Leliel
2008-01-26, 05:07 PM
On the Wizards board, there's a thread for the Star Trek-style Mirrorverse counterparts for various deities. That got me thinking: What would happen if the core D&D worlds were opened up to a Mirror-type universe of their very own. So, here's the kicker:
Planar campagin takes place after a suitably evil BBEG opens up a "mirror rift" during his experiments with the fabric of reality. He contacts the nasty version of the elven race there, and conspires with them to take over both realities via finding a way to re-open the gateway to Pandoyrm's (if you haven't read Elder Evils, he's basically a sentient doomsday weapon with exactly the sort of personality you don't want anywhere near a doomsday weapon) dimension, and finding another suitably powerful alien to help them out. Given that this isn't exactly what either universe's best interests, PCs are eventually contacted by that dimension's drow (who are more of an "oppressed underground civilization" in that reality) to help them in defeating this guy he causes irreparable damage to both worlds. So...
How would you set this up? What should I do to foreshadow the reveal of the Mirror Multiverse? How should I make some of the villains sympathetic? Should I throw in a confrontation with the PC's "mirror selves"?
Few notes:
1) The nerra have nothing to do with this. Although I might throw in a few nerra subordinate as a red herring, I'd also like to subvert the whole "impending alien invasion" angle of the nerra. In fact, I'd like to have this sort of campagin being exactly what they don't want, and reveal that their entire manipulation of us mortals is to prevent the dimentions from mixing. They are as afraid of Pandoyrm's kind as we are.
2) This isn't an exact negative. Certain events that happened in one universe won't happen in another, and people that exist in one universe won't exist in another, or they will exist, but they aren't dynamic oppposites. Still, what happens in one universe will affect another one, and it's pretty much guarenteed that the "aligned" races are opposites (The baatezu are the primary race of CG outsiders, and Shar is a sweet, somewhat naive old gal (although she hates being called "old")).
donpser esaelP.
(It's harder to type that than you think)
EDIT: And proving that above point, I apperently typed "Uvvadum" for "respond" when trying to type the English version in reverse.
And if you want to know what the nerra are, I think their OGL, and if not, they're in Fiend Folio.
Planar campagin takes place after a suitably evil BBEG opens up a "mirror rift" during his experiments with the fabric of reality. He contacts the nasty version of the elven race there, and conspires with them to take over both realities via finding a way to re-open the gateway to Pandoyrm's (if you haven't read Elder Evils, he's basically a sentient doomsday weapon with exactly the sort of personality you don't want anywhere near a doomsday weapon) dimension, and finding another suitably powerful alien to help them out. Given that this isn't exactly what either universe's best interests, PCs are eventually contacted by that dimension's drow (who are more of an "oppressed underground civilization" in that reality) to help them in defeating this guy he causes irreparable damage to both worlds. So...
How would you set this up? What should I do to foreshadow the reveal of the Mirror Multiverse? How should I make some of the villains sympathetic? Should I throw in a confrontation with the PC's "mirror selves"?
Few notes:
1) The nerra have nothing to do with this. Although I might throw in a few nerra subordinate as a red herring, I'd also like to subvert the whole "impending alien invasion" angle of the nerra. In fact, I'd like to have this sort of campagin being exactly what they don't want, and reveal that their entire manipulation of us mortals is to prevent the dimentions from mixing. They are as afraid of Pandoyrm's kind as we are.
2) This isn't an exact negative. Certain events that happened in one universe won't happen in another, and people that exist in one universe won't exist in another, or they will exist, but they aren't dynamic oppposites. Still, what happens in one universe will affect another one, and it's pretty much guarenteed that the "aligned" races are opposites (The baatezu are the primary race of CG outsiders, and Shar is a sweet, somewhat naive old gal (although she hates being called "old")).
donpser esaelP.
(It's harder to type that than you think)
EDIT: And proving that above point, I apperently typed "Uvvadum" for "respond" when trying to type the English version in reverse.
And if you want to know what the nerra are, I think their OGL, and if not, they're in Fiend Folio.