A little back-story: one of my players started out as a gunslinger type character using renaissance firearms in TINH named Syn, but literally kept getting knocked to the negatives; three times in one session, two of those in one fight! After the final knockdown (by the Ixit scouts), followed by nearly drowning, the player decided he wanted to play something else. Rather than introduce a new character, though, the Syn sold his soul while unconscious and re-trained as a warlock. Syn sadly died in Tamoachan, and that player is currently playing Syn's former mentor, a very skilled gunslinger trying to find out why his student turned his back on the way of the gun.
What does Graz'zt have to do with all of this? Well, when the demon appeared to Syn, I described a black-skinned man with six fingers. I knew Demogorgon was the main baddy, and Orcus and Graz'zt are his biggest foes, and between those two Graz'zt seemed more likely to offer his patronage. Keep in mind I ran this as soon as I got the issue waaaay back when, before the details of Malcanthet's plotting were available.
I was hoping I could tie Syn's fate in with the end of the campaign, perhaps a bittersweet reunion with old friends and former mentor, but in 149 we find out the Graz'zt has his hands full with Lolth and won't be involved. Any ideas on how I can at least sneak a dead gunfighter/warlock thrall of Graz'zt into the Savage Tide endgame?
yes...don't make Grazz't have his hands full with Lolth. It's your world do what you want. It sounds like you already had established a hook that could be used for the future so use it.
Just because the fine writers at Dungeon put it in the adventure does not mean it is written in stone. Change the adventure to fit your needs and make Grazz't part of it. In the end, I think that it will make the play all that more memorable than ignoring such a wonderful plot device.
Just my two coppers.
