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<blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 3215888" data-attributes="member: 198">I've just wrapped up a major plot arc in my Eberron campaign with a rakshasa as the BBEG. The campaign's 2 years and 45 sessions old, and the PCs discovered only about midway through it that they were being significantly manipulated by some entity. As time passed, they discovered more and more and eventually discovered that they had been manipulated even before the campaign began (i.e. that there were background elements which had been directly or indirectly set up by the rakshasa). The reason that they found out is actually because they managed to get hold of an incredibly rare and powerful item, which caused the rakshasa to eventually reveal itself in the process of taking it from them. Then they chased it across the continent, finding out more and more in the process, and last session, came to a climactic encounter with him in the depths of a volcano while he was freeing one of the most powerful rakshasa rajahs (think the equivalent of a demon lord). Worked out very well in my estimation, from the viewpoints of plot, roleplaying and action, and tied the entire two years of gaming together very well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shilsen, post: 3215888, member: 198"] I've just wrapped up a major plot arc in my Eberron campaign with a rakshasa as the BBEG. The campaign's 2 years and 45 sessions old, and the PCs discovered only about midway through it that they were being significantly manipulated by some entity. As time passed, they discovered more and more and eventually discovered that they had been manipulated even before the campaign began (i.e. that there were background elements which had been directly or indirectly set up by the rakshasa). The reason that they found out is actually because they managed to get hold of an incredibly rare and powerful item, which caused the rakshasa to eventually reveal itself in the process of taking it from them. Then they chased it across the continent, finding out more and more in the process, and last session, came to a climactic encounter with him in the depths of a volcano while he was freeing one of the most powerful rakshasa rajahs (think the equivalent of a demon lord). Worked out very well in my estimation, from the viewpoints of plot, roleplaying and action, and tied the entire two years of gaming together very well. [/QUOTE]

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