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<blockquote data-quote="Riley37" data-source="post: 6464580" data-attributes="member: 6786839">I have seen Journey to the Underworld done once, very carefully and very skillfully, as an overnight game session.The players had been running their PCs as people playing around with their powers. GM was bored with that. TPK was an all-out attack on a fortified position, perhaps with less-stupid-than-previous-sessions defenders.&nbsp; The special overnight session started with the PCs as no-special-powers shades in a grim grey Homeric afterlife. The PCs treated it as if it were a puzzle and the goal was to escape, at first, which was partly true. Eventually they reached a Gatekeeper.&nbsp; But the gatekeeper asked them: So, if I let you guys back into the realm of the living - how long before I see you again? a year? five years, ten? and will anything be different? if not, you might as well wander around here as shades.The players eventually realized that they had to actually come up with a meaningful vision, goal or purpose for their PCs and for the party, and after some discussions, with each other and NPCs, they did. THEN they got to fight the Dragon of Death; that fight was played out in the GM's garage; when the PCs won, the GM opened the garage door, and daylight streamed in. I think the GM cued &quot;Salisbury Hill&quot; by Peter Gabriel. The PCs found themselves back in their bodies, wounds healed and restored to life, and the campaign resumed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Riley37, post: 6464580, member: 6786839"] I have seen Journey to the Underworld done once, very carefully and very skillfully, as an overnight game session. The players had been running their PCs as people playing around with their powers. GM was bored with that. TPK was an all-out attack on a fortified position, perhaps with less-stupid-than-previous-sessions defenders. The special overnight session started with the PCs as no-special-powers shades in a grim grey Homeric afterlife. The PCs treated it as if it were a puzzle and the goal was to escape, at first, which was partly true. Eventually they reached a Gatekeeper. But the gatekeeper asked them: So, if I let you guys back into the realm of the living - how long before I see you again? a year? five years, ten? and will anything be different? if not, you might as well wander around here as shades. The players eventually realized that they had to actually come up with a meaningful vision, goal or purpose for their PCs and for the party, and after some discussions, with each other and NPCs, they did. THEN they got to fight the Dragon of Death; that fight was played out in the GM's garage; when the PCs won, the GM opened the garage door, and daylight streamed in. I think the GM cued "Salisbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel. The PCs found themselves back in their bodies, wounds healed and restored to life, and the campaign resumed. [/QUOTE]

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