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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cyronax" data-source="post: 4864186" data-attributes="member: 822">On several occaisions I fell into unknowingly having campaigns I was running mirror certain historical eras or situations. The bigggest one was when I was DMing the WotC 3.5 Red Hand of Doom campaign mixed with Necormancer's Game adventure - The Vault of Larinn Kar. The Vault had a tri-gem scattered to various points around the world, that when gathered, enabled the bearer access to the fabulous vaults of Larinn Kar. Anyway. The campaign begins with the key-gems scattered, but hordes of dragon-allied hobgoblins made forays into the civilzied lands looking for key gems. At the same time, a small band of heroes is also looking for the gems with backing of local peaceful lands lords and a few orders of knighthood. A third faction also was interested in this. They were the dwarven kingdom that was unknowingingly being empowered and also corrupted by the powers of Devils. Anyway 3 factions:Civilzied normal D&D world --Hobgoblins on the rampage allied with dragons --And the Dwarf priests who had newly powerful clerical spells from a new god of Justice --The interaction of these three factions in the context of the Red HAnd of Doom and the Vault of Larinn Karr led to a huge war that saw the civilized kingdoms and the dwarves ally against the hobgoblins first. Eventually, the hobgoblins tore through the dwarves and conquered them using a genius use of GIANT RUST MONSTERS that tore through the metallic weapons and armor of the dwarves at a few key battles. In the end the victory and defeat ebbed and flowed several times, but by the end of it, 3 sizeable nation-state arose that roughly mirrored the USA-UK-France alliance (normal D&D city-states and small kingdoms -- think Dalelands of FR) vs. a really powerful German alliance (really the hobgoblin dragons) vs. a totalitarian order of Lawful Evil devil summoning dwarves .Anyway, unintentionally we had a WW2 sociopolitical dynamic going. C.I.D.</blockquote>

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