EB-17 The Final Tribute

Hi Malcolm, really glad you all enjoyed the adventure and thanks very much for your comments!

It’s tricky to cover every eventuality for a Tier 4 party, even if you’re running for the same group! I’d suggest treating any party that casts heroes feast as Very Strong for the purposes of the final encounter.

I should probably have included Commune with Nature in the sidebar on divinations, but it doesn’t work in towns so won’t help the characters much in New Cyre. The villain’s sidekick has cast Mind Blank to help them stay undetected and the main villain has a useful magic item to maintain their cover as long as possible. Clever use of divination spells and other magic is part of the fun of Tier 4 characters, though, so I tried to strike a balance between letting the players make use of their cool abilities and not making it too easy for them.

Cheers!

Hey Lou, yes, we return to Salvation properly in EB20. As Cold Spell isn't part of the core campaign, Leerut's influence on the adventure is fairly minimal, but the legacy event does create some fun consequences. Cheers!

I have read through the adventure in full. Even taking into account the twists at the end, this really, really does not seem like a tier 4 adventure. This is more akin to a tier 2 adventure hastily scaled up to tier 4, mostly by having the bad guys be powerful monsters.

D&D 4e had low-level adventures like Mark of Prophecy, Dead for a Spell, and Dark Lantern that felt more like high-stakes, high-impact storylines than this particular adventure.

To clarify, I had my fellow GM purchase this on my behalf.

You're welcome! It wasn't much, but I'm glad it helped (for what it's worth, I can add that Goryphael is the true form of Narcy of Xandrar). I hope you and your group enjoy the rest of the campaign.

You may benefit from reading the blurbs for the remaining episodes:

EB-18: Scales of War
The united forces of the Five Nations march into the Mournland to wage war on the Lord of Blades. West of the Glass Plateau, they are met by an army the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the heights of the Last War. Let battle commence!

EB-19: Back to the Mud
In the ruins of Making, the Lord of Blades hammers out an army of steel to conquer the Five Nations of Khorvaire. With the Oracle of Bones at his side, he knows all plots against him before they can be enacted. He cannot be defeated—unless, of course, his enemies have their own Oracle!

EBEP-4: The Last War
The Lamannian Triune hurl the adventurers back in time on a mission to unlock the hidden secrets...See more of the Oracle of War. In the blasted mud of the Cyran frontline, the adventurers confront old enemies and new foes in a desperate mission to acquire the Oracle’s arcane codex before the rift pulls them back to the future!

EB-20: Old Scores
The adventurers return to Salvation as champions, but old scores remain to be settled. The Oracle of War holds the key to Eberron’s future and whosoever claims it will become the master of their own destiny. It’s time for the final reckoning.

My opinion of Oracle of War, as someone who has been running it for months, is currently very low. We are all the way in adventure #17, and Oracle of War is still blue-balling both the GM and the players alike with teases of plot developments and revelations, only to withhold them with one flimsy excuse after another.

To wit: by adventure #17, the GM and the players still do not know the actual background of the Oracle of War, or its original patrons. The problem is that they are writing this plotline as they go along, and they cannot actually commit to any significant plot developments until the very end. (Indeed, it was revealed that the Sky Blue subplot would be resolved only by the final adventure!)

I am 100% certain that adventure #20 is going to be a major letdown. The authors have been delaying revelation after revelation with teases of "All will be revealed in time~", and there is no possible way that they are going to live up to the hype by adventure #20.
...See more /> I think that Oracle of War is sabotaged by the Adventurers League structure, the multiple authors being forced to write multiple consecutive scenarios with virtually no roadmap, and the lack of any premade high-level Eberron adventures to use as a benchmark.

Thank you for giving an outline of the adventures to come. It is not much, but I hope, I do so dearly hope, that I am wrong and that the adventure series concludes in a satisfying manner.

I am 100% certain you will not enjoy the end of the series, as you're clearly committed to sabotaging any good will around it! I kindly recommend that you stop playing the campaign here, to avoid further disappointment, and let others enjoy it without your ongoing negative commentary. Take it to your own, homebrew destination, and make your own fun.

I am inclined to say that the last adventure is so vague in its description precisely because its express purpose is to cram in every unresolved plot thread ("old scores remain to be settled") and hastily explain everything.

My main issue with Oracle of War, as a narrative, is that it does not follow the storytelling loop of "investigate mysterious events -> receive satisfying answer -> more questions are raised -> investigate more mysterious events." Instead, rather than hand out satisfying answers, it withholds all but the smallest motes of information, while only raising more questions on what is actually going on. The Adventurers League format and the multiple authors have made this a necessity, and the adventure series has committed to handing out significant answers only by the very end.

Hijinks are expected at this level! :) Hope you enjoy the final arc, it's going to be bonkers

I mean yeah, but even more so in my party's case. I had been making my own plans with the Lord of Blades, but now to have Argonnessen finally throw their lot in... Who knows what shape Khorvaire will be in at the end of all of this...

Crispy fried? :)

Knowing the Evocation Wizard in the party...probably XD