lord was it nuts

literally a fighter who just wanted to be left alone who becomes the party healer tank, the ranger that came from a whole ass other dimension

goes artificer

the barbarian was literally out to find her husband because she would only bear the children of anyone (man or woman) who could kill her

and somehow becomes proficient in stealth to the point she could dunk on literally gods

our cleric was chaos

no, seriously, an actual agent of chaos that was their god-- chaos itself

and was no a healer by any means

a secondary fighter that accidentally monked

the sorcerer was an alternate version of the fighter

and the whole reason shit got real is because the party was literally getting too big for their britches, power level 9000, so yeah we had to go kill gods

AND THAT WAS EVEN OUR EPIC LEVEL CAMPAIGN

wasn't, even

epic level campaign was "okay you killed the gods and now you have to fix the universe from collapsing, good luck"

i think about those three years sometimes and i miss it

and okay technically we didn't have to kill the gods but i was playing the first fighter and the in game mechanic was that if you reached level 12 and up in any way, as in every person in the world could level up, the psions would send inevitables after you and kill you

because you'd eventually start developing psionic powers, and if the "lower creatures" started realizing they too could ascend just living life, it'd end up upsetting their balance

and my fighter literally went "you're the reason my wife was murdered? welp sucks to be you" and took revenge

and spends the rest of the campaign regretting nothing except having to share space with the cleric

but also it was about controlling his own destiny and the fact that his wife existence was cut short just because she was destined for bigger things

so yeah no i caused the universe to collapse and i wasn't sorry for it

almost collapse. it got close

in the end everyone agreed to become "pillars" of existence (aka a group of concepts that keep the metaphysics of the world working) and it's a bitter sweet ending but bruh

it was fun

i think sometimes i'd like to bring him back because really all he did was seclude himself into hiding and build an orphanage so he now just takes care of runaways and anyone that needs him

patron saint of the azures, pillar of fire, knowledge, the sun, healing, inspiration and life itself

also fun fact we managed to actually destroy an inevitable at level 5

one of these fuckers

further info:

What They Don't Tell You About The Inevitables - D&D

now we had to fight it because the fighter i was playing came from a line of people that once tried to rule over the psions and he's actually the last of them, and he didn't know that

he'd been sent from them to live in secret to survive, and when the party was stumbling across some ruins (he's a mutt so he was actually several centuries old already), we'd accidentally freed a trapped inevitable

one that was capable of scanning people and matching their genetics to fill eradicate these people

so uh. yeah we had to actually find a way to destroy it

or all die

this was an entirely random encounter. there was a chance that we would have had a totally different story

but that's what set the whole party on the adventure, because if we could destroy an inevitable, bruh, we were gonna be bad news for the psions. and we were tbh

we only managed to destroy it by the skin of our teeth and one party member perma-dying since we had no one to actually heal

let alone resurrect

i might do some comics on this some day

dang that’s wild

it was pretty wild

extra wild part: fighter i was playing was blind

so basically he was tophe but fire

and i under minded our dm so much by complete accident because he'd forget

even when i literally gave him a bright sticky note. so eventually it just became the joke of "what's jove gonna ruin this time" BUT after a while our dm actually made it a pretty epic moment thing

dungeon encounter that involved an illusionist as part of a quest

and he let me have the moment for all the times he kept forgetting to make up for all the slow down from him forgetting something very fundamental

surprise, illusion magic doesn't work on the blind, especially if that illusionist assumes the one blind person in the party can't tell a real sound from a generated one and also has really good perception checks

so we had a lot of fun with silly things in between and a good dm