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A remnant of a lost world or dying moon has traversed space and crashed into the surface of your campaign world…
The players will likely first encounter the effect of this disaster when they meet those who have been contaminated by exposure to the cosmic debris.
Contamination make take many forms. Typically the victims may be suffering from intense rashes, skin pigment trauma and severe sickness - followed by death.
However some have in fact benefitted from exposure to the huge crater and it’s strange remnants. Developing incredible intelligence, superior constitution and even pyrotechnic ability…
Having been endowed with such gifts - these superstitious folk believed they had been chosen as the apostles of some heavenly power, or the new bearers of some fallen divinity.
Who knows what strange things were spoken and heard in that impressive miles-wide basin where monolithic stones from the stars now leered over the scene? And what strange reasoning would have taken hold when exposed weapons and armour began to glow with seemingly magical ambience?
As the PCs enter even the most remote parts of this region they will soon discover that a strange new crusade is on the rise…
December 4, 2003, 13:33
Okay...
December 5, 2003, 2:53
You also forgot Barbarians/ Goblins invading because it is seen as a sign from the heavens. (Heck any number of doomsday cults will commit mass suicide as well).
Perhaps the Elves are migrating to The West because of it.
It makes an excellent trigger for the world.
December 5, 2003, 22:22
I live off of mutated creatures. I hate the standard monsters and will rarely use them without modifying them and this gives yet another reason behind it.
Combine this, like Moonhunter alluded to, with a prophecy and the characters can witness the arrival of that foretold and lead into an entire new epic campaign.
December 6, 2003, 10:03
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January 31, 2004, 18:05
January 4, 2006, 9:30
Remember, long doesn't always mean better, and short doesn't always mean bad.
August 21, 2008, 7:20
I must say that a quite like this - it's a good start-point for a campaign (I won't bother to list all the possibles because that's pretty much been covered in the previous comments)
And now ... the all-important rating
Not particuarly original but a solid, useable idea nonethelese: 3½/5
November 26, 2012, 14:05