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Somebody in another thread a while ago to use http://donjon.bin.sh/d20/weather/ to generate the weather in Kingmaker for the Stolen Lands, which I have been using ever since.
Using a Cold climate, in Winter, with Supernatural weather as Common, it produces some bitterly cold winters. A colder than normal day in winter can reach a low of -53F with a high of -37F. That would wipe out entire countries, one would think. The PCs circumvent this by very expensive investments in Endure Elements wands for the masses and investing in gnomish technology to heat the streets and homes in their towns and cities so people don't freeze to death where they stand.
Anyway, my reasoning behind this is that Nyrissa has taken every measure to ensure that the Stolen Lands are the most deadly, inhospitable lay of land you could find. The PCs, however, are defying her by settling them and thriving, but winter is baaad news Kingdom building wise. I double everything that gives consumption in winter, so Consumption usually rises into the 60s-70s per month (not a whole lot given the way Kingdom Building and BP generating works).
Regardless, I chalk this insane weather up to someone Nyrissa has tasked with using powerful magic to warp the weather in this region and conjure all this nasty, many times supernatural weather (like snow storms that can raise people who die in it as wights, or skies that make people go insane as confusion for hours on end).
I would appreciate ideas on who or what this entity may be that is controlling the weather from behind the scenes. My PCs suspect someone is behind it all, and want to find him/her/it soon. I want to create a whole adventure around finding and confronting this weather mastermind.
Some ideas that I have so far:
Powerful Witch
Enslaved Genie using Wishcraft magic to warp the weather
Some type of Fey creature with a tie to the elements/weather
Wendigo ruled by Grandfather Death (the baddest of the Wendigo). :)
A pixie Druid who agrees with Nyrissa that humans shouldn't be settling the Stolen Lands. He may be upset when he learns what her real plans are.
Does he have a stat block out there somewhere?
I will likely be posting them in my CJ either next week or within a couple of weeks following, depending upon when my players stomp on him.
cleric of Gyronna....sisterhood of chaos
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one of the abilities that Hag covens have?
How about one of them MLP pegasi that ate some wacky weed?
nice n icky......make them witchfires and really nuke the place
cleric of Gyronna....sisterhood of chaos
OR
one of the abilities that Hag covens have?
Good call.
How about mashing those two ideas up and have it be a coven of hags that are also clerics of Gyronna and they're using their coven abilities to wreak some crazy weather havoc?
they could ride fiendish ponies.
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they could ride fiendish ponies.cleric of Gyronna....sisterhood of chaos
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one of the abilities that Hag covens have?
Good call.
How about mashing those two ideas up and have it be a coven of hags that are also clerics of Gyronna and they're using their coven abilities to wreak some crazy weather havoc?
And have cold riders as cohorts and consorts.
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My players are taking a two year break (politics allowing) to advance their kingdom building, and during that phase of the game, I too am going to have weird weather.
IMC, the weather is caused by a fey conflict between the Winter Queen and the Summer Queen. The Winter Queen has suprised her opponent and chained her in Candlemere Tower, which explains the most recent weird goings on there. A heavy winter will blanket the land and not lift like normal in the Spring. Cold Riders, drakes, frost giants, and all sorts of other evil/cold supernatural and fey creatures will abound. The Winter Queen is a servant of the overall BBEG of the AP, and uses magicks given by that NPC to her to catch the Summer Queen. Basically its an excuse for me to dig out my frosty creatures(yes, cold riders esp!), which are my favorite sort of creatures. :)
The main thrust is that the Fey are doing their own thing and humans are no more concern than ants at a picnic, annoying but inconsequential to the event. Basically its Seelie vs Unseelie Court magic inspired by War of the Oaks by Emma Bull and the Dresden Summer Knight novel. The PCs will have to use their fey allies to gather intel and free the Summer Queen, who will be vendetta-type pissed at them for interfering in the conflict (Noble Fey especially hate getting assistance from humans). Just another example of how no good deed goes unpunished.
Does he have a stat block out there somewhere?I will likely be posting them in my CJ either next week or within a couple of weeks following, depending upon when my players stomp on him.
Update: stat blocks to be posted within the next 2 days.
Update: stat blocks to be posted within the next 2 days.Does he have a stat block out there somewhere?I will likely be posting them in my CJ either next week or within a couple of weeks following, depending upon when my players stomp on him.
Thanks a lot, Turin. Great as always!!
Glad you like it, DoomCrow! May he terrorize your campaign for years to come.
The main thrust is that the Fey are doing their own thing and humans are no more concern than ants at a picnic, annoying but inconsequential to the event. Basically its Seelie vs Unseelie Court magic inspirated by War of the Oaks by Emma Bull and the Dresden Summer Knight novel. The PCs will have to use their fey allies to gather intel and free the Summer Queen, who will be vendetta-type pissed at them for interfering in the conflict (Noble Fey especially hate getting assistance from humans). Just another example of how no good deed goes unpunished.
I was actually planning on doing the exact same thing, but backwards - the events of SoTS were due to Summer getting out of whack, and precipitating that with weird weather from their direction.