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Hello,
So I am thinking of running this in the future at some point and one thing I was thinking of doing was to expand on the Lumber Consortium. Deegs Agraive is one of the big wigs, in particular he is a gavel of the consortium. So I was thinking he would be a secondary antagonist, a counter part to Ruzadoya. The idea being to show why the treaty of wildwood is good for all.
There is at least one encounter already with him, grove of tears, and tying them in with fallen friends doesn't seem that difficult.
What I am wondering is beyond those stuff what are some good ways to expand on the Lumber Consortium as a secondary antagonist. I was thinking maybe to have the players participate or deal with an Andoran Election.
I wonder if anyone has done this and any thoughts on this idea?
it might be interesting to have the PCs infiltrate the Lumber Consortium's HQ in Oregent, where they are fish-out-of-water in a big human city.
That is a little bit far from the Verduran Forest which is where the story plot points are in.
Anyways some thoughts I did have but curious what other GMs have of them; especially as I am going to be a new GM :)
The first is to use the three canon Lumber Consortium NPCs, with Gaval Deegs Agraive as the main bad guy. The other two being Choms "Chomper" Snikt, and Lumber Magnate Ulfas Blust. Deegs in particular wants to dominate the forest and for Bellis to be another falcon's hollow or Oregent. Establishing a monopoly and using the chaos that happens following the Greenwood Massacre and Ruzadoya's take over of the Lodge to strengthen the position of the Consortium among andoran's settlements in the forest.
The second is to tie them into some of the flashpoints in book 1. they are already there with Grove of Tears(I am going to switch the person from deegs to Choms or Ulfas Blust), but also fallen friends.
The bigger question is how to tie them more into the plot after this.
I know that I want to include Andoran Election shenniganary and thus having the PCs work to get the Forester Endowment faction's policies pushed through as they are a political faction aimed at protecting the forest from the Lumber consortium, they are in Augustana but the faction feels right at home with the Verduran Forest.