Also, the next feat, Skeptic's Defense, can make a creature stupefied for 1 round. This should include a value, i.e., stupefied 1 for 1 round.
Was there ever a ruling on this bit? Should we use "Stupefied 1"?
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Friend, I am glad there are still fans of earlier paizo work. I'm still turning this into Spelljammer, myself. Nice, I hope it goes well. It sounds like a great fit!
Sorry to bump this post but is this image still available ? Sorry to bump this post but is this image still available ?<fingers crossed> That would be wonderful indeed, if it is.... Your wish is my command... Here is a greatly improved version:--> Crude Lotus Dragon Traitor Map <--
I have maps made for the forgotten realms conversion and am happy to share if that's helpful. In "There is no honor" they mention that a captured Lotus Thief will give a map of the hideout if persuaded sufficiently. I made him a fairly new recruit who had only been with them for a few days and did not know the place very thoroughly. He only knew that there were allies who were saboteurs in the ixitxachiti area but no details and he had never been through the taxidermist shop entrance. (I am trying to keep as many of the cool surprises as possible.) Since it should not detailed as the one in the book, I drew it up a crude one (like a thief would draw up) here: --> Crude Lotus Dragon Traitor Map <--
Sorry to bump this post but is this image still available ?<fingers crossed> That would be wonderful indeed, if it is.... Sorry, I never check this account. LOL I found it in an ancient FLICKR account of mine: https://www.flickr.com/photos/75651634@N00/2542791599 Man this did not age well since 2007. :) I just gave it a once over in Photoshop and also put in on some fancy paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VeMYbtwTEUv2HUtrtGqI0qFSLdG7pr9L/view?usp= sharing Share and Enjoy!
What artist did the Sump Steward picture on page 89?
Weird question. This is a t-shirt submission from a contest I have been following. The dragon's head looks soooo familiar but I can think of where. Is it lifted from a Paizo product or am I just crazy? (I don't think it is because this submitter is a great artist but I just got to know for sure.)
I thought I should add this one to this thread: PAGE 94, PARAGRAPH 6
Surge (Su): As a standard action, you can cause a mighty wave to appear that pushes or pulls a single creature. Make a combat maneuver check against the target, using your cleric level + your Wisdom modifier as your CMB. If successful, you may pull or push the creature as if using the bull rush or drag combat maneuver. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Wisdom modifier. The Ocean subdomain power Surge 1) does not list a range, 2) does not specify where it can be used (land, water, midair, etc.) or 3 size or creature that can be Bullrushed. Checking the other threads on this board I found the following a consensus for range: 1) Range should be 30 feet, similar to the Icicle power it replaces and the wind domain Wind Blast power.
Surge (Su): As a standard action, you can cause a mighty wave to appear that pushes or pulls a single large or smaller creature within 30 feet along the ground/water. Make a combat maneuver check against the target, using your cleric level + your Wisdom modifier as your CMB. If successful, you may pull or push the creature as if using the bull rush or drag combat maneuver. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Wisdom modifier.
If I summon a creature and give him an item or it takes one, what happens to the item? Does it go with them or drop to the ground when they return? I thought there was a rule about if they drop something it poofs back with them even if they drop it (so you can't collect the items that some creature carry) but what about the inverse?
I have slain your pathetic demon prince and sent you back to the DM pit from whence you crawled from. Now begone before you incur my wrath for a second time! ALL HAIL THE NEW COLD CAPTAIN KELLANI OF THE CRIMSON FLEET! Yarr, I'll skin ye and leave ye for lemure bait. Lash that sail! Secure the cargo! The women will weep and the men will cower upon our return to Sasserine! Put up the colors and let them see their doom a commin'! ARRRR... Strong words for a blowhard wee lass not man enough to lay claim to the princely crown of the mighty demon seas; not winsome enought to hold a claim unto Lavinia, cuckolded by 'er best mate. Mehaps thinks that the woman who will weep upon returning to Sasserine will turn out to be a Kellani after all. Ye Mateys, All hail the captain left out in the cold! ;P
That Final Speech is SOOOOO cool. How did you make that? Heh... I said goodbye and now am done with the path but still I am lurking here... :) Steps:
2) Get a headset with a boom mike. 3) DM #1 reads speech recording directly into Audacity. 4) DM #2, with headset on, reads speech while listening to other speech, recording a new track. Purposely used different cadence and emphasis and was carefully out of sync except for words that needed emphasis. 5) Play back both tracks. Repeat 3 and 4 if it does not sound right. 6) On both tracks adjust and fiddle with pitch and playback speed for proper demonic voice. 7) Download sound effect from Babylon 5 of a jump gate opening and closing 8) Insert empty space before and after clip. 9) Import gate sounds before and after the speech into the empty space. 10) Export to .wav or .mp3 and you are done. (Actually I think I also inserted some thunderclaps from a natural storm into it as well but I do not remember where I got that from.) (As far as how to use the program check the web for a tutorial, it is actually really intuitive and easy to use)
Wicked awsome Dude! Nice work. How was the final fight with big D? Totally awesome, with two DMs (one per head) in an epic battle till the wee hours of the morning. Details here: The Prince of Demons is Finished!!!
Here is it is. I cribbed some ideas from this forum and made my own Demogorgon. Instead of cute monkey heads though, I improvised using big cats from a safari playset. Here is the final product starting here: The Prince of Demons (oblig cheezy video) This is a step by step writeup of how to make one yourself: DIY: Demogorgon -------------------- I am done with this Path so I am going to stop lurking here soon. A sincere thank you to everyone who posted here, your ideas inspired me and made our game much better. (...and thanks for tolerating a n00b DM like me in his first campaign.) Hats off to Paizo for such a cool adventure to run. -------------------- Here are all the downloads I contributed one more time, I hope they will help people out: There is No Honor:
Sea Wyvern's Wake:
Serpents of Scuttlecove:
Prince of Demons:
-------------------- Hmmm.... Speaking of The Wreck, that 3d Map/model is still hanging around our gaming room and will soon be going to the dumpster if it does not find another home. I heard that "dish pack shipping" might be an affordable way to ship it, but I have not done any research. It is 5'x3'x2'and weights ~4 pounds. If shipping is arranged I will pack it and drop it off. I live in Albuquerque New Mexico and if you want it speak up now. (email me at: alarikdafu (at) hotmail.com ) -------------------- Feel free to email me anytime with any model construction questions. Well met and good gaming!
Orcus rolled a natural twenty on his check...
Sounds like a great game! How'd you make that Demogorgon? He's pretty cool. All will be revealed in time... (When I have time to upload all the pics that is... :) I *have* that Todd McFarlane dragon! What a great way to modify it... Yup, it is based that dragon...
We had the finale this weekend, an epic battle til 2:30am! I had a rather unique opportunity for this grand finale. A friend from Colorado Springs was running his own STAP campaign but it disintegrated into chaos, crashed and burned aboyut half way through. He was so bummed out. I had a brainstorm and I invited him down for the last fight. He would play Aamuel and I played Hethridiah (we are both total hams.) I was so awesome. We basically alternated control of the body each turn (the DM other would handle Nulonga and the Balor in the alternating rounds.) Everytime we took our turn we would boast that the other head was a fool and this was the proper way to handle the group. As it got late we would bicker with ourselves and assure ourselves that the group did not stand a chance, it was totally awesome. Bonus: We recorded our voices together, mixed and dubbed them with his final speech, feel free to steal it: The RPG Genius I also made a custom Demongorgon that came out perfect (I will post pics in a DIY thread later when I have time to upload it to flickr with notes) Here is a blurry camera phone pic to tease you: The DEMOGORGON
Since the check to claim the title of Prince of Demons is modified by Charisma, I think if Malcanthet wished to have a hold on the (potential) new Prince of Demons, she would do well to bestow her Queen's Kiss not on a PC with the lowest Charisma, but on the one with the highest Charisma score. Malcanthet is not omniscient and does not always do the most optimized response in absolute game terms. I think she does is this way to amuse herself at the cost of the ugliest party member. Besides in overall game mechanics terms it also gives the PCs a strong fighting chance for the crown themselves against Mancanthet's proxy... I ran it as written. The player was scrambling for bonuses to make the save DC for the domination and missed it by one. I told the group "close enough, don't worry about it," and we moved on, they forgot about it. <BWHAHAHA> Now when we reach the end (2 or 3 more sessions now :) I am going to subtly let that player know that at the end that he is to try convince the rest of the players to support his bid for the crown (as the lesser evil) as if it is his own idea. Nice puppet...
Nun's? That is easy I went to catholic school... >;P I'll leave the bunnies to someone with different nightmares...10. As you walk into this chamber from the rear it seems innocuous enough with a large chalkboard filling the opposite wall and a Lecturn in front of it. There are a group of half dozen nuns giving grammar lessons to several young attentive Cambions in formal school gowns draped over their shoulders (but open in front) sitting in desks facing frontwards.
If really you want to have them in the same encounter place the chalkboard on a raised stage in the from of the classroom with a chorus of performing Cambion bunnies in front (who do join the combat); the students taking notes on the performance... :) Don't let this stop somebody from doing the bunnies though...
9. Floor is a set of overlapping spinning blades making a steady breeze upwards. A dozen floating Phanatons couple in a dizzying zero-gravity mid-air orgy. When one becomes exhausted and their strength fails it sinks to be sliced apart by the blades. Underneath the blades on the sunken floor, they slowly regenerate. Once fully healed they are popped back into the tangle above.
6. This room in an enormous pit. It dominated by an enormous floating checkered board made of obsidian and marble. There are two balconies in the walls, in them sit a succubus and an incubus atop velvet black and pale thrones on opposing sides and they seem to be playing a game. Most of the squares are occupied by nude charmed drow and high elves of mixed sexes. This game seems to involve once side "jumping" the other pieces (some times involving many pieces at once depending on the move) and the receiver(s) of the "jumping" being tossed off of the board into the pit at the end on the act of copulation. Some times one player succeeds in "kinging" their piece which involves keeping the both pieces in play, just "intertwined" with the "kinging" piece on top and in control. Once all of one color is eliminated an obsidian and marble slide projects out from under the balconies and through these, the sides are replenished with a fresh set of pieces tumbling out.
3. Malcanthet's head on a pike that I can look up at and wave like this ::waves:: Immediately followed by looting.......How much is The Razor Throne Worth anyway? Signs you should have put a spoiler tag on the head of a new thread: "Cameron Kellani"? Hmmm... This is actually one of my players... Drat!
In the vein of the "Into the Maw" Dungeon Dressing thread (Which my players loved) how about a list of rooms the PCs might stumble into wandering around lost in Malcanthet's Palace? We'll have to use our full store of clever euphemisms to keep it PG-13 on these boards, but I have faith... I'll start: 1. A steam room paneled in blood red wood with many tiers of benches. In the midst of the benches stand a pair of flesh golems stitched together solely of naughty bits, one composed of each gender, surounded by eager succubi and incubi. 2. Her stands an enormous gilded bowl in an icy pool of white wine, in which swim an aboleth and two ilthids, their tentacles twined in unthinkable throes of ecstasy.
I've actually decided to kind of skip the whole Sea Wyvern ship wreck, since I know my players would hate the railroading aspects of it. Instead they will find the Blue Nixie wrecked there when they pass by the place, and when they approach to investigate they will discover that Lavinia and the Jade Ravens have started trecking south to get help along the same path the PCs are supposed to. The PCs will probably send the Sea Wyvern to Farshore with the survivors and go after Lavinia and the Jade Ravens, and then they will catch up with the Ravens in the Fogmire after Lavinia has been kidnapped by Olangru. Nice idea, truly inspired. The only tweak I would do is to have Lavinia actually reach Farshore. Then run Olangru as written. Or if there were any romantic tangles with the Jade Ravens, have it be that particular Raven gets separated from Lavinia. Then either the party finds clue about them or runs into them for a joyful but brief reunion before being kidnapped... Otherwise you end up with the "Aquaman" syndrome and your party spends every other chapter rescuing poor helpless Lavinia. (that is so much a plot-ski it is almost as bad as the railroading. Almost... :) She is a tough lady with the tales from her mother to teach her a bit of jungle lore and survival skills. Give her a bit of a break between beaten by bullywugs and her kidnapping by Vanthus. That way she is established as an independent resourceful heroine and there is more of an impact when she is finally nicked by her brother. That being said I would definitely run it as you describe with the Blue Nixie being the ship they fix in the next path instead. Very sweet...
I'd say any extraneous loot is still on the Sea Wyvern, stuck offshore on the reef. That denies their access to it for the moment, which honestly isn't that big of a deal through HTBM...He let us limp it to shore but we still had to leave it there, along with our cargo of supplies and investments until we made it through HTBM and to Farshore. Yup, that is what I did with my group. After they dived out and retrieved all the stuff (they have a Sea Kin druid, so pretty easy) they buried the treasure and made a pirate map. Fun was had by all..
You've convinced me, I didn't like them much to begin with. I'm still in SWW and this thread is very helpful. I'm going to switch out the Kopru with something else, any suggestions? Crazy idea. Instead of completely rewriting it, you could do this: I saw another posting mentioning that the savage creatures really only show up once and that is a bummer. They were great foreshadowing that never panned out. So maybe you could kill two birds with one stone. The Savage City Keep a few select Korpus bad guys in the ziggurat as the master minds. (the priest, 4 bohemoths and 4 normal ones?) They are using the power of the ziggurat to extend the range and scope of their mind control powers. This is controlling their landbound army as well as keeping the living structures of the city pacified and healthy. The party would never meet them until they entered the pyramid. Keep each pyramid room filed with water and then there is no logic gap. The rest of their army would be savage Olman warriors and priests. Captured warriors mutated by the shadow pearls and bred into a dark society serving Demogorgon. They could be living in Golismorga filling the city in a weird mockery of the former great city of Thanaclan that stood far above on the plateau. The party could then take on the adventure one of two ways depending on how clever they are. 1)As written, drowning the the evil savage tide mutants in a cleansing wave from the sea or 2) By sneaking into the ziggurat, destroying the Korpus/bilewreth (and the itself pyramid even) at the center and letting the Savage Olman and the city itself sink into self destructive chaos. Hmmm... maybe the Korpus are leaching the power of Tlaoc's Tear to sustain the pyramid (and the brain collector is its "guard", fooling the Korpus and bidding its time until he figures out how to channel the power for himself.) Hee hee, this makes me want to run this Path again, even though I am not finished the first time yet.
As a DM in the middle of WoD looking back, the biggest change I would do is replace the Korpus. I would make them a different non-aquatic race. In the Lightless Depths, flooding them out never seemed like a good plan and I felt a little silly pushing it as a good plan. Plus the attack by the Korpus scouts on palanquins was really lame. I had trouble building up their menace, the way they were written. There were so many kludges to have them even function in a dry environment (stashes of flying potions and decanters of endless water everywhere.) Overall it has been an awesome path and lot of fun, with the exception of that I would not change anything else.
Just started my first chapter last weekend sans supplements (I kept hoping they would post just in time like before). Meh. Oh well, the players still had fun without all the cool color glossies... :)
I extracted the images from the pdf. Then I used Macromedia Fireworks to enlarge the images (Photoshop and the like would do just as well) and redrew the grid lines (as vector images) so they would be nice and sharp on the large scale. Since it is a map of broken down shacks and trees the low res seems to make less difference especially since the grid lines were bold and clear.
I started on something like this but it quickly got out of hand I was spending to much time on it and I was running out of steam. If you can keep the energy level up though, a blog sounds like a cool idea. I actually copied to content to a wiki and that has turned out really well. (I published it to Public wiki site. There are a few here: http://www.wikimatrix.org/) Every week a different player (it rotates) adds their version of what happened in character. Like they were writing to the ship's logs. Being a wiki then the other players kibitz on the original entry and insert their own spin on what happened (scribbling in the margins of the log so to speak), it is quite amusing. At this point it has become self sustaining, I just keep the formatting consistent, fill in the names of the NPC they meet and upload pictures. They make all the content. I would rather not link to the wiki here to limit vandalism though... :)
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Your wish is my command. I started with the WorldWorks Maiden. Many people had commented on the scale being wrong so I made some mods: Instead of using the "1 inch" scale set of plans I took the "Click grid" scale ones and printed them out a 68% size (write down that number, it took a lot of testing). This made the grid on them exactly one inch and scaled down the ship perfectly. That and I added Wyvern graphics to the sails. We constructed it with foamboard, transparencies from Kinkos, photo paper for the hull, matte paper for the sails and every kind of glue known to man. The bottom deck/bilge was not included in the Worldworks set so I printed it out from Dungeon, kit-bashed some hull walls out of construction paper and filled it with crates. I set it beside the ocean map since it was below the level of the water. When it was all done I was feeling spicy so I made a long boat and dingy set from scratch on my PC (using Macromedia Fireworks), printed and glued them together. Then I fitted them to custom mounts on the deck. -->Here are the plans. Use them and enjoy just give me credit. :) My best memory: During Sea Wyvern's Wake the party was trying to ambush Rowyn and she ends up leading them on a wild chase through out all the decks while terrorizing the colonists to sow confusion. She kept sniping and withdrawing with the PC desperately trying to draw a net around her. The real terrain as she dodged from hatch to hatch and across the rigging made it worth all the work. BTW: My Wreck is indeed 5'x3'x2' One of my friends mentioned that it could be shipped cheaply in a "dish pack box" but I don't have time to check it out. If someone want to do the research and wants to pay shipping let me know.
As promised here is what I rolled and the player reactions. I modified them on the fly as the muse struck me and rerolled some (some were too hard to run like the one about another dungeon level and some that did not strike me right). I rolled for random creatures inside as fancy struck me. This is rooms #: 6, 27, 28 (with a Glabrezu), 35, 38 (with a Marut), 54 (modified - bugs in mouth only, with a Leonal Guardial trapped by a curse), 62 (which he forgot to blog), 67 (with a sucubus) 71 (modified - added nails stuck all through them), 90 (modified - skelton is animated), 97, 105, 107 (with a Leonal Guardial), 109 and 121 (my favorite room). As for their reactions here is an excerpt from our player wiki.
FYI: The speaker is Cameron (Helldrath's black sheep daughter) a half-elf hex blade, Veras is a Sea Kin druid, Irl is a kobold Scarlet Corsair, H'rm is an Orc ancane trickster and Kiela is a halfling Favored Soul of Rudd.
Uh, don't the players eventually come across pits with 10s of thousands of souls in them? That's gonna be a lot of gold. Well, while one nuetral exception they are a good party. If they start hauling these things of en masse there will be repercussions. (Especially to the good priest).
My party has begun stockpiling the slug/souls that are seeded throughout ItM and are planning on using them to purchase stuff from the mercane. (Yes, it is definitely on the dark side of the alignment spectrum trading in souls). I have no problem with this in my campaign but I was wondering if there is an established gold piece value per damned soul slug?
Eyeballing in my minds eye it is ~5'x3'x2' but it stores upright (map vertical) just fine. I'll get a better measurement this weekend. A far as doing more work, my wife's patience for projects runs thin sometimes so I don't have any plans for any more projects any time soon. (It lived at our place on the dining room table for three week during the build) Though... she did help me with my Sea Wyvern which came out killer (not a quickie job like this map) so I gotta give her some credit. :)
Small world. Just got settled in ABQ. Welcome to the 'Querque! No room for your model ... but you don't have a gaming group? Hmmmm. I have a gaming group actually... it is still going strong (It was my friend's group in CS that fell apart not mine). If you are looking for a game yourself try Active Imagination or Collector's Paradise, they both have active gamer communities. I have posted on their bulletin boards in the stores for takers for my Wreck as well but still no takers. We game at my friends house and and he is pretty charitable about the space but he is hinting that I need to get rid of it soon. If you have any friends in ABQ email them and keep this from going to the dumpster... :'(
Hmmm... anybody know how much it costs to ship a 6'x3'x2' light-weight box? (~4 pounds) (Yes, I know the offer was for Ronin's, but I am curious...) Unfortunately mine cannot be disassembled it is held together by glue, duct tape and the demonic forces of the abyss.
This is what I built: It is a nice 10'=1" scale model, my players loved it and we had a blast playing on it but its time has come to de-clutter my gaming area. My friend from Colorado Springs was going to take it but his entire game fell apart during SoS. You can have it for free but it will be pick up only. (Way too big to ship) I live in Albuquerque New Mexico and it is available first come first serve. If you are positive you want it please email me at: alarikdafu (at) hotmail.com and post here.
OK, I am finally to the start of Into The Maw with my group. I will let you guys know what happens in a week or two when they get there. I have been resisting but here is mine: 128. A bare room with a simple elegant tea table with a small but violent cloud hovering one foot above the tabletop. A copper bound small casket lies in the back corner of the room. On the table an immaculate bone china tea set is set out on a tarnished copper platter. A single teacup is filled with roiling water and it the constant target of the boiling storm. Upon the surface of the water there is apparently a caravel battling the tempest. A greenish nimbus surrounds the tea cup and makes it too hard to make out the details.
Meh... this player is her first time playing D&D and not a power gamer looking to game the system. She had a cool idea and nice dramatic effect. I allowed the concept in my game world, I just wanted to tweak the rules to us here. I appreciate the advice everyone has had so far. I will leave the theology/hydrology of the water elemental body composition in the official SRD20 cosmology to the experts... :) This is what I finally came up with: I kept these:
And I stole one from:
-It may be summoned around yourself if cast at one level higher. I then added: -Anyone can attack either creature without penalty. (Because of its powerful essence in the center of the elemental she must stay on its "surface") -Any movement needs to be shared (costs movement for both.) -Spells effect both equally except the druid is immune to poison gas and the like (since she is underwater.) Hmmm... I guess I should have clarified what I wanted before I asked for advice: -Allow high level aquatic druid to assume her natural aquatic forms and remain effective in dry land combat, rewarding to the player's creativity. -Not to set a precedent for Watery Power Armor that lets a waterbreathing spell caster blast away from a safe cocoon (a cocoon that hits back!) -Not to set a precedent for Watery Attack platform that will whisk a character around in melee charging monsters to allow full attacks every round while soaking up damage. -Simple, will not add a lot of rules to get in the way of the roleplaying. I toyed with reducing fire damage or adding to reflex saves but the druid would not be using the creature as a meat shield (they are both diving for cover) and it added too much complexity. I was not too concerned about realism and in the end my player was satisfied with my ruling. Thanks for your advice guys!
Gaming was delayed a week so I got bored and added gibbets and the tower. (I know I will forget about those gibbets if I don't put them in) Quick and cheap style: (Extra cost zero, 30 minutes of work including drying time.) -Quick gibbets were a push pins glued down, a spot of black duct tape on top to hide the weird colors and a strip of left over walkway glued around it for bars. Dabbed in glue on top to give it a consistent finish. -Tower was a few inches of left over cardboard tube, crenelated with scissors, colored with sharpie. I removed a circle of the first layer of cardboard to make a groove (so that the tower is removable for bottom floor access.) I took the plastic cap from the mail tube and cut a double semi circle, with cut on one side. Pushed down it made a groovy spiral staircase. Pics:
Tomorrow: Showtime!
One my players plays a Sea Kin druid. Last session she summoned an enormous water elemental around her and then shape shifted into an equal size aquatic creature (a giant squid.) I was pretty stunned and it was during a minor encounter so I let it slide since it was a cool effect but let them know I would come up with a final ruling later. The squid reach was very useful. What do you guy think?
Not sure about:
Woot. And I did not find the music cheesy, in fact I have been using the same soundtrack whenever we run into pirates. O:) I almost expected the fog to roll in about 37 seconds into it. Speaking of you should add dry ice to your vid--not really--ok maybe--nah--well... Dry ice.. hmm ...maybe for the game itself. Well, they do describe the wreck having a cloud of gnats and mosquitos around it. ..and whenever anyone fails a save against the Retriever's ice ray I dunk their mini in the vat... BWHAHAHAHA :)
Whew, I am done. Entitle it: "The Wreck cheap and fast." :) Here are some Construction pics:
Here is a video of the finished project:
Cost ~$10.00
I used a big pile of leftover cardboard from Christmas. The cardboard when glued together in a double layer was plenty stiff, a little duct tape around the edges and it looks snazzy. A couple of color copies filched from the color copier/printer at work (Yes, that is cheating in the material cost... NYAH :) were glued onto the double layers for the map and ships. I mounted them to mail tubes as the trees and couple dowels as masts and moorings. Holes were cut in the double layer for the mail tubes to go through and I skewered the mail tubes with dowels slipped between the the card board layers to hold them in place. (That and a ton of glue and duct tape.) Then I built up the Fo'c'sles with another cardboard layer. The holes that I had previously punched out of the ships (for the mail tubes) I re-used as Crow's nests to attach the cardboard walkways. Then I raided my son's room for brown and green construction paper which I slapped on some of the scrap cardboard for the tree canopy. To finish it out I duct taped the crap out of everything rough looking and anything loose I drowned in glue.
What scale did you guys use?
How did it turn out? Who won the cookies? :)
My PCs also used windwalk to arrive at the plateau and also made a beeline for Khala so I had the exact same concern. They were slaying the skinwalkers without much challenge so I gave it a twist. Once they conquered Khala I had them use their Knowledge (Religion) to figure out the that his area was a formerly an altar to the Olman gods and could be used for special purpose. (Rissashtak or Jakara could also give some clues about this.) Once the altar was re-consecrated they could use it bring back the Olman who had been turned into Skinwalkers. They would need to use the Olman sunsword to cut the demon skin from the man on the altar then cast Heal to fix the flesh and the mind. (It being the sword of an Olman hero and whole idea of the blood sacrifices that the Olman gods demanded made it perfect.) If their priest succeeded at Caster Level check of 20 (Not hard with the Karma bead from the many Strings of Prayer Beads in this path) they now had a rescued and very grateful Olman villager. Failure meant a dead villager but still one less skinwalker. This had the effect that the party wanted to explore all the ruins to find all the remaining Skinwalkers and the added difficulty of catching them alive. Then they had to spread out and catch all the other tribes roaming the thorps on the plateau. (Once they had a good method down I just told them it take s X number of days to round up all the rest rather than run repetitive encounters.) It worked great. After a week of this they sent someone to check in on Lavinia and report their success triggering the start of the next adventure with nice timing. No railroading, major additions to the adventure or rewriting the plot needed... :)
My group had a cocky invisible rogue get caught peeking into the room while the rest of the group was strung out behind in a few other rooms. They kept coming in one at a time as they caught up to save him. They stayed away to take care of his pets and the false Noltus; they just sniped at Khala (as per the description he stays near the altar). They kept up building masses of ineffective summoned creatures (that greater dispel at will was very useful) In effect they just managed to keep losing levels to his spit attack. When they charged him en masse the gaze attacks decimated them (they had stayed more than 30 feet away so they had no idea about them.) In the end they won but narrowly got away with only one fatality. In the end it was a very nasty encounter for them but it was certainly not helped by their unfortunate approach strategy. This is a roleplay heavy group of swashbucklers and retreat is not in their vocabulary. They certainly had fun and it was quite a memorable encounter even without major tactics on their part.
I set it up to do a little foreshadowing: I put about 20 trogs, 6 cave lizards and a shaman/leader (a leper from next adventure). They were total mooks, my players ambushed their above ground watch in the valley and slaughtered their way to back of their cavern system. When they saw the last of the warriors and the leader making a last stand over the elderly and children, they pulled pulled back to regroup (the good aligned group realizing they were basically slaughtering an entire a village.) After a few rounds as they were coming back to negotiate they felt a huge tremor. They rushed back only to find to the trogs had they had sacrificed all the elderly and children to Laogzed and the shaman standing in front of a new cave-in having just pulled a lever. They dispatched the rest of trogs and found the lever seemed to be connected to a long system of now buried chains and supports. The now impassible and totally collapsed tunnel seemed to have headed under the waters to somewhere deep under the Isle of Dread...
I too will be building this over the holidays during our holiday gaming break. I was thinking canvas strapping from army surplus threaded with wire for support for the walkways. hmmm... that would mean the minis would slide down pretty easy and be hard to keep them in place. Hmm... I wonder if Legos and superglue would be too geeky?
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