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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ace32" data-source="post: 3659113" data-attributes="member: 391">While I have no direct experience running a full campaign with an evil party, I did have a really good time running a one-shot (that lasted over 12 hours.. oi) for one. The premise was simple: each character had acquired a magical token necessary to unlock a crypt containing a lost artifact. All of the characters wanted to possess the artifact (I had also mentioned that the player that won it would get to use it in our next Fields of Blood game...) and therefore had sufficient motivation to work together to get to the artifact. What followed was a long dungeon crawl with various challenges as per typical D&Ding. The characters were definitely evil - they spared no thoughts to using devastating magic on their enemies, threatening eachother to keep the party in line, and whatnot. They also made sure they everybody knew exactly why they were useful to keep around (or stayed quiet and avoided rocking the boat). Short of one messy encounter in which the priest killed the rogue (the two had been bickering through the entire session and the priest eventually decided the rogue had outlived his usefulness - and the rest of the party concurred. This did not occur until the rogue's player had to leave the game anyways...), the entire party reached the final chamber which held the artifact. The chamber itself was a massive sphere with a platform running through the middle (think cerebro from the X-Men movie) on which stood a locked stone pedestal containing the artifact. The entire lower part of the sphere was filled with skeletons who came to life as the party entered the sphere. At this point, each player was attempting to both figure out how to open the pedestal AND how to be as close to the artifact and the exit route as possible (5' wide catwalk that was about 30 feet from them). They worked together to try to keep the skeletons at bay while throwing out ideas to break the lock...Finally, they opened the pedestal and all hell broke loose. The party fighter was pulled into the skeleton pit by the monsters - and left to die. The warlock grabbed the artifact and tried to slide underneath the pit so he could spiderwalk his way out, but fell in. The cleric began dominating skeletons to block the exit. The bard raced to the exit to block it. Eventually, the priest was hold personed. The warlock evaded the bard and spiderclimbed his way into some tunnels above the dungeon. He got away with the artifact. Everybody enjoyed themselves (even if they were a bit bitter about the outcome...)</blockquote>

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