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Well, I'm running SC for a core group that's been around in previous campaigns. We're up to the Smoking Eye. They were dead set on playing some kind of half-elemental group from the Manual of the Planes book (utterly rediculous, I know), but they've been good and I don't particularly like killing them, so I let them.

Half-Air Elemental Elf Rogue
Half-Earth Elemental Dwarf Cleric (Moradin)
Half-Fire Elemental Orc Ranger

and, for extra players, a
Half-Water Elemental Human Wizard

It's going to be their fault when they've got insane template stackage (Elemental Smoking Eye Orc Ranger/Prestige Class, ect.) The way I've counteracted the template's power boost is by splitting the exp as if there were four of them, even though there are only three, so they generally stay at the same level as recommended by the adventures.

Normally I'm pretty stringent about races and so on, so I let them loose here. Hey, they want to have characters in an epic campaign they can remember!

It doesn't really mess anything but Alek is nearly mad, really sad and broken for all the torments he had since he was young, lost of his nobility, fighting along the path of righteousness only to be duped by Hags and lost in a maze.

If he comes back he will have forgotten a lots of the last events; I think that it's a way to tell the players:"That"s your fight now, I have done so much, I reached the end of my quest", and to show them that nobody has to be brought back to life if he doesn't want.

Yeah. But the PCs are in the middle of the desert, so they'll probably end up trying to drag Alek along. Just having the resurrect or raise dead not work would feel kind of lame. I think I'll just have him be an unenthusiastic, dejected follower, mad or whatever, and play it by ear.

As far as the Test of the Smoking Eye, it seems you could run the campaign fine without it, and just let everyone be able to destroy the cages. I mean, what would happen if the "Smoking Eye" character got zapped by disintegration or something? Do they lose the campaign? ...I dunno.

Um... yeah... the party I'm DMing is at about the same spot, except Alek just died, and we're about to move on to the next adventure.

I have a kind of a tangential question. The thing is, the party cleric wants to bring him (Alek) back to life. Does this mess anything up? What happens? Should I just have Alek not really remember this quote/his prophecies? Is he kind of nutty? I've got some time to figure this out, but if there's an obvoius answer I'm missing, please help me to it.