No - I didn't post this in the wrong place ;-)
Balabar (or as I called him mallowmar) was such a popular baddie in the last Adventure Path that I really want to use him in STAP. (I was a player in the the AoW AP, so I am not sure on his details, but in our game he lived the Kenku assault and fled with some angry PCs wanting his hide.)
My current plan is to make him a member of the Crimson Fleet - a high up, but not the big bad guy. I may make him part of an early assault force on Farshore.
Any ideas?
Presuming that the new characters have nothing to do with their old AoW characters I'd have them encounter Balbar Smink very early on. The players will recogize him but of course their characters won't.
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Its Smenk. I can't see him fighting his own battles for a change even if he becomes a demon like Vanthus.
How far in the campaign do you plan to introduce him? Looking back to the "There Is No Honor" adventure for example, as a tool for the Lotus Dragons, he can take the place of the old harbormaster after Rowyn assassinates him.
Either that or replace Parkus with Smenk on Parrot Island. Nothing will tick the Pcs off more when they learned that the scumbag that got away from them in AOW died by the hands of a even viler scumbag.
They'll hate Vanthus even more.
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Yeahhhh, I just don't see ol' Smenky-Poo as the rough'n'tumble piratical type. I do like the idea of encountering old NPCs in later APs; sort of makes the world feel like a more cohesive whole.
If one of the PCs is trying to win the hand of a particular noblewoman, perhaps Balabar could be the character's rival? His past actions show that he'll do whatever it takes to either posess - or destroy - the object of his desires. (Poor Luzane Parrin! :( ) Things could become especially interesting if Lavinia, or a female PC, becomes the target of his unwanted attentions.
My group wanted to know if they'd find Filge skulking about Sasserine. :)
You could also change the Meravanchi family to be the Smenk family. Balabar could be a relative, or he could take Manthalay's place. IMO that's the best fit.
DUDE that's a Brilliant idea....Imagine Balabar Smenk n his gangster friends trying to take over the city.... The other baddies would ask him how the hell did he end up in Sasserine and he'd say: "Well, I prety much got my ass kicked in Diamond Lake by some godamnit pc's so i figure i'd just move the lee far away from them"....just a thought....w/e
Thanks all.
And thanks for the correction on spelling his name. Since I was a player in AoW, I never got to see his name in print.....
You could also change the Meravanchi family to be the Smenk family.
I like this idea best, methinks. The only trick then is how to get him back into the story later. Not completely neccessary, but AFAIK the players leave Sasserine and never look back.
My group wanted to know if they'd find Filge skulking about Sasserine. :)
In our AoW Filge managed to reform his necromantic ways, albiet he was still a jerk - just not an evil one.