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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 2294110" data-attributes="member: 15651">Not knowing the group, I would consider the idea of letting the bad guy win while the PCs are in prison.  Is the end of the world a sudden irreversible thing?  If not, when the world begins to end, have the people of the city realize what is happening and plead with the PCs to help save them.  Or have the people flee the city in panic and someone lets the PCs out since they are all going to die anyway, or the prison walls crack allowing escape or something like that.If the end of the world is a sudden irreversible thing, you can either let the world (and obviously the campaign) end, or you could have some other group of heroes save the day.  In that case, eventually the PCs manage to clear their names, pay restitution to the families of innocents killed and go on their way - with a whole new plot line and the knowledge that they did not succeed in this storyline (I would occasionally remind the party of that by having them run across the other heroes who saved the world from time to time).</blockquote>