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Great changes. Yeah, the tiefling in the original adventure was pretty random. So few people get this far in the campaign, and only like one other GM wrote up a detailed account of this adventure, so thank you a ton for this post.

Hm. Fascinating. Seaquen devastated doesn't necessarily mean everyone who was there is dead. Some folks could survive and head to try to take refuge with Dassen. And, of course you want the players to be happy with the story and the characters they make. Do you have any idea what the players...

I really dug the show. I'm a fan of trope-y serials that have a justification for being trope-y. I like witches just aesthetically. And I really adored the backstory to the theme song.

Y'know, fair point. Lots of moving parts to the campaign, but I didn't do much with Spirit Mediums.

Ha, it was around the time Adult Swim was pushing the ridiculous of 'who would win: a crocodile with wings, or a shark with a jet pack?' So I had the party encounter an Island of Doctor Moreau knock-off where his chief minions were just such hybrids. I don't really recall much else. Dr...

I'm afraid if you're hoping for EmeraldBeacon to answer, you'll be waiting a long while. They haven't been on EN World since August 2023. I guess either the game fell apart or, y'know, the time it takes writing up session reports felt like it wasn't worth it. As for the canon answers? Uff, I...

Long long ago I ran a campaign that became the inspiration for ZEITGEIST, and in it, things started going way off the rails because the PCs stole all of Asrabey's gear and then went AWOL and became pirates. Very different from what we ended up publishing, lol.

I'm writing a fantasy novel now where society is built upon a bunch of magical stone tablets, graven with laws that are inviolable, and which interact in odd ways. I need a few more examples of coding gone wrong for dumb reasons to integrate into the story. Like a master monolith says that...

I don't understand the question, and I wrote War of the Burning Sky.

Is the lack of Katrina intentional, or just an artifact of the party not going through the swamp?

I'm so sorry I inflicted that weirdness on you. And I'm a little sorry I didn't make it so you could kill the Voice of Rot by having him run into himself.

Lord Rego: "I explicitly requested that you not-!"

Penitent people-eaters? PCs' posse prevails.

A sort of meta-purpose of the encounter is that sidelining the party in Nem for a bit gives Ottavia and Luc a chance to evade the party, so it's easier to get off the train and start heading to Odiem. But if that's going to work out, I wouldn't try to railroad them into an encounter they...

I suppose in hindsight you probably shouldn't have let them spot Luc doing that, but what's done is done. The adventure still works if the party doesn't get off in Sid Minos, but you lose some really important groundwork for later revelations if they never go to the isle of Odiem and the...

Oh, and a few years before I ran the inspiration for WotBS, I ran my first ever 3rd edition campaign as a freshman in college, which covered events of Coaltongue and Shaaladel linking up and toppling the predecessor Seren Empire. PCs there included Rhuarc and 41 (played by the same players who...

The original party was Diogenes, Rantle, Rivereye, and Kathor. Rivereye ended up getting murdered when he tried to assassinate Shaaladel, and the player tried out a couple new characters but none of them survive in my memory 20 years later. At some point a new player joined as Fayne (in...

I agree with W'rk, though I'll add that for the sake of timeline canon, don't show the statblock to your players unless you remove the Merciful Wind reference to Caeloon, since that's a plane that show sup in adventure 12 and then ends up part of the assumed default cosmology twenty years later.

Are you running standard 5e, or A5E? At the risk of speaking ill of another game designer, I was not involved in the conversion of the adventures to 5e, and I think they often erred far too much toward simplicity and low-difficulty. I think the more complicated and powerful version is more fun...

The one from the adventure was converted from I think the Pathfinder version of the same creature into 5e, and so it was, well, very simplified. The one from AiZ was built for Level Up, which has more complexity and maybe some slightly different guidance on suggested damage.