Campaign Idea

[BrooklynKnight]

K, so lets see how PC's can handle a situation where they are the heros, but may not want to be.

Many Gamers i know usually play genocidal/racist heros. Usually this ire is toward monsterous races like orcs and drow. So its all fine and dandy.....but what if the line was blurred.

A powerfull archmage is working on an epic spell which will whipe all orcs off the face of the earth (or name of planet pc's are on, etc etc). The Pc's should discover this mid campaign not early on. Up untill the point they do all they should know is that some Crazy Evil wizard is creating a spell that will change the world as they know it and will destroy one of the races. Keeping races very very vauge, after the Pc's go to hell and back to hinder this wizard and see some truly bad things/become heroes in the eyes of many they discover the truth.

How do you think your groups would react? how would you react? Would you continue in your original goal to stop him? Or would you let him continue? And yes, in this world the majorty of orcs are quite evil.

Discuss. :-D

 

[BrooklynKnight]

I need to start running spellcheck *sigh*.

 

[Twin Rose]

"Great, a spell that wipes out all orcs, that'd be good."

Time goes on, maybe they hear about the gathering of reagents. Either they're just heraing rumors, trying to stop it, or trying to beat the guy to the punch .. Who knows.

At least, until they start hearing about another group that is, for some reason, searching out many of the same reagents. But that group may be friendly to orcs, what gives?

Well, spell research is an interesting thing. How much easier is it to create a spell that destroys all elves in the world when you base it off someone elses research? How much harder is it to stop the Mad Wizard in his research, after the PCs have put off doing anything about it for so long? How do the elves in the party feel about the possibility of being wiped ou?

 

[Dragonblade]

Majority of orcs or all orcs?

If orcs are free moral agents then such a spell is evil and the wizard should be opposed. Even if lots of orcs are evil, that doesn't justify wiping out the many who wouldn't be.

If orcs are not free moral agents, but vile, inherently evil creations of the dark gods ala Tolkien then let the wizard cast his spell. Nothing wrong with wiping absolute evil from the world.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Majority of orcs or all orcs?

If orcs are free moral agents then such a spell is evil and the wizard should be opposed. Even if lots of orcs are evil, that doesn't justify wiping out the many who wouldn't be.

If orcs are not free moral agents, but vile, inherently evil creations of the dark gods ala Tolkien then let the wizard cast his spell. Nothing wrong with wiping absolute evil from the world.

orcs as a society are evil. its rare for good ones to exist, but they arent evil on the same scale as evil outsiders. at least thats the situation

Heh, Chris really made a good point with his, i like it!

 

[S'mon]

K, so lets see how PC's can handle a situation where they are the heros, but may not want to be.

Many Gamers i know usually play genocidal/racist heros. Usually this ire is toward monsterous races like orcs and drow. So its all fine and dandy.....

"You will be Humanity's scythe to sweep this way and that and cut the Eldren down as weeds. You will be Humanity's spade to dig up the roots wherever they have grown. You will be Humanity's fire to burn the waste to the finest ash. You, Erekose, will be the wind that will blow the ashes away as if they have never existed. You will destroy the Eldren."

-The Eternal Champion, Michael Moorcock.

 

[Dirigible]

Ahh, but if you kill the orcs, three times as many goblins take their place.

Eko-lodgy, see?