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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 9435451" data-attributes="member: 6801060"><p>I've been mulling over some further plot ideas as it gets closer to the time I start running this, and I think I've worked out two of the issues/ideas I've mentioned up thread: the fact that party is supposed to advance from 17th to 18th level in a chapter where virtually nothing happens (well, one big thing does happen - Kas' reveal and betrayal - but the party is deliberately not part of that), and the idea of having Elturel still in need of rescue when the party goes to Avernus to pick up the last segment of the Rod. Well... just make the rescue of Elturel the cause of the level-up! Tiamat was already one of the ways the chains holding Elturel to Avernus could be destroyed, and she could agree to help simply to knock Zariel down a notch and add to her own power in Avernus. She might also ask the party for a trinket or two to add to her hoard anyway. Also, the nine adamantium rods that unlock the Companion and set the planetar within free can just be replaced with the seven pieces of the Rod (they aren't the actual keys, but, as lawful artifacts, can be used as such). A way to make Kas' "borrowing" of the Rod shortly afterwards is that the pieces have to be slightly cosmetically modified to act as the keys, and "Mordenkainen" says he has to revert those modifications and make sure the Rod is still sound for its upcoming puropse. That will likely seem pretty reasonable to the party rather than just "Mordenkainen" saying he has to examine it with no real reason given.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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