Need Ideas : Adventures on the River Styx

[CyberThread]

Am sort of feeding myself based on the Dungeon 149 book that deals with Charon of the River of Styx, and gives him a sort of Forgotten realms feel, what sort of adventure, do you think could be done, without falling into the cliche styx boat travel, but to actually go after the central base that all that coin goes to?

[Nettlekid]

Well, the lowest layer of the plane Acheron, the plane of floating metal cubes and infinite mindless war where the god Wee Jas lives, contains a huge black glacier composed of the frozen River Styx. You can find details in Manual of the Planes. Similarly, there is weaponry made out of Stygian Ice that does Wisdom damage. You can find that in Frostburn. Maybe make some sort of interplanar quest where you follow the path of the River Styx, eventually having it open up into an Ocean Styx, where you play out a harrowing sailor/pirate campaign (Stormwrack style) but with the difficult added challenge that they players must not touch the water at any time. Storms and waves would make this very challenging. Maybe they're looking for a treasure that sank beneath the waters, the amnesia powers of the Styx erasing knowledge of the treasure from the minds of history, and they have to find clues contained inside the memories of that Stygian Ice to sail the waters and locate the treasure. Maybe.