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I noticed the Year 3 Calimshan adventures are heroic (1-10),
while the Year 4 Calimshan adventures are paragon (11-20).

Why the change? What regions cover the Heroic Tier now?

Jun 24, 2012 -- 5:53PM, Dodecahedron wrote:

I noticed the Year 3 Calimshan adventures are heroic (1-10),
while the Year 4 Calimshan adventures are paragon (11-20).

Why the change?

Primary Reason: The story - and the extent to which the PCs can impact the region - grew to a grander scale. The enemies and organizations involved were more appropriate for a paragon story than an heroic story in Year 4. Also, since the Year 4 story line builds on the Year 3 story, we wanted to make sure that PCs who played in the first trilogy had the opportunity to continue the story - even though some may have leveled into Paragon during the 10 months between releases. (Not that there is any problem by playing these trilogies with different PCs.)

Note that SPEC4-3 is also set in Calimshan and tied to the overall plot, and is for heroic PCs. The Battle Interactive ADCP4-2 can also be played by heroic PCs.

So, players with heroic-level PCs who played the first trilogy can play SPEC4-3, ADCP4-2, as part of their advancement to paragon (if they are not already paragon), and can then still enjoy SPEC4-4, CALI4-1, CALI4-2, and CALI4-3 as part of their paragon career. 

Or, a player can play their heroic PC in SPEC4-3, their paragon PC in SPEC4-4 and the CALI4-x adventures, and either character in ADCP4-2.

Overall, we felt that this opened up the most options for players who might want to play as much of the combined series as possible with the same PC. 

ADCP4-2, CALI4-2, SPEC4-4, CALI4-3, and CALI4-1 were designed to be playable in any order by paragon PCs. (See what I did there?)

As a side note, SPEC4-3 and ADCP4-2 were also designed to be playable in either order by heroic PCs.
(Side note: An heroic PC who plays SPEC4-3 can still play all of the other adventures when they reach paragon tier, although any individual PC can only play ADCP4-2 once.)

All 6 adventures happen during an in-game span of several weeks, with no plot dependant on any other plot happening first - - though they all do contribute to an overarching goal.