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Lowcountry Low Roller
Powerscore briefly describes an alternate ending scenario that I'm finding very appealing:
This sounds a lot more fun and a lot more memorable to have that PCs fight their way through a chaotic battle to reach the temple and stop the return.
Has anyone tried anything similar? If you were to run it this way what problems would you try to steer clear of?
I would run it narratively I think. I don't want to be rolling initiative every time a new NPC enters the fray. I'm imagining a couple of giants taking the van and clearing a path for the PCs but they still have to fight off opportunity attacks that arise from their push.
Anyway it sounds cool...
This episode details Tiamat's Temple and the Well of Dragons. The bulk of this episode details getting through the caldera to the temple as a massive battle rages. The dungeon, in my opinion, is very bland. There's a lot of fights with dragonsouls and guard drakes.
I ditched the dungeon. I kept the material on the Draakhorn and the treasure (both on age 82) and placed them elsewhere.
I ran a bunch of encounters outside, in the middle of the epic was with the cult. I had my PCs face cultists, Naergoth Bladelord (page 81), a dragon, a pit fiend and Rath Modar (who was by the Draakhorn). Each round I'd have something chaotic happen, like a chromatic dragon flying down to breathe on the PCs, or Leosin the Monk running up and kidney-punching a bad guy, or a frost giant ally pummeling a dragon, whatever.
This sounds a lot more fun and a lot more memorable to have that PCs fight their way through a chaotic battle to reach the temple and stop the return.
Has anyone tried anything similar? If you were to run it this way what problems would you try to steer clear of?
I would run it narratively I think. I don't want to be rolling initiative every time a new NPC enters the fray. I'm imagining a couple of giants taking the van and clearing a path for the PCs but they still have to fight off opportunity attacks that arise from their push.
Anyway it sounds cool...
