So I'm planning a campaign where some kind of world-ending type of creature destroyed all sentient life. My PCs start out in a small city that planeshifted for some time to avoid the apocalypse. I plan on letting my players explore the world to find other settlements that survived. So my question is what other creative methods could they have used to escape destruction? (I already settled on some kind of fantasy kryosleep stuff and a city run completely by sentient constructs (think AI/robots.)
I’m going to start tossing out ideas, hopefully they’re helpful.
-A city of dwarves went extremely far into the earth to avoid the creature. They’re completely sealed off from the rest of the world by miles of stone, but have a functioning ecosystem in their man-made cave bunkers.
-A colony harnessed a teleportation or blinking power a bit like that of a phase spider or blink dog, and changes locations so rapidly via teleport that it was never destroyed. The chances of it ever returning to a location are like being struck by lightening eight times at once.
-A town uses ghostly energy to remain in the Ethereal Plane at all times, even though all of the inhabitants are living. Only the gateways in and out reach into the material plane, and they rarely open.
-A city of ghosts or other intelligent undead springs up from the corpses left behind in the wake of the apocalypse. The undead coexist rather peacefully- almost eerily peacefully, since they don’t have much of a concept of time.
-A wizarding school was able to put up an absolutely massive amount of force barriers / walls of force that prevented their destruction. To this day, a lonely wizarding city remains and runs off of magic due to an absence of other resources.
-A dwarven city that didn’t survive, except for the highest member of the clergy, who was in the deepest and best protected magical vault in the entire realm. Of course, vaults have gems. Specifically diamonds. The cleric has been slowly resurrecting most of the city.
-A druid / someone has found or created to a Staff of the Woodlands. Using it, they have made a large population of animals and plants sentient and the wildlife has made its own settlements.
-A mass of creatures wasn’t sentient at all when the world ended, but had the time to evolve and become more complex very quickly, and started a new set of civilizations. Maybe a time warp of some sort made the creatures change far faster than usual.
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