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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 3616556" data-attributes="member: 8439">Thanks for all the responses, most confirm my feeling of where the series stops being a good background for a campaign... Some clarifications and answers : The series is the Darwath Trilogy by Barbara Hambly, starting with The Time of the Dark. Certain parts of it didn't stand up to my most recent reading well - I'd sort of gotten tired of the emotionaly stunted Mary Sue and her Octegenarian Ubermensch lover (which Hambly has gotten past since) and the ending is exactly the sort of thing people are warning against here, but it still has a lot to recomend it.The "schedule" on which YOAE rises and falls isn;t one the PCs would be willing to wait out or that would pass without them noticing - the last rising lasted several genertions. I meant to make it clear in the first post that the PCs will gain nformation about YOAE in their search that will allow them to consider their own plan of attack.While the Macguffin is generally thought to be the solution to defeating YOAE, that is not the only possible goal in the campaign. There are refugees to be protected (from YOAE and the elements), a realm to hold together (or overthrown depending on how the PCs feel about the current regent), threats from a rival culture which as yet has not suffered from YOAE and may be willing to come "help" them through their troubles, etc.Thanks again for all the responses.</blockquote>