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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lu Wei Fong" data-source="post: 1427828" data-attributes="member: 15954">Alrighty. If you have the Monster Manuel 2, Look up the Hellfire Wurm. Basically they're Devil Dragons from the Nine Hells of Baator. They will oftentimes come to the material plane polymorphed and take on the role of advisor or something within kingdoms, usually many different nations at once (under different guises). These wurms, like all devils, seek the corruption of mortals and attempt to steer entire nations to war and destruction. If you could concoct some connection between this Medussa and a Hellfire Wurm (underling, general, right-hand snake, the dragon itself polymorphed, etc...) then you could have the change over the last 15 years be a bad one in which the wurm's plans have been falling into place, casting the lands into bitter conflict. Heroes are dying out, great nations are crumbling, and innumerable petty factions are tearing eachother apart in the resulting bid for power, the whole nine yards. This way, not only do the players have some short-term goals like getting vengeance on the Medussa (if it's not the dragon) and finding out what happened to their friends and loved ones in the brutal chaos of the last decade or so, but they have a long-term goal as well. The ultimate antagonist of this campaign will obviously be the Hellfire Wurm.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> If you chose to make the Medussa and the Wurm one and the same, don't let the PCs know right away, let them think it's two different beings and discover over time the truth. As for interesting PCs, perhaps there's a Hound Archon on the material plane as well. The Wurm was responsible for the death of his family/tribe/mentor/whatever on another plane and has come seeking vengeance. Since it's arrived, it's gathered a small but dedicated following that serves as one of the last voices of reason who know the Wurm's true nature and oppose it (to make it really interesting, perhaps the Archon cares nothing for his followers.It's so consumed with the thirst for vengeance that it's willing to expend as many lives as possible to destroy its enemy, convinced it is for the greater good). Well, just some ideas for you to kick around. Feel free to keep, discard, change, spit on whatever you like. Best of luck!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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