Bastion of Lost Souls? (spoilers)

[Simon Magalis]

Ok, I still can't find it and the month is almost over. Has anyone read this yet? If so, please tell me what it is about and if Ashardalon is involved somehow. Thanks

 

[Asmodeus]

Well I browse through it at the shop. The story background had mention of Demogorgon and something about his two head fighting each other.

The dragon appears in the module. He is an ancient great half fiend wyrm and his plan is to steal some souls to get him some great reward. Also you see a lot of half dragon servitor kobolds.

 

[Simon Magalis]

Thanks! I am assuming it will pop up here in a few days or so but I have been running the Adventure Path series on the premise that Ashardalon would be the main villain and was somewhat distressed when I heard about the Demogorgon thing.

 

[Angelsboi]

yes Ashardalon is a CR 25 creature if im not mistaken

 

[d20Dwarf]

Ashardalon is a CR 27 half-fiend dragon. Its great and all, but that's a damn tough challenge for 18th level characters.

Frankly, I'm not even sure you are supposed to fight him, as I only leafed through the module, but the first place I went was to the back to see his stats.

 

[Lady Dragon]

Ashardalon is a great red wyrm with a Balor for a heart.After you defeat the CR27 Dragon you have to defeat his Demonic CR21 heart. Demongorgon doesn't appear in person and is only a perifal character at best.

The adventure also includes visits to Pandemonium and the positive energy plane so its kind of Planescape like.

 

[TrizzlWizzl]

SPOILER!! WOAH NELLIE KINDA SPOILER!!!

I read it the other day, and yeah... Ashardalon's in there.

It's a pretty cool module, actually. Turns out Demogorgon's two heads are fueding and one of them (I forget which one) needs Ashardalon's heart ; something about the heart belonging to a demon lord loyal to one of the heads and yadda yadda yadda... point is, the only way to beat Ash. is to use the blood of a decendant of Dydd. Which, uh, just happens to belong to one of your PCs!

Anyway, the PCs get attacked by the 'Cathezar' (remember that wierd little tidbit from the Standing Stone?), and one thing leads to another... eventually they find themselves battling Ashardalon himself in the Bastion of Lost Souls.

It actually is a decent cap to the whole Adventure Path thing. I really wish WotC had done more to string the adventures together into a more cohesive campaign though... from what I can tell so far Speaker in Dreams, Deep Horizon and Lord of the Iron Fortress are just kinda hangnails. Ew.

 

[Angelsboi]

now they will have epic level adventure paths sinc eht eepic level book is coming out.

Well they might ya know

 

[Renshai]

I pikced it up yesterday and I think it looks like a well written module. A good concluscion to the whole adventure path series. I've only run half of Sunless Citadel (before they died) and none of the others.

I may run a campaign based around the modules... and work more to introduce lore from all the modules into the general plot... might be fun.

Ren

 

[Wolfspider]

So, how do they portray the dragon? Does he use intelligent tactics? What's the set up?

I need details....