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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Devin Parker" data-source="post: 3508168" data-attributes="member: 51297">I'd definitely be careful with this.  Apocalyptic endings can be fun and all, but your players may feel cheated or otherwise dissatisfied if they feel as though everything they've done has been for nothing, and that they leave no legacy behind.Here's an idea, going with the possibility that the PCs may be able to save some folks.  It's your standard huge earthshaking ritual - the PCs learn about it through some cryptic means, finding out that if they can complete this ritual, it'll basically initiate some sort of divine rapture: perhaps only those people in the world who are innocent and/or pure of heart will be saved by celestial beings, leaving the rest of the world - and the world's cruel, wicked, or otherwise guilty - to perish along with the world.  (Of course, the obvious question may become "Why wouldn't the good gods do this anyway?  Why the ritual?")Or perhaps the ritual (or an artifact) is some sort of God-Engine, with the power to create a new world.  By "activating" the artifact, the PCs create an escape-hatch, as it were.  Magical portals appear all over the world, leading to this newly-created realm...or those aforementioned Celestials snatch certain people away to place them in this new world.  In this case, you have the chance to use some of those NPCs you don't want to let go of; somehow they managed to get to the new place.  The new place, of course, could be the new setting you wanted to make...It becomes more exciting if it's a race against time - the PCs have to find this God-Engine, figure out how to activate it, and allow enough time for people to escape before whatever Cataclysm befalls the game world.What I would recommend, though, in order to make it truly epic, would be to include a niggling little detail in the ritual - the PCs have to sacrifice their souls to create the new world.  Perhaps their spirits will be absorbed into the fabric of this new planet?  Perhaps their souls will provide the fuel that powers the artifact?  In order to be properly heroic, you'd probably want to ensure that the souls to be sacrificed would have to be offered willingly...Just a thought, anyway.  Whatever you do, allow the PCs to know that their actions haven't been in vain.</blockquote>

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