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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 4911484" data-attributes="member: 11821">I ran an Arcana Evolved campaign for about two years, as well...  It only ended when the PCs - particularly the Magister and the Spryte Greenbond - became almost comically overpowered around level 12-13. <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=":)" />I kicked off the campaign with Mike Mearls's adventure regarding an evil artifact called the Iron Crown - which is basically an Evil Mastermind's Toolkit, including such goodies as attracting creatures of evil bent, dominating them, and other general scary stuff.  After retrieving the crown - and after it possessed one of their number - they went to the ruined library city of Erdaenos to find out how to destroy it.  Specifically, they needed to head towards the ocean, picking up a hammer of a dead god on the way, ceremonially crush it on the shore, and throw it below the waves.They met the leader of the rebuildiung efforts, whose name escapes me now, a Champion of Knowledge dedicated to rebuilding the vast library.  Most of them got along with him fine, but one character - a rather emo and whiny Champion of Justice - took a dislike to him which he carried along with him.On the way to the shore, they went to a mountain, wherein lay an abandoned Temple of Jode.  Much to their surprise, they found that it wasn't so abandoned after all.  Rather, it was a living, breathing, active temple with regular worship.  Some cultists (largely Oathsworn) had set up shop there - almost literally.  The head of the cult was a world-reknowned weaponsmith, who created marvelous items in the course of worship, using the very Hammer they'd come to take with them.  As it was essential to the temple's worship, the cultists weren't willing to loan it out for the better part of a month, even to destroy an artifact of evil.  After all, this cult worshipped making, not destroying, and evil as it was, the crown was a masterpiece.  So, the party broke into the abandoned temple and stole it, hightailing to the sea with Oathsworn in pursuit.On their way there, they found that tribes of Rhodin had grown more active.  Chorrim, as well - something big seemed to be afoot.  After a few encounters with Chorrim, their chieftain heard the siren call of the Crown and moved towards the party to destroy them, along with a veritable army.Enter Tetrithallichandar, a young dragon recently returned from the West as part of the Squamous Horde.  While his companions were setting out for the capitol, Tetrithallichandar knew that he was meant for greater things than that, so sought out to stake out a kingdom where good and justice could always prevail.  Nice thought, but the dragon was basically Napoleon with a bit of Don Quixote added in; supremely overconfident, absolutely convinced that he was acting in the right, and utterly certain that it was his birthright to rule as a greater being.  The dragon rescued the party from the chorrim hordes, sat back and waited while the party worked to destroy the Crown for certain.The ceremony went off without a hitch until the Verrik Witch decided to see if anything was left of the Iron Crown.  One pebble caught his eye - it was made seemingly of the same black metal as the Crown itself was.  He grabbed it, shoved it in his pocket, and headed back......I'll try to finish up the campaign later.  It was a great romp, all things considered. <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=":)" />  Next time, I'll tell how dangerous it can be to give a dragon ideas.-O</blockquote>

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