(Warning, Dragonlance spoilers ahead)
Does anyone else think it's kind of odd that there are no evil campaigns (for sale)? I don't mean campaigns where the players can be evil. I mean evil campaigns, evil adventure paths.
Like, say, the particularly juicy idea I just had for a Dragonlance campaign: the players are servants of Takhisis, or a Dragon highlord, before and during the War of the Lance. The before part sounds just as interesting as the during part, since Takhisis was doing an awful lot of skullduggery before the war started. Who was it who stole the metallic dragon eggs, again? Who exactly helped whatshisname and whatshisface come up with that ritual to convert the eggs into draconians? Who subverted this kingdom to Takhisis' side, and who terrorized that one? Who helped Kitiara recover that red dragon? Etc.
Not that the during part is a slouch, mind. They wrote your assassin out of what really happened when Sturm died? You were there and did all the heavy lifting abducting Laurana? You say you killed a party of do-gooders down in the dungeons of Skullcap led by some half-elf bastard? Wait, you say his father actually finished him off? Etc.
Then there's the whole "Takhisis encouraged her servants to fight amongst themselves, so only the strongest survived" bit.
So, not just mean and nasty, but servants of the dark powers nasty. Evil with a point nasty.
As an added bonus, while Krynn is one of the most loved settings, it's also easily one of the most hated. I bet a lot of D&Ders would camp out in tents overnight to get tickets to a kender/gully dwarf/tinker gnome/general-Krynn-cutesy killin' party.
Edit: the beauty of an Evil-With-A-Point campaign is that you can be the bad guys in a more abstract sense, without the bits that people find distasteful. More "my (evil) side is going to win" evil, and less "rapin' and pillagin' evil."
Does anyone else think it's kind of odd that there are no evil campaigns (for sale)? I don't mean campaigns where the players can be evil. I mean evil campaigns, evil adventure paths.
Like, say, the particularly juicy idea I just had for a Dragonlance campaign: the players are servants of Takhisis, or a Dragon highlord, before and during the War of the Lance. The before part sounds just as interesting as the during part, since Takhisis was doing an awful lot of skullduggery before the war started. Who was it who stole the metallic dragon eggs, again? Who exactly helped whatshisname and whatshisface come up with that ritual to convert the eggs into draconians? Who subverted this kingdom to Takhisis' side, and who terrorized that one? Who helped Kitiara recover that red dragon? Etc.
Not that the during part is a slouch, mind. They wrote your assassin out of what really happened when Sturm died? You were there and did all the heavy lifting abducting Laurana? You say you killed a party of do-gooders down in the dungeons of Skullcap led by some half-elf bastard? Wait, you say his father actually finished him off? Etc.
Then there's the whole "Takhisis encouraged her servants to fight amongst themselves, so only the strongest survived" bit.
So, not just mean and nasty, but servants of the dark powers nasty. Evil with a point nasty.
As an added bonus, while Krynn is one of the most loved settings, it's also easily one of the most hated. I bet a lot of D&Ders would camp out in tents overnight to get tickets to a kender/gully dwarf/tinker gnome/general-Krynn-cutesy killin' party.
Edit: the beauty of an Evil-With-A-Point campaign is that you can be the bad guys in a more abstract sense, without the bits that people find distasteful. More "my (evil) side is going to win" evil, and less "rapin' and pillagin' evil."
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