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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nagol" data-source="post: 6293327" data-attributes="member: 23935">I guess 35 years isn't too long in the scheme of things.I don't roll dice where I won't accept the result; I don't introduce situations I won't follow through on.My last D&D campaign saw the Material Plane being threatened by a parasite sapping the energies normally flowing between it and the Outer Planes.  The PCs discovered there were three outcomes:  <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">They manage to find a way to stop the parasite and life goes on</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">They fail to stop the parasite and a group of evil spell casters (including potentially one PC) manages to capture a fraction of the power and become the Sorcerer Kings of a new Dark Sun setting</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> Everyone fails and everything dies a slow lingering death  (the PCs found a plane undergoing the last throes of such a death).</li> </ol>I was comfortable with pursuing any of the outcomes to their conclusion and my players know it.Besides.  a drastic change like that (or like the time the PCs failed to stop the nuclear war in a CHAMPIONS game I ran) doesn't mean the campaign has to end -- it just means the campaign will be very different if the table wants to continue.</blockquote>