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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arcseed" data-source="post: 201443" data-attributes="member: 3281">While I have my players way over their heads dealing with things that are way too powerful for them to handle, somehow I manage to avoid dark and grim.  I'm not quite sure how I do it, or if I'm really happy with it that way, but that's how it came out, and my players evidently see it too, considering the shirt they gave me for Christmas. (Warning: Dungeon Master whimsical when bored)I think it's probably that I give them the dark feeling when they're dealing with the dead gods, but when they're adventuring around contemporary stuff I give the campaign a lot more lighthearted feel.  Probably a big contributor to that is their mutually profitable relationship with an ancient green dragon, whose help they needed to destroy an artifact, and who they've done a couple jobs for.  They've started thinking of him as a friend.  He's at least acted nicer than their other patron, the Duke.And when that comes around to bite them in the ass, the feel might change a bit.Probably the biggest influence on my campaign is Patricia C. Wrede's Lyra books, which, now that I think of it, have that same feel-- they're lightheared romantic comedies in a somewhat dark world. Oh, and I ripped off the Tombs of Atuan for the first of the dead Gods' temples.  And really, the whole 'dead gods' plot is an outgrowth of wanting to use that dungeon...</blockquote>