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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Byrons_Ghost" data-source="post: 2184156" data-attributes="member: 7396">I'm definately with you here. Actually, I'm sort of sick of the whole undead/demons/outer planar monster portion of fantasy in general. It seems like every book and module coming out these days has to have undead, drow, devils, or some other super-evil, Lovecraftian menace or pure malice. Now, I'm as big a Lovecraft fan as anyone, I started reading the books in 7th or 8th grade. But this is starting to get really old. Whatever happened to knights and dragons and fairies, I ask?This, incidentally, is why I don't buy things like Dungeon magazine. As far as I can tell, it's just one "go through the cave complex to kill the undead demonologist" adventure after the next. But that's sort of off topic for this thread, so...The Surrealist- Based on one of my longer-running PCs, this illusionist believes that reality itself is an illusion, and thus malleable to his whims. Anyone with the knowledge and will can make whatever they fancy come true- and those who can do so have no concern for societal or moral constraints, since it's all just an illusion anyway.The Businessman- This wizard deals with necromancers and other dark things, but he isn't interested in the Dark Arts themselves. Rather, he simply provides them what they need for a tidy profit. Specifically, things like corpses, body parts, and other grisly components. He's rigged up an entire keep full of traps, secret passages, and creatures intelligent enough not to mangle the product (ie PCs). Then he just puts out the rumors of treasure and waits for people to bring themselves to the slaughter. It's not EVIL in the destroying-the-world sense, just in the "anything for a dollar" sense.The Healer- This wizard has created a transmutation process that will correct the effects of a devastating plague- one which leaves it's victims alive, but physically and mentally crippled. Unfortunately, the process requires a living "donor" of the same race to make it work. Naturally, he charges a great deal for this service, and only nobles or rich merchants can afford the cure. The wizard has opted to get his donors from the criminal element of society, thus partially assuaging his guilt. But he's still playing God in a way, and his gang of providers might not be too particular about the source of donors and demand pressure increases...</blockquote>

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