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More "After Lovecrafts," please.

"The Colour Out of Space" had something of a sequel setup, with the area being flooded and possibly becoming part of the local water supply.

"From Beyond" could easily lead to a subsequent rediscovery of the Tillinghast Resonator or another means of peering Beyond.

Etc.

I think I read somewhere that 4e actually uses literal cards to represent powers.

It's an option, just as they used to have little quick-ref cards for spells. But 4e is not a card game.

4e powers have fairly small, self-contained stat blocks, so writing one up on a card is an easy way to have the mechanics to hand without having to flip through a book.

I've not used cards myself, but in my own 4e playtest one-shot, the extra sheet with each character's powers written out was a very nice thing to have.

I'd happily use such things in 3e, PF, whatever. I used them in a short Weapons of the Gods game I ran, so players could easily keep track of kung fu techniques, and it went swimmingly. That group wasn't the sort to read the rules on their own, and without my little "cheat sheets" the game could easily have been a nightmare.

S.

I'm interested in running one of the Paizo APs for the group I hope to put together after D&D 4e comes out (I know, I know, blasphemy). They seem like the best campaign books currently in existence.

I'd like to pitch little blurbs on the different APs to my prospective players and let them pick the one that interests them most.

However, I'm a little stuck on how to bring out the interesting and distinctive parts of each AP without "giving away" too much that happens later on in the storyline.

Any suggestions? How would you pitch Rise of the Runelords, Curse of the Crimson Throne, and (what we know of) Second Darkness so as to whet interest but not reveal too much?

If anyone has pitch ideas for the three Dungeon APs as well, that would be cool too.

Thanks,

Stacy