Recently, I have been thinking about a future campaign that is full of world changing events (I have talked about some of them on here) because I have been wanting to create my own world that uses 5e as it's base, in which I can hold all my future campaigns.
In all my thoughts and discussions about this in recent weeks, I have talked about huge grand scale world destroying events like battles between Gods and all that kind of thing. Events that totally destroy the world in one big outright battle so that I can rebuilt it from scratch.
Earlier today though (while thinking of this again) I had a thought. What if the world changing events are not some huge battle between Gods, or the invasion of extraplanar beings or anything like that - what if it's something much more simple.
So now I am thinking that maybe something strange is happening and I would like your thoughts.
What if all the human babies that were being born were somehow born with unnaturally strong magical talents? I am talking about these children all being so magically gifted that magic is just something they do like eating or crying or breathing and by the time they are toddlers, their abilities have manifest to such a degree that tantrums result in rooms exploding into firey tempests and by the time they are teenagers their magical abilities are so strong that they are literally altering reality with every passing mood.
I am thinking that humans were always supposed to be like this - but not yet. Something in the world has changed that has resulted in this premature eveloution and now we have an entire generation of enormously powerful magical beings that sort of see the world as belonging to them and the older, less magical generations of humans as an archaic remnant of a world whose time has now passed.
Is this better than the huge doomsday battles that I was thinking of having? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Cheers
Jay
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First, personally I think that would still be world changing, but I like it a lot more than just a huge doomsday fight. They get so boring and repetitive. Eventually though, depending on how it goes, it will just lead to your doomsday fight anyway. These powers will manifest so much, like you stated until you have all these all powerful beings duking it out with each other paying no mind to what they destroy in the process.
The question I'm guessing you'd be asking your players is 'Can you figure out and halt whatever is causing this or will you let it continue and see what it brings?' Ultimately it would bring a whole new age of gods, ones that are capable of walking among men. Assuming you're not straying too far; Ao will be the one who created everything, will they be capable of overpowering him, or did he make sure they can't get quite that strong?
Hi,
Recently, I have been thinking about a future campaign that is full of world changing events (I have talked about some of them on here) because I have been wanting to create my own world that uses 5e as it's base, in which I can hold all my future campaigns.
In all my thoughts and discussions about this in recent weeks, I have talked about huge grand scale world destroying events like battles between Gods and all that kind of thing. Events that totally destroy the world in one big outright battle so that I can rebuilt it from scratch.
Earlier today though (while thinking of this again) I had a thought. What if the world changing events are not some huge battle between Gods, or the invasion of extraplanar beings or anything like that - what if it's something much more simple.
So now I am thinking that maybe something strange is happening and I would like your thoughts.
What if all the human babies that were being born were somehow born with unnaturally strong magical talents? I am talking about these children all being so magically gifted that magic is just something they do like eating or crying or breathing and by the time they are toddlers, their abilities have manifest to such a degree that tantrums result in rooms exploding into firey tempests and by the time they are teenagers their magical abilities are so strong that they are literally altering reality with every passing mood.
I am thinking that humans were always supposed to be like this - but not yet. Something in the world has changed that has resulted in this premature eveloution and now we have an entire generation of enormously powerful magical beings that sort of see the world as belonging to them and the older, less magical generations of humans as an archaic remnant of a world whose time has now passed.
Is this better than the huge doomsday battles that I was thinking of having? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Cheers
Jay
A caffeinated nerd who has played TTRPGs or a number of years and is very much a fantasy adventure geek.
First, personally I think that would still be world changing, but I like it a lot more than just a huge doomsday fight. They get so boring and repetitive. Eventually though, depending on how it goes, it will just lead to your doomsday fight anyway. These powers will manifest so much, like you stated until you have all these all powerful beings duking it out with each other paying no mind to what they destroy in the process.
The question I'm guessing you'd be asking your players is 'Can you figure out and halt whatever is causing this or will you let it continue and see what it brings?' Ultimately it would bring a whole new age of gods, ones that are capable of walking among men. Assuming you're not straying too far; Ao will be the one who created everything, will they be capable of overpowering him, or did he make sure they can't get quite that strong?
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