Evenglare
Adventurer
After quite a long hiatus I finally got to begin a campaign with a group, and I'm running the Princes of Apocalypse campaign for 5e. So far my group seems to really like it and I love "4 element" genre of fantasy. Anyway, that isn't the purpose of the topic. I've been playing for about... 16 (holy crap has it actually been that long??) years now. I have always wondered, while reading fantasy books, playing video games, or tabletop games, why there's usually only ever 1 main storyline with a big bad evil guy. After thinking about it for a long while, there's no real reason stories should be limited like that. So with that in mind, I've always wanted to run multiple major story lines simultaneously and just see how the adventurers decided to weigh the consequences. Clearly the end result is going to have HUGE implications on the world due to whatever the group chooses to confront. I think this would be a fantastic way to apply pressure to the party from multiple BBEGs to see how they deal with the realization that their struggle is probably not going to save the world from being dominated by evil in some form regardless of which story(s) they try to take on.
Clearly it would take a very skilled DM to keep up with all of the information, but I just can't help but wonder what the party would do when confronted with War of the Lance, Princes of the Apocalypse, and Rise of the Runelords (clearly these stories would need to be retrofitted into whatever world the characters are in). I just think it would be fascinating to experience and I was wondering if anyone has ever done this. If so, do you have any good tales of their inevitable demise?"
Clearly it would take a very skilled DM to keep up with all of the information, but I just can't help but wonder what the party would do when confronted with War of the Lance, Princes of the Apocalypse, and Rise of the Runelords (clearly these stories would need to be retrofitted into whatever world the characters are in). I just think it would be fascinating to experience and I was wondering if anyone has ever done this. If so, do you have any good tales of their inevitable demise?"