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After 66 gaming sessions, my per-anniversary Rise of the Runelords/Kingmaker hybrid campaign reached a conclusion last night when Karzoug met an untimely end at the young age of 11,000 years or whatever.
My final campaign log entry is here:
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ld1i&page=5?GoBs-RunelordsKingmaker-mashup -campaign#217
The group ended in charge of a small Duchy that stretched from Ilsurian to Ravenmoor through the northern Sanos Forest and were personally responsible for thwarting Karzoug's return.
The highlight for me was the TPK back at the clock tower leading to the PCs being enslaved by Xanesha and finally sunk with her gambling barge (PCs escaped). They then had a running battle with her that spanned 3 different locations (the original clocktower fight, a fight in Fort Rannick, a fight on the Skull River Dam and finally when she rode in on dragonback to burn their capital town of Turtleback Ferry.
PCs had fun with hexploration and running a kingdom, rescued a disappeared town, defeated a rival duke with expansion on his mind and pacified a huge swath of wild Varisia.
The high-level half of the campaign dragged a bit as high level games do but the highlights in the second half were the Wrath and Lust wings of Runeforge, the Vekker's cabin and the multiple assaults on the Pinnacle and Eye of Avarice. Karzoug proved to be one tough cookie and was one round away from TPKing the campaign.
Now, we are off to the high seas and I am running a nervous Gnome Illusionist by the name of Pezzik as we live the Pirate live in a Skull and Shackles campaign ran by my brother.
Thanks to all the authors and the posters here who I shared and bounced ideas off of here. That interaction greatly enhanced the game for me.
We did pretty much all of the Rise of the Runelords Campaign and about 90% of the first 5 books of Kingmaker. I have warned the PCs that I may get the itch to return to these characters again and may run that final Kingmaker book as an epic-level game with the PCs bumped up to 20th level. Depends on whether I can endure the punishment of that much decision paralysis...