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<blockquote data-quote="ThaDium" data-source="post: 5936279" data-attributes="member: 10437">I'm a veteran DM of a homebrew that I ran for about ten years.&nbsp; Then I got married and had kids.&nbsp; Now, I'm back and running a new game and a new campaign world.&nbsp; We go once a month, and we're only a few sessions in.&nbsp; It's a 3.5 game.&nbsp; The basic premise of the world is D&amp;D turned up to 11.&nbsp; So far they've had the classic start of fighting goblins.&nbsp; In this case, a goblin cult called the Cult of the Bygone Beasts.&nbsp; They basically, summon weird magical beast in an effort to drive the world into chaos.&nbsp; Also involved in the cult was a green hag and a barghest.&nbsp;Next, came a surprise dragon fight.&nbsp; Because, who throws their 6th level PCs at a&nbsp; green dragon immediately after fighting a goblin cult trying to summon a displacer beast?Now, they're in a mage run city with an overall LN/LE government.&nbsp; O.k., that's the background.&nbsp; My question is, what classic D&amp;D tropes would you want to experience if you were in a game that was intended to be as pure and over the top a D&amp;D experience as possible?So far, my long term plan is to give the PC's an evil artifact, possibly the Hand/Eye/both of Vecna, which they will need to destroy while in a parallel plot the cult tries to summon the Tarrasque.&nbsp; Do they stop the summoning or let it happen so they can use the beast to destroy the artifact?But there's a lot of space between 6th level and 20th and I need help.&nbsp; Any thoughts?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ThaDium, post: 5936279, member: 10437"] I'm a veteran DM of a homebrew that I ran for about ten years. Then I got married and had kids. Now, I'm back and running a new game and a new campaign world. We go once a month, and we're only a few sessions in. It's a 3.5 game. The basic premise of the world is D&D turned up to 11. So far they've had the classic start of fighting goblins. In this case, a goblin cult called the Cult of the Bygone Beasts. They basically, summon weird magical beast in an effort to drive the world into chaos. Also involved in the cult was a green hag and a barghest. Next, came a surprise dragon fight. Because, who throws their 6th level PCs at a green dragon immediately after fighting a goblin cult trying to summon a displacer beast? Now, they're in a mage run city with an overall LN/LE government. O.k., that's the background. My question is, what classic D&D tropes would you want to experience if you were in a game that was intended to be as pure and over the top a D&D experience as possible? So far, my long term plan is to give the PC's an evil artifact, possibly the Hand/Eye/both of Vecna, which they will need to destroy while in a parallel plot the cult tries to summon the Tarrasque. Do they stop the summoning or let it happen so they can use the beast to destroy the artifact? But there's a lot of space between 6th level and 20th and I need help. Any thoughts? [/QUOTE]

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