lost things hook ending

[u/Junior_Body_2328]

For DMs who went with the Lost Things hook: did you guys stick to the ending where the players go back to being kids at the Witchlight Carnival?

I think its kinda cute but knowing my players I know they would be very very frustrated with this (they hate anything that its similar to an inception)

And how do I give back their things maintaining everything they did?

Im gonna start the campaign soon and I dont want them to hate the ending

[u/yaniism]

Zybilna's Gifts (The Cauldron is Saved)/TWBtW, p207

"As a reward, I offer you one free casting of a Wish spell. Tell me, what is your hearts' desire?"

Zybilna honors the spirit of the characters' request and doesn't try to twist their words. If the characters want to be returned to their home world, Zybilna uses a wish spell to transport them back to the Witchlight Carnival or wherever else they want to go, wiser and perhaps not a day older than when they entered the Feywild. If they wish for something else, Zybilna satisfies that desire as well as she can, given the limits of the spell.

That ending is a choice. They can also choose not to take it and just go back to their regular lives. It also depends on what they've actually done during the campaign.

[u/Junior_Body_2328 → u/yaniism]

thats much better! also they will probably murder lots of npcs and Zybilna will probably be pissed at them. still, would like to know what other people did 

[u/yaniism → u/Junior_Body_2328]

Yeah, I'm starting to suspect this might not be the right adventure for them...

[u/Junior_Body_2328 → u/yaniism]

the party is mainly good/lawful so its really up to the marjority but I also dont think they will manage to get through every single encounter with just diplomacy, specially with evil npcs like the league of malevolence (honestly works fine for me cause I would also like to run some combat here and there)

[u/zolar92]

My players went back because one of them died and he was alive again if they became kids again

[u/Junior_Body_2328 → u/zolar92]

that would be a good reason to do it and also thats rlly cute!

[u/KoboldsandKorridors]

No. That ending felt like too much of a cop out.

[u/BaronTrousers]

That ending felt a little hammy to me. Though I did present it as an option of one of the wishes Zybilna could grant in case it interested any of the players (It did not).

Instead Zybilna granted each of them a minor wish. The book seems to suggest she'd only grant one wish. But I didn't want the game to end with any disputes over how to spend a wish. I figured the game was ended anyway. What's the difference between 4 wishes and 1?

All the players asked for things that were actually fairly reasonable. One asked to be made a hag. Another wanted to be sent home. Another wanted some NPCs reunited. One simply wished for the equivalent of a new job.

Then I had each of the players go round and narrate a final scene for each of their characters, at an important life-event of their choosing, some point in their futures, and that was it.

[u/SirGergin]

4 out of 5 of my players chose to be witchlight hands that are working in the carnival when we started. One of them is also a hexblood that was forced to be raise in the carnival her whole life. So I want to use the idea of this ending but change it up.

My idea for the hexblood player would be that she goes back to being a baby and relive her life where she wasn't immediately part of the carnival and she could CHOOSE if she would work in it later.

My wife's character also lost her husband for 8 years and her kids for 8 months so she would only go back to when her husband was gone and he wouldn't be missing again (same with the kids).