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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7589539" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>I'm not familiar with Eberron, so I won't be able to help on that front. However, I'm running my own "enhanced" Dungrunglung now, and can share what I'm doing.</p><p></p><p><strong>Undead Problem.</strong> I made the Thorn Maze a more serious obstacle using the <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Tombofannihilation/comments/afcgkt/dungrunglung_using_the_toa_board_game_tiles_for/" target="_blank">ToA board game tiles and random tables</a>. For instance, damaging the Thorn Maze risks the undead breaking through and overrunning Dungrunglung. I also have a greater diversity of undead including Batiri goblin zombies ("zoblins"), vine troll skeletons, and a beholder zombie (which mad King Groak wants to turn into a floating throne). To spice it up, I have Batiri goblins from the Snarling Crocodile clan (think "Walking Dead" adapted goblins) who plan to infiltrate the Thorn Maze, rescue their captive Prince Pufferfish, and kill King Groak in a night raid.</p><p></p><p><strong>Stopping the Ritual.</strong> I'm using the setup from ToA, though one of my players is running a Grung Druid PC (who is considering usurping King Groak) and they just discovered the "Artus Cimber" traveling with them is actually a doppelganger decoy. So they have lots of options. Specifically, I've imagined that Groak has written down his feverish dreams of Nangnang – derived from scattered bits of lore about the Nine Trickster Gods of Omu – which are scattered across different pages. I'm in the process of defining these on index cards (e.g. the floating throne will be one), the idea being that the players can interpret them in varying ways, so the "floating throne" could be the beholder zombie...or it could be something else of the PCs' devising. I'm planning on coming up with 3-5 of these "scattered feverish notes."</p><p></p><p><strong>The Priestess' Ambitions.</strong> I am playing Krr'ook as a social climber eager for caste/color advancement. I've played that out through subtle social nuance when the party interacts with the despotic King Groak, particularly trying to subtly undermine the Grung Druid PC. The key thing is that Krr'ook doesn't want to directly oppose King Groak and certainly doesn't want to harm him.</p><p></p><p><strong>Roark the Warrior.</strong> I introduced a conspiracy known as the "GMC" or "Groak Must Croak" which uses graffiti of a crowned grung getting three daggers in the back. The party – aided by Krr'ook – is investigating this conspiracy at the behest of King Groak. I created a triumvirate conspiracy, with Yupyup (anarchist grung stripped of her coloration whose husband was executed at Groak's order, sowing chaos) and Prince Pufferfish (goblin slave, hailing from Snarling Crocodile clan, promising "foreign aid") key members, and Roark the secret mastermind behind the conspiracy. He communicates with Yupyup, Prince Pufferfish, and a few complicit slaves & green grung using anonymous letters laced with orange grung venom (causing slaves to grow frightened & distrustful of each other). Roark is dutiful in the "tribe first, king second" sense, and he feels King Groak will drive the grung to ruin if unchecked. He looks for a window leading up to or during the ceremony (possibly a Batiri goblin raid) to activate his green grung henchmen to perform the assassination. Ideally, leaving Roark blameless.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 7589539, member: 20323"] I'm not familiar with Eberron, so I won't be able to help on that front. However, I'm running my own "enhanced" Dungrunglung now, and can share what I'm doing. [B]Undead Problem.[/B] I made the Thorn Maze a more serious obstacle using the [URL="https://www.reddit.com/r/Tombofannihilation/comments/afcgkt/dungrunglung_using_the_toa_board_game_tiles_for/"]ToA board game tiles and random tables[/URL]. For instance, damaging the Thorn Maze risks the undead breaking through and overrunning Dungrunglung. I also have a greater diversity of undead including Batiri goblin zombies ("zoblins"), vine troll skeletons, and a beholder zombie (which mad King Groak wants to turn into a floating throne). To spice it up, I have Batiri goblins from the Snarling Crocodile clan (think "Walking Dead" adapted goblins) who plan to infiltrate the Thorn Maze, rescue their captive Prince Pufferfish, and kill King Groak in a night raid. [B]Stopping the Ritual.[/B] I'm using the setup from ToA, though one of my players is running a Grung Druid PC (who is considering usurping King Groak) and they just discovered the "Artus Cimber" traveling with them is actually a doppelganger decoy. So they have lots of options. Specifically, I've imagined that Groak has written down his feverish dreams of Nangnang – derived from scattered bits of lore about the Nine Trickster Gods of Omu – which are scattered across different pages. I'm in the process of defining these on index cards (e.g. the floating throne will be one), the idea being that the players can interpret them in varying ways, so the "floating throne" could be the beholder zombie...or it could be something else of the PCs' devising. I'm planning on coming up with 3-5 of these "scattered feverish notes." [B]The Priestess' Ambitions.[/B] I am playing Krr'ook as a social climber eager for caste/color advancement. I've played that out through subtle social nuance when the party interacts with the despotic King Groak, particularly trying to subtly undermine the Grung Druid PC. The key thing is that Krr'ook doesn't want to directly oppose King Groak and certainly doesn't want to harm him. [B]Roark the Warrior.[/B] I introduced a conspiracy known as the "GMC" or "Groak Must Croak" which uses graffiti of a crowned grung getting three daggers in the back. The party – aided by Krr'ook – is investigating this conspiracy at the behest of King Groak. I created a triumvirate conspiracy, with Yupyup (anarchist grung stripped of her coloration whose husband was executed at Groak's order, sowing chaos) and Prince Pufferfish (goblin slave, hailing from Snarling Crocodile clan, promising "foreign aid") key members, and Roark the secret mastermind behind the conspiracy. He communicates with Yupyup, Prince Pufferfish, and a few complicit slaves & green grung using anonymous letters laced with orange grung venom (causing slaves to grow frightened & distrustful of each other). Roark is dutiful in the "tribe first, king second" sense, and he feels King Groak will drive the grung to ruin if unchecked. He looks for a window leading up to or during the ceremony (possibly a Batiri goblin raid) to activate his green grung henchmen to perform the assassination. Ideally, leaving Roark blameless. [/QUOTE]
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