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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CarlosDosBrickos" data-source="post: 4268754" data-attributes="member: 63619">I've used Raiders as the intro to my 4e campaign, with a few minor changes.I started at the entrance to the stone table, with a brief "Oakhurst hired you to take out some bad guys" blurb. Then into the first kobold encounter.The hobgoblins in Raiders are part of the Bloodeaver slaver gang that have links to the KotS hobgobs, and to H2. And one of the PCs has a long-lost sister who was captured by the Bloodreavers in his youth. There's a hint in the hobgob's possessions of a link to a human keep to the south (I too have replaced Chronos Keep with Winterhaven).Belazemon's gem is on Nightscale's island, along with a journal entry from a recently slain adventurer. The gem had been rescued from the deadly ruins of the eladrin city (Shelendril), and was being returned to Belazemon's tomb.Belazemon's encounter has been significanly beefed up, and now features a puzzle/ trap at the entrance, hordes of zombies rising from a fountain pumping blood (downstairs), a simple skill challenge to make it up the statue and restore the gem (whilst under constant zombie attack), and an encounter with a deathlock Wight/ pair of ghoouls who return nightly to feast on the undead body of Belazemon, fastened to his coffin by spectral chains. Belazemon was the last king of the local area, who brought the eladrin war to an end, slayed the dracolich Onyxia (Nightscale's mother) and brought the Lizard King's reign to an end (link into the classic I2: Tomb of the Lizard King module) He begs the party to retrieve his lost items of power, in order to release him from Vrix's punishment. The amulet was the gem, now restored.The sword was made by the dwarven smith Durgeddin, and may have returned to whence it was forged (Stone Tooth, a link both to Nightscale and Forge of Fury). The shield was a gift from the eladrin king, and may have returned to the Feywild. Picard is a member of a secretive group called the Sheilds of Sherendril, sworn to protect the lost eladrin city from prying eyes.The crown was stolen by Vrix and his band, who are part of the same Orcus death cult as the Shadowfell bunch, the Order of the Horned Skull. That has ended up with the reincarnated Lizard King. Belazemon was the one who defeated the attempt to create the rift to the Shadowfell the first time, and had the keep built. He steers the party subtly in this direction, so KotS can be run through from about level 2-4 or 5. The heroic tier is all about restoring the items and freeing Belazemon from his curse.The paragon and epic tiers go into who is behind the reincarnation of the lizard king, who is manipulating the servants of Orcus, and who is trying to free Onyxia from her amber prison deep beneath Stone Tooth. I'll spare you the details of that though, this post is long enough already  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> That takes the party first to the Shadowfell, then the Feywild, and ultimately to the Nine Hells to defeat a plot against Asmodeus that risks the destruction of the entire Astral Sea.Or at least that's the plan  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> So I'd just like to add my voice to the praise for the author of Raiders; that one adventure has formed the basis of my entire campaign. Thanks dude!</blockquote>

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