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<blockquote data-quote="Atavar" data-source="post: 3774679" data-attributes="member: 7136"><p>In my Planescape campaign an evil villain traveled back in time to create himself. It wasn't a normal creation...he took tissue samples form many beings (including the PCs) and essentially created an amalgam clone. He then went on to play a pivotal role in launching the PC's adventuring careers.</p><p></p><p>Why? Because he thought it would protect him from the PCs ever coming after him. If the PCs came after him to destroy him, then they would cause a break in the predestination paradox. In other words, if the PCs destroy the villain, then the villain can't go back in time to create himself, the villain is never created, the villain never sends the PCs into the outer planes on their adventuring career, and all of the PC's good deeds in the outer planes (which included saving the multiverse a couple of times, as well as saving the lives of several gods) would be erased from the timeline, making the multiverse much worse off than if the PCs simply leave the villain alone.</p><p></p><p>How is this related to the OP's story? Well, if the warforged is the one responsible for spreading Psychosis to multiple multiverses, then a solution may be to kill the warforged and stop him from any more time travel. However, what would the repercussions be to the PC's multiverse if the original warforged is killed? There would have been no other warforged created, and whatever good the warforged have done in the PC's world would have been erased as well. The warforged will be wiped out, as a race.</p><p></p><p>So, will the PC's be willing to kill the original warforged, committing genocide, and drastically alter (or even destroy) their own world so that other worlds/multiverses might be saved?</p><p></p><p>BTW, the idea of having countless other PC parties appearing at the same time in a great battle reminds me of that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Worf is bouncing from universe to universe. Thousands of Enterprises (and their crews) appear, each slightly (or drastically) different from the one we know. If the OP ends up doing a similar battle, then a fun thing to do could be to have the PCs see slightly (and drastically) different versions of themselves (e.g. Grog the male half-orc is pretty darn cute hot as a halfling woman....).</p><p></p><p>Later,</p><p></p><p>Atavar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Atavar, post: 3774679, member: 7136"] In my Planescape campaign an evil villain traveled back in time to create himself. It wasn't a normal creation...he took tissue samples form many beings (including the PCs) and essentially created an amalgam clone. He then went on to play a pivotal role in launching the PC's adventuring careers. Why? Because he thought it would protect him from the PCs ever coming after him. If the PCs came after him to destroy him, then they would cause a break in the predestination paradox. In other words, if the PCs destroy the villain, then the villain can't go back in time to create himself, the villain is never created, the villain never sends the PCs into the outer planes on their adventuring career, and all of the PC's good deeds in the outer planes (which included saving the multiverse a couple of times, as well as saving the lives of several gods) would be erased from the timeline, making the multiverse much worse off than if the PCs simply leave the villain alone. How is this related to the OP's story? Well, if the warforged is the one responsible for spreading Psychosis to multiple multiverses, then a solution may be to kill the warforged and stop him from any more time travel. However, what would the repercussions be to the PC's multiverse if the original warforged is killed? There would have been no other warforged created, and whatever good the warforged have done in the PC's world would have been erased as well. The warforged will be wiped out, as a race. So, will the PC's be willing to kill the original warforged, committing genocide, and drastically alter (or even destroy) their own world so that other worlds/multiverses might be saved? BTW, the idea of having countless other PC parties appearing at the same time in a great battle reminds me of that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Worf is bouncing from universe to universe. Thousands of Enterprises (and their crews) appear, each slightly (or drastically) different from the one we know. If the OP ends up doing a similar battle, then a fun thing to do could be to have the PCs see slightly (and drastically) different versions of themselves (e.g. Grog the male half-orc is pretty darn cute hot as a halfling woman....). Later, Atavar [/QUOTE]
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