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Session 244, Part Two The Flying Fortress When they neared Egalitrix, Uru and Leon ranged ahead. They found a vast area of empty space, at the centre of which sat a mechanised mountain: a fiery volcano that had been tamed and turned into a floating gunship, thousands of feet long. It...

Session 244, Part One The Best-laid Plans While Elofasp was dealt with, Gupta took stock of her newfound divinity. She did not feel that much different. Maybe that would change over time, if she accrued worshippers. She tried talking to Rumdoom’s followers, but they were a diffident bunch...

Session 243, Part Three Kill a Queen Their plan worked a treat, as they stole past the complacent (though substantial) guards placed by the legion to protect their major asset. As they entered the spindle, they saw close up signs that a great civilisation had risen and crumbled here, as...

Session 243, Part Two Another One Bites the Dust Uriel and Leon examined the chains first, establishing that the bonds connecting them to the legion were strong, even here on a demiplane. They created a link from the wearer, in a hierarchical pyramid that did not stop with Paelyrion XVIII, but...

Session 243, Part One The Spawning Hive Leon, Uru, Quartulain and Uriel were all set to reconnoitre Elofasp and capture a devil. Uriel cast a magic circle ritual into the Cracked Cauldron, and Uru took the handle, so they could pin one of the legion quickly. Before they approached the plane...

Session 242, Part Six Plans As they travelled back to Ascetia, through the graveyard of ships, so as to avoid Obliatas, Calily pressed Korrigan to begin thinking about tactics. “As we get closer to our goal, I grow less and less inclined to throw myself at the legion with bold abandon! They...

I had a green dragon in the Dreaming, protected by the fey. My characters went there early, during a buffer adventure between instalments of the AP. (Wrath of the River King by Wolfgang Baur.)

Assuming you’re going for the ‘combat as sport’ option, that is. The great thing about Zeitgeist is it gives you plenty of outs if the party loses. This point in the adventure is a good example. I’d start Gale off in the tree line. Heh heh heh.

Session 242, Part Five Iratha Ket The world of Iratha Ket had been eaten away by the depredations of Obliatas, leaving only a crescent city and its river. For fear of infection, they warded themselves and descended on stone discs, leaving the Coaltongue behind. Flying low over the rooftops...

Session 242, Part Four Obliatas Word spread that they would soon be moving out. The party was over; most had gone to sleep, or sat up around makeshift campfires, exchanging stories. Calily came to sit alongside Korrigan. “It’s odd to find myself saying this, having held Egalitrix so firmly...

Session 242, Part Three One to One While the party was still in full swing, Korrigan left the hubbub behind and followed Miller down to his bench at the end of the wooden walkway, where Miller sat overlooking distant planar fragments and the void between them. Korrigan joined him and was...

Session 242, Part Two Party Time They had not gone far before they heard the music. It wasn’t just Catahoula’s drums, but a whole band, and multiple voices. Rock Rackus had gotten bored drifting in space and docked. Amielle and Sly Marbo – who they had placed in charge of the Coaltongue in...

Session 242, Part One Awkward Conversation “It’s done,” said Uriel, shaking himself free for speech. He looked wan. “I have told our reflected selves that we will find a way to send the golden icons to them. I could not summon them to me, as am able to other items I have known. But I think...

Session 241, Part Four Round 4 “I’m sorry to spoil the excitement,” Quratulain said, apologetically, as she aimed her shrink ray at the Screaming Malice. This proved to be slightly premature, however, as the transmuting magic of her lantern blaster interacted strangely with the intrinsic wild...

Session 241, Part Three Round 3 Quratulain began firing her lantern blaster at the ghost council’s expendable hosts, first targeting Rollins, who was already dead, kept aloft by their puppet mastery. But Xavier Sangrea used Malice magic to switch the shot to Uru, who cried out in pain, and...

You're right about that. I enjoyed 4e combat immensely, but always felt a bit crestfallen after major set-pieces because they would inevitable become hog-tied by mechanics. But in terms of what you said about 'woefully underestimating the capacities of a max-level party', I think we'll share...

I would be interested to hear your thoughts on the final battle. Haven’t analysed it too closely myself. What specific issues have you run across? I was thinking myself of making the ancient seal site truly huge, because it doesn’t seem big enough to me. The thing in the centre is supposed to...

Yes, I'm always gratified by the level of player buy-in. The only character who they didn't recognise straight away was Justin Rollins, who hadn't even been mentioned since Sept 2017! (And in passing at that.) Sangrea had been quite the focal point for a while, and I'd reintroduced him as one...

Session 241, Part Two Round 2 The attempt was all-but impossible; to return from the Gyre in any way, shape or form could not be done. Uriel tackled the challenge with every ounce of his strength, every scintilla of his substantial intellect, but he could not find a way, at least for now...