Hi Everybody! Long time lurker first time poster.
I'm running SCAP in Eberron, and need a little help with conversion. Here's what I've done so far.
Cauldron is found in Q'barra, where the city of Whitecliff can be found on the map.
I've added Houses Cannith and Thuranni into the city giving them small manses in the city.
One of my players is really aching to play a psion, and since Eberron is so accomodating to Psions I wanted to do a little work to make Eberron more accomodating to him. So I've decided to convert the Ghost Village into a progressive Kalashtar enclave. The elders of the enclave have seen some terrible event happening in the near future and have taken to training the psionically sensitive in the area, no matter the race. Now, heres my questions:
1) If you would convert any of the villains or NPCs in SCAP to Psionic Classes/Monsters who would it be?
2) What Eberron planes would you use to replace Occipitus and Carceri?
3) Would it make sense for the Cagewright's plots to be connected to the Dreaming Dark at all, perhaps this is a big scheme to link Eberron and the plane of dreams again?
4) If one were to replace the half-orc mercenaries with warforged ones, what would be the consequences of that?
This could be quite cool.
So far I've placed an enclave of Kalashtar renegades in the Ghost Village. The Kalashtar have chosen to live in the ruined town to train anyone who wishes to unlock the secrets of their mind. The Ghost Enclave, as I've called it are training the Psionicists in a bid to defend the region from a great evil they believe is brewing.
I still am having some trouble translating the planes over (curse Eberron's idiosyncratic planar structure).
Just a quick word up to my players, stay out of here unless ya want a slappin! :)
Heres how I've done things so far in my Eberron game, and a few things I am still planning to do.
Backstory: As far as the planes are concerned, Adimarchus is a throwback to the Age of Demons. A Celestial Ally of the Dragons. Adimarchus and his allies lived on a piece of Syberis. During the Age of Demons a number of Demons invaded the Syberis hold and to prevent the Demons from getting a foothold in the sky, Adimarchus used his powerful magic to send the chunk of Syberis into the Dragon Below. Khyber's entrapping nature kept Adimarchus trapped in the Dragon Below, deep below Cauldron. The adventure to Occipitus will be to the section of Khyber deep below the City.
Cagewrights: A Cult of the Dragon Below, attempting to release Demodands from their Khyber Prison.
Religion:
Kord - Temple of the Sovereign Host, with the God of Money currently in ascendancy.
St. Cuthbert - Church of the Silver Flame, its a near direct translation and gives the PCs something to trust.
Wee Jas - Church of the Dark Six, the nobility of the city are devout worshippers, and the church has a lot of power due to the superstition of Cauldron's citizens. They see the Dark Six as something to appease.
Pelor - The Undying Court, this small elven temple is practically ignored in the city, and only afew citizens frequent the shrine.
Groups:
Last Laugh - Remain relatively unchanged, afew Changeling members but nothing that changes the power structure.
The Striders - A Druid sect who take planar protection to the extreme, trying to prevent any extra-planar interference. The group has grown to accept any who would prevent extra-planar interference in Khorvaire. This group is led by Meerthan, a changeling wizard.
Blue Duke - A Warforged Juggernaut, as I haven't described him to my players yet, he will be a Warforged painted blue who worked for Cyre. He is a minion of the Lord of Blades, betraying his master by providing mercenaries to the Cagewrights.
Thuranni - I like your idea of the house buying the Coy Nixie and starting their network up in the area. It gives my Thuranni player a small but resource rich network to call on.
Vadalis - Also brilliant giving them surefoot livery.
Orien - I'm not giving this house a big role in the city, as Cauldron, while resource rich is too far away from the nearest port and to dangerous to create a train to.
Cannith - A small envoy will probably come to the city investigating where all these Warforged are coming from.
The Chisel - Rather than being direct members of the Chamber, the organisation was begun by a Dragon, attempting to complete his role in the Prophecy, before being slain by Hookface.
Places:
Occipitus - See Backstory above, essentially a piece of Syberis trapped in Khyber.
Skullrot - Another section of Khyber.
Villains:
Freija Doorgan - Female human Artificer, primary magic item creator.
Ssythar Nahazir - Male yuan-ti Psion (shaper), caretaker of Shatterhorn stronghold.
Viirdran Daraqor - Male drow Psychic Warrior, tactician and Alchemist.
Thank you! It does help. ~-im-paitently waiting on my SCAP book to arrive so I can get down to work.~
The PCs need someone to trust, and the Silver Flame is perfect in that respect. Trustworthy but still judgemental enough the characters won't grow to rely on them.
The flaw in making the Temple of Wee Jas into a Blood of Vol church is that any Elven, particularly dragonmarked Elven player is sure to just suspect wrong doing on the BoV anyway. Church of the Dark Six is a twisted mirror of the Sovereign Host, the kind of pantheon one appeases, not worships and thats what gives the Church of the D6 (...coincidence? I think not), its power.
Just my $0.02