i like the idea of a simple gritty "P6" style campaign world.
basic undead/plague spreads by bites/scratches. bites/scratches incubate until you die. the infected are shunned. low level world is overrun quickly.
skills like stealth and survival and knowledge are important to survive. Magical/alchemical healing.
Dot because I like this thread.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Thank you, Cr500cricket. However, that was covered on page 1.
Let's see how a PC would do this.
The obvious answer is Cursed Earth.
At best cursed earth covers an area of 3.14 square miles.
Actually... forgive me here, but I'm going to use metric.
8.13 km2
The earth has a land surface area of 148940000 km2
Therefore if golarion and earth are similar, and circles could be optimally overlapped we'd be looking at 18319803 or more castings.Now at 7 spells per day this would take about 7165 years
and cost (at 10000gp of onyx per casting) about 18 billion gps worth of powdered onyx.But, let's say we build an item that can cast the spell an unlimited number of times per day.
roughly 1800*17*9+10000*50=275400+500000=775400gp. Creations cost is 623930 if you take hedge magician. Now there was a time 600+K gp seemed like a lot, but that was before we had a material component cost so high we had to start calculating whether the elemental plane of earth actually contained enough onyx to do this.so 624K gp and you have a lovely zombieapocalypse... thing. A hat? Seems like a hat.
Casting time is 10 minutes. If we assume travel time is negligible then without sleep this whole thing is now doable in just 348 years.
With four of these (and some ruthless accomplices) and about 2.5 million gp you could do the whole thing in less than a century. That's about the wealth by level of 4 19th level PCs, so once you murder, loot and raise the other three members of your adventuring party you're in!
For those aspiring armegeddonizers who seek to do this at a slightly lower level I direct you to the Soul Trade. Even a commoners soul is worth about 100gp of material component, which means 20000 commoners souls and you're in! Possibly at the cost of rendering you zombieapocalypse hat into a sentient and very, very evil item.
While a century to do the world does sound like a lot, remember that with 4 of these you can do about 1800 square miles a day. About a 24 mile radius in a day - though there...
|
Thank you, Cr500cricket. However, that was covered on page 1.
...Let's see how a PC would do this.
The obvious answer is Cursed Earth.
At best cursed earth covers an area of 3.14 square miles.
Actually... forgive me here, but I'm going to use metric.
8.13 km2
The earth has a land surface area of 148940000 km2
Therefore if golarion and earth are similar, and circles could be optimally overlapped we'd be looking at 18319803 or more castings.Now at 7 spells per day this would take about 7165 years
and cost (at 10000gp of onyx per casting) about 18 billion gps worth of powdered onyx.But, let's say we build an item that can cast the spell an unlimited number of times per day.
roughly 1800*17*9+10000*50=275400+500000=775400gp. Creations cost is 623930 if you take hedge magician. Now there was a time 600+K gp seemed like a lot, but that was before we had a material component cost so high we had to start calculating whether the elemental plane of earth actually contained enough onyx to do this.so 624K gp and you have a lovely zombieapocalypse... thing. A hat? Seems like a hat.
Casting time is 10 minutes. If we assume travel time is negligible then without sleep this whole thing is now doable in just 348 years.
With four of these (and some ruthless accomplices) and about 2.5 million gp you could do the whole thing in less than a century. That's about the wealth by level of 4 19th level PCs, so once you murder, loot and raise the other three members of your adventuring party you're in!
For those aspiring armegeddonizers who seek to do this at a slightly lower level I direct you to the Soul Trade. Even a commoners soul is worth about 100gp of material component, which means 20000 commoners souls and you're in! Possibly at the cost of rendering you zombieapocalypse hat into a sentient and very, very evil item.
While a century to do the world does sound like a lot, remember that with 4 of
Figured, just couldn't remember.
|
|
Demonlord of undeath forms alliance/frees imprisoned Undead as well as an Undead leader of a nation. Demonlord convinces allies to invade countries on border that Undead leader already has animosity towards... Undead armies march out and start a campaign of Conquest.... Every battle fought causes more undead to rise and join forces with those already marching towards world domination....
Orcus + Geb + Tar Baphon.
|
There's something to be said for the campaign where the PCs try very hard to stop this. And you don't tell them in advance, but as GM, you have a backup plan; if the PCs join the undead side (willingly, but probably not), the campaign gets "rebooted" but now the PCs are on the other side. Cue the evil campaign,