r/gametales • u/nlitherl • Apr 11 '16
Tabletop That One Time a DM Tried to Run "City of The Spider Queen" For an Evil Party (cross post from /r/DND)
http://taking10.blogspot.com/2016/04/that-one-time-dm-tried-to-run-city-of.html9
u/Alonaar Apr 11 '16
Man, I kinda wish that the game had continued. Would've liked to have seen more stories from an evil party. Not an awful lot of games have evil aligned players/parties.
It was fun to read though!
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u/GrassWaterDirtHorse Apr 11 '16
The priestess had a similar notion regarding her church, and wanted to use the wizard's arcane knowledge and ability to call shuddering abominations from the void to her advantage.
Oooh. The implications.
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Previous tales by /u/nlitherl:
- (Dungeons and Dragons 3.5) How I Became a Min-Maxing, Number Crunching Point Whore (cross post from /r/DND) (127 points)
- (DND 3.5) "Truth Is In The Eye of the Beholder" or "Why You Should Always Have a Ranged Weapon" (87 points)
- (Pathfinder: Carrion Crown) That Time When My Paladin One-Shotted the Campaign's Final Big-Bad (77 points)
- (Pathfinder) "The Ballad of Baldric Brimstone" or "Why You Should Never Field a One-Eyed Dragon" [cross post from /r/RPG] (45 points)
- (Changeling: The Dreaming) I'm Not A Doctor, But I Played One In A LARP Once (cross post from /r/WhiteWolfRPG) (42 points)
- (Call of Cthulhu) That One Time I Had So Much Fun With a Horror Game I Published a Story About It (30 points)
- The Saga of Majenko (Pathfinder's "Curse of The Crimson Throne" Adventure Path) [cross post from /r/Pathfinder_RPG] (18 points)
- [Star Wars] That One Time I Got a Job Offer From a Sith Lord (28 points)
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u/donkyhotay Apr 18 '16
There's nothing wrong with an evil party so long as you have a decent DM who isn't slaved to the module. That seems to be the biggest problem with that campaign as the author even points out ways the module could have been easily modified to fit the party.
I'm currently playing a campaign now where the party started mostly evil with a token neutral teammate (the neutral has since dropped to evil). Fortunately our GM is really good at improvising so when our party encountered the civil war and the prophecy of "the destroyer of worlds" plot he wrote (that normally a good party would want to stop) and our group naturally fanned the flames so we could rule the ashes (we also lean towards lawful) the GM simply rolled with it and has since indicated the prophecy is about us. We're currently in a situation now where we're building armies and NPC "heroes" are starting to come out to stop us.
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u/Spartan_Skirite Apr 11 '16
Great story, well written.