How would this play out, a year from now what effects has a unchecked temple had on the world of greyhawk? The game was left with 4 months of reinforcements having arrived at the temple with no successful attacks yet on the inner sanctum and literally no one left in the locale area who's even keeping an eye on things!

Homlett also is greatly depleated, many buildings destroyed in a retalation attack from slavers and the ever increasing temple. So finally to the question, how would this work for the temple? What negative effects would come out of a party failing to defeat the plans of the temple? In our setting nulb is completely destroyed, burnt to the ground by the adventures them selves along with the following key npcs - Ottis, Elmo, Jarood, Burne, Rufus, Terjon as well as the female cleric in nulb. This obviously didnt sit well with the dragon parents and refusal to return the egg and subsequent attacks on the parents as well as other dragons in the mountain has lead to there being quite common dragon raids on farms as well as a huge decrease in immigration and prosperity to the locale yeomary area. For example I had the Return to the keep on the borderlands placed in the southern mountains of yeomanry,*spoilers alert* to cut a long story short even though they defeated most the humanoids and defeated the cult in the caves they made a very big enemy of some locale dragons all over keeping the egg. The big caveat is win or lose any modules, adventure paths etc we place in the world whether completed or not must have a lasting effect and the next set of charecters will begin their adventure a year after the death or retirement of the last. To explain how i have always run my games, every 5-6 years we decide upon a setting and will then run all our characters and games in that setting. Unfortunately last night my most recent temple of elemental evil campaign came to a conclusion, the well organised bandit defence of their tower combined with an ambush during their very injured and slow retreat back to vercbonc has left my party defeated, disappointed but raring to go again!

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