Possible bbeg changes help and / or Choral the Conqueror ideas

[Johnnypeaches]

I’ll try to keep this short, so i am finishing our starter campaign soon and have decided to get after it with Kingmaker next.

I am somewhat of a fan of Critical Role and a massive fan of Dragons in general. I loved the CR Chroma Conclave idea so much that i’ve recently been pondering about the possibilities of well either changing the KM bbeg to a Dragon or just including an arc of sorts in there somewhere. The most logical choice i think would be Choral the Conqueror and the House of Rogarvia.

On the other hand i like the idea that KM has with its overall story and on the other then i feel some sort of i dunno gm creativity burst in adding / changing stuff in to my own ideas. And an Evil Dragon Overlord is just an awesome idea in my eyes.

So i guess im just having a hard time finding some sort of a thread or burst of ideas on like How to actually start carving this thing in, or should i even? I bought the Humble Bundle and have the Foundryvtt premium Module ready to go so playing it just as it is, is pretty much a plug and play at this point and then later add player backstories and other nonsense in.

Have just started on doing my research on reading the module and other things around it so my actual details on Kingmaker are still a bit sparse.

So i am looking for some ideas on changing the theme from Fey to more Draconic and have the House of Rogarvia be in the front and Center then and Choral the Conqueror on being an actual dragon (Diabolic maybe, to get to use the new dragons) and other possible ideas around this train of thought to start building.

Or should i just leave it as it is cause i have heard so much good about it?

Thanks.

[demlin]

Choral is a red dragon and I think 2e brought him back IIRC. What I did was to let him lose a wager with the lantern king which turned him into a giant dragon chess piece

[Exzachtly]

I'm in the midst of running a "Choral returns(?)" plot alongside War of the River Kings. For full disclosure, I'm using the 5E version.

My Choral had a blood disease that could be held at bay when he took human form. His niece, Voldara, [Edit: This is a full-blown OC, IIRC Choral has no canon niece or nephew] a necromancer dragon, devised a ritual to do what amounts to a mass blood transfusion, but the ritual works best when using the blood of direct descendants.

To set all that up, Choral needed a line of descendants untainted by the dragon plague. Enter House Rogarvia, a dynasty to further Choral's bloodline. While his descendants multiplied, Choral was placed in stasis under Candlemere Isle. When the time was right, Choral's niece transported House Rogarvia to Candlemere and began the transfusion process (one that would prove lethal to the Rogarvians). Choral's niece and nephew then took on human forms to better manipulate House Surtova while this years-long transfusion ritual took place.

With the PCs' kingdom growing in opposition to House Surtova and their slaughter of Voldara's brother (who had a personal connection to the party Paladin), Voldara felt the need to accelerate her plans to return Choral to life, teaming up with Irovetti to distract the party while she finds a way to speed the ritual up. The prophecies of the Firespeakers (as seen in the PFS scenario "On the Border of War") offered one solution: open war in Brevoy.

To muddy the waters further, I've introduced a wrinkle from my Curse of the Crimson Throne campaign: The Crown of Fangs has made its way to the Stolen Lands, and it could prove useful for Voldara's plans.

The rest is up to the players: are they going to stop Voldara before she finds a way to bring Choral back faster, or is this going to culminate in a fight against an Ancient Red Dragon, bolstered by the Crown of Fangs? No idea yet!