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Message: <blockquote data-quote="akbearfoot" data-source="post: 4203623" data-attributes="member: 33560">I was planning on using a similar plot device in a game (which unfortunately I never got to run)Basically, the PCs run into a overly friendly gnome(or whatever race fits) in town who tries to sell them a powerful magic scroll...The PCs will inevitably refuse once they realize it is a scroll of summon undead...Later on that evening as they are enjoying themselves in the local pub the wizard who(most likely) handled the scroll and his nearby allies get teleported into the nearby woods.They arrive just in time to see a mysterious black robed figure with a look of shock on his face with a familiar looking scroll in his hands.  The man curses under his breath and the PCs hear a promise of revenge against a certain sneaky little gnome, then the PCs are compelled to fight in the mans defense along with a few of his undead servants against some monsters....After the spells normal duration is over, the black robed figure orders his remaining undead minions to kill the PCs because they've seen his face, and the PCs are then free to be hostile.  The (obviously) evil wizard will have at least a few levels over the PCs and aconvenient escape mechanism in place and will eventually become a BBEG.Turns out the scroll was a -cursed- scroll of summon undead that ended up imprinting the PCs energy when they handled the scroll, and the gnome was actually going to be one of those dreaded 'DMPCs' that had an interest in the PCs but didn't want to interfere with them directly.  The PCs wouldnt have any way to really find that out until waaaay later on.I still wish I could have run this game...even if it was just a few encounters <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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