So as my Hell's Rebels campaign is coming to a close soon (we'll finish the AP after a Song of Silver) and I'm preparing the start of Hell's Vengeance, I've come across a problem:
I've encouraged my players to chose a higher goals for their characters, so the campaign doesn't become about a bunch of obedient Thrune henchmen. While some are rather easy to work in (becoming a Hellknight), others will be more difficult to make work (becoming a Lich, which I still need to figure out, because the PCs might promise their souls to Hell) and then there is one motivation that two of my players brought up separately:
Working for Thrune to get closer to the Queen, so they can try to kill or assassinate her. One wanted to be a demon worshipper, who wants to bring chaos to the land of law abiding devils, while the other one wanted to be a member of a fallen noble house, who holds a grudge against the first queen and wants to pay it back to her heir.
So can anyone see this working out? I see so far no possibility to make that work, without them dying no later than "For Queen & Empire" and with no real perspective of them reaching their goal. Any ideas or suggestions?
The PCs are level 13 at the end of Queen and Empire and Abrogail is level 16...and they're in the same room of her at the end of the adventure...not that I'm putting any ideas in your head.
The PCs are level 13 at the end of Queen and Empire and Abrogail is level 16...and they're in the same room of her at the end of the adventure...not that I'm putting any ideas in your head.
Well the queen herself isn't the problem, but more her advisers and if it will be possible running the rest of the AP, if she dies. (I hope I'll have Scourge of the Godclaw very, very soon in my downloads).
I would think their meeting with the queen in the module is a bad choice for assasination , she has backup , bodyguards and will be alert for trouble. Also they need to kill her and keep her dead, that means making sure they prevent Resurrection and that is hard to pull off.
They replace her throne with a Final Blade from Galt. After cloaking it in illusion, they push her backwards and activate!
They replace her throne with a Final Blade from Galt. After cloaking it in illusion, they push her backwards and activate!
That would be hilarious! But in all honesty, I don't see the let's kill the Queen plot working out for this AP, so I'll just tell my players they'll have to settle for a another noble family as their target of hatred.