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I went trolling back through the posts and didn't see this mentioned, so sorry if it actually was and point me to the right thread.

Ok, so the tactic of the Trifaccia battle is for Yzahnum to hide out and wait a few rounds for the Sczarni to throw insults and make 'wishes' that he can then make come true. The book has three examples.

1) How did GMs play this out? If you haven't, what do you plan to do?

2) I want to come up with more 'wishes' to throw at them. Did anyone here come up with some good ones? Maybe a few more...innocuous ones before hitting the "I Wish You'd Die" kind?

I'm trying to figure out how I can roleplay them yelling all kinds of stuff, and not make it obvious they're linked to the 'strange occurences'. I also would hate to have one of them fail a save and get jettisoned from the rest of the chapter.

Thanks

Ok, so I'm currently running Crimson Throne, going to knock out Chapter Six here by end of December, then we'll jump back to completing Ch5-6 of Serpent's Skull. We alternate GMs and campaigns - has worked well for GM fatigue, my fiance is running Jade Regent as well.

After I finish Crimson Throne, I want to start planning my next AP before SSk is finished so we can transition smoothly to the next. I have the Runelords minis set, will have the Shattered Star minis set, and our third choice looks to be Skull & Shackles, but lets just focus on Runelords/Shattered Star for the purposes of this thread.

For those who have played/GM'd Runelords, and are currently playing/GM'ing Shattered Star, how similar are these paths? I'm speaking in terms of gameplay: amount of dungeons, roleplay opportunities, interest of story, etc. I get the basic concepts of each, have played through the first chapter and a half of Runelords, and have read parts of the first 3 chapters of Shattered Star.

I'm looking for a strong opinion on either side of whether we should 'definitely' play Runelords, then Shattered Star, i.e. if we'll really be missing out on something epic by not playing Runelords at all, OR if it would be OK to just do Shattered Star and skip Runelords in favor of completing some of the newer, non-Varisia based APs, and just catch them up on the Runelords backstory and what they 'should know' about 'current' events.

Thoughts?