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I'm not aware of any 3rd party mutations/deformities, but it seems like it would be easy to come up with your own as homebrew as there's been basically no attempt to make them balanced relative to each other (i.e. "You are blind" vs. "if you fail a fort save you're staggered for one round" or "You have darkvision" vs "you have DR 5/-")

...Point taken.

Lamashtu and her servants have showed up several times during the adventure path, in part as a red herring. But Lamashtu's minions showing up so often alongside Karzoug's minions means that they must have some opinion of each other, if only from how often they interact.
Sometimes, it seems like Karzoug is distracts, enslaves, or even stops worshipers of Lamashtu from worshiping her, which suggests that Lamashtu would be kinda ticked at Karzoug, possibly to the point of her minions giving the PCs encouragement. At other times, though, their minions get along just fine, suggesting that the two at least tolerate each other. Which is it?

...You mean, for the twenty and twelve I mentioned in the quoted post?

I'm aware that there are already 20 positive mutations and a dozen deformities in the mutant template, but I'm still curious if there are any 3rd-party sources or anything with more. I'm planning to center an entire adventure around mutant monsters, so the more wacky variety the better.

Oh, neat, the DM's been making up all sorts of stuff. No wonder my initial post didn't make sense.

Thanks for all the advice!

Sorry for not getting back sooner.

According to our current DM, the Foxglove Manor is in Sandpoint. (I'm not sure if that's how it's supposed to be. He has a habit of not reading the book until the day we're gaming, if at all. Which is one of the reasons he's not DMing the rest of the path) We just dealt with that, got sent two months ahead of when we came in by some magic thing or another, and don't really know what's supposed to come next. And yeah, we're in book 2.

My local gaming group has been playing Rise of the Runelords. However, the DM has been growing tired of running, the players have grown tired of how he DMs, and he might be forced out of the group due to outside circumstances I wouldn't share if I was confident I understood them. (It's just one of those things.) The current plan is to rotate DMing between the remaining players, and I've chosen to go first. Speaking of which, in case by some chance this is sounding familiar...one way or another I'm going to be mentioning spoilers for Rise of the Runelords, so be warned.

I hadn't been paying as much attention as I probably should; for a while it was because I was at school most of the time and only dropped in for a session or a few at a time, but I've kept it up after graduation due to not being terribly invested in the adventure. As such, I have a hazy recollection of what went on, which comes at least as much from previously playing through part of the 3.5 version of the adventure path. I'm patching that up by reading the book, but there's enough information there that I'm not sure I'll be able to find the relevant bits.
A second issue revealed itself recently during my first pass on the second chapter, which I thought we had completed. Nope. We defeated the Skinsaw Man after struggling through the Foxglove Manor, and were dumped out a few months later, but that's only the halfway point; there's apparently a whole other cult of skinsaw murderers in Magnimar. I don't believe this was particularly foreshadowed, so I'll probably have to drag the players there myself (possibly just "You say you stopped the Skinsaw Man? Well, he's killing people in Magnimar" or something like that). Still, this should give you an idea of where I'm at.

So. First off, is there somewhere I can get a good summary of the adventure path and the individual adventures? (Or at least what was supposed to have happened? The DM was not exactly reading the books well enough to follow them well.) I'm picking up some of that from the introduction and conclusion of each adventure, but there seem to be a good number of details buried in the middle. Related, is there a good list of characters for the campaign? The best I've found are something from one group's campaign (a few sentences each, a fair chunk of that being stuff the party did about them) and the TV Tropes page (which is rather barren).
Second, how much of the second half of the adventure path do I need to know about to properly run the adventure and foreshadow the future? I'm going to be playing it, so I don't want to know everything, but it's hard to act as the primary author of a story with a predetermined ending that I don't know about. Or should I just try to run the whole thing?
Finally, does anyone have any advice on running the next bit of the adventure path? I'll probably be closing out the Skinsaw stuff and doing the Hook Mountain Massacre, at least. (It's probably also worth noting that I haven't DMed in a while, and that when I did I almost never ran premade adventures.)