Cyronax
Explorer
Having just read some posts about FR's upcoming Spellplague and reading Die Vecna Die a few days ago, I was wondering if anyone was planning on creating their own potential Realms Shattering Events that would serve as a transition from 3.x to 4.0?
I am gearing my current campaign towards a RSE that only the PCs can prevent. Basically there was an 18th human witch (mystic theurge/sorcerer/cleric once devoted to Wee Jas) that tried to channel power from Limbo (IMC these are the unformed energies of the planes at the edge of the known universe) into herself as a way to impart divine status and immortality to herself. The witch is known mysteriously as the 'Lady of the Depths,' and resides in a large cavern in the Underdark of my world.
She didn't want to go the route to lichdom, the only path for immortality that is available IMC.
Her ritual failed and she died, with the remains of her body being transformed in a Husk of Infinite Worlds (see Magic of Eberron). The husk itself actually began drawing extraplanar energies from beyond Limbo/Edge of Known Reality itself .... and even starting sucking in energy from the Far Realm.
Well, the witch is dead, but before her ritual she had prepared a simalcrum as a way to retain some sort of life for herself (even if her true self died).
The simalrcum is half the level of the original and has the spellwarped template (MM3) attached due to all the strange energies emanating from the husk, and is now trying to shut down the husk of infinite worlds, even as chaos begins to spread across the world. The Lady of the Depths was evil, but not in a way that sought out the destruction of the world.
The simalcrum is also trying to keep the event secret, since revelation of her diminished power and the creation of the husk might entice her many adversaries from the Underdark to move in and try to enlarge the husk's planar instability.
The PCs (mid-level party) had previously been set up as the enemies of one of the witch's main servants since early in the campaign, and now will be forced to deal with the simalcrum, the husk, and the witch's enemies.
A potential RSE in the making, and up to my heroes to prevent.
(As always, I apologize if this has been discussed elsewhere. I haven't seen a thread on it in the last few days of regular viewing).
C.I.D.
I am gearing my current campaign towards a RSE that only the PCs can prevent. Basically there was an 18th human witch (mystic theurge/sorcerer/cleric once devoted to Wee Jas) that tried to channel power from Limbo (IMC these are the unformed energies of the planes at the edge of the known universe) into herself as a way to impart divine status and immortality to herself. The witch is known mysteriously as the 'Lady of the Depths,' and resides in a large cavern in the Underdark of my world.
She didn't want to go the route to lichdom, the only path for immortality that is available IMC.
Her ritual failed and she died, with the remains of her body being transformed in a Husk of Infinite Worlds (see Magic of Eberron). The husk itself actually began drawing extraplanar energies from beyond Limbo/Edge of Known Reality itself .... and even starting sucking in energy from the Far Realm.
Well, the witch is dead, but before her ritual she had prepared a simalcrum as a way to retain some sort of life for herself (even if her true self died).
The simalrcum is half the level of the original and has the spellwarped template (MM3) attached due to all the strange energies emanating from the husk, and is now trying to shut down the husk of infinite worlds, even as chaos begins to spread across the world. The Lady of the Depths was evil, but not in a way that sought out the destruction of the world.
The simalcrum is also trying to keep the event secret, since revelation of her diminished power and the creation of the husk might entice her many adversaries from the Underdark to move in and try to enlarge the husk's planar instability.
The PCs (mid-level party) had previously been set up as the enemies of one of the witch's main servants since early in the campaign, and now will be forced to deal with the simalcrum, the husk, and the witch's enemies.
A potential RSE in the making, and up to my heroes to prevent.
(As always, I apologize if this has been discussed elsewhere. I haven't seen a thread on it in the last few days of regular viewing).
C.I.D.
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