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Any advice? 😂.
So I recently finished running Tomb of Annihilation and my players actually beat Acererak. But him being a lich he’s gonna be pissed when he gets back. So I thought it would be fun for a high level sequel campaign, (I’m prepping curse of Strahd now but after) for Acererak to wage war on Waterdeep (all my characters are from there). The plans is after the characters say what they’ve been up to for a year make em all roll dex saves as Acereak casts meteor swarm and invades the ruins of the city with some kinda army he amassed. Any tips/ suggestions
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Tomb of Horrors is basically a sequel.
Sounds exciting!
I mean, if it’s one of those groups who like to keep their characters indefinitely, I’d make it a surprise return. Like, they’re out there doing their thing and living their high level adventurer lives, when…
BOOM!
Lich is back.
My DM did something similar, modifying a bunch of 1e campaigns to have the same BBEG for us to have to beat, the. A final confrontation on a made-up top floor of the Keep on the Borderlands.
From what I hear of CoS that’s IF they survive
Sounds more like something Lorlach would do than Acererak.
The “Fray” mechanic in Shadow of the Dragon Queen is your friend for large scale urban combat.
Iirc, Lorlach used flights of undead wyverns. Maybe don’t do that exact thing but ask “what would a lich with infinite resources use as an undead weapon that my players have seen yet?”
Could also go the biblical route and have the meteors just be the first of the awful things Acererak has planned and have him siege the city instead. I bet there’s some great sea creatures that your players have never seen given the undead treatment.
Hahah nice, this reminds me of my CoS follow-up homebrew, it’s like 20 years later baronial has returned to Faerun, unbeknownst to anybody all those soulless bodies are now hosts for demons loyal to orcus, the players will find a 17ish year old Strahd reincarnated seeking to reclaim his birthright and prevent the evil of his past infecting the world, that being said if you gave Acererak the wand of orcus that’s basically a daily army of 500hp of zombies/skeletons, you could have a path of destruction from the tomb to water deep, old NPCs resurrected as Wights would be fun as well,