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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6738326" data-attributes="member: 6669384">I'm planning a group excursion across the Plane of Shadows as a way the group will access the Egyptian afterlife.Setting:  Party starting off in Heliopolis (Cairo) or perhaps Memphis (not the one in Tennessee), and traveling via a variation on Shadow Walk.So they'll start in a Shadow version of a great Egyptian city, then "west" to a special place.  Egyptian mythology says that Amon Ra, the sun god, is also their gatherer of souls.  He sweeps up all who are ready to pass on, and at sunset he lands his chariot at a particular point on the Nile.  (No corresponding point in the mortal realm.)  There he loads them aboard the great golden barge and escorts them down the Nile to the Palace of Two Truths, a place of judgment.  Along the way he fights Apophis, the great serpent of destruction, protecting those souls from him as they pass.So that's where the party has to go.  And yes, I know, both Cairo/Heliopolis and Memphis are actually right on the Nile.  The party still has to travel to the west from those cities, at least on the Shadow Plane, to reach the banks where Ra lands.Jackals are the servants of Anubis, and their job is to guard the dead, not to prey upon them.  They might object to living people approaching them, since Egyptians believed that they could take their wealth with them to the next life.  Robbery is possible.I plan for there to be a great battle going on as they approach, with Ra, Set and Anubis working together against a foreign deity.What I'm looking for is ideas for encounters in the Plane of Shadows.The party is around 10th level, with a few 11th levels in the group, and one 9th I think.Currently on the list:  Shadow Mastiff (including some advanced ones), at least one Black Dragon, and a night flier version of the Darkwalker undead.The night flier is more background, he'll be engaged against some other opponent in the big battle scene.Monsters are easy.  Scenes and settings, twisted versions of reality where the monsters make sense, that's the hard part.One note:  We've often described the Plane of Shadows as the place where nightmares (bad dreams, not the monster) come from, so dreamscape type themes work.Anyway, I'm fishing for ideas and/or inspiration.</blockquote>

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