Parallel dimensions where the PC's are confronted with evil selves

[Jaxom]

I figure this isn't a new idea, and wonder if anyone has tried it.

Note: by the time I run the following adventure, the entire party will be epic level. The nice thing about the campaign is that we all cortribute to the story by sharing the responsibility of DM'ing. Without getting into too much detail, our campaign has a common goal and each DM runs a game in thier part of world while sticking to the campaign theme. Our character always conveniently disappears when our turn to run occurs.

I'm thinking of starting out with an epic level mage gaining access to parallel dimensions and the players chasing and stopping him before he damages the fabric of the ultiverse. In the process of the chase the mage and players unknowingly free a group of evil characters that are exactly the opposite of the players.

Here's a list of the characters that I have posted in a previous thread. Paladin Knight of Chalice, Barbarian Fighter, Half-Dragon Sorcerer Monk, Bard Virtuoso, Mage Incantix, Mage Blade Singer, Fighter Rogue Thief-Acrobat, Cleric of Pelor, and a Cleric of Traveling.

Any ideas or suggestions on this type of adventure will be helpful.

 

[Sanackranib]

parallel

I think that both nightfall and graf have done this with a mirror dimention

 

[Jeph]

The Plane of Mirros in the Manual of the Planes has a feature that creates characters of the opposite alignment, but who are otherwise exactly the same, whenever someone enters it. It's in the appendix of alternate cosmologies/planes in the back, I'm not sure how helpful it will be, but it's a start.

flips though book

Page 204, to be precise.

 

[caudor]

Sounds cool to me. As a twist on that...I would also like a slight different situation...in which the evil dimension comes to players instead of them going to it.

The evil version of themselves might step out of a magical mirror and cause havoc in the player's home world. And why not do a threesome...have neutral or emotionless versions of the players enter as well...either side may be able to bargain with them.

Might be a perfect chance for charisma (and not just brawn) to shine.

Anyway, just some thoughts.

 

[Jeph]

Oooooh, try this: the other way around: the evil characters accidentily loose a bunch of LG PC goons on their world of malace, and all the evil archbishops and insance cultists and stuff aren't verry happy.

 

[JohnNephew]

You might check out "The Ebon Mirror," by Keith Baker. (It's still available in some stores, but it's out of print; it is however available as a PDF now from RPGNow.) It's about a mirror world, and has a confrontation of the PCs versus their mirror selves.

 

[Piratecat]

Whatever you do, don't forget the goatees!

 

[Nightfall]

Re: parallel

I think that both nightfall and graf have done this with a mirror dimention

Not me personally, but I've considered a couple times. Just never got the timing right for it.

 

[Nightfall]

You might check out "The Ebon Mirror," by Keith Baker. (It's still available in some stores, but it's out of print; it is however available as a PDF now from RPGNow.) It's about a mirror world, and has a confrontation of the PCs versus their mirror selves.

I also recommend The Ebon Mirror. It will DEFINATELY give you some strange and wonderful ideas. Plus backwards magic!

 

[SteelDraco]

A DM of mine has done something akin to this. There was some time magic stuff with wishes and such going on, and somehow the entire group ended up in a much darker version of our world... where we were playing the evil versions of ourselves.

My original PC had been a sort of Robin Hood-esque druid. He lived in a predominantly Celtic, CG soceity, which was being taken over by a LN Roman-esque culture. Even in the good world, he wasn't above killing soldiers for the other side, though he was generally a nice guy.

Not so for his dark universe version. He was a very bitter and angry person. His people had been pretty mercilessly decimated by the invaders in that version of history, and as a result, he was much more of a jaded, bitter guerilla warrior. He'd been hung before, saved only at the last moment, so he had a nasty scar and spoke in a broken whisper. He fought mostly in forest lion form, and tended to torment soldiers like a cat with a mouse. He was also a cannibal.

I don't remember the rest of the party, save that the coldly logical wizard had a beard in the alternate history. If you don't get that joke, you don't watch enough original series Star Trek.

We eventually ended up getting hints about how to fix the history, and did finally manage to get back to the original version of the world. It was quite an amusing little plot, though.