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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 3326274" data-attributes="member: 7737">Ah, I remember your Dark Heritage stuff, J-Dawg. (I also remember when you had the same first name as me. Heh.)You should definitely read Beyond Countless Doorways (and thanks to Psion for turning me on to that). In addition to the many chapters detailing various planes, there are a bunch of sidebars at the beginning of each chapter briefly describing which other planes the main plane is in conjunction with. Sometimes these one sentence descriptions are enough to build adventures around; other times they are just cool, weird places the PCs could visit.As for what the PCs should do in the planes... whatever they want to. Do you want lots of tactical combat? Let them fight their way across the planes. Do you want political intrigue? Let them travel the planes gathering allies (and making enemies) so they can overthrow the emperor.Here's a random idea I just had. Maybe it's not that no one does remember the emperor's demonic bargain; maybe it's that no one can remember it. Steal a page from Sagiro's story hour, and have all knowledge pertaining to that bargain be masked... except of course for the few people for whom the masking doesn't work.This could be some cadre of evil bad guys who are exploiting the knowledge for their own purposes (blackmail the emperor maybe?), or it could be the PCs who have the knowledge but can't get anyone to believe them ("You say the emperor made a deal with demons ages ago? Yeah, right, kid. Go back to moisture farming and killing womp rats.").Or, maybe the emperor hires the PCs are part of his special Inquisatorial strike force and sends them on missions to kill demons and disrupt demonic activity. Why? Because the emperor is tired of living in fear of dying and having his soul sucked into the Abyss. He's decided that if he can kill all the demons, or destroy the Demonic Soul-Sucking Plot Device (tm), or capture the chief demon and force him to undo the bargain, then all will be well.Of course the PCs are expendable pawns in this plan... but knowing the PCs, they'll likely get themselves raised and then be expendable again and again and again.</blockquote>

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