May we share our RPG adventures and stories? I don't care; I'm sharing it anyway ^_^. This happened few weeks ago, but meh, here it goes:
We've been playing a Neverwinter Night campaign using the 5e rules. Our DM made some modifications where they were necessary and did a great job of making it not feel like a an actual PC game. The world responded to our decisions in a much better way, and some of the NPCs have been completely overhauled.
Aaaaanyway, I am a Warlock in this campaign. A ???/???/??? (that's my alignment, btw - and yes, I have a third alignment axis) Warlock who took The Great Old Ones pact. I was allowed to come up with whatever I wanted for my Patron, so I went along with an Ancient God that INVENTED death... as a concept.
Basically, it figured out that instead of devouring entire universes and facing huge opposition, it could slowly sip the life force out of the creatures that inhabit them without them ever noticing and do it on a massive scale. As its hunger grew, it eventually decided to start spreading and altering life in order to have a more bountiful harvest. Of course, First Ones put a wrench into its plans when they sealed the barriers between Far Realms and Reality, thus depriving it from one of its tastiest sources of nourishment and entertainment (Material Plane). Blah, blah, blah, Elves eventually broke the barriers and it was free to nom again, but things have changed and it had to adapt and "co-operate" with other entities until it regained enough strength to reclaim its title as The Harvester.
Enter, my Warlock. An ass-crazy Half-Elf scholar, living in his own version of reality. In his search for knowledge, he traded parts of his sanity and self to join the service of The Harvester. As its closest follower to the source of a great disturbance that threatened its plans for return to power, he was chosen to receive the gift of becoming a PC. He was infused with the souls and minds of Harvester's previous champions, and as his grasp over the newfound powers became stronger, they began awakening and offering new powers (yay, leveling up explained
). It did, however, come at a price, as he found that he was slowly losing himself in the collective known as Champion of The Harvester, becoming absorbed, and contributing to something greater.
But enough backstory, it's time for ACTION!
On the penultimate session of the campaign, a friend of mine and I jokingly mentioned that it would be cool if my Patron turned out to be something like Yogg-Saron from Warcraft universe. Well, our DM paid a lot of attention to that and decided to, in a way, make it so. In the final battle, each member of our group gained a powerful boon to reflect their actions and believes. For example, our Dragonborn Paladin of Loot (of Vengance, but he looted sooooo much) became an armoured Red Dragon, our Dwarven Paladin of Tyr pretty much became Judge's Avatar, and our Tiefling Sorceress became a broken Demon (she had an incident where a portion of her soul was almost destroyed, so she ended up a bit broken). I ended as a cowled figure with robe of stars. Noone dared look under the hood as the whispers were already getting close to driving them insane. To make things worse, they couldn't do anything about them as they broke through all magical means of stopping them (Silence, Anti-magic field), and any telepathic protection was instantly shattered.
As we approached Queen's chambers, we encountered few guards that we needed to dispatch. I won the initiative and decided to open things up with an Eldritch Blast. To my surprise, I had to roll d8, followed by d10, and then another d8 (or was it d6?). I ended up casting Storm of Vengance which engulfed the entire demiplane. And yes, that is a 9th level spell.... that was being cast by a Warlock.... as a Cantrip! I've managed to cancel it few rounds later as it was doing more damage to us than to our foes, but we realised that something wasn't right. We found out what was happening after few more spells: my Patron "blessed" me with all the spells in existence, but I had no control over what I would cast. The first roll is to determine the class, the second on determines the level of the spell, and the third roll determines the spell. Limitless potential....... TO SUCK
! I proceeded to cast a bunch of Locate Objects and Locate Creatures in the final fight, coming close to maximising all the healing done on our boss, and only casting a single useful spell on a random, CR20 add which was Plane Shift that managed to miss the target. I did, however, offer incredibly valuable insight into this demiplane's mechanics, and kept the BBEG's more devastating lair abilities in check to prevent the TPK. We ended up having a ton of fun in the final encounter (everyone like being OP hero and fighting OP BBEG) and winning.