Editing CM6: Where Chaos Reigns

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'''CM6: Where Chaos Reigns''' is a [[Companion Set]] adventure [[chronomancy|across time]], by Graeme Morris.

As a time-travel caper this module is about as good as [[Dungeons and Dragons]] got up to the 1980s. Epic rarely gets bigger than this; BXCMI players won't see the like again until [[M5: Talons of Night]] and the [[Known World Gazetteers]]. We remain unsold on its overall message, which is that science is bad. 

In it, the nefarious oards are out to do what the Borg will do in [[Star Trek]]: First Contact - conquer the world (Aelos) in their own present, by mucking about with its past. This world ends up pretty well-detailed so it's probably not the PCs' world, but - like [[DA1: Adventures in Blackmoor]] - it can become so if you want it to be.

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The party enters Aelos through the Nexus (no not [[Eldritch Might|that one]]). First up is the moment after the [[The Silmarillion|awakening]] of [[elves]] and men. There are ''other'' humanoids here - the [[garl]]s. These are something between an australopithecus and a yeti; they're big and dumb, and much more promising as oard cannon-fodder than the aforementioned elves and men.

Having solved that little problem, the next step 3000 years later is the rising of [[dwarves]]. Here, the hephaeston are at issue actually, just the one, Diemlak. He's a robot, basically, with iron skin. No dwarves will stop this world's development just as sure as no elves would. The Nexus misses the mark, here, so a naval Odyssey type adventure is necessary to get there.

Third up 500 years after that is the ''late'' Bronze Age. The garls and hephaeston(es) aren't around anymore so the oards are reduced to teaching iron-smelting to the local Assyrian Empire of the humans, the Kolmedes. If they conquer Arqwen, the elf/dwarf/human druidia (with [[halfling|hobbits]]), the oards rule through them. So - War Machine. [[CM2: Death's Ride|This]] [[CM7: The Tree of Life|time]] it's actually relevant to the plot!

Thousands more years later, all the Free Folk have created a [[magical realm]] with a wondrous Bibliotheca on the isle of Talah. The oards have now [[teleport]]ed in and taken over the Luminence, the MAGIC throne [[artifact]]. D'OH.

After all this, the oards are (finally) on the back foot, so it is time to hit them where they live - the Entropy Bubble.

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