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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jayaint" data-source="post: 1970940" data-attributes="member: 6154">I have heard the term "post-apocalyptic fantasy" several times on different threads, boards, etc. I am assuming that means some kind of doomsday scenario in a modern world, including a surviving population, and the fantasy part being mutants, wild pyschic talents that emerge, lasers, et al. Well, I started thinking about what would happen if a DnD setting was to undergo some kind of apocalyptic act. Set the end-of-the-world in an already fantastical world full of rich and exciting history. Basically: Let's take the Forgotten Realms and end it!!! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /> (Sorry, Mr. Baker.) Thayan wizards, working in secret, have developed a weapon that causes a rift in the fabric of The Weave AND the Shadow Weave at the same time, causing a massive amount of harmful energy to pour forth in a radius of hundreds of miles. They are losing their in-plain-sight battles and some of their undercover plans have been discovered. They are cornered like a rat and nervous.The device is actually quite simple, other than one or two EXPENSIVE ingredients, and they make several. They are portable (i.e. fit in the back of a caravan wagon) and do not radiate magic until they are activated. The Silverymoon contigent finds out about the plot and rushes to construct a defense, while Waterdeep sits the fence. A counter defense of some potency is devised.Some rogue organization steals one of the devices and threatens to set it off in Waterdeep. Panic erupts. They join Silverymoon in trying to root out this evil.Diviners' future sight goes dim. Mystra seems pale, frial, and weakened. Even Shar won't show her head. The Gods begin to turn their back on all but their highest clerics and champions. Feint and counterfeint by groups and organizations try to sort out the knife-edge thin mess. One device goes live, and in shadow retaliation, both sides loose their weapons. Most populous areas have been targeted by the Thayans, as well as some strongholds of other races. The Thayan geographic region and its neighbors would be wiped out. Iconics, adventurers, and commoners alike would be scorched and burnt, though there would be no lingering effects in the air. (i.e. fallout)Who might have been lucky enough to survive? What kind of chaos would ensue during the days after the scenario?  Would the dragons who survived be enraged enough to try and re-assert their control over Faerun? Who (races, PCs, creatures) would rise from the ashes to try and live again? Would the Gods return to their decimated flocks?  Let the end-of-Faerun begin!!!(Thanks to DanMcS and BlackMoria from another thread for their feedback in my original wavering post about discussing this.)-jay</blockquote>

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