Porting "Escape from Old Karvosa" - How Easy?

[Rechan]

Hi there!

I'm looking at "Escape from Old Karvosa" and getting Ideas. It reminds me a lot of "Escape from New York" + Shadowrun's Chicago/Bug City.

However, I'm not running Galorion. I'm running Eberron, Sharn. So, I say to myself, "Old Karvosa = District(s) in Sharn."

Thing is, I'm worried about how much mileage I can get out of the module if I'm not using the entire AP, if I want to use my own villains/organizations/motivations. If the Plot and encounters isn't very easy to sync up or manipulate, then there's little point in picking up the module, yes? If the disease, what's going on, is so intimately tied to other things (like "Seven Days to the Grave") and the villains themselves, I might not be able to tinker with it.

Here's what I want to do:

The Children of Winter, in league with a corrupt Jorasco scion, release the disease in a Sharn district. At the same time, they release a highly potent form of Ghoul Fever. The reason being they are trying to frame (and draw attention to) a secret society of ghouls who hold something important to them. Sharn's response at first is to send in clerics, then just quarantine the place.

Can I do that, using "Escape from Karvosa"?

[Richard Pett]

James will be able to give you better details than I, but I included a section on using Escape from Old Korvosa as a standalone in my draft, and although it'll work much better in the whole plot I'm sure you'll be able to weave some different plot around it. I've tried to write both my APs in Pathfinder to be standalones, and for you to be able to use sections of them as sidetreks.

Rich

[Rechan]

I sure hope so, Rich! Thanks for answering.

[Rechan]

Hm. It occurs to me that I mentioned the Children of Winter, Jorasco, etc, assuming the adventure writers would know what I'm talking about.

Children of Winter - Extremist druidic sect that believes humanity has grown too weak with compassion. Nature culls the weak, sick and old; humanity coddles them, and weakens the whole. The CoW, thus, exercise "Culling" via disease, vermin, and famine, in order to cleanse humanity of the weak. This is because they believe a Harsh Winter is coming, and to survive, we need everyone to be strong.

House Jorasco - A Dragonmarked House (think: Magical Corporation) dedicated to healing.