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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cyronax" data-source="post: 4049157" data-attributes="member: 822">I ran it last year and heavily personalized it. After the fact our group realized that we had eerily mirrored some events from World War 2. First, the party was one of the main representatives of a distant order of NG-aligned clerics and many other classes. Most of the RHoD took place in an area that was sort of a crossroads region where international groups often pass through. A third potential spoiler in the RHoD, a rival to the party, but dire enemies of the hobgoblin-draconic hordes, were a group of dwarves that had been duped into following a closet dwarf cleric who followed my world's equivalent of a Hextor-Wee Jas combo deity named Akkadurai. Anyway, in a few cases during the progression of RHoD, the evil-inclined dwarves would sometimes work towards common goals with the party. In the end however, the three blocs - the party and the distant NG order, the Akkaduradians, and the hobgoblins came to resemble the United States/Britain, the Soviet Union, and the Nazis, respectively. I saw this trend emerging before the players did. By the end of the RHoD, the PC heroes were the decisive victors against the hobgoblins and the dragons, but quite quickly what was a tepid truce-going on alliance between the PC party and their NG-order and the Akkaduradians (who fought a number of early battles with the hobgoblins and dragons that ended in their own defeat) devolved into several situations that really reminded us of the real world Cold War. The campaign ended a few months after that, but it was an interesting development nonetheless. C.I.D.</blockquote>

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