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How grim and hopeless is Midnight?
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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Tree" data-source="post: 1105961" data-attributes="member: 1455"><p>This sounds dead on. I havn't played in Midnight, but I have played in a couple other games with the same premise: the forces of darkness have won, and now you the PCs do whatever they can to restore the light, while struggling to even survive.</p><p></p><p>One of the biggest, and yet most subtle, differences between Midnight and other epic campaigns is that in most other epics the heroes strive to hold back the darkness. They fight a holding action, a siege. But in Midnight, the darkness has already won, the lands have already been corrupted, so the only thing left to lose is hope. But when you have nothing to lose except hope, and the perils are seemingly insurmountable, then you see who the true heroes are. Everyone will fight to save their home, everyone will fight when cornered, but who will fight against an omnipresent enemy who can't be beaten, when being exposed as a freedom fighter means death.</p><p></p><p>To use a real world analogy, Midnight isn't a brave battle against foreign invaders, or a holy crusade. It's the French resistance, where secret heroes fight against an insurmountable foe. But in Midnight there will be no D-Day, so the resistance has to do it all themselves, no matter what the cost.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael Tree, post: 1105961, member: 1455"] This sounds dead on. I havn't played in Midnight, but I have played in a couple other games with the same premise: the forces of darkness have won, and now you the PCs do whatever they can to restore the light, while struggling to even survive. One of the biggest, and yet most subtle, differences between Midnight and other epic campaigns is that in most other epics the heroes strive to hold back the darkness. They fight a holding action, a siege. But in Midnight, the darkness has already won, the lands have already been corrupted, so the only thing left to lose is hope. But when you have nothing to lose except hope, and the perils are seemingly insurmountable, then you see who the true heroes are. Everyone will fight to save their home, everyone will fight when cornered, but who will fight against an omnipresent enemy who can't be beaten, when being exposed as a freedom fighter means death. To use a real world analogy, Midnight isn't a brave battle against foreign invaders, or a holy crusade. It's the French resistance, where secret heroes fight against an insurmountable foe. But in Midnight there will be no D-Day, so the resistance has to do it all themselves, no matter what the cost. [/QUOTE]
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