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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 9602108" data-attributes="member: 50987">Not really.  There were no main over-arching villains in the campaign, and the whole "saving the world" thing was added at the last minute as a story point.  This whole campaign was a series of smaller adventures, loosely connected by NPCs and their hometown.I'll back up.The story of the kraken-god was a minor sub-plot to help explain why a member of the party multiclassed with warlock.  It was never intended to be a villain.  The player wanted to multiclass with warlock (ugh), and decided on the Fathomless pact, from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, because it fit the campaign the best.  So I invented that kraken to be his warlock patron, and arranged a meeting with some kraken cultists to indoctrinate him.  They would then send him on occasional missions to recover various McGuffins.Fast forward a few levels.  The kraken patron became an adversary when the warlock decided that he was going to defy the kraken and keep a quest McGuffin for himself--and he was already 20th level when he made that decision.  The player wanted to tie up that last loose end before the campaign ended, so I wrote one last adventure to be our grand finale.  (By the time the party is 20th level, "saving the world from a would-be god" isn't a major story, it's a regular Tuesday night.)If that player had given that McGuffin to, say, the Merchant Guild faction or the Arcane Academy faction, they might have had a completely different ending.  Like, say he gave it to the Merchant Guild: that would have probably started a war between nations, and the final adventure would have been to defend their homeland against a fleet of invading warships.  The Arcane Academy has several sketchy NPCs working there; the McGuffin might have fallen into the hands of a mad wizard or lich.Or he could have just given the McGuffin to his patron.  His kraken patron would have ascended to godhood without flooding the world, I would have added a new deity to the pantheon, and the heroes would have sailed off into the sunset.</blockquote>

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