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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kerakus" data-source="post: 1677943" data-attributes="member: 20951"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> Oh sure, banish my anonymity why don't ya.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Anyway, the background material for Stargate lends itself well to all sorts of interesting plots and plot devices.  Part of the "fluff" for D20 Modern and in particular Urban Arcana is "Shadow" creatures that are essentially D&D critters.  Now, in Manual of the Planes, it mentions that the Shadow Plane can be used to access alternate Prime Material Planes....I'm pretty sure the designers made that whole connection intentionally.  What does this have to do with Stargate you ask?  Well, IMC, when the Ancients left Earth, they had access to magic and they sealed off the planet from that energy source rather than let it fall into the hands of the Gou'ald.  Just recently, SG1 stumbled onto a device that allowed them to see across dimensional boundaries (the episode with the bugs flying around and through things in season 6).  That device was taken to Area 51 where further tests were done.  Something went wrong with the device and the dimensional barrier the Ancients had set up to keep magic out was taken down prematurely.  Magical creatures, from my D&D campaign world, started filtering into the D20 Modern/Stargate world, via a process called the Shadowfade.  Back in the time when the Gou'ald ruled Earth, Aten, a lesser sun god in Egyptian mythology, sought to take down the system lords and become essentially all powerful.  He succeeded briefly, but was brought down by his consort, Neferti, also known as Ne'erti and a few others who had escaped his grasp.  They used a special device that has since been lost to banish him through the Stargate to "the other side of Shadow"....the D&D world.  Aten aspired to godhood here as well and founded a great empire, but he grew too arrogant and started a purge of the followers of the true deities.  He was struck down and his symbiote was forced to travel from host to host to survive, eventually winding up in the Underdark, where it bonded with a Mind Flayer.  The Mind Flayer's will was too strong for him to dominate so they formed more of a partnership....and that is the main bad guy of my D&D campaign.Like I said, long story.  Q</blockquote>

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