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Message: <blockquote data-quote="!DWolf" data-source="post: 8499636" data-attributes="member: 7026314">So my fixes to the adventure revolve mostly about adding three new mechanical structures (shocking I know) in order to emphasize academic advancement, the passage of time, and the adventure paths theme of community.The first structure will be a new advancement system based on community service and branch level. A draft version of it is attached.The second structure will be a seasonal calendar that contains the module events (along with select events from later modules) in a decompressed form with seasonal events to provide opportunities for community service. Additionally, because of the academic advancement system not guaranteeing the players are Conversants, I’m adding in promotions for NPC classmates. The classmates can ask their friends, the PCs and other NPCs, for aid and thus serve as hooks into the adventurers in a manner similar to (and hopefully better executed than) strixhaven (or if the PCs aren’t interested in a quest to have them solve the problems and show that the world is a bigger place than just the PCs). I have attached a draft of the first three seasons I have written (I’m not to sure about the formatting) to give an idea of what I’m talking about (major spoilers).Third (and most time consuming from the sheer volume of ideas I have), I am adapting Nantambu to use the urban exploration system similar to the one I used for Kalabuto. It will have different tables depending on the season and will provide random encounters. The encounters will be either entirely flavor (based on the Mwangi Expanse book) or hooks to the tasks in the adventure (for example when heading to the city they might encounter some buskers bring robbed, hear about the tall tail contest, or see a rare Alijae elf and wonder what their story is).Finally, I am going to slightly alter all the events (when played) to make things a little more fair to the NPCs (remove idiot ball moments) and maybe add a bit more interactivity: when the PCs arrive at Oba’s she is aware the creatures are loose and trying to convince a pair of chime-ringers to help round them up and the chime-ringers can be understandably reluctant to do so and the PCs can interact with them for a variety of outcomes; the Minotaurs at the shops could deliberately use non lethal attacks because they don’t want to be arrested for murder, etc. Just little things like that.</blockquote>

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