[Corel]

The campaign revolved around a legendary sword which the main antagonist had been trying to get his hands on for decades to cast a ritual to make not very nice things happen. The thing about this sword is that it was deliberately made to appear not magical in anyway, shape or form (So that it could not be detected or tracked). After much adventuring we find that it was being held in a fortress/town specifically made to protect the sword.

We found out that the antagonist had been tracking us to lead him to this sword, so we set up a trap of sorts.

Here is how the battle went; big bad guy enters the room with the sword on the pedastal and us between it. After much fighting, two of our party members had been slain and the rest of us had been either stunned or crippled in some way. After much gloating of his victory, he triumphantly picks up the sword and starts the ritual which requires the weapon. When nothing appears to happen he then notices a note was kept underneath the sword.

It read: "LOOK IN THE NEXT HALLWAY, LOVE THE ADVENTURERS x x x"

I don't think he read all of the note, for it detonated from Explosive Runes. He storms into the hallway and to his horror realises that the walls and ceilings were covered in exact replicas of the sword he was holding. We had a while before he probably appeared so we had the settlement create as many replicas of the sword as we could before he showed up and put them in the hall.

It turned out we had entrusted the fate of the sword to one of the party members; who was one of the first to be killed. It was in a trader's cart of unknown destination somewhere across the country by the time the guy showed up to claim it.

Sure, the antagonist came back and slaughtered the rest of the party in a fit of rage, but it was worth it.