Fantastic adventure for a one-shot. I ran it for a few players that have an ongoing campaign with me for about 6 months and wanted to give epic-tier gameplay a shot. The themes around this adventure were incredible, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I loved the writing, the variance in fights (some against high CR low number baddies, others against mooks that the players can wipe out in drothes), and of course the ending is touching, if you have a close-knit group of players, it's an emotional roller-coaster knowing they saved the world, but realizing the cost that came with it.
Spoiler below for those who are reading:
My players were shocked when the Solar revealed that the heroes would just be wiped away from all memory, and at first they hesitated whether or not they should fight on. It was great to see that conflict!
A few things I would recommend if you have a party of level 17-20, upgrade the young brass Dragons to maybe adult, I tried running them as adults the second time I ran the session and it made the fight much more intense but it went well. The players got a real sense of fighting not just one legendary creature, but multiple.
For the Solar, if you look on Reddit or just search Solar Compendium into google, it is a homebrew of several high-CR Solars of different themes, I used one of them and it made the fight even more epic.
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