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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4971554" data-attributes="member: 710">Yes. I have received it yesterday with a bunch of other stuff, so I only flipped through it. I don't know, I am kinda excited about it, maybe simply because it's the conclusion to a campaign and any player characters "adventuring career".I am not sure if they are necessary to be hidden, but I do it anyway.[sblock]In the adventure, you get to fly through the Elemental Chaos with the Abyssal equivalent of an Airship. You first have to fight against its original crew, and during the adventure you return to it occasionally, repelling attacks.You travel to some fantastic locations and have the chance to fight or form an alliance with some Devils and work with some Angels over the course of the adventure (but I don't remember the details, I only glanced over that).You get to fight some Spawn or remains of the Primordial Timeseus, the Black Star and later fight him directly, while he is hammering out shards from the Shard of Evil that created the Abyss. Fantastic Location, and Timeseus looks also... unusual in the illustration. Primordial. <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=";)" />In the end, you enter the Temple of Raven Queen, just in time to see the Raven Queen lying, near death, in front of Orcus, who is just in the process of becoming the God of Death.The final battle has several stages - Orcus is protected and doesn't interfere at first. You then have to enter a skill challenge to destroy the traps shielding Orcus and a second challenge to save the Raven Queen. If you fail, she is dead and Orcus becomes a god, gaining some bonuses for the rest of the fight (if he wins, he'll eventually become a fully-fledged god). If you succeed, he instead suffers some penalties. Once you start messing with the Raven Queen and the Abyssal Shard that is killing her, Orcus launches to attack the party.Orcus will not retreat easily, and the most likely outcome - if the PCs succeed at all - is his death.Unfortunately, the adventure doesn't go into too much detail on what his death means. It clarifies that should it happen, the "official" stories will still contain him, but your campaign can and should change a lot. Likewise if he wins, because his plans are to keep all souls and create an army of undead to take over the world. Puts the Raven Queen in a little more positive light...But it's definitely cool that the Grand Finale is a Grand Finale and you really get to kill a Demon Prince - or fail and a Goddess is destroyed. I half-way worried that the Grand Finale was "just" fighting the Primordial. That just doesn't have the same impact and feels too much like "back to status quo". But killing Orcus - That's something.Mechanically speaking, my guess is that the final part of the adventure will be challenging even if the individual encounters are not that much above the PCs level, simply because once you enter the Raven Queens temple, you cannot really hope to get an extended rest, you you have to manage healing surges and dailies.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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