We're off to fight the Runelord...

[Barwickian]

So last session my players reached start of the road to Xin-Shalast. Such is a cause for song and celebration (or so says our party bard).

minor description spoiler:

"...an ancient road paved with flat stones that have a faint sheen of gold to them." (RotRL AE p320)

Description of Xin-Shalast: "The building materials are several varieties of stone quarried from the rock faces of the Kodar Range, including a hard green marble similar in appearance to emerald." (RotRL AE p324)

Oh, well played, Paizo and Greg Vaughan. Very well played indeed.

Follow the Golden Road
Follow the Golden Road
Follow, follow, follow, follow,
Follow the Golden Road

Follow the Avah's ghostly stream
For we are a kick-ass team
Follow, follow, follow, follow,
Follow the Golden Road

We're off to fight the Runelord,
The terrible Runelord of Greed
He hear he was a ruler of Xin
If ever an evil wiz there was
If ever, oh ever an evil wiz there was
The Runelord of Greed is one because
Because, because, because, because, because
Because of the horrible things he does

We're off to fight the Runelord,
The terrible Runelord of Greed

[Latrecis]

And people say the internet is a bad thing... This post made me laugh out loud for a good 10 minutes. Just imagining the pc's dancing arm in arm down the center of Xin Shalast while singing this song...

[blahpers]

Hmm. I can think of obvious RotRL analogues for the Scarecrow and the Tin Man, but not so much the Cowardly Lion. I may have to introduce something. : D

[Yossarian]

Awesome :)

The spared have something Munchkin-like about them, come to think of it.

[Tusk the Half-Orc]

I’ve read that introduction several times now and never caught on. Brilliant. My party hasn’t gotten there yet - we’re still in book 4 - but I will definitely try to find a way to let them in on the joke when we reach that point.