| Sean O'Brien 794 |
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Hey, I'm building a campaign setting in alternate universe Roman empire. Basically imagining if Spartacus' rebellion succeeded and the slaves escaped, causing the empire to collapse, then have an industrial revolution. Eastern and Western empires go for a century without communications, now they are about to clash in a massive war that the PCs are caught between as descendants of the slave rebels. Apart from specific historical basis on Earth, the rest of the setting is pure Pathfinder.
I'm writing as fast as I can, but there aren't enough hours, and the party I'm running is catching up. Main plot revolves around an evil cleric with support from daemons attempting to unleash the Titans from Tartarus, with the war as a sort of subplot. PCs are mainly trying to save their people and eventually save the world.
Right now the key is writing the second major chapter, where the PCs chase the evil cleric into the underworld, which is accessed through a mine that was dug just a bit too deep. There they discover members of their own society (miners) who they thought long dead. The kicker is that these people have gone dark, which is discovered to be because they got too close to the shades below and were possessed and transformed.
Most of these people are now darkfolk (former humans) and Duergar (former dwarves). They transformed 20 years ago. Love the idea of many turning into shadow dancers, but apart from that the Kindgom of Hell (the community of these 200-odd trapped Sparticans) is pretty loosely defined. Long story short I could use some ideas of semi-hostile NPCs.
I'll post more as I go along, but this is sort of the immediate thing. Any ideas welcome. Go crazy!