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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 1307286" data-attributes="member: 704">How great is your capacity for being a bastard...If you dont want to run this as a solo session (assuming you mena a single session that exists somewhat apart from the overarching narrative, and not a one on one session with only one player), and dont mind your players chasing you out of the building, you could try something really mean.Rather then just simply having your players run the summoned animal proxies, you could have this barrow king forcibly re-incarnate the lot of them as woodland animals, albeit Dire, Templated, much stronger then normal, animals.  This could be done with the simple DM expediant of decree.  The Barrow king is so in touch wiht the basic forces of life and death, and existance that he can arbitrarily decide for the players to exist in a previous incarnation for the duration of that challange.  Be sure to choose ironic incarnations for at least one players.  Being a Weasal, Vulture, or Rat for a while could be intresting.Also, keep in mind that just because the players have to run off on a side quest for this leadership challenge does not mean that the villians are going to keep well away from it.  You could have the villians show up and attack the heroes in the middle of these trials.  The players then get to try to convince this barrow king to restore them while the barrow king says "Yes yes, I understand that your concerned about the impending end of the world, and must oppose these villians, but this is also important.  I wont restore you until you find those 3 golden acorns.  And if those planar bastards get in your way, well, deal with it."I also like the analogy of the gods acting at the "meta physical base class level and the prime material being a world of instances".  Being a programmer, I actually understand the analogy quite well.  If we stretch that analogy further, I have some further ideas to explain the gods hesitance.If the gods act at the metaphysical level, then Fraz can be likened to a process executing on a remote machine with root access to the system.  He might not be able to execute the higher system functions, but he can certantly perform the basic commands.  While he cannot execute a .exe file, he can run the basic apps and functions ("Kill Process, Reboot, Erase, the C Standard Library functions, etc).If the gods try to kick Fraz out of their universe, Fraz can arrange for the system to crash, and the Gods are not sure they can recover the system if that happens.  And all the while, Fraz is stealing the data off of the hard drive and copying it to the system he was launched from over the network (aka Far Realm).If the gods reboot the system, they will lose all their current progress, and have to restart.  Ever have a game of NwN crash after not saving for a few hours?  Same thing.  It wont kill you, but it will piss you off.END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>

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