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This is inspired by the Adding Star Wars Flavor to Iron Gods thread.
I would like to reproduce the "feel" of the classic 1980s cartoon Thundar the Barbarian. For the most part, Iron Gods does this quite well, however, the AP needs more "Evil Wizards."
- Fires of Creation works well for this. Meyanda makes an excellent stand in for an evil wizard.
- Lords of Rust kind of works - not all of Thundar's foes were wizards, but most were, but more evil wizard would be helpful.
- The Choking Tower is a problem for me .
- Valley of the Brain Collectors works - while no evil wizards per say, the strange alien creatures develop a different aspect of Thundarr's world admirably.
- Palace of Fallen Stars works - obviously.
- The Divinity Drive kind of works - but more evil wizard would be helpful.
I would like to rewrite The Choking Tower, with the following changes ...
- Furkas Xoud is alive and a League Captain in good standing.
- An occupying force, lead by Furkas Xoud from the techic league has conquered Iadenveigh, and the PCs must liberate the town. The PCs will encounter, but not defeat Xoud in the town during the fighting (he will flee before seriously threatened).
- Once the town has been freed, the greatful town folk will tell the heroes that Xoud has taken refuge in the secret ruin beneath Iadenveigh.
- The PCs will find that Xoud has been repairing the Andriod foundry (talk about moral dilemmas for any Android PCs), after battling to him, they will halve to face both Xoud and the Though Harvester robot. Xoud will have just recently harvested Casandalee's memories.
I would then run Nick Logue’s Scorpions of Perdition to get from Level 9 to Level 10.
What I need input on is "What am I missing?"
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I feel like the AP, and Numeria itself, are already very much in the vein of Thundarr, but I like your ideas. Rescuing the town of Iadenveigh is a good idea, but it doesn't have to be a living Furkas Xoud. Just add in an advanced mage construct to the existing caster robots that is the 'evil wizard' mastermind.
That way you get to keep the creepy undead cloud aspect of Furkas, but still have the party save the town from wielders of forbidden knowledge.
Or, have Furkas be alive in the town, and after he is defeated there the party has to then fight his ghost in the tower!
I feel like the AP, and Numeria itself, are already very much in the vein of Thundarr, but I like your ideas. Rescuing the town of Iadenveigh is a good idea, ...
I was not a fan of how quickly the people of Iadenveigh revealed their darkest secret to outsiders. Where as, having to pursue an enemy that has taken refuge in the ruin would be much more "motivating" for these people.
... but it doesn't have to be a living Furkas Xoud. Just add in an advanced mage construct to the existing caster robots that is the 'evil wizard' mastermind.
That way you get to keep the creepy undead cloud aspect of Furkas, but still have the party save the town from wielders of forbidden knowledge.
Or, have Furkas be alive in the town, and after he is defeated there the party has to then fight his ghost in the tower!
Of course, I am not a huge fan of the tower/dungeon. That's why I was looking at moving the final battle to the wreck.
Another option would be to move the ghost Furkas Xoud, the thought harvester, and some of the choice minions to the Android Foundry . That way he could still pop-up as a ghost in the town, but putting him to rest would just require (a) the destruction of his robot apprentices and losing control of Casandalee's corpse.