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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 526279" data-attributes="member: 6533">Hmm, So you have a world that's gone dark and is filled with negative energy.Well, if that happened to my world I would guess that something has either sucked up all the positive energy or impeded it's flow into your world.  Now some of it is still moving through the world so that you've got your kingdom of paladins.  May even be running through that area at a very high rate.  The complementary phenomena is that negative energy has started to flow into the world at an increased rate.  Obviously this is related to the lack of positive energy, but it's less interesting if we claim that the energy simply ebbs and flows on its on.Since I am a wicked sort of DM, I would say that the Gaea of your world has invited the negative energy rather than become an energyless void.  While the undead are taking advantage of this you would also see the eco-system adapting to take advantage of this dark energy that is coming to replace the sun.  Even in positive energy areas the life is adapting to feed directly off of this energy. The new eco-system is what allows the two kingdoms of the living to survive, though the undead have a competitive advantage that is only offset by the two remaining powers magical might.Druids are having to go through a lot of retraining, and may even be very upset with the Gaea figure for his/her role in this.Unfortunately the sudden imbalance of positive and negative energy is bad for some aspects of life such as water for people.  Heck you could you even say that the new imbalance of energies has affected all the elemental energies in strange ways.Water is never just water anymore unless you purify it, it is now always, or at least far more frequently, either holy or unholy and the same is true of fire.  Earth and Air have far larger resevoirs of elemental energy so they are less affected, but you would still have foul earth and bad winds and their opposites.The undead aren't a necessarily a cause of this situation, but are taking advantage of it.  They, being very sensitive to energy flow, could sense the imbalance coming and prepared to for the transition period.  When things had to change they flowed out into the world and really upset Gaeas emergency plan.Heck the Paladins could have even been a part of her plan, when the undead proved far more overwhelming and strong then they realized, then Gaea pulled up all the remaining positive energy into their kingdom and used it as a bastion to break their tide.The dragon had its own deal worked out.In the new environment Druids now act as scouts for the good side since their net neutral balance of positive and negative energy makes them more difficult for the undead masters to detect and less vulnerable to high amounts of either energy.If you wanted to go Earthdawn level over the top, most of the remaining mortal classes could be developing new techniques and powers in the changing and magically charged environment.Either way, necromancy will need some rebalancing, otherwise it'll be way too powerful in a world filled with negative energy.If you send more details this speculation won't be so wild.If you're just talking ecosystem, plants that feed off of negative and positive energy have DnD precedents.  The drow used to have their own energy which empowered all thier stuff.</blockquote>

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