Reverse Midnight

[Aztec Ace]

Has anyone considered running a Midnight campaign from the bad guy's prospective? Characters would be Legates, Orcs, and Shadow Colaberators charged with hunting down insurgents.

While there would be the hunting down any rebels angle. I can see a whole evil vs evil thing going on too. Backstabbing and jockeying for power sort of thing.

Could this work?

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

Yea, it would work. Could be darn fun too. I may run something similar when my current campaign(s) run their course.

 

[Phebius]

Yea, it would work. Could be darn fun too. I may run something similar when my current campaign(s) run their course.

I may do the same thing. Would you allow heroic paths for characters? I would probably not since the bad guys get enough advantages in that setting.

 

[Paka]

My game started off in that kind of direction, with the players starting having been schooled in Theros Obsidia. They were all insurgents but the big choice in the game was how long they would stick it out with the well-equipped, well fed evil before going rebel.

The Story Hour is called Dark Tower's Shadow if you care to take a peak at it. Many of the elements you mentioned were there.

 

[d20Dwarf]

I may do the same thing. Would you allow heroic paths for characters? I would probably not since the bad guys get enough advantages in that setting.

Heroic paths are an excellent part of the setting. If I was going to run an evil Midnight campaign I would probably create villainous paths that are sort of Izrador's answer to destiny's hand in the affairs of mortals.

 

[Nifft]

No way would I allow Heroic Paths to the bad guys. They're the only edge that the good guys have -- and it also would allow me, as DM, to throw things at them which have unknown capabilities.

-- N

 

[tetsujin28]

Agreed. Heroic paths are what substitute for the inability of Midnight PCs to communicate with the good gods. If you gave them to the bad guys, there'd be no game.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Yea, it would work. Could be darn fun too. I may run something similar when my current campaign(s) run their course.

please please tell me this will be pbp????

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Heroic paths are an excellent part of the setting. If I was going to run an evil Midnight campaign I would probably create villainous paths that are sort of Izrador's answer to destiny's hand in the affairs of mortals.

Wil, any chance of an official campaign sourcebook for this?

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

please please tell me this will be pbp????

Maybe, but if it ever takes off, it will be a long, LONG, time down the road.

You reading my current PbP game?