I would love to seemore of South East Asian culture incorporated into Golarion. My wife being Javanese, I like when she talk to me about the more mythologic side of her culture.
Or it could come in form of an exploration AP where you discovers islands and islands with a mix of different culture. Just changing half and island in Indonesia mean you have to change the way you say ''Yes'' from Iya (Jakarta) to Iyo (Yogyakarta). And the Linguist Archetype become a most!
Also, as mentioned, more Wayang stuff, my father-in-law as a huge collection of them (And a collection a keris...one forged in 1200's...)
I read the forum often, but don't really take time to post. But this time, I need help.
After reading the books and the forum many time, I know the problem about the foreshadowing of the ''Big boss''. Looking into the problem, I remembered the ''classic horror revisited'' story about the hag.
To sum up : Three good beautiful faerie princesses became vain, bitter and evil. The fey court cursed and banished them to Golarion. After that, the fey courts razed their castle to the ground.
My idea :
- First change : There was five sisters, not three. The older ones had their fey kingdom at each cardinal point : West, North, East, South. The fifth one, the youngest, lived in the middle.
- Second change : Four sisters became vain, bitter and evil. They picked on their youngest sister.
- Third change : The youngest, tried to stop the blight and the conflict between the sisters. She was a good girl helping the other faeries when they tried to flee the blight.
- Fourth Change : When the fey courts saw the corruption of their kingdom, they cursed all the sisters, banished the four kingdom from the first world. The sisters were imprisonned in their own planar kingdom.
- Fifth change : Nyrissa became the green hag (south), Rhoswen became the annis (west), Neithrope became the winter hag (north), Caillea became the blood hag (east).
- Sixth change : Seeing everyhting being cursed, Jurissa, the youngest, ripped appart her eye and tongue, becoming the Mute Hag.
So I modified the tale to fit those details (I won't post it on the forum, since I just copied the text from the book and changed it to fit those change).
Now the original background of the campaign :
Nyrissa want to steal the land to give it to the eternal in hope to be pardon. That's it.
So here my idea :
The four sisters want their beauty back, they want their freedom back, they want their servant back and they want to kill each other.
Beauty :
Caillea : She plan to bath in mortal's blood, a lot of beautiful mortal woman's blood.
Nyrissa : She removed the curse by transfering it to another person: Her youngest sister Jurissa.
Neithrope : Stealing true love. She want to melt her cold heart.
Rhoswen : Before being cursed, she captured her own image through a mirror. She plan to switch her old reflexion with her cursed form.
Kingdom :
Caillea : Taking the place of the queen. By doing that, she hope to be acknowledge by the genius loci, and after that she plan to replace it with her own genius loci.
Nyrissa : She will create dimensional breach slowly transfering her kingdom to the material realm.
Neithrope : Activating the elfgate of Candlemere, she will create an opening to her world, creating a pocket of eternal winter to extend and transfert her kindgom. ( I know about reign of winter)
Rhoswen : Her little gnome helper need to retrieve the mirror of shadow to create a focus. She will blur the limit of her kingdom to the material world with fog.
Now about foreshadowing those events :
Jurissa was cursed by her sister, not by the fey court. She was the one giving refuge to the fleeing fey. She tried to stop her sister peacefuly. She was a good princess. After being curse and becoming the first mute hag, she decided to keep helping the fey. She created the Witchmarket with her own banished plane. The witchmarket can manifest once per year.
Jurissa will be the one to foreshadow each event. By creating the witchmarket, she created a powerful way to gain information or to give information. Each year, she will give a hint to the pc. In the form of fairytale or strange object. The first one I thought was a bottle containing a small light, a glimmer of hope.
Do you have any idea to add? I need more meat around the bone.
* and again, sorry for my english. My main language is french.
The Iron Xebub : A green Kobold cavalier order of the dragon with a Deinonychus mount.
D'ka, The stone prophet: A brown kobold, oracle of the stone and cursed with haunting stone.
Xani and Xina, The twin assassin: Two black rogue/assassin kobold. They came form the same egg.
Sinitin, The Great Drake: A white kobold summoner with a ''White Dragon Eidolon''.
The group made others think that they were obeying the White Dragon, and the sight of a Large White Dragon is enough to make must villager back off. So they were enjoying human way of live, by intimidation and trickery.
I was playing Rise of the Runelord a second time with new players. Since I knew the campaign, I decided to go full sin. I was playing a fat human summoner with an animated chair as eidolon (four legged, slam, mount (useless but a chair is a chair), push)
As the campaign progressed, he became bigger, slower and lazier. He couldn't move more than 10 feet before going out of breath for the round. At some point, the chair became a flying throne, so he just sat on it. Glutonny and Sloth were his sins.
I'll go with her becoming a haunt, sobbing at the sea.
Every night, listening to her sobbing cause a Terrible Remorse Spell (CL5) to take effect to the people listening her. Or a Castigate spell.
or
The tower become gloomy and people at a range of x miles suffer a Crushing Despair spell.
or
The wave from the ocean carry her grudge, every ship attempting to reach Tidewater Rock must take a Profession [sailor] DC X or suffer damage as the wave slam the ship against the rocks.
Since we have to much players/Gm (10), the way we chained AP is unique.
Our campaign setting isn't Golarion.
We started with ''Kingmaker'', on a new world, without magic, in the Stone/Bronze Age. We created two groups and rather to go ''one king and his councillors'', we gone with every player get a baronny and created a kingdom.
At the end of this campaing, magic appeared (only with the Word of Power). And started ''Second Darkness'' 2 century after ''Kingmaker'' in the bronze age. We played heir of our baronny/house.
Then, we did a modified ''Rise of the Runelord'' where one of the player's Baronny became the enemies, 2 century after the preceding campaign. The campaign began the Bronze/Iron Age and spell of level 1-2 could be chosen without the need of Words of Power.
And now we are playing ''Legacy of Fire''. After the rebellion of the Treasurer Baronny, an invading army attacked the kingdom. We're a playing 1 century after the rebellion, in the age of iron, spell form level 4-5 are available.
I think the next campaign will ''Curse of the Crimson Throne'' followed by an inverted ''Jade Regent''... to begin the Age of Darkness.
The link between campaign is that we play heir or member of the first house. Each house has a speciality and power. Every action of the past affect the futur campaign.
We play ''2 groups, 1 campaign'' since we are now 9 players. The whole groups meet once each month to discuss politic and development of the kingdom. But, for the other session, the two groups play the ''same campaign'' but in different way.
Exemple 1:
Group 1: The usual ''Rise of the Runelord''.
Group 2: A modified military ''Rise of the Runelord'' where they defend the kingdom against army of giant
Exemple 2:
Group 1: A modified military ''Legacy of Fire'' where they defend the kingdom against invader.
Group 2: The usual ''Legacy of Fire''
This thread has become a childish and bashing debate on rules or guidelines.
The rules are ok (shallowsoul will disagree), but if you want to change them, propose something, discuss about the problem...and try to not insult, bash, troll someone who disagree with you.
For my part, I suggest you start a new thread in the suggestion forum, with an open mind and without the ''I'm god, so everyone should agree'' attitude. If you need help to being polite, I can create the thread. But for now, this conversation is going nowhere, just lock the thread...
Shallowsoul, as Pirate said, you can continue to talk about how you would change the magic item creation in the suggestion section. But Sean K Reynolds said:
Sean K Reynolds wrote:
* We are not going to change the crafting rules from how they work in the Core Rulebook, so please don't ask us to.
Since they won't make any change, your thread was moved where it belong. We all know your crusade against the ''bad magic item creation rules'', but you need to calm down and start diplomacy. You sound a little to much aggressive and annoying. Give and take, with the help of everyone and little change to the existing rules, maybe you'll come with a better crafting system.
*Again, sorry for my bad english. I'm a French speaker.
Let him burn the village but switch his alignement to whatever you want,but make him a heretic.
Since he is now a heretic, have Lastwall dispatch a group of inquisitor to hunt him. Have a fair and just trial, if he can justify his actions, good. If he can't, I'm sure that the Knight of Ozem will finish this corrupted soul.
Or have the ghost of the burned villagers haunt him.
Me and my player love the world of Golarion, we use it has a base for every campaign we do. And make sure that every campaign we do can change the world. Soon, it will be my turn again to GM and I want to play ‘’The Shattered Star’’, since I GMed ‘’Rise of the Runelord’’.
But, I have a problem, after Rise of the Runelord, some of my players wanted to continue, they wanted to become the new Runelord. So I extended the campaign with the return of other Runelords (Xanderghul and Alaznist).
Now, I need to adapt the Shattered Star AP. Here the change that happened (I put spoiler everywhere to avoid any trouble):
AP we played:
- Rise of the Runelord
- Curse of the Crimson Throne (Failed)
- Second Darkness
- Legacy of Fire (Failed)
- Council of Thieves
- Carrion Crown (playing now, last fight today)
- Jade Regeant
- Skull and Shackle (playing now, will end soon)
What about the Runelord?:
- Alaznist has awakened and started her rampage.
- Shorshen possessed Queen Ileosa Arabasti (We failed in the Curse of the Crimson Throne AP)
- Xanderghul tried to stop the cataclysm by himself (almost died) , he then waited in stasis and my players killed him.
- Karzoug is dead.
- Krune is sleeping…
- Belimarius is waiting and envious.
- Zutha, at the end of my Carrion Crown campaign, the last member of the Whispering Way changed their plan. Since the Carrion Crown Elixir didn’t work, they want to break in Gallowspire with the help of someone, Zutha. So they try to find the piece of the Gluttonous Book. (Under the supervision of a Vampire Alchemist with Totemrix (ex-pc))
What about Varisia?:
- Sandpoint has been destroyed by Alaznist and the explosion of the Hellfire fume.
- Magnimar has been attacked by the Alaznist’s Army.
- Korvosa has been taken by Shorshen.
- Riddleport is under the protection of the Pathfinder. The new Runelord paid pirate mercenaries to help in the defense of Riddleport.
- Kaer Maga is still a free city.
- Xin’Shalast is now under the control of the player (the new Runelord of Greed, the Runelord of Pride (ex-pc)).
- Turtleback Ferry is now a military outpost.
- Brinewall is now a diplomatic outpost under the control of Minkai. (and a ex-pc)
My Idea:
The new Runelord of Pride (a Dragon Disciple) and the new Runelord of Greed (a Wizard) are building an army to oppose Alaznist . They heard about the Shattered Star and sent their army to recover the shards.
- Shattered Star 1 : Shard of Sin :
Magnimar is now a warzone, Alaznist has dispatched her army to take over the city. The PC need to recover the shard without Alaznist noticing them.
- Shattered Star 2 : Curse of Lady’s Light:
Shorshen dispatched the Gray Maiden to recover the shard before the PC.
- Shattered Star 3 : The Asylum Stone:
The last members of the Whispering Way headed to the Dark Forest to recover an artifact (they are thinking about a part of the Gluttonous Book, but the real one is the Shard of Gluttony)
- Shattered Star 4: Beyond the Doomsday Door :
coming soon.
I want this campaign to be more military oriented. The first part will be in a Warzone (Magnimar). Short mission and military encounter are on my program. My player will be military agent of the new Runelords.
I need help to design new campaign trait;
Trait:
- Sandpoint Survivor: You survived the destruction of Sandpoint and the explosion of the Hellfire Fume. You were taken to Xin'Shalast to recover.
- Magnimar Survivor: You fled Magnimar when Alaznist marched on the city. You were saved by arrival of the Runelords and their army.
- Recruited by Greed: The new runelord of Greed recruited you himself. You are greedy and the palace of Xin'Shalast is your paradise.
- Recruited by Pride : The runelord of Pride recruited you himself. You are arrogant and hope to show your might in his army.
- Korvosa Deserter : When Shorshen took over the city, you saw the horror she did. You deserted at the first opportunity and fled to Xin'Shalast.
- Riddleport Pathfinder : The Pathfinder dispatched a large group of people to help in study of the Cyphergate. Now, they asked you help the new Runelords in the defense of Varisia.
- Member of the Shoan’ti : You're a member of the Shoan'ti tribe. The horror of Alaznist are taking over your land. Your elder asked you to seek help.
- Turtleback Ferry Militia : Turtleback Ferry was converted in a military outpost Unfortunatly, the country is now in a full war and you were conscripted.
- Minkai Ambassador: You were a member of the Minkai's embassy (Brinewall), you now live in Varisia. Two people that called themselves ''Runelord'' asked help from the Empress Kaijistu.
- Pirate Mercenary: Last month you were on a boat, now you were paid to help in the attack in a old city. The pay is suppose to be good.
And do you have any suggestion? (sorry for my bad english). I have a good idea, but I need help with the content.
1.Planning the Big Boss (no stat):
- What are his goals?
- How can he achieve them?
- Why do he want this?
- Who is he?
2. Planning the generals (no stat):
- Why do they follow the big boss?
- What can they do for him?
- How can they help him?
3. Story
- What his the background? The history?
- Where does it begin?
- Where does it finish?
- Are there any other important places?
- Why would the PC try to stop him?
- How can they stop him?
4.Place
- Why are the PC here?
- Who is living here?
- What will find the PC?
5.Encounter design, stat and map
Again, I tried my best to express myself. I hate the language barrier.
Thanks for the work, but I think you have lost a 3 before the last number and it is 38 millions, not 8, and a total population of about 42 millions people.
Sorry, I lost a 3. That's right : 38 millions.
I only took the notable settlement. The population of Belken,Druma, The Mwangi Expense and Varissia are in majority nomadic.
So, we change the black Death, for Aroden's Death.
