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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 7975496" data-attributes="member: 5948">One campaign starter I've always wanted to run is "You wake up, and look around in bewilderment.  You're standing, fully-equipped, on what seems to be a battlefield.  Goblins and ogres and monsters surround you, all shaking their heads in confusion.  Undead shamble, flit, and flee in all directions.  Ahead of you, cheers ring out as a wedge of shining armoured paladins on horseback cut their way towards you."There they are, send them to hell with their master!"You look down.  Why are you wearing black heraldry with a sinister skull motif and vile runes? Uh oh...Basically, the PCs have been the mind-bent slaves of the setting's BBEG for an indeterminate period of time (enough time to advance from level 1 to level X, in fact).  When the BBEG is slain, while his army besieges not-Gondor (or whatever) they regain their right minds (while losing their memories of the intervening time...), but by then they've long since been identified and are widely despised as the foremost minions of evil.  The mighty heroes who slew the BBEG sacrificed their lives in the effort, but the alliance they built still lives on.First, the PCs have the flee the retribution of the forces of all that is good and holy.  If they kill any paladins in the process, they'll only find it harder to convince anyone of the truth down the track  Can the PCs escape this battlefield full of rampaging horros while being hunted by paladins?  If they can, then what?  What the hell happened in the past few years?  How did they get here?  What happened to their friends/family/home village?  How do they deal with the machinations of the BBEG's other lieutenants, who obviously know the PCs from way back and are all trying to manipulate/enlist/plot against them in order to inherit control of the BBEG's empire?  Can they convince the forces of good about the truth?  Why did the BBEG pick THEM for this anyway, last thing they remember they were 1st level mooks, armed with a pointy stick and wearing armour made of cheese?  And do they really want to know or remember what atrocities they committed?Something like this could work.  PCs have a reason for being high level, but the rise, conquests, and destruction of the BBEG have turned the world upside down since they last remember anything, so they basically have to discover it all anew.(I never quite worked out how to justify having a paladin or good cleric in the party though...)</blockquote>

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