lol.
We used to run a Middle Earth campaign years ago. We kept it very faithful to the history that we could find.
We’d take turns GMing so we’d all get a chance to play characters.
Went really well for some time until an idiot friend of mine got out of the army and asked to join in.
At a point he wanted to GM and going against my better judgment, I let him.
yeah…Circus show time in Rivendell. lmao.
Dude took a sledge hammer to the lore.
When I ran the next one I started out by saying that everything that had happened previously was just a bad group nightmare caused by some juju magic or some crap so we didnt apply it to our game campaign notes at all.
I actually like this. This is the kind of thing that can drive a character completely mad if they dwell on it and people around them would begin to wonder if another old god or other psychic big bad is up to no good in the neighbourhood.
I can imagine your character being in battle and something in that battle triggers the emotions of a memory that should be there but isn’t. The deja vu effect of this happening over and over is nice little quirk.
Yeah Rosenivy didn’t really know how to handle him missing Draven so he spent most of the time skip just on a wine bender. Dude had to get the addiction blasted out of him by a healer before he could travel with the expedition.
I do have to wonder if something like this counts as an example of “Jamais vu”. The opposite of deja vu.
I also decided that if anything makes him start to think of the shadowlands, he gets a massive pain in his head. Since his memory is kinda like a film reel with a chunk of it missing. But the film is still in one piece. So its dealing with a big skip. Another way I explain it is like when a cd skips because its kinda dinged up / scratched.
Due to spoilers in Dragonflight I even came up with a reason for him to not deal with this quiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite as much for something I haven’t unlocked yet. But I’ll worry more about that when I unlock that chapter of the story.
For now, his Incubus is helping him keep it together. Like a sexy therapist.
Jamais vu is a fascinating experience. I wrote a paper on it in university during my post grad days. Like when your name begins to sound alien after its been repeated enough times but you still know (or think you know) it’s your name.
Seizures and brain damage can often cause it, so it’s a very real phenomenon that our characters would likely go through many times, especially after waking up from a visit to the spirit healer.
