15-20) of names pre-written on it, to give the PCs a bit of a starting point (and to make it seem less like a "let's see what hook the DM can come up with this week" game). Also, I'd like for at some point new names to be added to the list (as, of course, killing certain evil masterminds or whatnot will undoubtedly spawn copycat masterminds that wouldn't have popped up if the original had been left unchecked), and that works better if the names are there from the get-go. And, of course, it occured to me, how easy is it to find a good adventure, and simply replace the big bad's name with that of one on the list?</p><p></p><p>I could probably come up with a bunch of random names on my own, but I thought I was bound to get some interesting and original names if I asked here. So, please! Help me out! Give me some names! These could be individual people's names (such as Loris Raknian or Aelvyn T'irw'iarran or something), the names of organizations (such as The Order of the Ashen Brand or The Defias Gang), or, one idea I've been toying with, the name of a race of beings (such as, say Black Dragons- requiring the PCs to hunt down and kill every black dragon in existence, or something equally epic).</p><p></p><p>So let's get Listing!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UltimaGabe, post: 5063882, member: 16019"] Hello! I'm in need of your help, Enworld. I'm starting up a campaign in a couple days, and I need a list of names. Not just any names, no- names that will someday destroy the world. Allow me to explain. The PCs will, over the course of the first adventure, come across an extremely powerful magical artifact dubbed simply "The List". At first glance, it just looks like a list of names- but the catch, revealed to the trained diviner, is that this isn't just a list of names. Every name on the list is that of a person (or organization, or creature, etc.) that, if it is not killed or somehow completely incapacitated, will, someday, cause a chain of events that will eventually lead to the world's destruction. The PCs will find this list, and, after learning its purpose, proceed to systematically hunt down and kill or otherwise thwart these plans, thus setting up a simple framework for the campaign (with each adventure focusing on eliminating one or more names from the list). When I first came up with this idea, I planned on the list itself being blank when first found, and later on names would start popping up (as I came up with adventures to fit them). However, it occured to me that it would work better if, instead, the list started off with a bunch (say, 15-20) of names pre-written on it, to give the PCs a bit of a starting point (and to make it seem less like a "let's see what hook the DM can come up with this week" game). Also, I'd like for at some point new names to be added to the list (as, of course, killing certain evil masterminds or whatnot will undoubtedly spawn copycat masterminds that wouldn't have popped up if the original had been left unchecked), and that works better if the names are there from the get-go. And, of course, it occured to me, how easy is it to find a good adventure, and simply replace the big bad's name with that of one on the list? I could probably come up with a bunch of random names on my own, but I thought I was bound to get some interesting and original names if I asked here. So, please! Help me out! Give me some names! These could be individual people's names (such as Loris Raknian or Aelvyn T'irw'iarran or something), the names of organizations (such as The Order of the Ashen Brand or The Defias Gang), or, one idea I've been toying with, the name of a race of beings (such as, say Black Dragons- requiring the PCs to hunt down and kill every black dragon in existence, or something equally epic). So let's get Listing! [/QUOTE]
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