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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 4894485" data-attributes="member: 2">One other note about campaign design and plot arcs. If you think about a 30-lvl campaign consisting of six 5-level plot arcs, this one is nearing its end. Not the way I had expected, of course.  We've seen the following adventures so far:- Rescuing a baby from the dog-gobblers, sealing them back up in their unnatural lair - Finding and defending a flooded tower of weapons from a lizardman army - Revealing the mayor's assistant to be a lizardman spy - Trying (and failing) to stop those weapons from falling back into the lizardmen's hands - Reaching the Bubbling Fens, a profane place in the swamps sacred to evil swamp god Sklar - Clearing out the hut and extradimensional sanctum of an evil spirit named Alene (and in doing so, thwarting the lizardman attack on Floodford) - Returning an insane dragonborn named Xiras to Floodford - Learning that Alene was trying to find the secret sanctum of a historically angelic protector of Floodford named Aleph - Finding the undiscovered second lair of that sanctum, a place holy to the nature Goddess Demis. - Fighting Alene herself, after she invaded their tower and killed people close to them - Realizing that Alene the rakshasha was the deva Aleph, who has apparently fallen from grace.Various sub-plots circulate around this as well:- The country of Iskaine may have seceded from the Caprian empire. This would probably be a Bad Thing (tm). Certainly the Emperor's Peace seems to have failed. - A continued rivalry with Runcible Parsons and the now-deceased Caducity Skirr. Is Caducity a deserter from the Grey Guard or really dead? - Someone ordered all those lizardman weapons from a weaponsmith in Iskaine.. someone working for Alene. Someone rich. - Dr. Caldwell is under some suspicion that he cheerfully brushes aside. - Cobalt doesn't actually believe that he killed Sir Anders Riverlimb, half-elven diplomat from Croghan, in a barfight. He certainly doesn't remember it. This annoys him. - Strontium the warforged is old, and has a history he no longer remembers. - Toiva the paladin has been told that a wave of change is approaching, and it is up to her whether to embrace and guide it or be swept away under its power. - There is something odd about the Grey Guard's witchwater towers. Why is no one allowed to take a mirror inside of them? Is it a symbolic restriction, as they have been told?And a few themes:- People die. People you care about. It's the cost of protecting those who can't defend themselves. - Some really nasty people have entered the guard. It's the nature of the beast. Likewise, good people can fall -- and even evil people have the possibility of redemption. People, monsters and Gods are often complex. - There are political struggles going on with Capria, Iskaine, and the neighboring countries of Skadderlin and Croghan that the PCs don't really understand.You'll see what I'm doing: stacking up plot hooks that the players can follow or ignore, then fleshing out the ones that appeal to them.</blockquote>

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