Hrothdane
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So, what you are saying is that a rebellion with a rose theme overthroes and kills an powerful lawful evil ruler, who then becomes even more powerful and hellish after he dies?
I think I am familiar with this story (not that that is a problem).
DeciusNero
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Agree, awesome title. And I am all behind getting some digs on Mephistopheles!
Really psyched at there being a political movement of Kintargo becoming a sovereign state (and the PC's being involved). Poor Cheliax - first Sargava, then Molthune, Galt, and Andoran...
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Anyone want to guess what reconstituted form Barzillai takes in this? The easiest answer is that he was killed by the party, went to Hell, and became a devil. But I thought Pharasma's judgement process lasted a really long time and unless you're very, VERY successful in serving Asmodeus you most likely spend thousands of years as a lemure.
I wonder what's going on with him?
Kalindlara
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Anyone want to guess what reconstituted form Barzillai takes in this? The easiest answer is that he was killed by the party, went to Hell, and became a devil. But I thought Pharasma's judgement process lasted a really long time and unless you're very, VERY successful in serving Asmodeus you most likely spend thousands of years as a lemure.
I wonder what's going on with him?
Check out the first page or two of In Hell's Bright Shadow. ^_^
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Axial wrote:Anyone want to guess what reconstituted form Barzillai takes in this? The easiest answer is that he was killed by the party, went to Hell, and became a devil. But I thought Pharasma's judgement process lasted a really long time and unless you're very, VERY successful in serving Asmodeus you most likely spend thousands of years as a lemure.
I wonder what's going on with him?
Check out the first page or two of In Hell's Bright Shadow. ^_^
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Kalindlara
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Kalindlara wrote:** spoiler omitted **.Axial wrote:Anyone want to guess what reconstituted form Barzillai takes in this? The easiest answer is that he was killed by the party, went to Hell, and became a devil. But I thought Pharasma's judgement process lasted a really long time and unless you're very, VERY successful in serving Asmodeus you most likely spend thousands of years as a lemure.
I wonder what's going on with him?
Check out the first page or two of In Hell's Bright Shadow. ^_^
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He comes off as weird and "creepy", even to his family... and they don't know the half of it.
James Jacobs
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Barzillai's pact...
As for why he wants to become a genius loci... well, not only is it a path to immortality, but it's also a pretty powerful entity in and of itself. Full details on them will be in the "Continuing the Campaign" article in this volume, in a "What if the PCs lose?" sort of scenario.
James Jacobs
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not quite...
ErisAcolyte-Chaos jester
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Either way, it could be really interesting if the players failed to stop the ritual, and had to form an unholy alliance with the Hells vengeance Pcs in order to stop the evil loci Barzillai from sinking all of Cheliax. Granted it makes the whole 'break away from the evil empire' thing a bit tricker but at least you put the lunatic down.
Kvantum
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What form does Barzillai Thrune take in the final battle?
I.E what has he become of him since he went to Hell?
And as for the Bestiary...
Cruciarus, CR 12 undead. Undead that only arise from the cruelest of tortures. Pain touch and tortured gaze attacks, with different types of gaze effects depending on just how they were tortured in life.
The Forsaken Legion, CR 2-4 undead remnants of a force of Jistkan soldiers subjected to a spell that rendered them without need of food or sleep, but also apparently doomed them to eternal service as well. Arbalester, Defender, and Foot Soldier versions.
Shadow Golem, CR 14. Str damage breath weapon, interactions with light and shadow magics, and a shadow aura. Has to be made on the Plane of Shadow from materials native only to that plane, including blood of its sentient beings.
Nightprowler Nightshade, CR 10. The smallest Nightshade, looking something like a red-eyed feline of pure shadow. Their natural attacks leave a stain of creeping dark shadows that hinders magical healing and vision.
Lord Gadigan
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I extend a big thumbs-up on the design of the Infernal Contracts. They use the library research system elements in an interesting and effective way, include a rule to prevent brute-forcing-via-infinite-retries by the underqualified-to-understand-them that reflects diabolic trickery well while allowing bargainers to still have a chance of cracking them later when they're more up-to-the-task, have a good selection of benefits, and are overall rather flavorful with the hidden clauses, payments, and effects.
I'd love to see a 'fiendish toolbox' book full of these and manifestations (and probably other, similar, things).
James Jacobs
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Sadly no write-up for Mephistopheles stats, but otherwise a great module. I'm looking forward to GM'ing this AP one day.
That was a specific decision on our part—the AP isn't about fighting him, after all, and while he DOES have stats and is likely CR 30, putting stats in the book sends the exact wrong message for this AP. So... no stats.
There is indeed at least one Faust reference in 102 though. I made sure of that.
Lord Gadigan
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Whoops, looks like I posted here about the contracts earlier instead of on The Kintargo Contract.
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The stats are for Azrana, a Morrigna Psychopomp Cleric of Pharasma who is likely to be helping PCs who are out to destroy the Soul Anchor. Alternately, she's opposition if the PCs are trying to use it for their own purposes.
There's also traits / powers for Barzillai as a Genius Loci if the PCs don't stop him from becoming one. Those aren't really a normal statblock, but I think they count as something worth mentioning here.
Kalindlara
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I found a loophole in the boons for Mephistopheles. Very appropriate, I think. ^_^
Revoke Healing (Su) A number of times per day equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1), you can deal damage to a creature in your line of sight that you have magically healed within the past 24 hours. The damage equals the amount restored by the highest-level spell with the healing descriptor that you can cast. This may result in you causing more damage than you healed. The damage occurs in a single round. In the case of healing spells that heal over multiple rounds, only healing provided in the first round is counted when determining damage.
Slap an enemy with cure light wounds - maybe quickened or reach or something. Even if they make a save, they've still been magically healed. Then, hit them for damage equal to your highest-level healing spell (probably heal), with no save. It doesn't even carry the part of heal/harm that leaves them with 1 hp.
Fascinatingly, it gets way less powerful when you get access to mass cure serious wounds. That's what you get for trusting in Mephistopheles, I guess. If you hold out, though, your faith will be rewarded with mass heal's damage.
Still... I might have to use this someday.
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Whoops, looks like I posted here about the contracts earlier instead of on The Kintargo Contract.
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Anything involving helping the Glorious Reclamation? Or anything linking to Hell's Vengeance, for that matter?
Kalindlara
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Lord Gadigan wrote:Anything involving helping the Glorious Reclamation? Or anything linking to Hell's Vengeance, for that matter?Whoops, looks like I posted here about the contracts earlier instead of on The Kintargo Contract.
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Nope. Just a brief mention (in either this one or the last) that they're in Westcrown by now. And the thing about making them and the HV PCs fight, but that's not news.
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Axial wrote:Nope. Just a brief mention (in either this one or the last) that they're in Westcrown by now. And the thing about making them and the HV PCs fight, but that's not news.Lord Gadigan wrote:Anything involving helping the Glorious Reclamation? Or anything linking to Hell's Vengeance, for that matter?Whoops, looks like I posted here about the contracts earlier instead of on The Kintargo Contract.
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No doubt getting Shadowbeasts all up their buisness.