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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 7516934" data-attributes="member: 63"><p>The closest I can to a 'sequel' for WotBS was when I ran a campaign for the same group that inspired the adventure path way back in 2004. The gimmick was that Rantle had become . . . not emperor, but sort of "The guy in charge who really dislikes people abusing their power, so if you f*** with anyone outside your borders, he'll teleport an army in to wreck you."</p><p></p><p>And a villain -- who ended up being Guthwulf's brother Fengbald (*shrug*) -- wanted to trick Rantle into destroying everything, really just out of pure joy of causing misery. So he used the Temple of Echoed Souls to make semi-clones of people in power, then framed those people, and got Rantle to swoop in and blow stuff up. It was very, um, inspired by conspiracy theories about 9/11, if I'm being honest.</p><p></p><p>Fengbald was aided by a group of epic level spellcasters who were sorta like champions of their gods (my home game had specific deities, even if the published WotBS didn't), and Fengbald had tricked them into thinking he was a sort of messiah. It had some proto-versions of going to the Gyre, because Fengbald was trying to gather energy from different dimensions to let him turn any of his illusions into reality.</p><p></p><p>He didn't really have the greatest motivation as a villain. I mean, after you have "conquer and control the world" with Leska, I guess you can only escalate with "turn the world to rubble," but with hindsight, I shouldn't have escalated.</p><p></p><p>Maybe make it more about rebuilding? Something positive and creative, rather than destructive. Not sure how the game mechanics of D&D handle that, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 7516934, member: 63"] The closest I can to a 'sequel' for WotBS was when I ran a campaign for the same group that inspired the adventure path way back in 2004. The gimmick was that Rantle had become . . . not emperor, but sort of "The guy in charge who really dislikes people abusing their power, so if you f*** with anyone outside your borders, he'll teleport an army in to wreck you." And a villain -- who ended up being Guthwulf's brother Fengbald (*shrug*) -- wanted to trick Rantle into destroying everything, really just out of pure joy of causing misery. So he used the Temple of Echoed Souls to make semi-clones of people in power, then framed those people, and got Rantle to swoop in and blow stuff up. It was very, um, inspired by conspiracy theories about 9/11, if I'm being honest. Fengbald was aided by a group of epic level spellcasters who were sorta like champions of their gods (my home game had specific deities, even if the published WotBS didn't), and Fengbald had tricked them into thinking he was a sort of messiah. It had some proto-versions of going to the Gyre, because Fengbald was trying to gather energy from different dimensions to let him turn any of his illusions into reality. He didn't really have the greatest motivation as a villain. I mean, after you have "conquer and control the world" with Leska, I guess you can only escalate with "turn the world to rubble," but with hindsight, I shouldn't have escalated. Maybe make it more about rebuilding? Something positive and creative, rather than destructive. Not sure how the game mechanics of D&D handle that, though. [/QUOTE]
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