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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ajanders" data-source="post: 4580939" data-attributes="member: 3271">Indiana Jones is not a bad model to follow in Eberron campaigns, but if you want to ring a few twists in the plot, consider these:Relating to the five items1.One of the items is holding back an evil force or protecting someone: taking it for use in the party's heroic quest frees the evil or hurts someone, so the party must find a cure or reimprison the evil before going on to the next bit.2.The items (one or more) are only metaphors for a quality.3. One of the items is broken and must be recreated.Relating to the resurrection:1. Resurrection magic is very rare in Eberron: a lot of people may have ancient heroes they want to bring back from the dead. Some of them may not be ones the party wants to bring back, some may be villains, at least from the party's perspective.2. The Church of the Flame (or the Host, for that matter) may suggest that the magic involved in raising the dead is necromantic and illegal...possibly evil.3. Finding the body of the ancient hero may be a good bit of a task in itself.Relating to the Church of the Silver Flame:1. It is very possible to view the Church of the Flame as a Lawful Evil organization with good PR. In such a case the "corruption" might be a cabal of Chaotic or Neutral Good priests trying to stay in tune with Tira Marron.2. The bog-standard Church of the Flame run by Cardinal Richelieu opposed by Dartagnan and the Three Paladins is a standard side plot as well.Now, if I was going to combine all these into an interesting subplot?Let's see..There is a renegade faction of Chaotic Good priests in the Silver Flame.Although their hearts are in the right place, their methods leave much to be desired.By collecting the five mystic items, they hope to resurrect Tira Marron. She will cast out the evil in the church with her own perfect hands and lead the church to perfection forever.Unfortunately they've forgotten that means TM is not assisting the couatl in its battle with the rakshasa lord. That in turn means the rakshasa lord wins and a general apocalypse ensues.Somehow the PC's must stop or outrun these folks in order to get the remaining four items.Yeah, the renegade Flamers had the fifth item: it's the holic relic of their order.</blockquote>

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