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<blockquote data-quote="Psychotic Jim" data-source="post: 2475826" data-attributes="member: 547"><p>There are some great ideas here. The celestial makes for a moral as well as a practical conundrum.</p><p></p><p>I like the idea of the apocalypse stemming from human hands. Perhaps the crawling horror is not some otherwordly entity but in fact a ever-encroaching or consuming humanity. The ravaging threat could be an army (perhaps a rogue general gone wild with many supporters looting an pillaging or invaders from a "race-x" supremacist nation). </p><p></p><p>Or perhaps the Great Killing Machine might be literally that, a construct of some sort. The idea of hunter machines going rogue seems to have a lot of appeal. You might do something similar to the Sentinels from the X-men. Another idea is to have an ultrapowerful, advanced drolem (dragonflesh golem) go rogue and think its a dragon (perhaps the SUPREME one). Perhaps, like intelligent golems are in Ravenloft, it was a product of some twisted dragonhunter's design who was TOO obsessed with his work. The drolem, linked mentally with its creators demented mind, wants to kill all other dragons or to proclaim that it it the greatest being in all of existence.</p><p></p><p>Another classic theme might be "man vs. nature". The natural world has had it with the humanoid races and their destruction of the planet. It rebels by sending all manner of natural disasters as well as fey and elemental creatures to wreak havoc. Leading the charge might be a pack of extremist druids or some great nature spirit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Psychotic Jim, post: 2475826, member: 547"] There are some great ideas here. The celestial makes for a moral as well as a practical conundrum. I like the idea of the apocalypse stemming from human hands. Perhaps the crawling horror is not some otherwordly entity but in fact a ever-encroaching or consuming humanity. The ravaging threat could be an army (perhaps a rogue general gone wild with many supporters looting an pillaging or invaders from a "race-x" supremacist nation). Or perhaps the Great Killing Machine might be literally that, a construct of some sort. The idea of hunter machines going rogue seems to have a lot of appeal. You might do something similar to the Sentinels from the X-men. Another idea is to have an ultrapowerful, advanced drolem (dragonflesh golem) go rogue and think its a dragon (perhaps the SUPREME one). Perhaps, like intelligent golems are in Ravenloft, it was a product of some twisted dragonhunter's design who was TOO obsessed with his work. The drolem, linked mentally with its creators demented mind, wants to kill all other dragons or to proclaim that it it the greatest being in all of existence. Another classic theme might be "man vs. nature". The natural world has had it with the humanoid races and their destruction of the planet. It rebels by sending all manner of natural disasters as well as fey and elemental creatures to wreak havoc. Leading the charge might be a pack of extremist druids or some great nature spirit. [/QUOTE]
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