CRGreathouse
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What races are valid? Can we use the ECL races from the ELH?
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Serious inquiries only please - 100th level adventure hook and module in development
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DM-Rocco
Explorer
Sorry, I took the weekend to read Harry Potter, not bad.
Anyway, as far as races, I would like to keep them to PHB, and maybe Eberron, races, things will already be nuts without having level 86 Psion sucubus'. If you would like to throw in a race with a low ELC, put it on the borad and we will vote. I guess if people want to play demons and get really nuts, we could, might be fun.
What does everyone think, no or low level ECL races or go nuts and open the flood gates?
Also, I have been working on a story hook that involves elements of everyone story. I'll try to send it out by this weekend and see what you think.
Anyway, as far as races, I would like to keep them to PHB, and maybe Eberron, races, things will already be nuts without having level 86 Psion sucubus'. If you would like to throw in a race with a low ELC, put it on the borad and we will vote. I guess if people want to play demons and get really nuts, we could, might be fun.
What does everyone think, no or low level ECL races or go nuts and open the flood gates?
Also, I have been working on a story hook that involves elements of everyone story. I'll try to send it out by this weekend and see what you think.
DM-Rocco
Explorer
Okay, 100th level module proposal.
First thing is first, the first chapter of the module is for 20th level characters. I figured out a way to use normal high level characters in a 100th level adventure, so you can use it as part of your current game, you’ll see.
Chapter one - the Gods in peril
The story starts with the party receiving a warning from there Gods so strong that it wakes your character, whether you are sleeping, in a coma or even from the grave. A wizard and cleric of surprising power have evaded the premonitions of the Gods by plotting and planning events for a powerful magical event. They evaded the divine power of the Gods ability to see into the future by planning for this event at the base of the Spire in the Outlands where the God cannot see. They have climbed to the top of the Spire and began their magical event by creating a Burning Eye of Al-Ghautra. For those of you not familiar with Magical Events, see chapter 3 of the DMGII.
The Burning Eye of Al-Ghautra is just the beginning, but they have also started a new magical event, an Elemental Swarm (new one I made up for this adventure) that prohibits magic from those not protected in a certain way, and as it is a unique event, only the wizard and the cleric have this power, not even the Gods understand it. The top of the Spire is also the site of a circle with the Spirit of Nature’s Rage. The burning eye is slowly growing, so those who teleport to Sigil find the city in flames and also discover that the Lady of Pain is occupied trying to hold the city together from the vast amount of magical energy forming on the Spire tip.
No way can be found from Sigil to get to the top of the Spire, you have to go to the Outlands and travel from the outer most part of the plane towards the center to the Spire. Every God is concerned and has called a truce of sorts, so every race is represented and all of the Gods have gathered in the Outlands to try and come to a solution. The progressive failings of magic as you get closer to the Spire means that most won’t get to close and most of the Gods will not come closer than 301 miles from the spire as they will lose their divine ranks. A few will deem this threat powerful enough to venture to the top of the Spire itself, however.
Once the party over comes the problems to get to the top of the Spire, should be fun without magic, a third magical events begins. The party sees the wizard and the cleric standing under the Burning Eye of Al-Ghantra on either side of a Sphere of Annihilation . There may or may not be an encounter where the evil doer’s can monologue and/or fight, but before the party gets to crazy, the wizard and cleric complete the next magical event and open a Consuming Vortex of Traal right behind the Sphere of Annihilation. The area if flooded with Negative and Positive energy. Once a few of the Gods enter the area, something unexpected occurs, the Magical event of the Elemental Swarms falters and an Elder - Mega Xag-Ya and an Elder - Mega Xeg-Yi, (energons page 168 of the MotP), enter the area and once they see each other they converge on each other and explode, causing the wizard and the cleric to lose control of the Sphere of Annihilation which gets sucked into the Consuming Vortex of Traal and then pulls in the Burning Eye of Al-Ghautra, causing a massive explosion across the cosmos.
Confused yet? It really isn’t that complicated, just sounds like it.
Chapter 2 - Strange Days
The party is flooded with power, both from the Gods and the energy of all the planes combined. Basically they are recreated, atom by atom, but on the plus side, for the time being, they have the power of 100th level characters, yeh
. They can also temporarily be a different race, remember they are parts of many different races, but no divine ranks. Now they make their 100th level character. Please no leadership feats 
The Wizard and Cleric were trying an experiment but with the Gods interfering, they created a rift in the cosmos and destroyed the whole of the current cosmos, throwing everyone, or mostly everyone, into an alternate cosmos.
Adventure hook, you must figure out how to reverse the effects of the Magical Event and restore your old Cosmos or have the deaths of a googolplex beings on your conscious. Deal with that. Parts of this chapter can deal with some fun differences between the old Cosmos and this one, like some old enemies are now your friends and your best friend is a back stabber.
Chapter 3 - The Ajah Armory
As a 100th level guy, you have the same gear you did when you were 20th level, plus a few extra items, but we will have rules for continuing to pimp out your current 20th level gear, this will reduce the massive power or way to much disposable income of a 100th level character, some anyway. Also, you will have access too The Ajah Armory. In this chapter you have a run in with Ay-Gax, a small child, is wondering around the planes, or other location. He is really the Xag-Ya, but he does not know it, and the party should not at this point either. He is healing the sick and curing maladies in Limbo and forces the demons and devils to stop the blood war. He eventually teleports to Sigil
The Ajah Armory
Created under the working name of recursive co-terminal multi-functional all terrain interdimensional closet of useful things by Mizledorf, the Patron Saint of Gnomes Everywhere, Founding Liege of Kirpah Nasmong- a Gnomish Utopia (Male Celestial Gnome/Bard 33, Illusionist 33, Tinker 33/N). One day Mizledorf realized the name was too long (everyone else would just tune him out when he started to say "recursive"), and he said "Ah hah!" with great triumph. However, his yiddish accent made it sound like "ajah!" And thus his culturally bankrupt allies dubbed the armory the Ajah. Convinced it was flawed, Mizledorf gave it to his friends (the 100th level party) as a gift, and set about improving its design. That's Mizledorf for you, one parts gnome, two parts perfectionist.
How it works: Once attuned to the Ajah, a character need only concentrate as a standard action and whatever piece of equipment they desire appears equipped on them. They make a requisition check: d20 + Concentration. The check is made against the purchasing DC of the requisitioned item. Items worth 35,000 gold or less (DC 40) have no effect on the Ajah. Items (or collective "purchases") worth more cause the Ajah's new wealth to decrease until said items are returned. The wealth loss for a single requisition equals = 1/3 (purchase DC - wealth bonus) rounded up. The Ajah has a base wealth bonus of 40.
Chapter 4 - Iy-Xeg
Iy-Xeg is the Xeg-Yi in human form and he has just slew an epic dragon and is picking through the remains with a stick, like a creepy kid would a dead cat. The PCs encounter him starting an over throw of the heavens and other such suggested encounters for the DM. He eventually teleports to Sigil.
Chapter 5 - The Wizard’s madness
Originally Posted by Philip
Unknown to the players when they try to teleport they are thrown into a dream plane of the Wizard’s mind and has split up into multiple personalities who are battling each other across his own mindscape. Unknown to them the PCs are pulled into his mind and must battle the personalities across an ever-changing landscape.
Without warning the PCs are suddenly the only living creatures left in an utterly barren universe. They have to find out what happened. Perhaps one of them did it inadvertently or they have a traitor amongst them?
The Cleric saves the party at the last minute, as she is trapped in here as well, but not before the PCs have many tribulations and trails.
Chapter 6 - the Cleric redemption
The Cleric knows that things have gone wrong and wants to help make things right, but the Gods don’t know this and they have surprises in store for the cleric, and now the PCs.
Originally Posted by Ozmar
I think this is a good time to introduce the Gods for the PCs to fight and also to have them face mass assaults from armies and such. A good chance for them to really flex their massive abilities by slaying hoards of demons and devils and angels and undead and whatever else we choose.
Chapter 7 - The Lady of Pain’s Revenge
The child incarnations of the Energons have been playing with the PCs throughout the module, playing tricks on them and healing their enemies and starting fights. They are pure energy from the positive and the negative plane and have no emotions, they are, for the first time, free to experiment and they are very good at it, whether it is stopping the blood war or killing all the angels in the heavens, they are just children having fun, without a peer or parent to stop them.
If the PCs attack them, consider them only to have 6 in all stats, but they have the knowledge and power of 1000th level characters, and can cast any spell, including epic spells and they don’t need others to do a ritual with them, so, even if they die, they come back in a single round and can and will use a powerful effect on the PCs. Most of the time however they just act like children, carefree and only thinking of themselves. It should also be noted that bringing the two together simply won’t reverse events, in fact, it gives them purpose. Where before they were content with minor experiments, now they feel whole when together (remember, alternate cosmos, things working backwards) and they begin to terrorize the cosmos.
The Energons are now in Sigil and the Lady of Pain has forced the PCs into Sigil to deal with them. Whatever happens, the PCs must fight the Lady of Pain, even if it is only for a few rounds. She will most likely overwhelm them, but the PCs might get the jump on her, either way she forces or begs the PCs to act and get the Energons out of her city. The Energons are not willing to leave such a fun city, unless the PCs can find a new place for them to have fun.
From Sigil, you can see the massive castle of the Wizard and Cleric that has formed in the center of the ring of Sigil. Actually, all you can see is a giant black sun which seems to absorb light, and everything else, it is a very large sphere of annihilation growing from the top of the Spire. It is so massive that it can almost be reached with very tall ladders from the streets of Sigil, no wonder the Lady of Pain is so upset.
Chapter 8 - Crating the Epic Spell of Reseeding
One of the places the PCs can offer the Energons to play in is the Observatorium. From here, and also with the help of the Library of Lore (Boccob’s Library), the PCs can create an Epic Spells to recreate the cosmos. While there are hard at work, the PCs can slowly see the warriors of the Ex-Blood War slowly taking control of the cosmos. The demons and the devils, without wasting energy on each other, have grown very powerful, enough of a challenge for 100th level PCs and from time to time they try to invade the Observatorium, or wherever the PCs are.
Chapter 9 - Assault on the Castle in the Void
Basically, everyone seemed to like the storyline by Turanil but I wanted something that made everyone happy, so while it may have to be scaled down a bit from your original idea, here is where you get to add your castle/dimension/epochs thingy. The wizard and the cleric however are in the castle, not just a Chronomancer, but the wizard can be a Chronomancer in addition to a wizard
. Note, the Castle in the Void is actually inside a sphere of annihilation, which should make for some great fun in-and-of-itself. Also, the PCs must face the Lady of Pain and get her to let the Gods in the city so they can temporarily open a way into the sphere of annihilation.
Once the cleric and the Wizard are defeated, and they can and do summon some terrible stuff to deal with the PCs, the PCs can then place the energon children at the center of the Castle in the Void and cast the Epic Spell to reseed the time stream. Pretty much the end at that point.
What do you guys think?
Here is the rest of Turanil's idea:
Synopsis: A Chronomancer* (who was but 20th level), using wishes and chronomancy spells, created major time paradoxes which resulted in himself becoming a demi-god, but also creating a mess of dimensions and epochs. Now (inspired from the Amber novels), he resides in a castle at the junction of four planes and a dozen timelines. The world is slowly destroyed by this mess however, and is going to be soon obliterated in a giant sphere of annihilation (due to the time paradox and what not, this sphere is now growing fast, and if not stopped soon enough will devour the planet).
So the PCs will first have to figure out what happens, then get to the mighty castle at the junction of planes and epochs. Of course, other epochs mean they will have to fight villains from the future (with modern weapons) as well as from the past.
First thing is first, the first chapter of the module is for 20th level characters. I figured out a way to use normal high level characters in a 100th level adventure, so you can use it as part of your current game, you’ll see.
Chapter one - the Gods in peril
The story starts with the party receiving a warning from there Gods so strong that it wakes your character, whether you are sleeping, in a coma or even from the grave. A wizard and cleric of surprising power have evaded the premonitions of the Gods by plotting and planning events for a powerful magical event. They evaded the divine power of the Gods ability to see into the future by planning for this event at the base of the Spire in the Outlands where the God cannot see. They have climbed to the top of the Spire and began their magical event by creating a Burning Eye of Al-Ghautra. For those of you not familiar with Magical Events, see chapter 3 of the DMGII.
The Burning Eye of Al-Ghautra is just the beginning, but they have also started a new magical event, an Elemental Swarm (new one I made up for this adventure) that prohibits magic from those not protected in a certain way, and as it is a unique event, only the wizard and the cleric have this power, not even the Gods understand it. The top of the Spire is also the site of a circle with the Spirit of Nature’s Rage. The burning eye is slowly growing, so those who teleport to Sigil find the city in flames and also discover that the Lady of Pain is occupied trying to hold the city together from the vast amount of magical energy forming on the Spire tip.
No way can be found from Sigil to get to the top of the Spire, you have to go to the Outlands and travel from the outer most part of the plane towards the center to the Spire. Every God is concerned and has called a truce of sorts, so every race is represented and all of the Gods have gathered in the Outlands to try and come to a solution. The progressive failings of magic as you get closer to the Spire means that most won’t get to close and most of the Gods will not come closer than 301 miles from the spire as they will lose their divine ranks. A few will deem this threat powerful enough to venture to the top of the Spire itself, however.
Once the party over comes the problems to get to the top of the Spire, should be fun without magic, a third magical events begins. The party sees the wizard and the cleric standing under the Burning Eye of Al-Ghantra on either side of a Sphere of Annihilation . There may or may not be an encounter where the evil doer’s can monologue and/or fight, but before the party gets to crazy, the wizard and cleric complete the next magical event and open a Consuming Vortex of Traal right behind the Sphere of Annihilation. The area if flooded with Negative and Positive energy. Once a few of the Gods enter the area, something unexpected occurs, the Magical event of the Elemental Swarms falters and an Elder - Mega Xag-Ya and an Elder - Mega Xeg-Yi, (energons page 168 of the MotP), enter the area and once they see each other they converge on each other and explode, causing the wizard and the cleric to lose control of the Sphere of Annihilation which gets sucked into the Consuming Vortex of Traal and then pulls in the Burning Eye of Al-Ghautra, causing a massive explosion across the cosmos.
Confused yet? It really isn’t that complicated, just sounds like it.
Chapter 2 - Strange Days
The party is flooded with power, both from the Gods and the energy of all the planes combined. Basically they are recreated, atom by atom, but on the plus side, for the time being, they have the power of 100th level characters, yeh
. They can also temporarily be a different race, remember they are parts of many different races, but no divine ranks. Now they make their 100th level character. Please no leadership feats The Wizard and Cleric were trying an experiment but with the Gods interfering, they created a rift in the cosmos and destroyed the whole of the current cosmos, throwing everyone, or mostly everyone, into an alternate cosmos.
Adventure hook, you must figure out how to reverse the effects of the Magical Event and restore your old Cosmos or have the deaths of a googolplex beings on your conscious. Deal with that. Parts of this chapter can deal with some fun differences between the old Cosmos and this one, like some old enemies are now your friends and your best friend is a back stabber.
Chapter 3 - The Ajah Armory
As a 100th level guy, you have the same gear you did when you were 20th level, plus a few extra items, but we will have rules for continuing to pimp out your current 20th level gear, this will reduce the massive power or way to much disposable income of a 100th level character, some anyway. Also, you will have access too The Ajah Armory. In this chapter you have a run in with Ay-Gax, a small child, is wondering around the planes, or other location. He is really the Xag-Ya, but he does not know it, and the party should not at this point either. He is healing the sick and curing maladies in Limbo and forces the demons and devils to stop the blood war. He eventually teleports to Sigil
The Ajah Armory
Created under the working name of recursive co-terminal multi-functional all terrain interdimensional closet of useful things by Mizledorf, the Patron Saint of Gnomes Everywhere, Founding Liege of Kirpah Nasmong- a Gnomish Utopia (Male Celestial Gnome/Bard 33, Illusionist 33, Tinker 33/N). One day Mizledorf realized the name was too long (everyone else would just tune him out when he started to say "recursive"), and he said "Ah hah!" with great triumph. However, his yiddish accent made it sound like "ajah!" And thus his culturally bankrupt allies dubbed the armory the Ajah. Convinced it was flawed, Mizledorf gave it to his friends (the 100th level party) as a gift, and set about improving its design. That's Mizledorf for you, one parts gnome, two parts perfectionist.
How it works: Once attuned to the Ajah, a character need only concentrate as a standard action and whatever piece of equipment they desire appears equipped on them. They make a requisition check: d20 + Concentration. The check is made against the purchasing DC of the requisitioned item. Items worth 35,000 gold or less (DC 40) have no effect on the Ajah. Items (or collective "purchases") worth more cause the Ajah's new wealth to decrease until said items are returned. The wealth loss for a single requisition equals = 1/3 (purchase DC - wealth bonus) rounded up. The Ajah has a base wealth bonus of 40.
Chapter 4 - Iy-Xeg
Iy-Xeg is the Xeg-Yi in human form and he has just slew an epic dragon and is picking through the remains with a stick, like a creepy kid would a dead cat. The PCs encounter him starting an over throw of the heavens and other such suggested encounters for the DM. He eventually teleports to Sigil.
Chapter 5 - The Wizard’s madness
Originally Posted by Philip
Unknown to the players when they try to teleport they are thrown into a dream plane of the Wizard’s mind and has split up into multiple personalities who are battling each other across his own mindscape. Unknown to them the PCs are pulled into his mind and must battle the personalities across an ever-changing landscape.
Without warning the PCs are suddenly the only living creatures left in an utterly barren universe. They have to find out what happened. Perhaps one of them did it inadvertently or they have a traitor amongst them?
The Cleric saves the party at the last minute, as she is trapped in here as well, but not before the PCs have many tribulations and trails.
Chapter 6 - the Cleric redemption
The Cleric knows that things have gone wrong and wants to help make things right, but the Gods don’t know this and they have surprises in store for the cleric, and now the PCs.
Originally Posted by Ozmar
I think this is a good time to introduce the Gods for the PCs to fight and also to have them face mass assaults from armies and such. A good chance for them to really flex their massive abilities by slaying hoards of demons and devils and angels and undead and whatever else we choose.
Chapter 7 - The Lady of Pain’s Revenge
The child incarnations of the Energons have been playing with the PCs throughout the module, playing tricks on them and healing their enemies and starting fights. They are pure energy from the positive and the negative plane and have no emotions, they are, for the first time, free to experiment and they are very good at it, whether it is stopping the blood war or killing all the angels in the heavens, they are just children having fun, without a peer or parent to stop them.
If the PCs attack them, consider them only to have 6 in all stats, but they have the knowledge and power of 1000th level characters, and can cast any spell, including epic spells and they don’t need others to do a ritual with them, so, even if they die, they come back in a single round and can and will use a powerful effect on the PCs. Most of the time however they just act like children, carefree and only thinking of themselves. It should also be noted that bringing the two together simply won’t reverse events, in fact, it gives them purpose. Where before they were content with minor experiments, now they feel whole when together (remember, alternate cosmos, things working backwards) and they begin to terrorize the cosmos.
The Energons are now in Sigil and the Lady of Pain has forced the PCs into Sigil to deal with them. Whatever happens, the PCs must fight the Lady of Pain, even if it is only for a few rounds. She will most likely overwhelm them, but the PCs might get the jump on her, either way she forces or begs the PCs to act and get the Energons out of her city. The Energons are not willing to leave such a fun city, unless the PCs can find a new place for them to have fun.
From Sigil, you can see the massive castle of the Wizard and Cleric that has formed in the center of the ring of Sigil. Actually, all you can see is a giant black sun which seems to absorb light, and everything else, it is a very large sphere of annihilation growing from the top of the Spire. It is so massive that it can almost be reached with very tall ladders from the streets of Sigil, no wonder the Lady of Pain is so upset.
Chapter 8 - Crating the Epic Spell of Reseeding
One of the places the PCs can offer the Energons to play in is the Observatorium. From here, and also with the help of the Library of Lore (Boccob’s Library), the PCs can create an Epic Spells to recreate the cosmos. While there are hard at work, the PCs can slowly see the warriors of the Ex-Blood War slowly taking control of the cosmos. The demons and the devils, without wasting energy on each other, have grown very powerful, enough of a challenge for 100th level PCs and from time to time they try to invade the Observatorium, or wherever the PCs are.
Chapter 9 - Assault on the Castle in the Void
Basically, everyone seemed to like the storyline by Turanil but I wanted something that made everyone happy, so while it may have to be scaled down a bit from your original idea, here is where you get to add your castle/dimension/epochs thingy. The wizard and the cleric however are in the castle, not just a Chronomancer, but the wizard can be a Chronomancer in addition to a wizard
. Note, the Castle in the Void is actually inside a sphere of annihilation, which should make for some great fun in-and-of-itself. Also, the PCs must face the Lady of Pain and get her to let the Gods in the city so they can temporarily open a way into the sphere of annihilation.Once the cleric and the Wizard are defeated, and they can and do summon some terrible stuff to deal with the PCs, the PCs can then place the energon children at the center of the Castle in the Void and cast the Epic Spell to reseed the time stream. Pretty much the end at that point.
What do you guys think?
Here is the rest of Turanil's idea:
Synopsis: A Chronomancer* (who was but 20th level), using wishes and chronomancy spells, created major time paradoxes which resulted in himself becoming a demi-god, but also creating a mess of dimensions and epochs. Now (inspired from the Amber novels), he resides in a castle at the junction of four planes and a dozen timelines. The world is slowly destroyed by this mess however, and is going to be soon obliterated in a giant sphere of annihilation (due to the time paradox and what not, this sphere is now growing fast, and if not stopped soon enough will devour the planet).
So the PCs will first have to figure out what happens, then get to the mighty castle at the junction of planes and epochs. Of course, other epochs mean they will have to fight villains from the future (with modern weapons) as well as from the past.
Turanil
First Post
Thanks for integrating everyon's ideas, but in the end it makes for a very long and complicated story (several gaming sessions). I would streamline much of this; for me the important parts would be:
1) Two villains of surprising power do a ritual that opens a rift into the universe. As a result, some creatures are infused with incredible energies and powers (so PCs become 100th level, but also a Xag-Ya and some demon-princes that happened to be in Sigil are likewise greatly improved). However, the rift has created a sort of gigantic growing sphere of anihilation that threatens to eventually destroy the world as it was a black hole.
2) PCs must travel to the Observatorium to create a couple of epic spells that will let them fix all of this mess. First, they must find a way to go inside the sphere of anihilation without being destroyed; requiring the creation of an epic spell. During this time, some improved demon-princes (see above) who want to get to the sphere for their own benefit try to attack the PCs.
3) Castle in the Void: This is in fact the horn of the Creator god, on an island in the void which actually is his mind. The two villains actually control the mind of the Creator god (insane, I know) and make him create hideous things (traps and monsters) to combat the PCs. Nonetheless, the two villains are themselves at a loss and losing control. Anyway, the castle in the void is the head/horn and mind of the Creator god. The castle is thus a living entity and a changing landscape. Also, the only reason a castle may exist into a sphere of anihilation is because it is the Creator god, who is greatly weakened and in tortured agony by this nonetheless.
4) Final: PCs eventually learn that the Creator god was at the origin of all the pantheon gods who then created the multiverse. However, the pantheon gods rebelled and locked the Creator god away. Yet, the Creator god managed to free himself in creating a "Cleric and a wizard of surprising powers" who were but manifestations-avatars of himself. So when the PCs are in the castle in the void, in the Creator's god mind controlled by the "Cleric and a wizard of surprising powers", etc., this is indeed: "a dream plane of the Wizard’s mind and has split up into multiple personalities who are battling each other across his own mindscape. Unknown to them the PCs are pulled into his mind and must battle the personalities across an ever-changing landscape."
5) To succeed the PCs must re-unify the whole Creator god's personnality. Thereafter well... no need to tell if everything is back to normal (PCs sent back into their own world by the Creator god, while he himself remains into the void), or if the Creator god kills all the pantheon gods, and now everywhere will only exist monotheistic religions dedicated to him...
1) Two villains of surprising power do a ritual that opens a rift into the universe. As a result, some creatures are infused with incredible energies and powers (so PCs become 100th level, but also a Xag-Ya and some demon-princes that happened to be in Sigil are likewise greatly improved). However, the rift has created a sort of gigantic growing sphere of anihilation that threatens to eventually destroy the world as it was a black hole.
2) PCs must travel to the Observatorium to create a couple of epic spells that will let them fix all of this mess. First, they must find a way to go inside the sphere of anihilation without being destroyed; requiring the creation of an epic spell. During this time, some improved demon-princes (see above) who want to get to the sphere for their own benefit try to attack the PCs.
3) Castle in the Void: This is in fact the horn of the Creator god, on an island in the void which actually is his mind. The two villains actually control the mind of the Creator god (insane, I know) and make him create hideous things (traps and monsters) to combat the PCs. Nonetheless, the two villains are themselves at a loss and losing control. Anyway, the castle in the void is the head/horn and mind of the Creator god. The castle is thus a living entity and a changing landscape. Also, the only reason a castle may exist into a sphere of anihilation is because it is the Creator god, who is greatly weakened and in tortured agony by this nonetheless.
4) Final: PCs eventually learn that the Creator god was at the origin of all the pantheon gods who then created the multiverse. However, the pantheon gods rebelled and locked the Creator god away. Yet, the Creator god managed to free himself in creating a "Cleric and a wizard of surprising powers" who were but manifestations-avatars of himself. So when the PCs are in the castle in the void, in the Creator's god mind controlled by the "Cleric and a wizard of surprising powers", etc., this is indeed: "a dream plane of the Wizard’s mind and has split up into multiple personalities who are battling each other across his own mindscape. Unknown to them the PCs are pulled into his mind and must battle the personalities across an ever-changing landscape."
5) To succeed the PCs must re-unify the whole Creator god's personnality. Thereafter well... no need to tell if everything is back to normal (PCs sent back into their own world by the Creator god, while he himself remains into the void), or if the Creator god kills all the pantheon gods, and now everywhere will only exist monotheistic religions dedicated to him...
Turanil
First Post
Okay, I propose you in more detail my shortened / streamlined version of this adventure:
The World's End - 100th Level Adventure
1 - Introduction
Some obscure legends have hinted that before the dawn of time was a god so vile and so horrific, that all of the deities, good and evil, lawful and chaoric, united their powers to banish him into the void. The vile deity was so powerful in fact, that all the gods of all pantheons hadn't united, they would never have defeated him.
However, the truth is slightly different from the almost forgotten legend. The truth is that the multiverse was born from the thought of the "Creator God". It was he who gave birth to the first deities who in turn created all what exists in the universe. The "Creator God" wasn't evil, neither good. But he was nearly omniscient and omnipotent. Hence, all the ancient deities of the dawn of times united their efforts and banished him into the void to get rid of his rule.
Eons later, more and more people got the idea to create monotheistic religions. Then, their combined faiths and prayers eventually awoke a tiny spark of consciousness in the slumbering Creator God, far away in the void where he had been banished. As such, he was able to incarnate two minuscule sparks (and maybe also a third) of his mind into two humans (and also maybe a gnome...). These three character grew and evolved, and lived long enough so they would ventually become 100th level characters: a gnome, cleric, and wizard. Note that it is hinted that they were the only characters in all history of the multiverse to achieve this "impossible" level.
Finally, the cleric and the wizard met, and went to the Outland's spire to perform an event of ritual magic of unthinkable scale... However, before they would finish their work, a group of 20th level adventurers was led there by their deities, obscure prophecies, or what not, in order to investigate.
2 - The Multiverse in Peril
The story starts with the party receiving a warning from there Gods so strong that it wakes your character, whether you are sleeping, in a coma or even from the grave. A wizard and cleric of surprising power have evaded the premonitions of the Gods by plotting and planning events for a powerful magical event. They evaded the divine power of the Gods ability to see into the future by planning for this event at the base of the Spire in the Outlands where the God cannot see. They have climbed to the top of the Spire and began their magical event by creating a Burning Eye of Al-Ghautra. For those of you not familiar with Magical Events, see chapter 3 of the DMGII.
The Burning Eye of Al-Ghautra is just the beginning, but they have also started a new magical event, an Elemental Swarm (new one I made up for this adventure) that prohibits magic from those not protected in a certain way, and as it is a unique event, only the wizard and the cleric have this power, not even the Gods understand it. The top of the Spire is also the site of a circle with the Spirit of Nature’s Rage. The burning eye is slowly growing, so those who teleport to Sigil find the city in flames and also discover that the Lady of Pain is occupied trying to hold the city together from the vast amount of magical energy forming on the Spire tip.
No way can be found from Sigil to get to the top of the Spire, you have to go to the Outlands and travel from the outer most part of the plane towards the center to the Spire. Every God is concerned and has called a truce of sorts, so every race is represented and all of the Gods have gathered in the Outlands to try and come to a solution. The progressive failings of magic as you get closer to the Spire means that most won’t get to close and most of the Gods will not come closer than 301 miles from the spire as they will lose their divine ranks. A few will deem this threat powerful enough to venture to the top of the Spire itself, however.
So the PCs have to climb the spire. See it as a gigantic mountain that reaches beyond the sky. During their travel they should ride Rocs. Then they must make at least one encounter: they are not alone on this quest, as other groups have been sent by other deities! One interesting and useful encounter: a group of powerful fiends with their leader being somewhat a demon prince. Here they are normal (not taking into account the anti-magic nature of the place); they must be fought, but some must escape as later they will encounter the PCs again, but having beng improved themselves by the magical event as the PCs will.
Once the party over comes the problems to get to the top of the Spire, should be fun without magic, a third magical events begins. The party sees the wizard and the cleric standing under the Burning Eye of Al-Ghantra on either side of a Sphere of Annihilation . There may or may not be an encounter where the evil doer’s can monologue and/or fight, but before the party gets to crazy, the wizard and cleric complete the next magical event and open a Consuming Vortex of Traal right behind the Sphere of Annihilation. The area if flooded with Negative and Positive energy. Once a few of the Gods enter the area, something unexpected occurs, the Magical event of the Elemental Swarms falters and an Elder - Mega Xag-Ya and an Elder - Mega Xeg-Yi, (energons page 168 of the MotP), enter the area and once they see each other they converge on each other and explode, causing the wizard and the cleric to lose control of the Sphere of Annihilation which gets sucked into the Consuming Vortex of Traal and then pulls in the Burning Eye of Al-Ghautra, causing a massive explosion across the cosmos.
3 - The PCs Are Reborn Phoenixes
The Wizard and Cleric were trying to bring back the Creator God, but with the gods, the PCs, and others interfering the magical ritual went wrong and opened a rift in the multiverse. In addition, the PCs (and unknown to them the demon-prince and his fiends, plus maybe yet others) were flooded with power from the Creator God.
As such, the PCs are basically recreated, atom by atom, and on the plus side, for the time being, they have got the powers of 100th level characters, yeah! (They can also temporarily be a different race, remember they are parts of many different races, but no divine ranks. Now they make their 100th level character. Please no leadership feats.) Otherwise, as 100th level characters, they still have the same gear they did when they were 20th level, this will reduce the massive power or way to much disposable income of a 100th level character.
4 - The Observatorium
Because of the event there is now above the spire a rift that lets sip into the world a growing sphere of anihilation that begins to suck everything into it like it was a black hole. Even if they are 100th level, the PCs cannot enter the sphere of anihilation without being instantly destroyed. They must find help or prepare themselves, or whatever. But in the end it becomes clear they need special magic, and to get it they will have to seek it into the fabled and legendary "Observatorium".
It happens that here has waited for centuries a gnome of incredible power...
The Ajah Armory
Created under the working name of recursive co-terminal multi-functional all terrain interdimensional closet of useful things by Mizledorf, the Patron Saint of Gnomes Everywhere, Founding Liege of Kirpah Nasmong- a Gnomish Utopia (Male Celestial Gnome/Bard 33, Illusionist 33, Tinker 33/N). One day Mizledorf realized the name was too long (everyone else would just tune him out when he started to say "recursive"), and he said "Ah hah!" with great triumph. However, his yiddish accent made it sound like "ajah!" And thus his culturally bankrupt allies dubbed the armory the Ajah.
How it works: Once attuned to the Ajah, a character need only concentrate as a standard action and whatever piece of equipment they desire appears equipped on them. They make a requisition check: d20 + Concentration. The check is made against the purchasing DC of the requisitioned item. Items worth 35,000 gold or less (DC 40) have no effect on the Ajah. Items (or collective "purchases") worth more cause the Ajah's new wealth to decrease until said items are returned. The wealth loss for a single requisition equals = 1/3 (purchase DC - wealth bonus) rounded up. The Ajah has a base wealth bonus of 40.
So, the PCs must convince the gnome to aid them. If successful, he will give them his armory that will be invaluable to create the two or three mighty epic spells of ultimate power that will bring everything back to normal. They can also craft a few epic magical items while they are there...
I think this is a good time to introduce the Gods for the PCs to fight and also to have them face mass assaults from armies and such. A good chance for them to really flex their massive abilities by slaying hoards of demons and devils and angels and undead and whatever else we choose. The trick is to let them fight "normal" powerful critters to see how munchkin they have become...
5 - The Castle In The Void
Thus, with the first of the three epic spells, the 100th level PCs are able to teleport into the huge growing sphere of anihilation (without being instantly erased from existence and memory). They land on a rocky island in a black sea under a pitch black sky. On top of the island they see (at 100th level they have got the mean to see through the darkness, otherwise they are blind) a strange tower resembling a horn 300 fet tall.
What the PCs don't know, is that they are in the Creator God's mind and dreams. Being inside his mind, they are protected from the anihilating void's destruction. Note however, that the Creator God barely resists utter anihilation himself, and thus create things (the whole dungeon) that are puny and insignificant with regard to what he was able to do originally. The island in the black sea is in fact the top of his head with his left horn. This symbolically represents the last spark of his immense powers that resists utter anihilation inside the great void.
The PCs enter the tower. If they choose the underground instead of the tower's entrance, they arrive into a huge cavern almost entirely filled with water. Place is furthermore equivalent to an anti-magic shell. Inside are four advanced half-fiend krakens, plus an aquatic advanced half-fiend tarrasque. So, unless having artifacts or ways to circumvent anti-magic, they must swim and fight the monsters below. This is made especially difficult because halfway through the flooded dungeon they encounter a elder water elemental who uses its power to create a whirlpower and tries to pins the party with its force. It is extremely powerful to pin such high level PCs, but the Krakens and the Tarrasque should be large enough that they would be uneffected.
Further into the dungeon and tower, it appears evident that the PCs are in the living and everchanging dreamscape of a powerful being with a split identity. Tow of these identities are the Cleric and Wizard who created all this mess. None of them can understand or remember that they are part of this place, and instead try to control it. It's like a much lesser aspect of the Creator God attempted to be himself with all his powers.
In any case, the PCs must battle various epic monsters and traps. In the end, they meet with the demon-prince and his fiends that they had met in the beginning of the adventure on the spire. They have been themselves improved, and thus are now a match for the PCs. They too want to destroy the cleric and wizard, to take over the Creator God and become master of the universe (or so they believe). PCs must eventually understand that they must not kill the cleric and wizard, bt unite them to the Creator God's remaining mind with the last epic ritual of magic. If they succeed, the Creator God regains some of his awareness and sanity.
6 - Epilogue
What happens thereafter also depends of the PCs' actions. Some possible outcomes:
-- The Creator God sends the PCs back to their world stripped of the undue power (levels), but in the meantime repairs the mess, and leaves the Universe to build another one beyond...
-- The Creator God slays all the pantheon gods and reshapes the multiverse. Magic disappears, and now the world awake as in real life. PCs are normal (20th level, but no more any magical equipment), but live on Earth during the middle ages. What it was before (D&D and wonder) is not entirely forgotten, but remains now only in legends. (Thereafter you begin a d20 modern campaign without magic.)
The World's End - 100th Level Adventure
1 - Introduction
Some obscure legends have hinted that before the dawn of time was a god so vile and so horrific, that all of the deities, good and evil, lawful and chaoric, united their powers to banish him into the void. The vile deity was so powerful in fact, that all the gods of all pantheons hadn't united, they would never have defeated him.
However, the truth is slightly different from the almost forgotten legend. The truth is that the multiverse was born from the thought of the "Creator God". It was he who gave birth to the first deities who in turn created all what exists in the universe. The "Creator God" wasn't evil, neither good. But he was nearly omniscient and omnipotent. Hence, all the ancient deities of the dawn of times united their efforts and banished him into the void to get rid of his rule.
Eons later, more and more people got the idea to create monotheistic religions. Then, their combined faiths and prayers eventually awoke a tiny spark of consciousness in the slumbering Creator God, far away in the void where he had been banished. As such, he was able to incarnate two minuscule sparks (and maybe also a third) of his mind into two humans (and also maybe a gnome...). These three character grew and evolved, and lived long enough so they would ventually become 100th level characters: a gnome, cleric, and wizard. Note that it is hinted that they were the only characters in all history of the multiverse to achieve this "impossible" level.
Finally, the cleric and the wizard met, and went to the Outland's spire to perform an event of ritual magic of unthinkable scale... However, before they would finish their work, a group of 20th level adventurers was led there by their deities, obscure prophecies, or what not, in order to investigate.
2 - The Multiverse in Peril
The story starts with the party receiving a warning from there Gods so strong that it wakes your character, whether you are sleeping, in a coma or even from the grave. A wizard and cleric of surprising power have evaded the premonitions of the Gods by plotting and planning events for a powerful magical event. They evaded the divine power of the Gods ability to see into the future by planning for this event at the base of the Spire in the Outlands where the God cannot see. They have climbed to the top of the Spire and began their magical event by creating a Burning Eye of Al-Ghautra. For those of you not familiar with Magical Events, see chapter 3 of the DMGII.
The Burning Eye of Al-Ghautra is just the beginning, but they have also started a new magical event, an Elemental Swarm (new one I made up for this adventure) that prohibits magic from those not protected in a certain way, and as it is a unique event, only the wizard and the cleric have this power, not even the Gods understand it. The top of the Spire is also the site of a circle with the Spirit of Nature’s Rage. The burning eye is slowly growing, so those who teleport to Sigil find the city in flames and also discover that the Lady of Pain is occupied trying to hold the city together from the vast amount of magical energy forming on the Spire tip.
No way can be found from Sigil to get to the top of the Spire, you have to go to the Outlands and travel from the outer most part of the plane towards the center to the Spire. Every God is concerned and has called a truce of sorts, so every race is represented and all of the Gods have gathered in the Outlands to try and come to a solution. The progressive failings of magic as you get closer to the Spire means that most won’t get to close and most of the Gods will not come closer than 301 miles from the spire as they will lose their divine ranks. A few will deem this threat powerful enough to venture to the top of the Spire itself, however.
So the PCs have to climb the spire. See it as a gigantic mountain that reaches beyond the sky. During their travel they should ride Rocs. Then they must make at least one encounter: they are not alone on this quest, as other groups have been sent by other deities! One interesting and useful encounter: a group of powerful fiends with their leader being somewhat a demon prince. Here they are normal (not taking into account the anti-magic nature of the place); they must be fought, but some must escape as later they will encounter the PCs again, but having beng improved themselves by the magical event as the PCs will.
Once the party over comes the problems to get to the top of the Spire, should be fun without magic, a third magical events begins. The party sees the wizard and the cleric standing under the Burning Eye of Al-Ghantra on either side of a Sphere of Annihilation . There may or may not be an encounter where the evil doer’s can monologue and/or fight, but before the party gets to crazy, the wizard and cleric complete the next magical event and open a Consuming Vortex of Traal right behind the Sphere of Annihilation. The area if flooded with Negative and Positive energy. Once a few of the Gods enter the area, something unexpected occurs, the Magical event of the Elemental Swarms falters and an Elder - Mega Xag-Ya and an Elder - Mega Xeg-Yi, (energons page 168 of the MotP), enter the area and once they see each other they converge on each other and explode, causing the wizard and the cleric to lose control of the Sphere of Annihilation which gets sucked into the Consuming Vortex of Traal and then pulls in the Burning Eye of Al-Ghautra, causing a massive explosion across the cosmos.
3 - The PCs Are Reborn Phoenixes
The Wizard and Cleric were trying to bring back the Creator God, but with the gods, the PCs, and others interfering the magical ritual went wrong and opened a rift in the multiverse. In addition, the PCs (and unknown to them the demon-prince and his fiends, plus maybe yet others) were flooded with power from the Creator God.
As such, the PCs are basically recreated, atom by atom, and on the plus side, for the time being, they have got the powers of 100th level characters, yeah! (They can also temporarily be a different race, remember they are parts of many different races, but no divine ranks. Now they make their 100th level character. Please no leadership feats.) Otherwise, as 100th level characters, they still have the same gear they did when they were 20th level, this will reduce the massive power or way to much disposable income of a 100th level character.
4 - The Observatorium
Because of the event there is now above the spire a rift that lets sip into the world a growing sphere of anihilation that begins to suck everything into it like it was a black hole. Even if they are 100th level, the PCs cannot enter the sphere of anihilation without being instantly destroyed. They must find help or prepare themselves, or whatever. But in the end it becomes clear they need special magic, and to get it they will have to seek it into the fabled and legendary "Observatorium".
It happens that here has waited for centuries a gnome of incredible power...
The Ajah Armory
Created under the working name of recursive co-terminal multi-functional all terrain interdimensional closet of useful things by Mizledorf, the Patron Saint of Gnomes Everywhere, Founding Liege of Kirpah Nasmong- a Gnomish Utopia (Male Celestial Gnome/Bard 33, Illusionist 33, Tinker 33/N). One day Mizledorf realized the name was too long (everyone else would just tune him out when he started to say "recursive"), and he said "Ah hah!" with great triumph. However, his yiddish accent made it sound like "ajah!" And thus his culturally bankrupt allies dubbed the armory the Ajah.
How it works: Once attuned to the Ajah, a character need only concentrate as a standard action and whatever piece of equipment they desire appears equipped on them. They make a requisition check: d20 + Concentration. The check is made against the purchasing DC of the requisitioned item. Items worth 35,000 gold or less (DC 40) have no effect on the Ajah. Items (or collective "purchases") worth more cause the Ajah's new wealth to decrease until said items are returned. The wealth loss for a single requisition equals = 1/3 (purchase DC - wealth bonus) rounded up. The Ajah has a base wealth bonus of 40.
So, the PCs must convince the gnome to aid them. If successful, he will give them his armory that will be invaluable to create the two or three mighty epic spells of ultimate power that will bring everything back to normal. They can also craft a few epic magical items while they are there...
I think this is a good time to introduce the Gods for the PCs to fight and also to have them face mass assaults from armies and such. A good chance for them to really flex their massive abilities by slaying hoards of demons and devils and angels and undead and whatever else we choose. The trick is to let them fight "normal" powerful critters to see how munchkin they have become...
5 - The Castle In The Void
Thus, with the first of the three epic spells, the 100th level PCs are able to teleport into the huge growing sphere of anihilation (without being instantly erased from existence and memory). They land on a rocky island in a black sea under a pitch black sky. On top of the island they see (at 100th level they have got the mean to see through the darkness, otherwise they are blind) a strange tower resembling a horn 300 fet tall.
What the PCs don't know, is that they are in the Creator God's mind and dreams. Being inside his mind, they are protected from the anihilating void's destruction. Note however, that the Creator God barely resists utter anihilation himself, and thus create things (the whole dungeon) that are puny and insignificant with regard to what he was able to do originally. The island in the black sea is in fact the top of his head with his left horn. This symbolically represents the last spark of his immense powers that resists utter anihilation inside the great void.
The PCs enter the tower. If they choose the underground instead of the tower's entrance, they arrive into a huge cavern almost entirely filled with water. Place is furthermore equivalent to an anti-magic shell. Inside are four advanced half-fiend krakens, plus an aquatic advanced half-fiend tarrasque. So, unless having artifacts or ways to circumvent anti-magic, they must swim and fight the monsters below. This is made especially difficult because halfway through the flooded dungeon they encounter a elder water elemental who uses its power to create a whirlpower and tries to pins the party with its force. It is extremely powerful to pin such high level PCs, but the Krakens and the Tarrasque should be large enough that they would be uneffected.
Further into the dungeon and tower, it appears evident that the PCs are in the living and everchanging dreamscape of a powerful being with a split identity. Tow of these identities are the Cleric and Wizard who created all this mess. None of them can understand or remember that they are part of this place, and instead try to control it. It's like a much lesser aspect of the Creator God attempted to be himself with all his powers.
In any case, the PCs must battle various epic monsters and traps. In the end, they meet with the demon-prince and his fiends that they had met in the beginning of the adventure on the spire. They have been themselves improved, and thus are now a match for the PCs. They too want to destroy the cleric and wizard, to take over the Creator God and become master of the universe (or so they believe). PCs must eventually understand that they must not kill the cleric and wizard, bt unite them to the Creator God's remaining mind with the last epic ritual of magic. If they succeed, the Creator God regains some of his awareness and sanity.
6 - Epilogue
What happens thereafter also depends of the PCs' actions. Some possible outcomes:
-- The Creator God sends the PCs back to their world stripped of the undue power (levels), but in the meantime repairs the mess, and leaves the Universe to build another one beyond...
-- The Creator God slays all the pantheon gods and reshapes the multiverse. Magic disappears, and now the world awake as in real life. PCs are normal (20th level, but no more any magical equipment), but live on Earth during the middle ages. What it was before (D&D and wonder) is not entirely forgotten, but remains now only in legends. (Thereafter you begin a d20 modern campaign without magic.)
Numion
First Post
If 50 million is the limit for a single item, that means a +76 enhancement bonus item or a +50 weapon. If two-handed weapons deal 1.5 times STR bonus in damage (or was it double? in 3.5) that's like 99 or 132 bonus from the STR. If no special properties in the +50 weapon, that's something like 180 bonus damage on every strike.
Turanil
First Post
Personally, I really dislike epic magical items. I think the most powerful magical items in the DMG (or similar sources) are enough, and then the PCs find artifacts. Now, if there must really be epic items (+50, no please, no...) I would suggest that they can only exist in the Castle in the Void, in the mind of the Creator God.Numion said:
Turanil
First Post
So, who is interested in working on this project?
I am, but preferably my "World's End" version above. I would like to work on the Castle in the Void part. I have many ideas (inspired from Moorcock novels) from old AD&D scenarios of mine that I would like to recycle. On the other hand, I don't want to write anything about NPCs, monsters and how encounters are to be run.
I have weird ideas to make a castle that is in fact the representation of a tortured god's mind. This adventure could be truly epic, not only provide epic foes...
I am, but preferably my "World's End" version above. I would like to work on the Castle in the Void part. I have many ideas (inspired from Moorcock novels) from old AD&D scenarios of mine that I would like to recycle. On the other hand, I don't want to write anything about NPCs, monsters and how encounters are to be run.
I have weird ideas to make a castle that is in fact the representation of a tortured god's mind. This adventure could be truly epic, not only provide epic foes...
DM-Rocco
Explorer
Numion said:
Um, if you read, I had requested no enhancement bonuses over +25, you could go to +50 opn the weapon, but the other +25 had to be things like dancing or flame or whatever, so yes, with a two handed weapon, you could have a +25 + let's say you had a 100 str (only a +25 from one item remember) you would get a +67 for wielding a two handed weapon and you could power attack for +30 (1.5 damage bonus too with a two handed weapon, but only to your base attack bonus, which caps at +29) for a total of +123, so yes you can do a lot of damage, that is part of the point, but you will have a much lower AC, (up to a +29 on your ac from a +25 tower shield) which means you may not live to deal it all, you decide.
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