I have to say that linking the Savage Tide to the Vanderboren family is exactly the sort of concept that I love the APs for.
Let's play a game: if you had to choose an NPC/organization/neat event from Shackled City or AoW to whom you would love to see a reference in Savage Tides, drop it here! (Please mark spoilers, since some of us aren't done with some of the other APs)
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-I'm waiting for older brother Todd to show up at the Vanderboren Compound as the leader of the criminal underworld.
-The [i]lens of the blacksun[/] was a throw-away plot point in Test of the Smoking Eye. What if it is a crucial element to Demogorgon's plans? How would the new PCs react to having to search Occipitus post-Adimarchus for the artifact?
Like the thread title...
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I'd like to see some of the church politics/heriarchy in Sessarine reacting to the corruption of the Cauldron churches. For example, the church of Wee Jas being a lot more defensive and strict. Or the churches of Pelor or Kord distrusting the church of Wee Jas.
I'd like to see a cameo by Filge, maybe in the form of an undead zombie or something.
And have Eligios be the ship's scholar as head of a research expedition on the way to Amedia.
PS: I'm not sure that threads that aren't Adapting APs to Eberron-related are allowed here. You might get banned for that. ;)
