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Nevinyrral's Disk in Blackmoor?!? - Yaztromo - 12-23-2012 The Nevinyrral's Disk is an artifact from Magic: the Gathering collectible card game (the cash cow that generated the money for the WotC to buy D&D franchise...): http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=159266 This object has a "peculiarity" that makes it quite "arnesonian", i.e. its name is the reverse spelling of a real person (Larry Niven) that somehow helped developing the game. It has also a more literary resonance: it is an artifact from a long lost past, that has the power to halt and erase a section of a story ( http://wiki.mtgsalvation.com/article/Nevinyrral ) by destroying completely one major part of the world and all its history. Confidentially, it sounds a bit what happened during Blackmoor's last days... do you think that a similar artifact could feature as a trigger for the Rain of Fire events with some credibility? Re: Nevinyrral's Disk in Blackmoor?!? - Yaztromo - 12-23-2012 BTW I once used a similar object in a "pocket-sized" sub-campaign Ravenloft-style (i.e. the adventurers are transported in a "strange" situation, where they have to complete some kind of quest / solve some kind of puzzle in order to get out of the demi-plane in one piece), where the solution of the quest in the demi-plane includes triggering an artifacts that progressively (and quite quickly) destroys the demi-plane as well. Re: Nevinyrral's Disk in Blackmoor?!? - Yaztromo - 12-23-2012 Now that I think about it, even the Golgothian Sylex (http://wiki.mtgsalvation.com/article/Golgothian_Sylex), still from Magic: the Gathering, would do the same service...