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Greetings to all those reading this! My Rise of the Runelords game has taken a bit of a pause, and I decided that rather than twiddling my thumbs, I'd try to make the opening of Fortress of the Stone Giants into something decidedly more...heroic, by having the party take on some of their old foes.
Notes before I start:
-Nualia, Lyrie, and Bruthazmus are alive, and Ripnugget was maimed but alive thanks in no small part to my players beleiving in nonlethal justice back then. (Tsuto was beheaded and Orik fell on Jaagrath Kreeg's Ogre Hook; more on that later).
The idea of the siege as a raid works, but my players have been looking forward to getting to fight a defensive siege again (the last one was 9 months ago, and they loved it), so the goal of this is to turn Stones Over Sandpoint from the Smash-and-Grab originally planned into a multi-day siege.
-Sirius Tobyn, Nualia's brother and current guardian of his niece, Katelyn Tobyn. Sirius is a fairly standard buffer cleric, who's been looking into respeccing as a Paladin.
-Keitan Kei-an aspiring Giantslayer monk. He hasn't seen actual play yet, but he's built to lock down a foe and pummel the bejeezus out of it.
-Helena Han'D'Basket-Elven Alchemist, and former bride of Aldern Foxglove. She's your standard Alchemist: a generalist/skill monkey.
-Umbra: Bolt Ace Gunslinger and friend of Daviren Hosk. She has become Death From Afar.
-Razmus.
The setup is that Nualia & co have been working for Mokmurian, and offer to lead the giants through to Sandpoint. Nualia betrays Teraktinus at this point and takes over, using both the giants and the remnants of the goblins in her last gambit to burn Sandpoint to the ground.
I'd be very appreciative of any stat blocks that have been created/could be used for these higher-leveled villains, as well as tactical advice, ideas for events, or just plain advice from anyone who's tried something like this before.
My current ideas are:
-Katelyn goes missing, and during the search for her discover Nualia actually had TWO children: the other one being warped into the Sandpoint Devil. I'm hoping once the siege is over, they'll look into de-transmogrifying him first, leading them into The Waking Rune.
-Bringing Jaagrath Kreeg back as a Runeslave: aside from foreshadowing future Runeslaves, my players both hate and fear Jaagrath, as he is responsible for bringing down two Black Arrows, a PC, and Orik.
-Maybe putting in Lucrecia, although part of me worries it's too soon.