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[Sir Finkus]

I came across this the other day, thought someone might appreciate it given dwarf fortress's history with elephants.
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/powerpachyderms.htm

[Jim Groovester]

I... just don't know what to say.

[SirHoneyBadger]

Somehow, reading that, I feel as though my soul has enjoyed a cleansing bath--and that the world is, perhaps, just a tiny bit closer to what I want it to be, to a world that I can believe in. I feel stronger now, better and more alive, for having read it.

[Draco18s]

CLARINETTO

(Magneta) Former head of the Brotherhood of Evil Musicians. Formed another group, The New Musicians, to follow him. Opposed by the Power Pachyderms. Played wind instruments as weapons, including using their music to animate guitar strings.

That is the most bad ass villain ever.

[Tormy]

What the hell is this? Some comic book stuff? 

[Hectonkhyres]

Still not as good as the four hornsmen of the apocalypse we had in one paper rpg.
They were a stereotypical mariachi band with perfect formature who used nails from the true cross to forge their respective horns... and who could explode your organs with their music. Each had a burro that could travel at sixty miles an hour.

Pure awesome.

[Footkerchief]

Hey, you could mod that in the next version.

[Draco18s]

Pure awesome.

I've seen better.

11 week story cut as short as I can:

(After-typing-note, oh god, needs a spoiler tag)

Our bestest ever GM decided to run the most epic game he could think of in the most epic way possible with the most epic storyline giving out epic amounts of EXP.  You can see where this is going.

He ran Scion (the RPG where "you're the son/daughter of a god!" game).  He ran Scion Hero to God in 11 weeks.  Scion: Hero has a whole source book that can be used to run a 2 year campaign before the party gets enough exp saved up to advance to Demigod (followed by another source book and 2 years before reach God, which has yet another sourcebook).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This game had the best NPC ever, known only as The Bird.  The Bird was Dan's familiar.  Dan, being the strait arrow player playing a Strait Arrow PC the bird was the most fowl-mouthed, drunken, drugg'd, sleeping-around character ever.  His moral character was so twisted The Bird's arrow tied itself in knots.  He once made a portal (to Ireland) in a puddle of hobo urine.  He was once found eating a steak with a fork and a knife (The Bird, by the way, is a non-anthropomorphic raven)

Jim also created a pantheon for Christianity (made it work too!), of which I'll describe little, but just know that it exists because it's important later, though it's not canon.

Andrew's character was assumed to be the son of God (er, one of the god-aspects that forms the Christian pantheon).  Everyone else was all from different pantheons, Joe from the Loa (voodoo gods, Joe's character was specifically the son of Baron Samedi), Dave from the Egypians, etc.

Things finally start coming to a head, the Titans (the game took the idea from the Greek's idea of Titan and expanded it) are destroying the world (all the player's fault for being gods and not following the rules n' such, yay plot!) and so the players visit the Fates (those three witches with 1 eye who weave the lifethreads and stuff).  For their admittance and the help that they get from the fates (how to rewrite this really bad "oath of godhood" thing that really just bones them: can't interfere in mortal affairs at all?  no, I don't agree!) each PC has to sacrifice something.

The price is high.  Dan gave up his knowledge.  This catgirl NPC (who'd previously broken several gease) lost her memory of everything since she joined the group (notable, because the group fixed at least one personality problem she had).  One PC who was very violent had to give up his unthinking rage (notable because he was a barbarian-ish guy--he could still get angry and get all his bonuses, but he needed to have a reason).

Andrew gave up his secret.

AH HA!  I'm the son of Loki, the trickster god!  Oh, by the way, here's Loki himself.  Loki pops out, kills the fates, and starts the apocalypse.

By the way, the entire universe was destroyed in the final battle.  A lot of Ultimate Manifestations came out and duked it out against other Ultimate Manifestations.  At one point I think Dave managed to write God (i.e. the Christian diety that thought of himself as the creator) out of existence (God was a Titan, by rights, but also held the position of god, Dave wrote into the rules set down by God himself that "No titan may be a god" because he could do that, though I never did figure out when this happened in the series of events--I was only around for about half of every session).

Then two UM clash and destroy the universe, but all is not lost.

Dan's Ultimate Manipulation unfolds (he handed Jim a slip of paper at the beginning of the session).  It reads, "If my friends destroy the universe, I want to be the first one back when it restarts."

Someone else uses the UM of The Way ("I am immune to the need to travel, I just go places") and takes the rest of the PCs to "a safe place" along with a good portion of NPCs, or something, and then takes them back to the restarted universe (arriving after Dan of course).

Dan claims himself the creator, the PCs take the oath of Godhood--in its rewritten form--defeat the titans, etc. etc. the PCs form their own pantheon and have a portion of the heavens (the place that gods reside, I forget what Scion called it) set aside for them (and the description of that place was pretty cool).

Quick and dirty recap that misses most of the epicness:
Basically one of the PCs betrays the party, initiates the appocalypse, they destroy the Universe, one PC had the foresight to prepare for such an event and became the Creator.  The game ended with the PCs forming their own pantheon.

[SirHoneyBadger]

In any roleplaying game, the chances that the PCs will end up actually destroying the Universe, in an actual-if not irrevocable-way, are *always* greater than 0.

[Hectonkhyres]

Play C°ntinuum from Aetherco. There its almost mandatory.
Timetravel is the whole point of the game and its -way- too easy to paradox yourself (and western civilization) out of existence.

Further information is not available at this location.

[Draco18s]

In any roleplaying game, the chances that the PCs will end up actually destroying the Universe, in an actual-if not irrevocable-way, are *always* greater than 0.

Not entirely true.  It's only true in D&D because the designers specifically made two items that would allow it.  Why arch villians haven't already done this is puzzeling.

In Scion, yes, but only at god level and even then it takes two characters who are opposed to each other using one of about three pairs of Ultimate Manipulations.  For the most part you should be avoiding this.

ShadowRun?  No.  Blue Planet?  No.  World of Darkness?  Not that I am aware of.  EarthDawn?  Yes, but not because of anything the players do, some very powerful NPC Horrors are trying (or at the very least, they'll destroy the world).

[LumenPlacidum]

In any roleplaying game, the chances that the PCs will end up actually destroying the Universe, in an actual-if not irrevocable-way, are *always* greater than 0.

Not entirely true.  It's only true in D&D because the designers specifically made two items that would allow it.  Why arch villians haven't already done this is puzzeling.

In Scion, yes, but only at god level and even then it takes two characters who are opposed to each other using one of about three pairs of Ultimate Manipulations.  For the most part you should be avoiding this.

ShadowRun?  No.  Blue Planet?  No.  World of Darkness?  Not that I am aware of.  EarthDawn?  Yes, but not because of anything the players do, some very powerful NPC Horrors are trying (or at the very least, they'll destroy the world).

I remember WoD having rules in the Mage book that would allow a single mage to turn every living thing in the world into a pile of grey goop.  The numbers required were difficult, but nowhere near impossible, especially if you had a good powerful site at which to do the ritual.  So, it definitely has the gigantic event that ends the world.

[Hectonkhyres]

ShadowRun?  No.  Blue Planet?  No.  World of Darkness?  Not that I am aware of.  EarthDawn?  Yes, but not because of anything the players do, some very powerful NPC Horrors are trying (or at the very least, they'll destroy the world).

I can attest to the fact that you can destroy the world in World of Darkness.
I would advise you try Mage: The Ascension. Oh, you can pop the universe like a bloody soapbubble. Its also easy to get what remains of the human race ground into a nutritious soup to feed the next generation of victims in Paranoia.

Edit: Damn it. Ninja'd.

[Draco18s]

I remember WoD having rules in the Mage book that would allow a single mage to turn every living thing in the world into a pile of grey goop.  The numbers required were difficult, but nowhere near impossible, especially if you had a good powerful site at which to do the ritual.  So, it definitely has the gigantic event that ends the world.

Mage does hold the possibility, though much of that is only doable after many many years of playing.  6 dots of a sphere of magic when you can't start higher than 4, IIRC (and gimp yourself in two other spheres).

[SirHoneyBadger]

In any roleplaying game, the chances that the PCs will end up actually destroying the Universe, in an actual-if not irrevocable-way, are *always* greater than 0.

Not entirely true.  It's only true in D&D because the designers specifically made two items that would allow it.  Why arch villians haven't already done this is puzzeling.

In Scion, yes, but only at god level and even then it takes two characters who are opposed to each other using one of about three pairs of Ultimate Manipulations.  For the most part you should be avoiding this.

ShadowRun?  No.  Blue Planet?  No.  World of Darkness?  Not that I am aware of.  EarthDawn?  Yes, but not because of anything the players do, some very powerful NPC Horrors are trying (or at the very least, they'll destroy the world).

If all you're concentrating on is the mechanics involved in the statement I made, then you've either not roleplayed nearly enough, or roleplayed far, far too much.