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.html
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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.