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I'm running 4E so I'm wanting to run my Rise of the Runelords campaign up to 30th-level. However, that has no effect on this thread: this is talking about how to expand RotR to include all the other Runelords and to take the campaign into Epic levels without reference to the edition being played.

What I'm thinking is that Xin's disappearance as mentioned in Pathfinder 1 is sufficiently mysterious as to warrant as an adventure hook. This is what is says:

After ruling 110 years, Xin’s magic consumed him in a conflagration of scarlet fl ames that destroyed much of the imperial palace, and left no remains of the First King.

Careless of their emperor’s mysterious end, the runelords seized their domains for themselves, subjugating Xin’s most powerful generals and viziers and leaving his eldest son a puppet emperor in the city of Xin—a small mountain prison where he could be controlled.

What if the subsequent rise of the other Runelords was actually engineered by the First King?

What if, and I recognise it for the blatant [i]Lord of the Rings[/] rip-off that it is, Xin was working on, for lack of a better term, a Master Rune to control all other aspects of Rune Magic?

What locations and events would you add to the existing RotR campaign to include this expansion of the storyline which would then conclude with a battle against the resurrected First King who may be a lich or a golem or something more mysterious?

Are there are any other threads that I have missed throwing these sorts of ideas around?

I'm still enjoying running D&D4E but the sheer quality of Paizo's products for Golarion (and WotC's inability to produce adventures or adventure paths that do not suck) means that I am really wanting to start a campaign set in Golarion --BUT-- I want to set the campaign up to run from 1st to 30th level.

How would you do this?

Starting with Rise of the Runelords as a base, what things would you include (such as the other six runelords) in order to expand RotR into a larger campaign?

What would you use as the final adventure? (I often find thinking about the final adventure can help shape the preceding adventures. YMMV.)

I'm not looking for stat blocks, maps or any of those "crunchy" sort of things, more ideas for adventures and for building the heroic, paragon and epic tier arcs. I hope some others are interested and want to throw some ideas into the mix.

Thanks in advance!

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