Panthro82
05-18-2009, 02:28 AM
I just mentioned this in another thread and figured I would start a thread for it. I would make an educated guess and say that the majority, if not all of the people on this site know what the Butterfly Effect is. It is also referred to as the Chaos Theory(It states simply, that anything can alter everything).
Well I wanted to start a cool new thread where people can tell their accounts of something(anything) that happened in a game(can be D&D, or anything else at all!) and what the Butterfly Effect was for said action or event. Then I want you to spin it and use your imagination to tell us how the world or events would have been different if said action or event never took place.
I will start the ball rolling in case people are unsure as to how to do this...
In my Farland 3.5 campaign that I am in, my group was in a town called Elder Daven. We encountered a group of assassins trying to kill our Paladin. They would have succeeded if not for the guard deciding to do one more check that night before it was completely nighttime (undead everywhere, all people lock up once night falls). The result was that our Paladin survived (he was at like 0 or -1 Hps, and the creature was about to attack him again, when the guard showed up and made the assassin flee).
Ok now the Butterfly Effect spin would be that the guard decided not to patrol through the town one more time that night. So the assassin got in that extra hit, our Paladin dropped to -10, and was dead and gone). Without our Paladin, there is a good chance that the group would have ventured off onto their own things(seeing as how he is pretty much the middle man of the group that glues us together). His sister(the elven rogue) would have left to do her own thing seeing as how her only tie to us was him. I(elven monk and close friend to the paladin) would have most likely joined her and carried out his goals he had set out for himself). The two of us reach his destination and fight the baddies. Without the other members though we die fighting them. Whereas if he never died the whole group stays together and carries out the task of defeating said baddies.
Funny how 1 little thing could change soooo much. Alright guys(and girls) run with it.....
Well I wanted to start a cool new thread where people can tell their accounts of something(anything) that happened in a game(can be D&D, or anything else at all!) and what the Butterfly Effect was for said action or event. Then I want you to spin it and use your imagination to tell us how the world or events would have been different if said action or event never took place.
I will start the ball rolling in case people are unsure as to how to do this...
In my Farland 3.5 campaign that I am in, my group was in a town called Elder Daven. We encountered a group of assassins trying to kill our Paladin. They would have succeeded if not for the guard deciding to do one more check that night before it was completely nighttime (undead everywhere, all people lock up once night falls). The result was that our Paladin survived (he was at like 0 or -1 Hps, and the creature was about to attack him again, when the guard showed up and made the assassin flee).
Ok now the Butterfly Effect spin would be that the guard decided not to patrol through the town one more time that night. So the assassin got in that extra hit, our Paladin dropped to -10, and was dead and gone). Without our Paladin, there is a good chance that the group would have ventured off onto their own things(seeing as how he is pretty much the middle man of the group that glues us together). His sister(the elven rogue) would have left to do her own thing seeing as how her only tie to us was him. I(elven monk and close friend to the paladin) would have most likely joined her and carried out his goals he had set out for himself). The two of us reach his destination and fight the baddies. Without the other members though we die fighting them. Whereas if he never died the whole group stays together and carries out the task of defeating said baddies.
Funny how 1 little thing could change soooo much. Alright guys(and girls) run with it.....