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***SPOILERS for RotRL, CotCT, SS, and other modules.***

As the title sounds this is a very ambitious attempt at combining multiple AP to create one ultimate campaign revolving around ALL 7 Runelords and Ultimately Emperor Xin.

My biggest issue with Rise of the Runelords is this: there is only 1 RUNELORD. What happen to that "s"? DOn't get me wrong we are having a blast with the AP, but I want more. The runelords and ancient empire of Thassilon is so intriguing and I know there are other AP that tie into this. My goal is to create a compiled campaign that brings all these elements together plus addes some unique personal flavor.

Why you ask? Mainly its too easy for my PC at the moment.

I am currently GM of a large 6-9 player party (varies weekly) nevertheless its big. Treasure WBL has stalled and I find the PC's mop up enemies quickly despite pumping there HP, templates, change and combining the dungeons crawl smaller fights into larger ones.

EX: I put all the monsters in the basement of Foxglove in the pit room with Aldern. Aldern, 7 ghouls, 4 goblin ghast, a haunt that kept 1 player useless and maxed there HP, gave Aldern a surprise round, and had poor Shayliss slowly sliding down the loose gravel to her possible death. They beat it in 3 rounds.

Back to the good stuff.
My thought is to have various parts of adventures threaded together as the PC's assemble the shattered star, resurrect the "ghost of Emperor Xin" defeat him. Then they go on to defeat each runelord as they too are brought back to life. Ultimately the death of each runelord (after the first defeat of Xin) will help summon a physical manifestation of Emperor Xin of CR 30 (mythic/epic Tier stuff). After they kill the Ghost his life force binds to each of the 7 runelords to draw their power. Think of it like a Lich Phylactery online in reverse. As each runelord is beaten Emperor Xin takes that Runelords respective powers.

My thoughts on overall story to connect it all. There isa cult loyal to the Thassilon empire from long ago are working behind the scenes for Xin, perhaps a mole in the Pathfinder society, maybe even Sheila, Nualia, and Bodrik NPC's (and possibly others).

I know some of the runelords and/or locations haven't even been built yet so some of this will require work on my part. Several of the runelords have been stated out. To my knowledge only Krune, Karzoug hve been stated by paizo, and Sohshen was stated by a fan. Xin ghost is stated by paizo, but that still leaves much to be stated. I have researched the hierarchy rankings, weapons, magic, etc... Whenever possible I will use official pathfinder dungeons, lore, characters. In the end the PC will probably be level 25, or level 20/mythic 5

Here is what i have plotted so far.

Timeline Module Level
RotRL Ch1 Burnt Offerings 4
End RotRL Ch 2 Skinsaw Murders 7
Nualia Summons CREATED 8
Shards of Pride, Greed PF # 61 4
Shard of Lust PF # 62 Curse of Ladys Star 5
Shards of Gluttony PF 63 8
Runelords Ch 3 Hook Mountain Massacre PF # 3 9
Shard of Envy PF # 64 10
End RotRL CH 4 Fortress of Stone Giants PF#4 11
Shard of Sloth and Wrath PF # 65 13
RotRL Ch 5 Sins of the Saviors 13
Emperor Xin PF # 66, Wrath of Righteousness 15
Krune-Sloth The Waking Rune 18
Zutha- Gluttony Pathfinder 63 20
Belimarius-Envy CREATE 19
Karzoug-Greed;RotRL CH 6 Spires of Xin Shalast 21
Alaznist-Wrath Dungeons of Golarion pg24 23
Sohshen-Lust Pathfidner # 12 CotCT 24
Xanderghul PF # 13, CREATE 25
Xin (physical form) CREATE 30

C&C? Thoughts on the timeline and/or modules? Is anyone aware of any stated runelords that i havn't mentioned?

SPOILERS BELOW for SKINSAW MURDERS

I just finished the Foxglove Manor last night. The PC's managed to find the mold that was the phylactery of Vorel.

The cleric did not have consecrate prepared and thus the party decided to lock themselves in the room and camp overnight so that she could prepare it. For random encounters I decided to keep with the haunts. One of the characters while on watch (the same one that ate the mold that was her shadow).

Another haunt happened and she was compelled to eat the mold of the phylactery. Afterwards the cleric consecrated the grounds which the PC was in the area of effect.

Idea: I was toying with the idea that perhaps some of the residual energy/phylactery decided to infect the pc from eating the mold. Even though the consecration destroyed the mold my reasoning is that the silver dust for the spell was applied directly to the area. Since the PC did not eat any of the silver dust for the spell the energy used the PC body as a host.

Question is: what sorts of evil shinanignas should i do. I don't want to turn the PC into a lich, I just want to have the liches should slowly currupt and persuade her to do things against her "moral fiber." (shes a tiefling rogue by the way)

Also, any idea on how to exorcist the lich spell. Im looking for a ritual or session quest idea.

Thanks in Advance.

My party size has grown WAAAAY to big. I have 9 PC (plus 1 animal companion. Im about to run the Misgivings haunt chapter. Most of these rooms only have 4-6 squares so any battles will leave 3-4 characters outside the rooms. Not to mention the CL increase i have to do.
I have run 6 before and up the CL a bit, but never this many. Anybody have any ideas? Recommendations?

The book basically says she is no longer involved in the campaign. this is a bit of a let down as she is one of the more developed NPC's at this point and my party has really grown to like her.

I am curious as to what people have done to keep her consistently in the campaign?

My first thoughts...

Have a funeral for Tsuto and Lonjintsu. Would this happen? Does she still care enough, what about just her dad and not her half brother?

Inherits her fathers Manor and the Glassworks. Does she keep it or sell it? Thoughts with giving the PC either the manor or factory?

What of Ameiko and Shalalu (her ranger freind). Ways to tie them in together?

I have also consider borrowing from the Jade Regent campaign for the romance score. Or perhaps just develop relationships with these two NPCs. Maybe even a love triangle?

Thoughts on some good sub plot arcs with her?

As a DM I was wondering how many DM change the items to in encounters in the RotRL (or in general) to fit there player party. I have the fight with Nualia coming up and rather than giving her the +1 bastard sword i was thinking of giving her a +1 maul (or grateaxe) as my paladin character uses this weapon.

Are there any balance issues with this as long as it retains the overall WBL value.
Thoughts?

So I'm DM of a new campaign for RotRL.

I am fairly lenient on my "house rules" im giving them hero points and 2 character traits, but am going to make them roll on the compulsion table to add a minor "flaw" for balance and RP purpose.

My house rule for rolling up is 4d6, pick 3 highest. They can assign in any order. They can roll 2x am pick the better set. OR they can opt for Point buy using standard fantasy.

Needless to say everyone gambles on the rolls and it normally pays off. I make them use CASINO D6 and roll in front of me so its fair. Anyway one of my players was doing great, rolled 17,16,15,14,13 and was hoping for the strait with an 18, but rolled four "1" and got a 3. His other set of scores was more balanced. He chose this set though and kept the 3.

He is an elf monk. The problem is in the first session he came into contact with the goblin dog that gave him the rash (-2 charisma). Then later he rolled a natural one on a grapple check and I added the disease again. ( i normally dont do this b/c of the stack effect) However i added it this time b/c we have a house rule that "bad" stuff happens on a natural one. you drop your weapon, your bow string breaks, etc... seeing as he had no weapon this is what i thought of. Regardless of if it was done correctly.

So his charisma hits 0 and he is rendered unconscious. Noe the problem is as a DM i know this is going to be the way to bring him down. I dont want to Metagame it. thoughts on fixing this.

My though was to let him use point buy to reallocate from his current points. He takes one of his higher rolls drops it down and releases points to bring his score up. Would this seem fair?

Thoughts?

EDIT: I found this link and am unsure how much it cost to raise points from 3. I assume its 1 point per score.

http://paizo.com/prd/gettingStarted.html