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That's the one thing I was hoping to see in AoW, a template to add to critters so we could have more of Kyuss minions. I want to create some Kyuss Carrion Crawlers! Perhaps are editors could through something up here for us?

With the final chapter only a few weeks away, I hope Dawn of a New Age will live up to everything we are hoping for. There is nothing worse than going to a movie that you have great expectations of, and it doesn't live up to the hype, but the last four chapters of AoW have rocked, so I expect this one will as well.

In addition, I was wondering if the editors plan on having another 2 pages worth of art with all the major villians/NPC's of AoW in it, like they did for the previous adventure path?

Here is the original nursery rhyme-still creeps me out! With a few minor changes, it is very easily adaptable to AoW. If any of you creative DM's do so, please repost it, I'd like to see it.

Warning! Not for the squeamish!

The Worms Crawl In
Did you ever think, as a hearse goes by,
That you might be the next to die?
They wrap you up in a big white sheet,
And bury you down about six feet deep

They put you in a big black box,
And cover you up with dirt and rocks,
And all goes well, for about a week,
And then the coffin begins to leak!

The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
The worms play pinochle on your snout.
They eat your eyes, they eat your nose,
They eat the jelly between your toes.

A great big worm with rolling eyes,
Crawls in your stomach and out your eyes,
Your stomach turns a slimy green,
And pus pours out like whipping cream.

You spread it on a slice of bread,
And that's what worms eat when you're dead.

Alternate / Additional Lines:

They wrap you up in a long white shirt
And cover you up with rocks and dirt

They put you in a long pine box
And cover you over with dirt and rocks

The worms that crawl in are lean and thin
The worms that crawl out are fat and stout

Your eyes fall in and your hair falls out
Your brains come pouring out your snout

They use your bones as telephones
and call you up but you're no longer at home

Your eyes pop out, your teeth decay
and that's the end of a peaceful day

You turn the color of sickening green
And pus comes out like butter and cream
You wipe it up with a piece of bread
And that's what you eat when you are dead

They eat your eyes, they eat your nose
They eat the jelly between your toes

Your stomach turns a mossy green
And pus comes out like fresh whipped cream
You wipe it up with a piece of bread
And that's what you eat when you are dead

I am beginning my campaign in about a month or so and in 25 years of DMing, I have never been so excited about a campaign as I am AoW. That being said, I wanted to do some serious forshadowing in the first session. After the group meets and gets together in a side adventure (the wharf chase from the Mad God's Key, issue #114-a great 1st level adventure-but I am just using the wharf chase), they encounter a group of children singing various creepy songs such as 'Ring Around the Rosie' and 'The Worms Crawl In' - just to set a dark tone. Most of the players will have something in their characters' background that makes them dislike worms, maggots from something that occured in their history.

A great episode of Battlestar Galactica inspired me as well-The episode Scar, where they took a cyclon fighter and turned him into this larger-than-life villian who hated humanity and killed numerous pilots and had everyone on nerve about facing him. Looking at the first encounter in the Whispering Cairn, I found my Scar with Eric's description of the wolf that bore the scar down his.

Scar, will have quite a bounty out for him by local farms and the city watch alike. Rumors will persist about his uncanny cunning and intelligence in ambushing people; of how he has snatched babies from mothers arms, of how he managed to cripple one of the elder warriors in town. 'Mad' Murrik, one of the town drunks, was infact a ranger/druid until he lost his hand to Scar. When Murrik speaks of the wolf, the PC's will hear the fear in his voice as he relates how he has never felt so much malign evil in a natural creature before. The overwhelming hatred that ran through 'it'. How 'it's' unnatural malevolence seemed to permeate it's very essence. I want the players to poop themselves when their first encounter is with Scar, the Great Gray Wolf!

Just taking a simple encounter with three wolfs and making it much more adds a lot of fun for the players (and me too).

One thing I noticed in this adventure is, what happens if the player choose to leave the big worm trapped in the forcefield-as my players likely will. In the final confrontation in the arena, they have a nasty fight, then this big ol worm burst forth and let's face it, he is very likely to swallow a fighter type without much difficulty. Now he gets tougher, and all hell brakes loose in the arena from the negative backlash of energy released. I am running FR, so I am sure Lords of Waterdeep would get a handle on the situation, but not after hundreds or even thousands are killed in what follows (according to the adventure).

Has anyone had to deal with this situation?