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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scourger" data-source="post: 5668129" data-attributes="member: 12328">Back in 2e, after the party survived The Silver Key, a some-times player came back to the game.  The mage was killed in the orc city, and they unwisely left his body behind.  I reasoned that the orc king had his greater doppleganger learn everything by eating the mage's brains.  The mage player was not there.  So, I offered the some-times player the choice to play a regular character or an evil substitute.  With a heart blacker than midnight, he agreed to play the doppleganger-in-mage-form.  I briefly explained the set up that the orc king wanted revenge and was holding the doppleganger's family hostage to motivate it for this task.  The player came up with an ingenious way to lure the other player characters one-by-one to a room where they had to loose their armor & equipment to be cured of some orc disease they all had.  He defeated and turned each of the other players into the doppleganger.  So, the character that had been the last victim became the next incarnation of the doppleganger under that player's control.   Gradually, each player played the doppleganger as character after character was eliminated.  The best part was that I just had to sit back and watch once the plot was set in motion.  The players did all the work.  I thought someone would catch on and defeat the plan.  But, it ended in a TPK; except for the one character whose player was not there.  It was bitter-sweet at the end of the night, but it is still one of the most memorable.</blockquote>

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