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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cor Azer" data-source="post: 1391382" data-attributes="member: 870">Well, I can't say too much...Because the high-level stuff is in the process of beginning, and I don't want to spoil things for those players (well, player) of mine who read(s) this board.My face-to-face game is quite liberally inspired by LotR and ASoIaF:A thousand years ago, an evil wizard/warlord tried to conquer all the lands of Valandi with an army of kobolds and giants from his fortress of Dor Ulm, but he was defeated by the Free Alliance of (most of) the rest of the continent. Several powerful goodly wizards gave their lives to seal the evil inside their domain, purportedly forever.When the PCs started, they discovered that the 'Wall' sealing in the evil hordes was failing, and would fall within a year or so. Through the course of levels 1-10, they had to discover about the new threat from Dor Ulm - corrupted elves that the party named Bhenbiir (the idea was that the world had no orcs/bugbears/goblins/etc... the main non-PC race humanoids were kobolds. My idea for the bhenbiir took the (sometimes used) mythology of orcs being corrupted elves, but it was done in the present rather than the distant past), rally the Free Alliance to reform to battle this threat, free the sealed Elven Kingdom from the enslaving wraiths, and finally defeat Dor Ulm.Plenty of twists happened, including a group of evil knights allying with the Free Alliance after turning from Dor Ulm because the Evil asked them to betray their knightly oaths, as well as a former vassal country turning on the rest of the Alliance to try to conquer some of the lands from the kingdom that used to rule them. The dwarves dropped all tunnels leading to their underground kingdom, and nobody knows why yet.Oh yeah... and civil war is now breaking out in the main country of Callin (where all the PCs are from). The king at the start of the campaign died just before the 'Wall' fell, and his son Aerys was a complete brat (think Joffrey from ASoIaF) who didn't understand the significance of war. Half of the country wanted to war on Dor Ulm (led by the former king's advisor, Lord Helspont. The PCs sided here) and the other half dismissed them as a threat (Aerys' side).The PCs have just returned from the campaign on Dor Ulm, having been victorious (and after setting up the evil knights as the new rulers of the evil nation. They're about 11th level now, and the campaign is shifting from continent-wide war to internal, civil wars and intrigue. At the end of the last session, the party learned that the boy king Aerys has died (although they don't know how or why), and that the Royal Shields (bodyguards to the king and royal family) have sealed off the capital of Tal Callin. A Baron in the east of the country has claimed to have married Aerys' youngest sister, and is now claiming the kingship (although the party knows that he was married to another woman whom they were not aware of as having died nor divorced). Aerys' older sister is missing. But now Helspont's supporters are looking to him to claim the throne since he organized the resistance against the evils of Dor Ulm... although he lost a lot of support when he made an alliance with the new rulers of Dor Ulm.So there's a whole lot of intrigue-y goodness going on.</blockquote>

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