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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 5250822" data-attributes="member: 4720">Cross-reference this kind of apocalypse with Big Damn Heroes.  D&D is better at Big Damn Heroes than "Hunker down and pray" anyway.  Magic slipping away makes a great book, but if I were to play a game, I think I'd prefer that magic be set loose.  Signs and symbols are everywhere.  Walls are coming down.The world IS ending.  There's no stopping that, but we're not going out without a fight, anyway.  That's how I see most adventurers reacting to the End, anyway.  So follow the signs, stick your neck out and get in the way of prophecy.  Maybe you'll get lucky and die a hero before the whole world is sucked into Nothingness.Or, if you rage against the dying of the light, you just might be noticed enough to actually get into the afterlife.  After all, only the best of the best and the worst of the worst will get scooped up by the gods when the End does arrive.  Everyone else will follow the universe into nothing.  And if some people know that bit of information, things will get interesting.  Oh sure, even with that kind of out available, most people would give in to despair.  But others would get all kinds of motivated.  Pull out all the stops.  No small number of people might work really, really hard at Redemption with what time they have left.</blockquote>