Age of Worms ancient history

[Wolfspider]

Never mind where they hid it, is there a reason they didn't destroy it?

If they destroyed it, there wouldn't be a cool adventure for folks to go on in 1500 years.

Seriously, here's your answer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mcguffin

And some more questions in the same vein:

Why did Obi-Wan hide Luke on Vader's own home planet and not even change his last name?

Why did the Egyptian Pharoah hide the Ark for Indy to find centuries later and not instead use it to conquer the world?

Why didn't the Fellowship just fly the Ring to Morder using Giant Eagles and drop it in Mount Doom?

 

[Holy Bovine]

In my AoW game I am relocating the Wormcrawl Fissure to the far north (ie - the north pole). Scarred Lands has an abundance of huge canyons for your convience!

 

[Stone Dog]

Why did the Egyptian Pharoah hide the Ark for Indy to find centuries later and not instead use it to conquer the world?

Dude... did you SEE what happened to the Nazis?

"Oh Pharoh, our priests have melted attempting to invoke the Ark of the Hebrews. Shall I have it destroyed?"

"Destroyed?! Do you want to piss off their god even more? Just... just put it away someplace."

 

[ephemeron]

If they destroyed it, there wouldn't be a cool adventure for folks to go on in 1500 years.

Yeah, it's a McGuffin, but it'd make more sense if bad guys had hidden that particular McGuffin.

Would there be problematic consequences if you changed the backstory so that Dragotha stopped the ancient adventurers from getting his phylactery, and many Bothans... er, somebody was able to find out later where Dragotha rehid it?

 

[Liolel]

Never mind where they hid it, is there a reason they didn't destroy it?

One possible explanation would be that the druids saw that while they possessed the phylactery they would have some leverage over Dragotha, and there are many advantages to having leverage over such a powerful being.

Another would be that since destroying a phylactery doesn't destroy it's owner, but only stops them from returning from the dead, would be that possessing the phylactery was the only thing stopping Dragotha from destroying what remained of the order, because he would have no incentive not to attack if the phylactery was already destroyed.

And if I'm forgetting some big point here I apologize, since I don't have access to any of my books right now.

 

[James Jacobs]

Yeah... the druids figured that keeping Dragotha's phylactery hidden but safe would work better to keep him in line than would destroying it, since at that point he really has nothing to lose and they'd have nothing to hold over his head to prevent him from going on a full-on CR 27 style rampage.