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Portents affecting the world

Started by danbuter, August 25, 2013, 09:01:37 PM

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Justin Alexander

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August 28, 2013, 05:47:06 PM
Quote from: danbuter;685496Does anyone have some massive portent appear in a campaign? Maybe one night, a big-ass green comet appears in the sky. The GM just mentions it.

Plugging myself for a moment: I featured extensive omens and portents as part of The Black Mist: Strange dreams. Twin comets. A rash of doomsayers. A supernatural eclipse.

You might also check out When the Sky Falls. I also seem to recall that Requieum for a God featured some stuff like this, although my copy of it seems to have wandered off at the moment.
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Opaopajr

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August 28, 2013, 11:04:26 PM
Depends on the campaign. For more fantasy stuff I like natural phenomena or weirdness being interpreted with meaning. In horror stuff... more like "It's Coming!" But it is hard to build portent directly connected to prophesy without the scope being beyond player capacity to alter -- portent is likely, prophesy will.

I'm using rabbit overpopulation as a portent currently. It is signaling to shamans the coming of a cannibalism demon. Soon the rabbits will eat anything, including themselves. Slaughtering the rabbits would have no effect on the population crisis as there are too many of them, and has no direct connection to releasing the demon.
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Elfdart

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September 02, 2013, 04:48:25 PM
For my money, the best part of Oriental Adventures is the Yearly/Monthly/Daily Events tables, which allow the DM to predict future events randomly. One of the yearly events is a comet, though some other astronomical/astrological event could be substituted.

I use it (with modifications) for all my D&D campaigns.
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Dana

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September 02, 2013, 04:59:04 PM
I run Greyhawk a fair amount, so I sometimes mess with Dark Night, the night when neither moon is visible. This year on Dark Night, they're going to see that another moon has appeared in the sky. The last time anyone saw it was almost 100 years ago to the day, and it heralded plagues, famines -- you know, the whole nine yards of awful.

The moon is actually Tharizdun's prison, and the closer he is to Oerth, the stronger his influence grows.

S'mon

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September 03, 2013, 04:16:08 AM
My Loudwater campaign has a big red comet in the night sky right now - it's an idea from the intro to P2 Demon Queen's Enclave, which I'm running, but I've expanded its significance, and it is being variously (mis)interpreted by the various factions.
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Bill

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September 03, 2013, 04:41:51 PM
Quote from: Dana;687907I run Greyhawk a fair amount, so I sometimes mess with Dark Night, the night when neither moon is visible. This year on Dark Night, they're going to see that another moon has appeared in the sky. The last time anyone saw it was almost 100 years ago to the day, and it heralded plagues, famines -- you know, the whole nine yards of awful.

The moon is actually Tharizdun's prison, and the closer he is to Oerth, the stronger his influence grows.

Some of his followers should free him and wait for their reward.

Dana

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September 03, 2013, 04:57:44 PM
Quote from: Bill;688272Some of his followers should free him and wait for their reward.
Oh, that's definitely what they want. They just don't understand what the "reward" will be and that they won't enjoy it.

Bill

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September 04, 2013, 10:28:00 AM
Quote from: Dana;688279Oh, that's definitely what they want. They just don't understand what the "reward" will be and that they won't enjoy it.

Tharizdun is one of my favorite evil gods.
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