Scarlet-Devil
2011-02-13, 12:19 AM
How would you go about that? Maybe as part of the campaign, the PCs could race a powerful warlock or something for a very powerful artifact (maybe a special Gate scroll is required to bring her physically into the world) or something, but many questions remain.
1. What's she doing/why would the PCs be actively opposing her? One option is that she's actually accumulated enough nightmares to initiate the end of the world, but needs assistance from some nihilistic cult (or just a single capable spellcaster) on the material plane; the party might start by trying to dismantle some evil cult that's gaining popularity throughout the continent, and eventually learn what their true goal is. Alternatively, maybe it's not really time for the end of the world, but this cult/warlock wants to see it happen in their lifetime, so they summon her anyway (maybe forcefully, with some powerful artifact), and she just decides to make her way across the country side for a while, consuming all in her path and destroying the world the old-fashioned way.
2. Could a party of non/averagely-optimized 20th-ish level characters actually stand up to her(as written in CoR) in a fight? My fear is that the character's couldn't possibly fight her toe-to-toe without getting utterly stomped (completely disabled in lunatic-nightmare filled comas and digesting inside her big, sexy body); alternatively, depending on where she was fought, spellcasters might be able to float high enough overhead that she couldn't fight back. So, how could she be used to give them a very scary final encounter without either of these happening?
Anyway, that's all I've got for now, let's see if there's any interest...
1. What's she doing/why would the PCs be actively opposing her? One option is that she's actually accumulated enough nightmares to initiate the end of the world, but needs assistance from some nihilistic cult (or just a single capable spellcaster) on the material plane; the party might start by trying to dismantle some evil cult that's gaining popularity throughout the continent, and eventually learn what their true goal is. Alternatively, maybe it's not really time for the end of the world, but this cult/warlock wants to see it happen in their lifetime, so they summon her anyway (maybe forcefully, with some powerful artifact), and she just decides to make her way across the country side for a while, consuming all in her path and destroying the world the old-fashioned way.
2. Could a party of non/averagely-optimized 20th-ish level characters actually stand up to her(as written in CoR) in a fight? My fear is that the character's couldn't possibly fight her toe-to-toe without getting utterly stomped (completely disabled in lunatic-nightmare filled comas and digesting inside her big, sexy body); alternatively, depending on where she was fought, spellcasters might be able to float high enough overhead that she couldn't fight back. So, how could she be used to give them a very scary final encounter without either of these happening?
Anyway, that's all I've got for now, let's see if there's any interest...