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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 2172889" data-attributes="member: 10913">I like my evil BIG. Some current plots/favorites:* The End: The excrucians are trying to end existence by taking out one platonic Ideal at a time, or perhaps one plane at a time. The ritual that will end this one must be stopped, but that's just the start: the characters better find a way to "resurrect" the lost Ideals, and somehow bring the war to the Excrucians in the Far Realm, which differ by not obeying elementary ideas we have of the world (no objects, for example).* The Great War. That's the one I'm currently working with, a classic. The players must save the kingdom from a lengthy attrition war against the orcs, which are actually goblinoids led by necromancer (as in flesh-grafts and mutation) drow, with chromatic dragon allies to boot. (Now if I can only get ninja pirates into there somehow... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />)* Divine Ascension: The players play deities waking up from amnesia, having incarnated into flesh to save the world. Use XP to mean regaining their divine memories, no magic items but allow the powers of magic items as supernatural/special abilties (i.e. make wealth per level a point-buy pool). Arcane magic is Evil, only non-Evil PCs allowed. NPCs are not classed except for evil wizards/sorcerers, but use plenty of Cthulhu-like minions, dark magic, and a modern setting. And read the first Amber book again before playing. (Possibly go Greek, and have Scions of gods as well as gods, with their levels being normal - e.g. Achilles as a Paladin due to his divine blood.) I started running it, with the idea that the world was breaking apart at the seams because the god of Evil has taken off the key-stone of the world; the PCs were to combat him but he was basically wanting to erect a new world which the PCs will have to do anyways once everything gets broken.* Balance: The world of the PCs literally stands at the border between all the elemental planes. As the balance between these shift, the planes physically extend into each other's domain and the border moves - and with it the "known world" changes. One of the elements is thrusting in an attack against another/the others; the PCs must stop the attack or their world will be swept in the onslaught and changed irrecovably. (This idea can be extended to cover the Alignment axes, but thinking in high dimensions make my head hurt.)* Duality: There are only two gods: evil and good. The world is infinite - there are an infinite number of infinite worlds. The character start on a classic D&D polytheisitc world, and in their first adventure unwittingly let demons loose into the world. They fight them, learning the unity behind creation, and send them back to their Hell. The heroes/bringers of the apocalypse are banished to the outer planes in retribution/just judgement, where they face hell's wrath more directly and eventually confront it, joining into the eternal endless struggle.Also, just use published works...* Soul Harvest: Dwarves have unwittingly opened a gateway to hell itself, and the demons are spewing out. The characters must fend off the fiends and drive them back, eventually sealing the gate. (I like this better than a straight invasion. I don't like the actual Soul Harvest book, much, and it's small... but may still be useful.)* Midnight: The world is overrun by one Evil god, and is severed from all others. The characters must free the nations from the dark god's minions, or perhaps convince his minions to betray their dark lord. They start at the free lands under attack, then move on to free conquered lands, and finally venture into the heart of darkness - the Shadow in the North, aiming to trap him beneath a holy trap, forever sealing his power.* And more.... like Infernum (playing a demon-lord wannabe in Hell), or Blue Rose done classic-fantasy style (the evil lich-telepath sending his armies to fight the good kingdom, so the heroes need to save it).</blockquote>

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