Teasers for Adventure Twelve - The Grinding Gears of Heaven

On a final quest to the graveyard of the multiverse, the party seeks the power to change their dying world’s destiny.



We're waiting for a few maps before we go to layout, but I have the text for the 4th edition version complete, and Russell Torres (ltclnlbrn) is doing the Pathfinder conversion.

As a teaser, here's an enemy airship crewed by the Golden Legion of Egal the Shimmering.

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Meanwhile in the Apocalypse
The following news reaches the party from around the world.

Shedding Skin. Around the world, huge numbers of snakeskins are being found, all white and hollow. Snakes are dying en masse by constantly shedding and reshedding their skin until muscle and bone becomes visible.

Pardon Me. Prisoners across Risur seek pardons so they can be with family. However, two unrepentant prisoners – the dragonborn brothers Eberardo and Valando – desire release solely so they can fight in Risur’s army and burn as many people in the opposing armies as possible before they die.

Utopian Societies. While most of the world fell to chaos recently, Obscurati control has been impressively solid in the Malice Lands and Elfaivar, where there was little existing government to contend with. Model communities have sprung up, each an experiment to test different ways of solving local problems. The residents are all cooperative, or so report the Ob-endorsed couriers.

One-Armed Rebel. In rural Ber, a one-armed eladrin who had lived harmoniously with the locals for centuries was attacked for unknown reasons by government forces. The government lost the engagement, and the fugitive has disappeared. Local newspapers received boxes with grisly trophies from the battle, and letters allegedly from the fugitive demanding, “Kasvarina should come face me herself.”



And just a hint of what the end of the adventure entails.

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Great, Will the battle for Risur mini game be included in this adventure? My players are about to start Gorged on Ruins and they are expecting to organise the defence of their country...
 

Great, Will the battle for Risur mini game be included in this adventure? My players are about to start Gorged on Ruins and they are expecting to organise the defence of their country...

This thing? www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.ph...i-game-(spoilers-for-Adventure-10-)&p=6637465

I talked with my friends about it, and they suggested that I didn't have the wargaming experience to design and balance a compelling rule-set for that type of mini-game while having it also be compatible with D&D 4e and Pathfinder mechanics. Since most of the fighting happens off screen, I decided it was better to skip mechanics and give the GM leeway to narrate it as desired. The strategy proposed in the adventure is performing a holding action to keep the invaders at bay so the PCs can go save the other nations from various doomsdays, and convince them to stop.
 

I mean, you could probably take the basic rules I came up with from that post, if you don't mind it being a bit skeletal. As long as the players realize that they'd mostly be assigning where to put the most forces, rather than closely managing things, it should be okay. If I had actually put in a full-scale system I would have wanted to create defending units in divisions of 5,000 warriors, with a few special units on each side with unique powers, plus commanders with distinct personalities that would tilt the numbers one way or another. But I would have needed to do that for 5 countries, and then divide the regional map into sections like in Axis & Allies, and have some sort of mechanic for building new units and deploying them.

It'd be fun to do, but it would have been a big time sink to make it right.

By the way, you said your group is nearly to adventure 11. How are things going? Any tidbits you'd like to share?
 


I am so stoked.

We are a bit less than midway through Diaspora (4e version) and my players are hooked. Thanks for keeping it up, guys; this is the best series of adventures I've seen.
 

I am also super excited for Zeitgeist-does-Spelljammer. I hope it's as much of a tour de force headtrip as it is in my head with a large helping of really exotic locations and setups.

Regarding the image: I thought VoR had antlers?

And when do we get our next spoiler/teaser infusion? :D Got a cool map of outerspace for us to drool over?
 


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