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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herschel" data-source="post: 5228989" data-attributes="member: 78357">What I’m doing in a campaign I’m running is using the WotC modules as drop-ins for my story arc along with bits from the Dungeon Delve book and a couple of LFR modules and the Weekend in the Realms adventure. I actually base it around “The Radiant Vessel of Thesk” adventure as the campaign starting point. Up until that time they were just meeting and establishing their characters in minor activities and finding their way. The party’s heroics get noticed by the “Thayan Liberation Front” while in Aglarond, and they’re recruited to join and help bring about the overthrow of Ssaz Tam. The Radiant Vessel adventure is their first real one in the campaign story arc.  I gutted “Pyramid of Shadows” and only had it trap them for a single level worth of encounters as I used other stuff around it. In the second Radiant Vessel module, they actually screwed up the power transfer to the boy, but the old man was able to transfer it to the Warlord on another attempt (free Deva Heritage feat and a daily radiant power). You know that’s going to come back to haunt him. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> They’re now paragon and in the Trollhaunt Warrens. When they complete the module there will be a catoplebas encounter (just because I love that bad boy) as a harbinger to something around Against The Giants and using a ship to get the Warlord a little use of his Sword Coast Corsair Paragon path. It’s not as strict as running the modules as written, and I can easily ignore or re-write encounters and bits I don’t like since it doesn’t have to lead as written to their next module. I bought the gargantuan Orcus yesterday so level 29-30 is going to be about defeating the Thayan Lich Lord and the final battle will be against Orcus himself. Until that time it’s pretty flexible but mostly uses the WotC modules/maps/encounters. All I did was write out the basic cell structure of the “freedom fighters” and a contact or two and tie stories in as needed. I think it’s working pretty well so far. A nice combination of homebrew and published. </blockquote>

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