Creating a new finale... *spoilers inside*

[Zonto]

My players are currently partway through Chapter 10 of SCAP, and I'm reading ahead to Chapters 11 and 12, and thinking... they don't seem very fun. Ch. 10 seems like the big climax, and the last two just seem sort of tacked on.

I thought about just ending the campaign after Chapter 10, but then I thought about rewriting the last two modules into something more interesting. I just have a few thoughts so far:

SCAP new finale:

- I think I'll still open with the reborn Vhalantru attacking the party. He'll also taunt them about how they haven't won, and Adimarchus still lives, etc.
- I will probably merge Shatterhorn and Skullrot into a larger complex on Carceri that will house Adimarchus, as well as the remaining Cagewrights.
- I think I'll keep the exploration portion of Chapter 12 (searching for Skullrot) in.

Any thoughts, comments, or anything interesting you SCAP GMs can think of that could make this more fun/memorable?

[Zonto]

I decided that I don't really have time to rewrite the adventures, and will just run them as written, with some minor modifications. Just in case anyone was still thinking about ideas for this ;)

[PulpCruciFiction]

I ran them basically as written, but it annoyed me that the climax of the campaign is basically

Spoiler:

The characters busting Adimarchus out of prison and then killing him while he's still weak.

It seems kind of cheap. Instead,

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I had the characters arrive at Skullrot just in time to see the top of the tower explode. They got a quick look at Adimarchus hovering in midair as bits of the destroyed tower came down around them, then he disappeared.

Then I converted the map of Skullrot into a tower that Adimarchus created for himself on Occipitus. I added in an army of demons that Adimarchus was putting together, so the characters got together a B-squad made up of some of their tougher surviving allies who put together a diversion so that they could enter the tower to take on Adimarchus.

[Patman]

PulpCruciFiction wrote:

I ran them basically as written, but it annoyed me that the climax of the campaign is basically

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It seems kind of cheap. Instead,

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Pretty cool

[Zonto]

Ooh, neat idea. Yeah, I find the whole last chapter to be pretty underwhelming in terms of a climax to a 3-year-long-campaign. I'll pretty much run it as written, but will probably do something similar to what you did to make it feel more epic.

[Findas]

There was a lot of discussion about this topic in the past on these boards. Take a look at this thread for a very good discussion. Also check out this Alternate Villians thread at RPGenius. You may also want to have a read of this thread for some further ideas.