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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7819563" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Couple ideas: First things first, celestial rides have all kinds of opportunities! *PCs could straight up get wings! *Celestial boats with the heads of unicorns and maybe enormous angelic wings on the sides? The bowsprit unicorn can definitely be used to ram things. *Celestial mounts! They won’t like you if you do evil stuff. Maybe an opportunity to bond with a newly hatched celestial eagle/Pegasus/alicorn/flying ram/big ol angelic lion/whatever. *Chariots. And chariot races. And chariot chases. Chariot jousting. *A celestial dragon a la falcor Second, the challenge. So, something is wrong in the upper planes. You are stuck with either fixing it or never going home. There is a minor deity that believes you can, and can help you in small ways, but the greater gods have gone silent, and are suspicious of all. If you don’t figure out what is causing the retreat of the angels, and now the gods, and fix it, there will be war in the Heavens, as there has not been since The Beginning. Now, this means you have to navigate suspicion, and do dishonest things, without losing your few allies and safe havens, or getting caught out by the forces of the greater gods. This means making checks to convince, which are harder if you are Evil, and may be harder if your Law/Chaos alignment doesn’t match where you are or whose agents you’re dealing with. I’d even tie it to Descent optionally, and have Zariel be an ally if she was redeemed by the party in Descent, or if the DM wants to establish that a party went to hell and did that, and if not, some other being could fill the same role.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 7819563, member: 6704184"] Couple ideas: First things first, celestial rides have all kinds of opportunities! *PCs could straight up get wings! *Celestial boats with the heads of unicorns and maybe enormous angelic wings on the sides? The bowsprit unicorn can definitely be used to ram things. *Celestial mounts! They won’t like you if you do evil stuff. Maybe an opportunity to bond with a newly hatched celestial eagle/Pegasus/alicorn/flying ram/big ol angelic lion/whatever. *Chariots. And chariot races. And chariot chases. Chariot jousting. *A celestial dragon a la falcor Second, the challenge. So, something is wrong in the upper planes. You are stuck with either fixing it or never going home. There is a minor deity that believes you can, and can help you in small ways, but the greater gods have gone silent, and are suspicious of all. If you don’t figure out what is causing the retreat of the angels, and now the gods, and fix it, there will be war in the Heavens, as there has not been since The Beginning. Now, this means you have to navigate suspicion, and do dishonest things, without losing your few allies and safe havens, or getting caught out by the forces of the greater gods. This means making checks to convince, which are harder if you are Evil, and may be harder if your Law/Chaos alignment doesn’t match where you are or whose agents you’re dealing with. I’d even tie it to Descent optionally, and have Zariel be an ally if she was redeemed by the party in Descent, or if the DM wants to establish that a party went to hell and did that, and if not, some other being could fill the same role. [/QUOTE]

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