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Howdy folks!
As many of you may have heard, next Gen Con, in 2013, at August, we'll be launching a new adventure path set in the Worldwound.
This adventure path will...
- ...be one where you fight a lot of demons, and may or may not get to face off against a demon lord... or maybe even demon LORDS...
- ...be a great opportunity for players to play GOOD guys... especially good aligned clerics and paladins and the like...
- ...have strong themes of redemption...
- ...strongly utilize elements from the upcoming Mythic Adventures rulebook, and will give you a chance as players to play mythic characters and a chance as GMs to run mythic villains...
- ...and will have MUCH MUCH MORE!
What I'm NOT 100% happy with right now, though, is the Adventure Path's title—currently, we're calling it "The Demonblight Crusade." Not a terrible title, but I'd rather call it something else. I've got a few ideas bumping around in my head... but I figured we have a whole messageboard of brilliant, creative people... so why not use that as well!
So!
I'm looking for suggestions as to what to call this Adventure Path! Post your suggestions below! If something comes up that I like, I'll let folks know and lock the thread so things don't continue forever (we DO have to settle on a title sooner or later, after all!). But until then... suggest away!
For reference (and so folks don't propose Adventure Path titles that accidentally use constructions and elements from one of the specific adventures), here are the names of the six parts of the adventure path. These titles are solid—I'm not looking for new suggestions here, just for the name of the adventure path as a whole.
- PART ONE: The Worldwound Incursion
- PART TWO: Sword of Valor
- PART THREE: Demon's Heresy
- PART FOUR: The Midnight Isles
- PART FIVE: Herald of the Ivory Labyrinth
- PART SIX: City of Locusts
"Cure for a Wounded World"
A Light in the Darkness/Darklands
Gaze of the Abyss
Darkest Before Dawn
Unto the Breach
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My first thought is Worldwound Legacy. To imply either what the Worldwound left after opening or to imply what the PC's will leave the world at the end of the AP. or both.
That's actually not a bad one... but it also repeats the word "Worldwound" from the first adventure. I'd really rather not repeat any words from the adventure titles.
My first thought is Worldwound Legacy. To imply either what the Worldwound left after opening or to imply what the PC's will leave the world at the end of the AP. or both.That's actually not a bad one... but it also repeats the word "Worldwound" from the first adventure. I'd really rather not repeat any words from the adventure titles.
Fiendscar Legacy? Or too derivative?
Against the Demonblight.
Dusk for the Demonblight
Fighters & Fiends (okay, not really, but I thought it was twitch-of-the-lips worthy).
Dawn of Sarkoris
(Not a big fan of using "crusade" in the title, since these crusaders don't actually have a cross as part of their symbols.)
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Bleeding Earth/Land
Blighted Earth/Land or maybe Into The Blighted Land
Flesh + Blood (ok, kidding, but I love that movie - maybe make it into Blight And Blood or Flesh and Blight?)
Worldwound Redemption
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And another one I know won't be used (uses "Worldwound"), and sounds a bit like something else...
The Worldwound Redemption
Edit: *grumbles* Bloody dragon ninjas!
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I really like Orthos' Unto the Breach so far.
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My first thought is Worldwound Legacy. To imply either what the Worldwound left after opening or to imply what the PC's will leave the world at the end of the AP. or both.That's actually not a bad one... but it also repeats the word "Worldwound" from the first adventure. I'd really rather not repeat any words from the adventure titles.
Ok well you could go for Aroden's Legacy, since the worldwound is a result of his death. Though that might make people think of something other than demons.
And another one I know won't be used (uses "Worldwound"), and sounds a bit like something else...
The Worldwound Redemption
Edit: *grumbles* Bloody dragon ninjas!
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The Wrath of Deskari
and on a similar theme: Wrath of the Righteous
Dawn of Sarkoris
Thernody/Lament for Sarkoris or maybe Farewell to Sarkoris.
Final Toll For Sarkoris!
Also, The Last Song Of Sarkoris
Swords Against The Blight (shame there is already sword in #2 part name)
To play with Legacy idea: Blighted Heritage
Deskari's Heir(s)
Inheritors Of The Blighted Land (or Heirs Of...)
Martyrs for Mendev
Demonscourge Crusade
Key to the Bottomless Pit
Chapter 6 title really kind of begs for it.
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At The Abyss's Doorstep
(iconic D&D word "Abyss" - check, hits the demon vibe right away and communicates with anybody who's remotely into D&D - check, doesn't repeat adventure names - check, has an acronym that doesn't read "SS" - check)
alternatively, Beyond the Abyss's Doorstep (a hat tipped off to Chaosium and Beyond the Mountains of Madness).
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Knights Of The Barren Lands (actually a name of a Polish fantasy comic book from 1990).
Blades of the Martyrs
The Bleeding Hunger
Candle in the Storm
The Crucible Crusade
Damnation & Defiance
Defiant Light
Galorian's Scream!
Lancing the Boil
Perdition's Price
At The Abyss's Doorstep
(iconic D&D name - check, hits the demon vibe right away and communicates with anybody who's remotely into D&D - check, doesn't repeat adventure names - check, has an acronym that doesn't read "SS" - check)
alternatively, Beyond the Abyss's Doorstep (a hat tipped off to Chaosium and Beyond the Mountains of Madness).
The second name would be better for a sequel. Or accessory book. Or mythic module coming after the AP.
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Siege of the demon lords
Knights Of The Barren Lands (actually a name of a Polish fantasy comic book from 1990).Dear Paizo, in case anybody puts you to a court in Poland ... here's my card. Just call. ;-)
Are titles even copyrighted?
EDIT: Also, should not be the correct court placement based on the location of the defendant forcing Mr. Bochiński to sue Paizo in state of Washington?
Demons And Wizards!
"Fiddler On The Green" should be obligatory part of that AP soundtrack...
Abyssal scars
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If quotations are ok: "Where angels fear to tread"
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What I'm NOT 100% happy with right now, though, is the Adventure Path's title—currently, we're calling it "The Demonblight Crusade." Not a terrible title, but I'd rather call it something else. I've got a few ideas bumping around in my head... but I figured we have a whole messageboard of brilliant, creative people... so why not use that as well!
Titles are hard.
If it helps, I can probably tell you *why* you don't like 'The Demonblight Crusade' -- the stressed syllables in 'The DEmonblight CruSADE are too far apart, which makes it awkward to say aloud. You need to replace 'Crusade' with a word that has its stress on the first syllable. (Or lead with Crusade -- something like 'Crusade into Demonblight' though that doesn't quite scan right.)
If you go back and look at all your other AP titles, all the major words have first-syllable stress. That's not an accident.
Hopefully that's an insight that can help.
I'll also throw out Scars of the Demonblight as a possible title.
If quotations are ok: "Where angels fear to tread"
That's one of my characters' personal quotes, I can't believe I didn't think of that.
1. Legacy of Deskari / The Deskari Heritage
2. Shadows of Apocalypse
3. Remembering Drezen (the Worldwound version of "Remember the Alamo!")
-TimD
"Heralds of Mendev"
"The Demonplague Respite"
"The Fifth Crusade"
Grace no more
Sorrow and grace
Tears of the faithful
The Rift of Corruption
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Salt In The Wound
The Bleeding Earth
The Broken Earth
Charge of the Saviors
Entropy's Absolution
The Damned and the Defiant
The Break of Dawn (damn Twilight, let's take it back)
Purgatory's PLague
Perdition's Plague
Against The Abyss
A March Into Madness (eh, "March Madness" ruined this one)
A Charge Into Insanity
The Cry of Sarkoris
The Light and the Lost
Where Angels Dare
If it helps, I can probably tell you *why* you don't like 'The Demonblight Crusade' -- the stressed syllables in 'The DEmonblight CruSADE are too far apart, which makes it awkward to say aloud.
I don't feel any awkwardness while speaking it aloud. Maybe because English is not my native language and stresses are mostly abstraction to me.
More ideas for the AP name.
It Came From Abyss
At the Abyssal Threshold
Damnation's Doors/Threshold
Wound of War
The Pit and the Purifiers
I'm sure there's a better two- or three-syllable P word that could be stuck on the end there, but it escapes me at the moment.
Iomedae is a major influence on most of the crusaders in Mendev. Towards that end I suggest:
the Inheritor's Legacy
Last Act of the Inheritor
Or on the theme of redemption:
Faults of the Faithful
Grace of a Dead God
Psalms for the Wicked
How about "The Demonic Tide"
Or "Tides of the Abyss"
or "Stemming the Demonic tide?"
Probably a bit too close to "Savage Tide"...
All the AP's are named around the anti-hero or trouble-making elements of the story. Would it not be an interesting idea to name the AP not after the villain or menacing scenario which plays the central role in the story, but to name the AP 'from the other side'? Thus sort-off describing the valorous and glorious acts to push back the demons incursion.
I don't consider myself eloquent enough to create great names, but for this reason I actually really liked 'The Demonblight Crusade'!
Doom of Demons.