Evil Rise of the Runelords? (Spoiler alert)

[OssumPawesome]

Hello. I'm a DM with some experience under my belt (not a lot) and I was surprised by my party composition recently in my RotR campaign. It consists of a CG Elven Bard, a CG Human Druid, a CN Half-Orc Barbarian, a CN Human Abyssal Sorceress, and a LE Human Samurai. Now you may be thinking this may not lead to evilness (and thanks to the Bard and Druid, it may very well not) but it pays to be prepared especially since the Sorceress is starting to make Sczarni ties thanks to her searching for some poison and the Barbarian will probably end up being enslaved by the Samurai (he already accepted a "Friendship Necklace" from the Samurai aka a leash and collar).

Spoiler:

The idea is this: the campaign will run its course through the Hook Mountain Massacre until the very end. By then, I should have a pretty good idea how the party is going one way or the other. If they do indeed start turning toward the evil side, Barl and/or Lucrecia will try and make them a deal with the standard Great Reward in exchange for their life. If the party accepts, they'll be put in contact with Mokmurian and then Karzoug. They'll help during the Sandpoint raid to prove their loyalty and then be sent out to crush a rival Stone Giant tribe who rejects Mokmurian as a leader. Afterwards, Karzoug will task them with claiming the Runeforge for himself and send them out to prevent the other Runelords from waking up. The end of the campaign will be detailed when Karzoug can claim his dominance unopposed by the other Runelords with the party as trusted lieutenants.

Obviously this will lead to some homebrewing and finagling, but I think this could be an interesting way to keep the party involved even if they do flip evil. So any comments or criticism is appreciated.

[Mark_Twain007]

You might want to find Wayfinder book number 7. The wayfinder books are community created stuff, and that book has a write up in it called Heirs to Thaselonia, which is an outline for running and evil Runelords campaign.

[darkwarriorkarg]

Just because they may turn towards evil doesn't mean they want to work for the bad guy.

Seems that you're also ready for some PvP between the Barbarian and the Samurai.

[Eltargrim]

Also, doesn't a Druid require some part of their Alignment to be Neutral? So the Druid could be NG or CN, but not CG.