Common themes and encounters with another adventure

[Golbez57]

We are currently playing The Fall of Plaguestone as an introduction to 2nd Edition.

My intention from the start has been to run an Adventure Path after that, so long as we have fun with the new system and can keep on a schedule.

I am seeing MANY similar themes and even encounters between it and, on a first reading, The Show Must Go On.

Have others noticed the same? What are your feelings on those?

[Valeor]

My player who played plaguestone noticed it to, and already name first volume plaguestone 2.0

[BeanBean]

Yes, I noticed that as well! I'm chalking some of the similarities up to there only being one Bestiary, thus limiting the available monsters by level. But what are the chances of having both a Fiery Leopard and a Smoldering Leopard?! Plus the overall theme of combating ecological decline.

Here's to hoping it diverges more later in the campaign...

[Golbez57]

Plaguestone and TSMGO spoilers:

Also... a mystery surrounding the murder of an authority figure of a traveling group; Gozreh worshippers ("No studying!"); combat in an orchard; boar on the rampage; as well as the ecological spoilage and unusual leopards already mentioned.

I am apprehensive enough to want to tweak some of these things. Maybe Myron succumbs to rat bites, the Hermitage is devoted to Erastil instead, orchard replaced with another site.

Hm.

[Harrowed Wizard]

I'm doing my first read through of this right now while we are on the last 1/3 of Plaguestone. I caught the similarities as well in at least Chapter 1 so far (as far as I've gotten is the opening box text).

Spoiler:

I really like the idea of players being able to bring forward rewards from Plaguestone after completing it in one fashion or another (with the biggest being maybe we steamroll Book 1 as 4th level PCs), and I thought it kind of funny that some of the PCs (maybe not all will come from Plaguestone, some players have already talked about making new characters instead, but others might keep their original) would witness the poisoning death of Bort and then Thunder.

I might rethink how Thunder ultimately succumbs to something, maybe being ripped apart by something

[Ron Lundeen]

Harrowed Wizard wrote:

I'm doing my first read through of this right now while we are on the last 1/3 of Plaguestone. I caught the similarities as well in at least Chapter 1 so far (as far as I've gotten is the opening box text).

** spoiler omitted **

An answer:

Make it death by rat bites, and you'll be fine; that all still works.

[Harrowed Wizard]

About to run this next week Ron Lundeen! Thanks for the advise on the change, I'll be running with it!