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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bitbrain" data-source="post: 9344045" data-attributes="member: 6863864">Well, I don’t have the book myself yet, but I have read quite a few spoilers for it and plan to run a reworked interpretation of the adventure in a few years time.  The assorted jumble of ideas I have so far are as follows:Players will have the freedom to go after the first six pieces of the rod in whatever order they wish.  Only after they assemble the first six together will the seventh and final piece’s location reveal itself.BBEG already has the seventh piece of the rod and needs the others for his magic ritual, but he needs the pieces disconnected from each other.Locations visited (and the settings they belong to) will be a mix of official and 3rd party. [SPOILER="Basic Layout"]<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sigil (Planescape) — demiplane city and home base.  Where the PCs are summoned and return to after collecting each piece so they can rest up, before going back out to find the next fragment.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Elemental Plane of Air — flying castle and smallest region.  Where the PCs are sent to get the information from a noble djinn on where the first six fragments are located.  Dude is genuinely helpful with the information and will also offer to grant each PC a single limited wish, but the more wishes the djinn grants, the harder the endgame will be.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Shrine of Miska, Greyhawk — underground complex, no idea where yet.  Fragment #1’s location.  Cultists, spider-monsters, hill giants, demons, and poison-breathing spider dragons.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Nyhem Stretch, Mystara — arctic shoreline near Ostland’s Isle of Dawn Colonies.  Fragment #2’s location.  Gnolls, arctic monsters, frost giants, winter dark fey, and white dragons.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Astral Sea, Spelljammer — asteroid archipelago and largest region.  Fragment #3’s location.  Githyanki, space monsters, space traveling cloud giants, beholders, and solar (?) dragons.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ringing Mountains, Dark Sun — desert foothills between the city-state of Tyr and dwarf-town of Kled.  The most dangerous region.  Fragment #4’s location.  Desert brigands, mutant desert monsters, psionic beasthead giants, chitin golems, and stone rubble-breathing earth drakes.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hornsaw Forest, Scarred Lands — snake-corrupted forest, northeast of the necromancer-city of Hollowfaust and southwest of the Broadreach Elf tribes.  Fragment #5’s location.  Unredeemed asaatthi serpentfolk, hornsaw unicorns and scarn gorgons (think type 2 yuan-ti malisons), fomorians, forest-dwelling hags, and lightning-breathing woodwrack dragons.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Talenta Plains, Eberron — Dino-riding halfling steppe.  Fragment #6’s location.  Renegade warforged, dinosaurs, warforged titans, living spells, and maybe brass dragons (in Eberron, metallic dragons can be just as evil as chromatics and vice versa).</li> </ul>[/SPOILER]That’s about as far as I’ve gotten so far.EDIT - removed a sentence that doesn’t really make any sense.</blockquote>

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