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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarauderX" data-source="post: 912882" data-attributes="member: 9990">Reading a few of these reminded me of another episode of paranioa inflicted on my poor players a while back.I set up a home adventure for the high level PCs that dealt with a fiendish foe they had foiled before and he was now going to make the PCs pay him back.  After subduing them, the demon wisked them away to a grand crystal citadel that is 10 times their scale for them to retrieve an artifact for the BBEG.  So the PCs warily enter, seeing dusty tracks of all sorts of other beings they can't identify and cautiously start to explore their way through the place.  One at a time the two NPCs disappear when they aren't paying attention, and for some reason they weren't too worried as they go back to look for them.  The last one they lost is a fighter that just stands in front of a random crystal wall, peering into it and grinning.  They can't get his attention, nor can they move him as he is frozen like a statue and anchored to the floor and the wall.  So one of them peers into the wall... and sees themselves as the center of attention, with many accomplishments behind them and ruling an empire, with family, etc... essentially all of their characters dreams coming true, with them living in the middle of it all.  I moved that player to another room and I asked for one save the first time, and if they missed it they had to make 2 successful saves, and for every one they missed they had to make 2 more.  The first PC thought the dream was great and didn't ask to make any other saves as he thought he already did.  Then it dawned on him that he might be in heaven.  Another PC did the same thing and missed his save, so I moved the player to the other room too.  I didn't feel bad since there were 2 in each room now, and I went back and forth DMing what each was doing.  So for the ones in the 'dream state' they thought they were transported into another body somehow and now doing whatever they wanted with their empire/monastary to make it fully believeable to the players.Well the other 2 PCs, now seeing that the rest of their comrads is staring blankly at the wall, decide to avoid looking at all the walls.  So they make it along a good way and discover a citadel that is appropriate to their scale and go in.  As soon as they enter and look around for direction I have them make a save, so they decide to close their eyes and proceed along the same path they did before.  I still ask for an occassional save, and when 1 PC missed it I had the 'dream' grab him and lead him inside where a mistress led his hands over her so that he didn't have to open his eyes if he didn't want to.  He missed the next 2 saves, so he thought 'i can't get much worse, I open my eyes' to which he sees a succubus before him.  The last player makes it all the way to the top and finds a large perfectly spherical crystal ball in the middle of the room with a chunk missing from it.  The BBEG shows up, they battle, the PC loses and starts cursing like crazy when the other PC (with the succubus) shows up to save him by snatching the missing chunk from the BBEG and making the sphere whole again.  The two PCs become aware of the universe, gods, etc. for a moment and wish to be returned back to where they were, along with all of their comrads.So that's when I brought the other two players back in and explained to all of them that they were back safe in their home town like nothing had happened.  The two players that had sat out for the ending decided they didn't believe one word of it, and wanted to make another saving throw to disbelieve.  I think they thought I was RB enough for leaving them out, but they liked the role playing on the side with ruling an empire and such.  During the rest of that campaign the players would randomly ask to make a check to disbelieve what they are seeing.</blockquote>

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