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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 6680157" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>My current campaign doesn't really have a single "big bad" yet. It's rather sandboxy and finally looks like it's firming up where it's going. Though among the bad guys are lots of old dragons, and some powerful folks who see themselves as good guys.</p><p></p><p>My last campaign the "Master Villain" was someone who was trying to focus worship and responsibility on himself to ascend to godhood. There were Genius Loci sort of like the Fisher King - the king is the land and the land is the king. So people who were venerated and given power by the people who also took it the other way and lived up to their responsibilities gained divine power along the steps to ascension. However, a soulless doppleganger-like thing left over from Creation attempted to do this to gain what it saw as it's birthright - what the gods had gotten. That would have been Bad(tm). Part of what it did was end a long succession war of a split empire as a supposed heir and was working on tying it together with the other main kingdom in the area plus a receding feywild-esqe elven court (there were many in this cosmology) to gain enough power to start the ascension path. Took good care of his subjects, but that was calculating because their veneration was needed.</p><p></p><p>The party ended up accidentally supercharging him with "god water" - water from a river that sprung from the corpse of a dead god, later brought to that elven court and then passing through the elven Well of Souls (holds all elven souls ever) picking up a LOT of divine energy to then come back to the prime. That put his plans into fast forward before he was otherwise prepared, and revealed himself. The final session was a huge set-piece with nobles (hostages) and innocent forces of the emperor (who didn't know his actual nature) in the Emperor's Hall, with it constantly bringing up souls it had consumed to take on other forms - much like 5e Wild Shape but will no HD/CR limits, all abilities (such as fully prepared spellcasters), and the form had to have a divine soul (so most humanoids and giants were okay, but many other things were not like dragons were not - they had unchanging spirits in this mythology). But they learned how to make it waste it's action to assume a form, and were able to eventually deal with enough else (and turn the elite minotaur guards to their side) such that they were killing each form before it got to act and getting to damage itself between the forms. In the end they were able to defeat it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 6680157, member: 20564"] My current campaign doesn't really have a single "big bad" yet. It's rather sandboxy and finally looks like it's firming up where it's going. Though among the bad guys are lots of old dragons, and some powerful folks who see themselves as good guys. My last campaign the "Master Villain" was someone who was trying to focus worship and responsibility on himself to ascend to godhood. There were Genius Loci sort of like the Fisher King - the king is the land and the land is the king. So people who were venerated and given power by the people who also took it the other way and lived up to their responsibilities gained divine power along the steps to ascension. However, a soulless doppleganger-like thing left over from Creation attempted to do this to gain what it saw as it's birthright - what the gods had gotten. That would have been Bad(tm). Part of what it did was end a long succession war of a split empire as a supposed heir and was working on tying it together with the other main kingdom in the area plus a receding feywild-esqe elven court (there were many in this cosmology) to gain enough power to start the ascension path. Took good care of his subjects, but that was calculating because their veneration was needed. The party ended up accidentally supercharging him with "god water" - water from a river that sprung from the corpse of a dead god, later brought to that elven court and then passing through the elven Well of Souls (holds all elven souls ever) picking up a LOT of divine energy to then come back to the prime. That put his plans into fast forward before he was otherwise prepared, and revealed himself. The final session was a huge set-piece with nobles (hostages) and innocent forces of the emperor (who didn't know his actual nature) in the Emperor's Hall, with it constantly bringing up souls it had consumed to take on other forms - much like 5e Wild Shape but will no HD/CR limits, all abilities (such as fully prepared spellcasters), and the form had to have a divine soul (so most humanoids and giants were okay, but many other things were not like dragons were not - they had unchanging spirits in this mythology). But they learned how to make it waste it's action to assume a form, and were able to eventually deal with enough else (and turn the elite minotaur guards to their side) such that they were killing each form before it got to act and getting to damage itself between the forms. In the end they were able to defeat it. [/QUOTE]
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