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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 4239109" data-attributes="member: 5868">Here's what I'd recommend, based on having your players keep their XP and simply continue on -- with some carefully crafted hooks, you should be able to segue neatly into KotS:[sblock]Winterhaven = Chronos Keep SW of Oakhurst (or, it could be a town on the road further north, or can be omitted entirely and you can continue to use Oakhurst as the base town).  Chuck out the kobold lair and the two kobold ambushes.  The dragon burial site can remain as a side trek.Where'd the hobgoblins from Oakhurst come from?  Well, Varkaze was a disgruntled member of a tribe that was taken over by Orcus worshippers, who had a lair in a ruined keep somewhere in the wilderness ... Varkaze left to find another master and would up working for Nightscale.After hearing the PC's story from the Stone Tooth, have Picard the ranger, or another NPC, drop some rumors about an old hobgoblin tribe who used to lair in an old abandoned keep ... hint they might want to investigate ... off to the Keep!Alternate hooks:- If they didn't resolve the priest's brother quest, have the priest tell them he suspects his long-lost brother disappeared after tracking rumors of a cult of Orcus to some old ruins a distance away.  Alternate: the some of the priest's prayers to Amanuator have gone unanswered; something is wrong.  Cue information about Orcus and the Shadowfell.- Have Terren mention to the party that the tailor is long overdue from his trip to the city ... could they stop in at Winterhaven and see if he passed through (and have the tailor become the explorer who was lost at the dragon tomb)- Depending on how the Nightscale encounter went ... if she survived, Nightscale could set up a deal through intermediaries to eliminate her rival, a foul priest of Orcus.  The PCs get any treasure they find but turns the ruin over to the dragon for her lair.- Oh, and the link to the duergar and H2?  Well, the swarven smith knows a bit about that.  Seems his family was run out of its ancestral home by a bunch of duergar ...[/sblock]</blockquote>

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