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<blockquote data-quote="Will Doyle" data-source="post: 5745309" data-attributes="member: 6682161">I decided that the Shadowfell gate could only be opened during a thunderstorm, and Kalarel's ritual took days to perform, so he needed to summon a magical storm. One of my players was running a paladin of Kord, so I had Kalarel use a stolen, storm-summoning relic called the &quot;eye of storms&quot;. Aside from giving the paladin a divine purpose, this also meant I could do a cheesy, Ghostbusters-style cloudmass swirling above the keep for the final stages of the adventure. I introduced Kalarel through a flashback where one of the PCs actually played him (as I mentioned on the other thread). I ran the rest pretty much as is, but right at the end, I had the eye of storms tear the place apart with Kord's wrath. The PCs had to flee, and make various skill checks to avoid tumbling boulders, collapsing statues, and so on.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; One nice unplanned touch was the goblins. The players got into all sorts of arguments about keeping captives. They spared Splug, for example, but also spared another goblin called Azrig (whose name quickly mutated around the table into Arserag). When they escaped the keep, Arserag was waiting for them with a horde of goblins. All the way through the battle they were expecting Splug to switch sides, but he stuck with them, and is still with them to this day.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Will Doyle, post: 5745309, member: 6682161"] I decided that the Shadowfell gate could only be opened during a thunderstorm, and Kalarel's ritual took days to perform, so he needed to summon a magical storm. One of my players was running a paladin of Kord, so I had Kalarel use a stolen, storm-summoning relic called the "eye of storms". Aside from giving the paladin a divine purpose, this also meant I could do a cheesy, Ghostbusters-style cloudmass swirling above the keep for the final stages of the adventure. I introduced Kalarel through a flashback where one of the PCs actually played him (as I mentioned on the other thread). I ran the rest pretty much as is, but right at the end, I had the eye of storms tear the place apart with Kord's wrath. The PCs had to flee, and make various skill checks to avoid tumbling boulders, collapsing statues, and so on. One nice unplanned touch was the goblins. The players got into all sorts of arguments about keeping captives. They spared Splug, for example, but also spared another goblin called Azrig (whose name quickly mutated around the table into Arserag). When they escaped the keep, Arserag was waiting for them with a horde of goblins. All the way through the battle they were expecting Splug to switch sides, but he stuck with them, and is still with them to this day. [/QUOTE]

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