Forte
2009-07-31, 06:37 AM
So I'm writing an Ice Age campaign and I finally got a plot outline I like, but I'm afraid it might be too obvious. My players are fairly clever and I do want there to be a kind of, "Aha!" moment, but I don't want it to be immediate. Here's the situation:
The main villian is going to be an elf woman and her followers. The plot is going to revolve around her discovering a way to force entry into the spirit world to steal its power since she's tired of her people being at the mercy of nature. There's of course backlash on the world and all of the races will eventually be involved in the conflict with her. The part where I'm trying to get the "aha" moment is that moving toward a conclusion, the party is going to have to chase her into a cavern system where she's trying to find a natural weak spot between worlds. She'll vow to search for eternity and whatnot in a the classic bbeg last words type speech and her followers (and her if she survives) will be exiled to stay underground. Currently, I have Aneloltheq as the bbeg's name.
So, given a group of fairly clever players (several of whom already have a fondness for drow), do you think they'd figure it out long in advance? If so, any suggestions on how I can hide it while still creating that, "Ah, should have seen it coming" feeling near the end?
The main villian is going to be an elf woman and her followers. The plot is going to revolve around her discovering a way to force entry into the spirit world to steal its power since she's tired of her people being at the mercy of nature. There's of course backlash on the world and all of the races will eventually be involved in the conflict with her. The part where I'm trying to get the "aha" moment is that moving toward a conclusion, the party is going to have to chase her into a cavern system where she's trying to find a natural weak spot between worlds. She'll vow to search for eternity and whatnot in a the classic bbeg last words type speech and her followers (and her if she survives) will be exiled to stay underground. Currently, I have Aneloltheq as the bbeg's name.
So, given a group of fairly clever players (several of whom already have a fondness for drow), do you think they'd figure it out long in advance? If so, any suggestions on how I can hide it while still creating that, "Ah, should have seen it coming" feeling near the end?