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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 6239281" data-attributes="member: 67338">Something I found funny (and I've posted this before) was a game I ran a few times over the years (and will again in 5e someday)In 2e One of my players made this comment that I always had ancient wizards and liches with big brutes working for them... so I created what I thought was a twist.The game started with a new continent that may or may not have been used in the past... there was some low level villain and these magic swords to collect and use against him... it seemed like an old story. The twist came when they collected the 3rd magic sword and found a man trapped in a cracking crystal... when they pull the 3rd sword, it opened and this soldier falls disoriented. His name was Praxton and he had only one question... "Are you new gods?" after some jokes they tell him no, and he tells them "Then you are nothing" and he walks out. He goes and kills the badguy then starts to assemble an army.Praxton was a highlevel fighter who killed Gods because of some past thing... it was such a twist when he had these strange abilities like cutting through wall of force...In 3e I reran the basic game, but I had a new origin for Praxton. He was this human like race from book of vile darkness. the basics were there, except he now had a few dozen followers who I made up and gave him some cool things.in both the PCs (only 1 overlap) thought it so strange that this warrior was able to outfight gods... something just felt epic and mythic about it...then I tried running it in 4e, and (Same PC now played all three) This time like the 2e it was a big surprise (3e most everyone knew what was coming.) I made him an NPC Warlord... and when the revel came out it was no big deal. One of the PCs even said he could imagine PCing Praxton someday... no longer was he such a twist, he was just an epic warlord</blockquote>

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