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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruined" data-source="post: 2829550" data-attributes="member: 113">My favorite one had lots of promise, but the game didn't continue long due to scheduling problems.  All the players made 1st lvl PCs and let me have a copy. When they arrived for the first session, I handed them characters, but they were all modified - each PC was 12th lvl, armed with appropriate magic items and the like. They were accompanying a powerful mage to end a threat to the lands. They got a chance to wield the high power for a fight or two before reaching the end point. They get into a fight with a vile necromancer who enacts this ritual. Cords of black energy course through all the PCs, draining and paralyzing them, and they can see the shadows in the room start to take on their appearance. The spell ends and the tower disappears dropping them to the snowy ground below. The mage with them is dead, their items have all been destroyed (a la disjunction, even the intelligent sword), and you guessed it, the PCs are now all 1st level.One of the premises of the campaign was tracking down and eliminating the shades that had stolen their essence, some of whom had begun to impersonate the PCs. It also made the concept of levelling make more sense, as killing the shades released their essence, allowing them to regain power/memories/etc.*sigh*</blockquote>