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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Distracted DM" data-source="post: 9623575" data-attributes="member: 6894926">I guess I've had a bunch. Some were incredibly well-done thanks to player buy-in (that's pretty important in general).Off the top of my head, the birth of Lareth the Beautiful was a tragedy of a PC's own making.tldr: "Lareth the Beautiful" (cleric to an evil deity with half his face scarred to fk) was so despised my one of my parties that he gained a muuuch bigger role. It turns out, after I decided he needed a bigger role due to player reception, that he was the phylactery for an evil demigod, when that demigod was going to be destroyed (way in the past)... the demigod made a bunch of Lareth clones, each with a bit of its "soul."Aaanyway, PCs go back in time to when these evil demigods were being banished/destroyed, they take part in the final assault.. and are teamed up with Good Lareth. One of the PCs backstories was that Lareth killed his druid master, so even though this was good, pre-phylactery Lareth, the PC hated him. I run my games very improv-heavy, so I really had no idea where this was going at this point, and figured we'd hit something satisfactory. It ended up being so much more!The party confronts the demigod in his full power, and it's obvious that they need to gtfo- Lareth is going to sacrifice himself to buy them time to get away. And then, the druid PC decided they were going to stop Lareth from ever becoming a problem- while Lareth turned to face the demigod, the druid grabbed the back of Lareth's neck and upcast Blight.Well, ladies and gents, now we learned how Lareth got half of his face fk'd up- I described how the Blight ruined half of his face, and the betrayal broke his will/faith, letting the demigod in.Now we learned how an act of vengeance stymied an act of sacrifice, and ended up fulfilling the PC's own background tragedy. He was the cause of his own sorrow, and was responsible for the face (literally and figuratively) of the BBEG.All done on the fly. Pretty good stuff- it makes sense that this one came to the fore in my mind.</blockquote>

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