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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jolly Giant" data-source="post: 3918646" data-attributes="member: 5278">Not my worst RBDM moment; but the one which was the most satisfying to me, since the players never found out they had been tricked:The party has just reached epic levels and make their first visit to Union (the trader city from ELH). After they've spent a couple of hours aquainting themselves with the city, an old man carrying a book approaches them."Excuse me" he says, "but you guys completely match the main characters in this book, and I thought you might be interested. Actually, I think the book is about you. I bought it a few weeks ago from a guy who looked a lot like you (indicating the party wizard), only older."He goes on to explain that he runs a shop here in the city and he specializes in old books. The book he's got with him is obviously very old, but the author's name matches the name of the party wizard. They buy the book and start reading as soon as they get back to their base.The book tells the stories of all their greatest accomplishments. The book is written in first person perspective with the wizard as the central character, just as if it had been written by him. The book even mentions their first visit to Union, which they have just returned from. However, this is only about halfway through the book! It goes on, telling tales of mighty deeds that they have not yet performed. The players immediately decide that the book must be from the future. They all get very excited; discussing the possibilities of time-travel via magic, et cetera. Obviously, the wizard will one day learn such spells and now his future self has travelled backwards in time to ensure that they get thier hands on a copy of this book that he will one day write. This must mean that he wants them to the stuff the book says they did/will do.So they go ahead and do all those things the book mentions, and mostly things turn out the way they do in the book. Okay, so they make a few blunders along the way and have a few mishaps (such as a PC death or two) that are not mentioned in the book, but they figure the wizard has omitted these incidents to make them all look better for posterity. That would be just like him, actually. Also; the wizard spends an awful lot of time visiting colleagues on every plane, hoping to find someone who knows something about time travel spells. He has no success, though. What the players never suspected, although the campaign lasted for a couple more years, was that the book was a forgery. The frail, old 'book seller' had made it himself and manipulated the party into doing what he wanted them to do! Essentially, they have been working for him for a whole year without knowing it and without getting paid, of course.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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