After reading Tito Leati's excellent CotCT manuscript info (scroll down to the bottom of the 1st page):
http://paizo.com/forums/dmtz06uh&page=2?Crown-of-Fangs-Impressions#78
Has anyone tried to use the Contract Devil from Academy of Secrets (Chyvvom) to be the same Contact Devil from Tito's manuscript (Bithonag)?
This could make an excellent tie point between the two plots!
I get the impression that you're going for the possibility of using the contract as a weapon. While I like the idea in theory, I just don't like the possibility of my PCs actually winning and turning the final fight into a cake wake.
However, I am going to use Academy as a side adventure for Crown. I plan on either using it as a method to get the citizens and the Academae on their side, or afterwards as a morale booster for the city.
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I get the impression that you're going for the possibility of using the contract as a weapon. While I like the idea in theory, I just don't like the possibility of my PCs actually winning and turning the final fight into a cake wake.
That is the beauty of converting this adventure to the PFRPG: if the PCs succeed in using the contract as a weapon (e.g. remove the devil bound template), I can always bump her up in Bard levels before the final fight (a DMs prerogative). Then when they fight and hopefully defeat her, I'll hear the players saying "thank goodness we used that contract, otherwise we would have never stood a chance!" :-))
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I'm also going to use the Acadamae as the place where the PCs go to look for Ileosa's contract devil, especially since I'm skipping Scarwall in favor of a series of rebellion adventures.
The trip to the Acadamae also makes for some nice roleplaying encounters. The PCs contact the thieves' guild (most likely through the Arkona's) and negotiate with them to gain more information on the challenges of the Breaching festival (since they'll be copying the festival when infiltrating the Acadamae). If their diplomacy checks are good and they pay enough money, guildmaster Boule even sets up inside help from an ambitious student.
The PCs also have to convince the pseudodragons of the city to stage an attack om the Acadamae's imps, who are acting as the Acadamae's 'alarm system'.