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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 6305194" data-attributes="member: 6685730">The ultimate D&D campaign?  In one year?Phase 1: D&D 1.  Each player makes a cleric, fighter, or magic-user.  They crusade to save their town from goblins, only to discover that it wasn't their town.  And those weren't goblins...Phase 2: AD&D.  Players draw up new characters at level 5.  They "awaken" to discover who they really are, which can be the same concept as the previous phase if desired.  They learn that they've been hypnotized by a storm giant for dubious reasons, and the previous adventure was closer to a dream than reality.  The heroes set about freeing themselves from a storm giant lair, while finding symbols in the lair similar to what they remember from the goblin horde.  But there's no explanation for the symbols, and the storm giant insists on escorting all of his guests on their way out.  Forcefully.Phase 3: 3rd ed.  Players draw up 10th level characters.  After dispatching the storm giant, they get a personal audience with a god, who unlocks their latent powers.  The god explains which demon placed the symbols, how it manipulated the storm giant, and what its motives are.  But to overcome the demon, the PCs must retrieve ancient lore, peacefully or no, from an ancient creature: a far-underground dwarf vampire.Phase 4: Forry.  Players design 20th-level characters based loosely on their 3rd edition characters, because the dwarf vampire's arcane knowledge sends them to another plane of existence.  With, as it happens, different game mechanics.  What hasn't changed is that the PCs need a sturdy plan in order to defeat a massive, brilliant demon.  Their winning approach, diplomacy, combat, bribes, is up to them.  What's not up to them is the need to dispatch an ornery fiendish shadow dragon prior to reaching the demon.Phase 5: well, according to the guidelines, I've already quit D&D forever.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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