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In Pathfinder 8 it mentions that Rolth if he escapes will try and get revenge in the next chapter and there would be notes for including him in Pathfinder 9 well i cant seem to find the notes anywhere soim wondering if someone could point them out for me
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Ps if my post appears twice it dddent seem to show up the first time so i posted it again
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In Pathfinder 8 it mentions that Rolth if he escapes will try and get revenge in the next chapter and there would be notes for including him in Pathfinder 9 well i cant seem to find the notes anywhere soim wondering if someone could point them out for me
Cheers
Ps if my post appears twice it dddent seem to show up the first time so i posted it again
That is what we call in the industry a "Broken Promise." In other words, we forgot to include more notes in Pathfinder 9 on how Rolth could continue to vex the PCs. They're not in there. That said... the best place to put Rolth is in with the Emperor, maybe as an advisor or something who tries to convince the Emperor to not be friendly with the PCs?
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During 7 days till death this was written about Roth the Necromancer
The next
adventure, “Escape from Old Korvosa,” includes notes on
how to incorporate Rolth into the adventure as an additional
enemy, but if he perishes at the PCs’ hands here, his death
won’t impact the next adventure in any major way.Where are these notes at?
The answers you seek are in this thread:
That is what we call in the industry a "Broken Promise." In other words, we forgot to include more notes in Pathfinder 9 on how Rolth could continue to vex the PCs. They're not in there. That said... the best place to put Rolth is in with the Emperor, maybe as an advisor or something who tries to convince the Emperor to not be friendly with the PCs?
Basically, he was forgotten.
I like the idea of putting him with the Emperor, but if i do im sure we will not get to play Blood Pig my PCs carry Grudges
Knowning my PCs they will just kill the Emperor any how besides to advance the store you need to any way
I like the idea of putting him with the Emperor, but if i do im sure we will not get to play Blood Pig my PCs carry Grudges
This happened to my group last night: they spotted Rolth as an advisor* to Emperor Pilts Swastel and immediately wanted to fight.
* I deemed Rolth's passion for death a good fit for the Emperor's sadistic desires, and Rolth sees all of the Emperor's headless corpses as a good supply of undead.
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I had Rolth visit the orphanage (which the PCs had adopted) and giving out plague-infested candy.
I am running Edge of Anarchy now, and it says that Rolf will seek out the PC's and find out who they are when he returns to find his lab destroyed. It is possible they will encounter him before Seven Days. Similar if he survives Seven Days.
In a different question, how does he get all his supplies into the Gray district? EoA says Rolf is out replacing equipment destroyed by a golem gone berserk in the Dead Warrens, and it will take him all day. He's not using zombies to help him (at least not in public view). Also there only appears to be one way into the Gray district (as seen on the map where roads lead to one tower at the north point just outside of Highbridge) and the Clerics of Pharasm guard closely against necormancers, so I would imagine it should be a guarded gate at night at least, and patrolled by clerics at night. So how is Rolf getting a cart load of supplies into the Dead Warrens?
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I am running Edge of Anarchy now, and it says that Rolf will seek out the PC's and find out who they are when he returns to find his lab destroyed. It is possible they will encounter him before Seven Days. Similar if he survives Seven Days.
In a different question, how does he get all his supplies into the Gray district? EoA says Rolf is out replacing equipment destroyed by a golem gone berserk in the Dead Warrens, and it will take him all day. He's not using zombies to help him (at least not in public view). Also there only appears to be one way into the Gray district (as seen on the map where roads lead to one tower at the north point just outside of Highbridge) and the Clerics of Pharasm guard closely against necormancers, so I would imagine it should be a guarded gate at night at least, and patrolled by clerics at night. So how is Rolf getting a cart load of supplies into the Dead Warrens?
Being the cunning man that he is, Rolth will probably know a secret way into the Gray District, some long-forgotten tunnel that only he knows about. He also knows some of the body carters and has a few of them on his payroll. They bring him the corpses of loners and beggars who died and have no one left to bury them. If he goes into the city, he can buy things and have one of these deliver the goods to him. Apart from that, he also knows dimension door.
In my campaign Rolth set himself up as an early recurring villain to the PCs, when he bought one of the PCs’ sister in the prelude adventure, in which the PCs were young teens in Lamm’s lambs. In the five years she spent under his tutelage, he thoroughly brainwashed her to become his obedient servant and bodyguard.
When the PCs started the AP, they immediately went looking for Rolth, so I had them hear a report that he had left the city by boat. He joined up with Lady Andaisin to help her create the plague, aiding her in her alchemical experiments and delivering a dozen young girls he bought from Lamm to experiment upon. In exchange Lady Andaisin helped him create his first real flesh golem.
The PCs first confronted Rolth in battle in the temple of Urgathoa, where they conquered him and imprisoned him (and the PC’s brainwashed sister). Rolth escaped and tried to take revenge during Escape to Old Korvosa. He abducted the young boys who were living with the PCs after being rescued from Lamm and used them to lure the PCs into a series of traps, culminating in a final battle atop the tower of Korvosa’s old city hall. The PC’s sister proved beyond saving and was killed, as was Rolth, who made an attempt to get away, but was caught anyway by our flame oracle, who grabbed the necromancer and burned him alive by sending blast upon blast of fire through his wiry body. If you want to learn about this in greater detail, you can read all about it in my journal on these boards.
Being the cunning man that he is, Rolth will probably know a secret way into the Gray District, some long-forgotten tunnel that only he knows about. He also knows some of the body carters and has a few of them on his payroll. They bring him the corpses of loners and beggars who died and have no one left to bury them. If he goes into the city, he can buy things and have one of these deliver the goods to him. Apart from that, he also knows dimension door.
In my campaign Rolth set himself up as an early recurring villain to the PCs, when he bought one of the PCs’ sister in the prelude adventure, in which the PCs were young teens in Lamm’s lambs. In the five years she spent under his tutelage, he thoroughly brainwashed her to become his obedient servant and bodyguard.
When the PCs started the AP, they immediately went looking for Rolth, so I had them hear a report that he had left the city by boat. He joined up with Lady Andaisin to help her create the plague, aiding her in her alchemical experiments and delivering a dozen young girls he bought from Lamm to experiment...
Thanks for the good ideas, because my players may just decide to wait for him after they're done with his lab, Vreeg and Cabbagehead. They waited for him the night before going into the mausoleum looking for any signs of activity. I don't mind reward good planning and thinking but I also don't want to ruin the adventure for them!