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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cdawg" data-source="post: 3438579" data-attributes="member: 43423">I know its not listed yet, but isn't that what Grimoire is for? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Actually if any of you remember the Nodwick Statuette of limitations arc<a href="http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2003-07-30" target="_blank">http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2003-07-30</a>has an explanation of about half the desired effect. And yes altering the 'Akashic library' is probably as much on the money as possible, hence my extra interest in U_K's 'Omega' template. There is a beignm with that same power in the campaign idea. In short the epic I had in mind was conceived after Die Vecna Die was released. With the assumption in this campaign that DVD was canon, the subsequent reformation of the planes caused reality to shift and planes to appear that had heretofore been unknown. With that concept in mind the premise was that some unknown proto-deity or entity of unimaginable power guarded an artifact whose representation is a book which has recorded in it, the entirety of reality. (Or with Ascension's spin on it, The Akashic Record(s). Due to this cosmic conjunction and realignment, this demiplane, formerly sealed from all of reality (or perhaps encasing it) has now shifted within the cosmos and is causing planar destabilization. It was an unknown to all beings, man and god, and now that is has entered into the multiverse, it can be breached (but requires extreme power, artifacts etc). Cosmic beings begin to discern the nature of the destabilization and begin to trace it to this source of power. Meanwhile the guardian has been rendered powerless and inert after the cosmic cataclysm from DVD and thus the book is undefended. Powerful fiends, gods, all beings of titanic might seek to discover and penetrate this ceiled plane, and obtain the power within, ultimately taking control of the tome and ascending to  ultimate and absolute mastery of the multiverse. By way of the nature of this book and the limited influence presented by even the thoughts of this inert entity it allows for extremely powerful creatures to be spawned and make their way through the multiverse (which U_K's epic bestiary oh so conveniently provided) as well as allow for high powered characters to collect powerful artifacts and elevate themselves to a playing field of massive power and fight in the big leagues for the ultimate of prizes. I'll pass on the specifics but it had always been conceived as a multiverse-wide epic with the ultimate resolution being forcing the book and demiplane back out of existence (and the characters being transformed into its eternal guardians) due to an aspect of the tome that no being realizes etc. The possibilities are endless, including the amalgamation of several campaign settings into one world for a period as a side effect. I've got an outline in my mind (and this was the vague synopsis of it) but for this concept its nearly absolute power. The concept has been out there before. Interestingly for comic fans, Alan Moore came up with a similar concept (mine was conceived independantly) of a book with reality encoded in it when he re-made Supreme, and it became something of an important cross-character story arc.  Augh I can't stop when I start rambling. Hit submit reply!!!</blockquote>

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