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Thanks for all the suggestions guys! I really appreciate it all. I'll definitely be working with some of these ideas for future story beats and (I'm sure) future character deaths.

Dave Justus wrote:

3 deaths is really quite a lot, sometimes it happens, but it might be that you need to adjust things. If nothing else, you can come up with a way for them to be raised from the dead.

I think a serious problem in Strange Aeons is that one fight in the courtyard with the flying thing that picks you up and drops you to your doom is basically impossible to avoid and is *super* deadly. If anybody is reading this because they want to run Strange Aeons, it's pretty important to tone that one down.

Yup, this one caused the first death. The other was due to a pack of ghouls who basically paralyzed the entire party, and the last was due to disease. I'm not sure how to tone it back much more, there is 5 players, doing what the book suggests for 4 players. I'm not TRYING to kill them, it's mainly due to them failing their saves (Disease, paralysis, etc.) quite a lot. I'm hoping it isn't too much more of an issue now that they have a paladin in the party which is helping quite a lot.

So I'm currently running through Strange Aeons, and my players just finished the first book. For reference, I'm done reading through the third book myself. My problem is that this AP seems to rely heavily on the PC's being (at least mostly) the same throughout the entire AP. My problem is that out of the 5 PC's that started the AP as the amnesiacs who were Lowls' previous bodyguards, only one of them remains (3 of them died in the first book, while the final one had to drop the game due to time restraints).

What should I do in this case? This AP seems to rely so heavily on these PC's trying to unravel their pasts, which at this point only really pertains to one character, and if she dies, none. I've worked in that one of the new PC's was helping Doctor Lisandro, and was also given up as a sacrifice to the Mad Poet, and had lost his memory as well. The other two are not amnesiacs (one being the sister to one of the original PC's who is trying to find out exactly what happened to him and caused him to be admitted to the asylum and his ultimate death, with the other being someone who was sent to be undercover in the asylum to spy on lowls after suspicion started to rise about him.) My worry is that the campaign might start to not run as smooth, especially if all the original PC's are dead.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I feel like you're both right, but the more I think about it the more I feel like maybe my character is going to be more lawful evil than I originally thought, as I want to build her as an assassin that is basically just trying to murder all the higher ups and nobles. I also discovered an eastern god (Yaezhing) which is basically perfect for my character as I took the ninja-like archetype for vigilante and have the goal of shadow dancer, and the god is also Lawful Evil. At the same time though, my character would never kill innocent people, so I'm really struggling if she would actually be evil or neutral, as she kind of seems to be somewhere in the middle.

I had a similar vigilante situation in my Hell's Rebels game, so I figured the daughter of a noble house could be LN just fine and the dashing son of the revolution can be NG.

I managed this by needing to "keep up appearances" and "follow protocol" whilst in social mode.

I was thinking about having her be more Lawful Neutral when out of her vigilante, but I figured that things that detect alignment, and if I suddenly stopped acting so evil in character, some of the nobles and such might catch on that something is up, which is why I'm trying to put up a more "evil" persona when in the social form, but again, I'm not sure how exactly it would work as I wouldn't be truly evil, and it would be more of a mask than anything else, my GM was also questioning this as well, as I'm not sure if the alignment of a vigilante would need to be 100% authentic (just as with most superheroes act different when out of costume, and put up a bit of an act, while usually when in costume, they're a bit more of their true selves).

Hey guys, so I was curious on how exactly alignment would have to work for a vigilante. So I'm currently making a Vigilante for the Hell's Rebel's Campaign. The idea is for the face/normal identity to be someone who is friendly with many of the people in house Thune and the Guards of the town, while the Vigilante side would be the one helping the rebels and doing all the fighting with them, with her eventually going into the shadow dancer prestige class to achieve full stabby assassin.

My main concern is that her Face form would be lawful evil (I took the ex-asmodian campaign trait and the idea is that her family has always been a pretty chummy with the leadership but she's decided to stray from that but hasn't actually told anyone) although she wouldn't ACTUALLY be lawful evil, and be more of a true neutral (Her vigilante alignment) and would be putting on the Lawful Evil as a guise to keep up her appearance. So my issue would be, would she actually HAVE to be a lawful evil in her acts (she would have no issue pretending to support the various things happening, and even doing some light evil things to keep up the ruse, but wouldn't actually be evil.) or could it just be flavored that everyone just believes she is Lawful Evil aligned? I know this idea is kind of backward, with the face (Normal) version of the character, being the more "fake" or "masked" version with the vigilante being the more "true" to her ideals version.

Sorry if this was a bit convoluted but just wanted to kind of see what everyone else thought and how this would actually play into the class.