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So we are just starting Book 4 and I have a little problem with the timeline regarding Veshumirix. The Adventure Path starts in 4719 AR. Veshumirix was born in 3965 AR. When he was 200 years old (so in 4165 AR) he tried to seek out Mengkare, but failed, so for 10 years he was just going around killing stuff (so we are now in 4175 AR). Then he drew the attention of Dahak cultists, who sent him visions of Dahak and the city of Saggorak where he was shown wearing a crown and sitting on a large pile of treasures. Finding this desireable, he goes there, rampages over the city, kills lots of undead and kills even King Harral. Let's say he took his time with all this and it took let's say 5 years for him to do all this, so now it is 4180 AR. With Saggorak as his base of operations secured, he turns his eyes towards Kovlar, but decides a direct assault would be ill advised, because of magic wards on the walls and whatnot, so he has an awesome idea: let's go into the Darklands and build an army of undead, duergar and Darklands monsters to attack the city in his stead. All is good and well. Aaaand then... 539 years pass and Ilssrah Embermead comes along to offer an alliance to the dragon and the adventure proceeds from there.

Soooo, over the course of 539 years Veshumirix was just not able to build his army? Maybe he couldn't find a single duergar or any kind of monster to recruit into his army? Did he maybe got lost in the tunnels of the Darklands and couldn't find his way back to Saggorak? Or what? Seriously what he was doing for more than 500 years after coming up with his awesome plan of making an army and letting them do his dirty work? Any thoughts?

Minor spoilers below for the last module in the Jade Regent AP, The Empty Throne.

Today our brave party of adventurers heard of the food shortage issue from Isao. They immediately set out to resolve this situation, however we kind of run into a little problem. We were trying to figure out exactly how much rice are we talking about in that granary... One of my players came up with the random fact that a family of 4 in medieval Japan consumed 1 koku of rice over the course of a year, 1 koku being the equivalent of 150 kilograms (about 300 pounds) of rice. Kasai has a population of about 164000, so let's say 164000 / 4 = 41000 families, each eating up 150 kg of rice per year. That means a total of 6150000 kg of rice per year. We are assuming the bags in the granary each hold 50 kg of rice. Thus, we are talking about 123000 bags in total. Let's assume that the granary in fact only holds about half a year's worth of rice, we are still in the ballpark of about 60000 rice bags, each weighing 50 kg. This is the amount that should be stolen out of the granary in the dead of night, using carts supplied by Isao's buddies and distributed to the citizenry. Ummm, yeeeeaaah, right! This would need some serious logistics to pull off, really... Now we don't mean to criticize the module in any way, after all, we laughed so hard while figuring these numbers out and coming up with various solutions that it was much fun anyway. In the end the party decided to come up with an ingenious way of handling this, by opening a portal inside the granary, with the other end of the portal being somewhere far below the city in some natural cave, to store the "stolen" rice in. Since the portal has a limited duration they need to move this massive amount of rice quite quickly, so by clever application of the Reverse Gravity spell they mean to sort of suck all the rice from the ganary into the portal and be done with it. Meanwhile the druid is going to dig a tunnel down into the natural cave from an empty warehouse rented by Isao, so that the citizens of the city could get to the rice more or less undisturbed.

However we are curious about how other adventuring parties handled this particular problem? So if you have other, perhaps easier solutions, please do share. :-)