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<blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4150445" data-attributes="member: 54846"><p>My fatigue-addled brain can't think of any over-arching cliches I've used/want to use in a campaign. However, one I love to toy with is the nature of certain things like evil, monsters, necromancy, etc.</p><p></p><p>One I've used in a game was a necromancer. Yes, he was raising an "army" of undead. The twist here is that 1) He was just doing it as a favor to pay some debts, and 2) This gig is just not his style. He'd rather be on a beach somewhere, reading necromantic texts while being fawned on by pretty native girls.</p><p></p><p>But Necromancy is often the pale guy cackling in his catacombs. Where there are lots of different directions you can take. For instance, Viktor Frankenstein is a necromancer. He studied death, and how to break it. The notion that "Imagine if death could be defeated, a world where Da Vinci had never stopped his work, where you can go to a concert by Mozart, listen to a lecture by Socrates". </p><p></p><p>In that light, undead can also be seen as mistakes. They're almost-but-not-quite. Or a bi-product of unchecked necromantic energies.</p><p></p><p>____________________________________________________________________</p><p></p><p>A completely different train of thought strikes me. I think that the Earth Wind Water Fire elements pitted against eachother thing has been Done to Death in fantasy. Maybe using Chinese elements, or something else that can stand in for the Big Four, but really, that's a cliche I"m not sure what to Do with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rechan, post: 4150445, member: 54846"] My fatigue-addled brain can't think of any over-arching cliches I've used/want to use in a campaign. However, one I love to toy with is the nature of certain things like evil, monsters, necromancy, etc. One I've used in a game was a necromancer. Yes, he was raising an "army" of undead. The twist here is that 1) He was just doing it as a favor to pay some debts, and 2) This gig is just not his style. He'd rather be on a beach somewhere, reading necromantic texts while being fawned on by pretty native girls. But Necromancy is often the pale guy cackling in his catacombs. Where there are lots of different directions you can take. For instance, Viktor Frankenstein is a necromancer. He studied death, and how to break it. The notion that "Imagine if death could be defeated, a world where Da Vinci had never stopped his work, where you can go to a concert by Mozart, listen to a lecture by Socrates". In that light, undead can also be seen as mistakes. They're almost-but-not-quite. Or a bi-product of unchecked necromantic energies. ____________________________________________________________________ A completely different train of thought strikes me. I think that the Earth Wind Water Fire elements pitted against eachother thing has been Done to Death in fantasy. Maybe using Chinese elements, or something else that can stand in for the Big Four, but really, that's a cliche I"m not sure what to Do with. [/QUOTE]
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