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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 5116224" data-attributes="member: 704">Fun idea to use as a starting point.  A trivial idea would be to implement whatever you want from Eberron (Lightning Rail, fleet of airships).  Here are some other ideas.Grand Colleseums:  If I were said emperor, I would be inclined to build a mighty colleseum.  Large enough to stage massive naval battles within.  Or to have 3 on 3 tag team matches with Titans.  Or have armies clash within.  The colleseums would have an extradimensional link s that the field of battle / stage area would be some sort of splinter plane.  This would mean that any battle would happen in every colleseum at the same time (as opposed to an illusionary link that just displays the primary colleseum amidst all other collesseums).  Every seat would have a perfect view of the field.The sorcerers would also be hard at work creating, summoning, and capturing monsters to compete in the colleseums.  Mighty warriors looking to build celebrity for themselves would compete for fame.Plenty of hooks in that idea.  You can have the nature of these colleseums become a threat to the fabric of reality.  You could have a monster escape and wreck stuff.  You could force the players to fight for the entertainment of the mad emperor.The Stairway to Heaven:Perhaps the Emporer is getting on in years, and is pretty certain he wont be invited into paradise.  That won't do at all.  So rather then pray for forgiveness and enlightenment, why not just build a stairway that can take the emperor and anyone else who wants to go directly to paradise?  The Stairway, aside from being insanely tall and expensive, should also have magical properties that allow it to act as a dimensional gate or bridge into paradise.As for adventure hooks...  Well, there are probably plenty of religions that consider the emperor a heretic and want the stairway to fail.  Any gods who would prefer to have a paradize reserved for those who pass their moral tests would not be happy either.  Elements from the lower planes might like the idea of having a direct link by which they can assault the gates of heaven.  Maybe the Emperor uses non union labour and the Carpenter and Mason workers local 873 is taking issue with being cut out of the contract.END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>

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