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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Estlor" data-source="post: 5557287" data-attributes="member: 7261">That's the route my campaign sketch goes.  Since the overall arc is something like KoS -> Filler -> EtCR -> ToH -> Gentleman Caller, the idea is each time the PCs take out the big bad they're after, they'll peel back a layer and find someone else behind it.It works out.  They spend heroic chasing down some cultists.  Then paragon they go after Strahd, the sovereign of an entire domain.  Then epic they go after Azalin, a wizard-lich with world-altering plans.  Then the campaign capstone is against the Gentleman Caller, who I'm casting as the deposed He Who Once Was (4e's version of Satan).(Yeah, I realize putting Azalin over Strahd is a bit jarring, but 1. I'm not running Ravenloft the setting and 2. If I'm stealing my favorite bits and pieces from Ravenloft the setting I may as well replace the lich in ToH with the best-known lich in Ravenloft.  And there plans aren't all that different when you compare Azalin to the 4e version of Acerak.)</blockquote>