Crucible of Chaos

[Archoth]

Has anyone substituted Crucible of Chaos in place of book #3? Excited to run books 4-6, but not impressed with book 3 overall. Looking swap it out. What I am mainly interested in is how smoothly this would work? Does the xp line up?

[tbug]

You'd need to add encounters until they made it to whichever level you wanted them to be (probably ten). I'd be more concerned with working in the plot. Do you have a plan?

For instance, are the vaults in chapter four beneath Ulduvai instead of beneath Saventh-Yhi? What about the spears needed to kick off chapter six?

I think you'll have trouble removing chapter three, personally. If you don't like it then I recommend supplementing it with whichever adventures you like; there are lots of undescribed ruins in the city, after all.

[Archoth]

spoiler:

Currently my group is finishing off Tazion. My current plan is to use Ulduvai as Saventh-Yhi. I am planning on running the Juliver encounter after the Shoggoth is run off and the cultists killed (The proto-shoggoth in the Hunter's Maze seems like a nice way to bring it back later). There already appears to be a tie in to the Gorilla King. The other factions would arrive as normal. In terms of the "7 spears", I was planning to put the monoliths within Ulduvai. I assume I am missing other plot holes? Is there something else that does not fit cleanly into the campaign with a little modification?

[tbug]

Huh. I answered this, but the Paizo boards seem to have eaten my reply.

Basically, as long as you can make all the history contradictions line up then all you have to do is make sure that you put in enough encounters to get the PCs to level ten before launching chapter four.

[Archoth]

Thanks for the feedback....I appreciate it!