Be me

Decide to run a 5e campaign with around 5 friends of mine

It was my first time DMing and I wanted to really test myself

Entirely home-brewed world

Went the full nine yards with the story, faction conflicts, stories for each factions, etc.

The main goal of the party starting out is that they are heading to this massive super continent named Latria because for the last 35 years, a massive miasma is surrounding the entire continent, no ships dared god sail near.

This was the trade capital of the world so it obviously had very negative effects on the surrounding continents

Legends between pirates and rouge traders began to spout up of what happened to Latria, the most popular that some dark god touched down and began to infect the land.

If you are able to go to the center of the continent where a lavish astrological college is located, and meet this dark god, you will be granted any wish you could possibly desire

So we have the party, which consisted of two warlocks, a necromancer, a fighter and a cleric embarked on the journey into this miasma

The Necromancer is played by my friend who has been playing dnd for quite some time and is a dm for a game I am playing

Fast forward a bit, the party helps route a cult from the underground sewers at a port town and rescues a splinter faction of the Latrian military. This splinter faction resquests help finding scouts in the nearby villages.

After searching a mansion for a magic artifact, they end up striking a deal to help a Nothic arcanist find a person of interest.

Standing outside of this mansion is a mysterious tall robed man

All but his intense yellow eyes covered by ornate robes and garments

“Customers, just what I was looking for. What’re ya buyin’?”

Yes I know it’s the Resident Evil 4 merchant

Confused, the party shops with him, surprised that anything they ask for, he pulls out from his coat and names a price.

”Hey, do you have a Deck of Many Things?”

A small chuckle comes from the merchant as a deck of cards slides from his sleeve and into his hand, humming with intense magical energy

The party then begins to play with the deck, the Dragonborn Fighter ends up drawing the Donjon card, trapping him in a dungeon somewhere in the world. The cleric draws Gem, becoming instantly wealthy, the necromancer refuses to draw, and the Warforged Warlock draws The Fates card.

For those who don’t know, The Fates allows you to have the power to “nope” an event in history, making it so that it never happened. Intensely powerful.

My friend who is playing the Necromancer’s eyes light up.

A little background on his character; he is an Elf named Elton who had a husband who was intensely interested in the research of demons, controlling them, harnessing their power.

A ritual went wrong and caused his husband to be murdered by an extremely powerful demon, thus setting him on this wild goose chase to get his husband back with this wish

Elton and this Warforged named Kamal we’re close friends at this point and it didn’t take much convincing to get Kamal to use The Fates to bring back Elton’s husband.

”I will use The Fates to make it so that Elton’s husband had never dabbled in the dark arts, preventing his death”

With that, Elton began to vanish, as without his husband dying, he would have never been here in Latria

Cue Tifa’s Theme from Final Fantasy 7

Elton’s player, starts to openly weep, hugging Kamal’s character in this very sweet moment

”You’re crying over a board game” says the person playing the cleric

We all burst out in to laughter and prepare new characters for the players who lost one

Later on in this campaign, another player cried from a not so happy event happening. Let me know if you’d want to hear the story.