Running Rise of the Runelords and Shattered Star in parallel (with different GMs)?

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Hi all,

I am currently running Rise of the Runeslords for my group. In the light of the humble bundle offer, one of the other players has offered to run Shattered Star. We are only about halfway through RotRL, so if we wait until we are finished it will be a long time before we get round to playing Shattered Star, which would be a shame since one of the other players bought the bundle as a gift for the prospective GM. So I am thinking about alternating sessions of the two.

This would also have the advantage of reducing pressure on the pair of us - GMing weekly canbe stressful sometimes.

However, my understanding is that Shattered Star is a sequel of sorts to Rise of the Runelords, so spoilers are a concern. Would playing or prepping/running Shattered Star give rise to spoilers for RotRL (or vice versa)?

Hopefully it goes without saying, but just in case it doesn't: Please no spoilers for either in this thread.

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[Davor Firetusk]

Do the players know who the final fight of Rise is against? If they do then I can't think of too many other spoilers in the early portions of Shattered Star.

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Davor Firetusk wrote:

Do the players know who the final fight of Rise is against? If they do then I can't think of too many other spoilers in the early portions of Shattered Star.

Thanks! I asked the same question over at RPGnet, and got largely the same answer, so it looks like we should be good to go as long as they have figured our who is doing the rising (which should not be hard given the information they have already uncovered).

We have not actually played for a few months as we have been going through Doomsday Dawn, so I was due to send them a "story so far" email anyway. So I have sent them list of what the definitely know, and asked them how much beyond that they have figured out.

But it looks like we should be go for Shattered Star! Thanks again!

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PS Is there an accepted abbreviation for Shattered Star? I am already getting fed up of typing it out, but for obvious reasons I do not want to abbreviate it to SS!

[Matrix Sorcica]

SS is Serpent’s Skull. S&S is Skulls and Shackles. I've seen S* used for Shattered Star.

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Matrix Sorcica wrote:

SS is Serpent’s Skull. S&S is Skulls and Shackles. I've seen S* used for Shattered Star.

Thanks Matrix. I was more concerned about SS being Schutzstaffel than another AP, although that is a good point too. Hopefully everyone won't read S* as a wild card...

[The Shifty Mongoose]

To assuage similar worries, I abbreviate Serpent's Skull as S's S. Also, since you're halfway through Rise, it'd make for good crossover stuff - the Rise PCs give info to the Pathfinders, which spark renewed interest in Thassilon, bringing in Star PCs. They could even get a mission to contact the Rise PCs and offer to map out all the ancient places they've uncovered.

[Sir Belmont the Valiant]

S-Star?