Midnight Children

[seanadams]

Hi all,

Carrying on from my previous post about using a children's asylum, I have decided to make a change to my current campaign that I am running.
My campaign is basically Quantum Leap in Ravenloft, bouncing from place to place/time to time using as many of the pre made modules as possible, but thinking about using a childrens asylum has given me another idea.

Midnight Children are children that are born on the stoke of midnight under a full moon and they possess special powers that enable them to stop the happening. The happening occurs every 390 years (3+9+0=12 (midnight) i know im sad) and for an hour from the stroke of midnight till 1 demons and devils will be able to crossover into this realm of reality unless the midnight children can prevent it. But somebody is killing the midnight children and thus allowing the happening to take place.

The PCs enter the campaign by the asylum and hear about strange goings on in the asylum (The asylum is haunted by murdered/tortured children). If they enter they find some records about the midnight children (old folk lore), it will turn out that 1 of the PCs sister who went missing at the start of the campaign is the last midnight child left and they need to find her and protect her until the night of the happening and also to find out who has been murdering the midnight children and to stop them.

Any views on this idea?
I prefer this to my quantum leap campaign though I can still keep element of it.

[Arikail]

I like the idea of the Midnight Children, that's pretty cool and might be something I use in a future campaign, if you don't mind. I like the creepy children and asylum thread, as it gave me some inspiration.

As for the Happening. That also sounds like an interesting idea, though I'm not so sure about releasing demons and devils into Ravenloft on a mass scale. For a normal campaign, I could consider it appropriate. For Ravenloft, masses of the buggers just feels off. I would personally try and tie it into something more linked to the Demiplane of Dread, myself. Perhaps it relates to the Time of Unparralelled Darkness. Or perhaps the Happening is the culmination of the Dark Powers plans, and now they're going to release these guys back into the normal worlds (If you go that route, and Azalin caught wind of it, he'd probably be all for some massacred children). Those are the easy ones, and I'm not thinking of others right now, but a little time will probably change that. Hope that helps a bit.

[seanadams]

Hi Arikail, thanks for your views. Yeah help yourself mate anything to help another DM.

I can see your point regarding releasing devils and beasts onto Ravenloft could cause problems.

My idea was to have Azalin as the person responsible.

I have started to write the campaign and im sure the idea will evolve as it goes.

Thanks