Barrow of the Forgotten King Series - experiences? [Archive] - Wizards Community

Barrow of the Forgotten King Series - experiences? [Archive] - Wizards Community

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WayneTheGame
10-22-07, 10:13 AM Hey folks,

I'm thinking of starting up a small online campaign using the series of D&D adventures Barrow of the Forgotten King, The Sinister Spire, and Fortress of the Yuan-ti, which are all, I believe, related plot-wise. I have the first module already; if I go ahead with my idea I plan to pick up the other two as well.

Has anyone ran|played in any of these (or, better yet, all three as a complete series)? I'm looking for thoughts and experiences so I know what to expect, but I'm not having much luck finding resources online.

Any help would be appreciated - thanks! :)
Prom
10-22-07, 02:47 PM Hi WayneTheGame,

I've played Barrow of the Forgotten King, but not the others. I found the BofFK hard and fun. There are a lot of difficult battles and practical puzzles. If anything it was too hard, so I suggest turning that tomb spider into a large spider and turning down the power of some creatures. The puzzles were good as they didn't usually kill characters, but you had to figure out how to pass them. You really want the party to have a dragon shaman or cleric with a wand of CLW's, otherwise they will have to rest all the time and there's a time limit on this module.

Pukunui, my DM ran the module and has a thread on the DnD site that has suggestions.

http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=805817

Let me know how it goes.

Prom
Zarith
10-22-07, 08:49 PM I have all 3 and plan to run them together. It's a good series, just waiting for current campaign to end to run them. I expect they'll be a lot of fun. Fairly descent story easy to play w/ little prep since my "hobby" time is limited.
solbergb
10-23-07, 05:41 PM We had fun with Barrow, but as written it seems to be a really long deathmarch...you have incharacter reasons to keep pushing deeper and the place is MUCH bigger than we at least expected.

Our party did the whole run without stopping to rest (although the mod does have some stuff in there that helps a bit, only one character really benefitted).

If you do it as a series of delves, the suggested levels make sense. If you do it in a single gulp....we had a party of six level 3-5 characters and we were fully challenged.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
WayneTheGame 10-22-07, 10:13 AM	Hey folks, I'm thinking of starting up a small online campaign using the series of D&D adventures Barrow of the Forgotten King, The Sinister Spire, and Fortress of the Yuan-ti, which are all, I believe, related plot-wise. I have the first module already; if I go ahead with my idea I plan to pick up the other two as well. Has anyone ran\|played in any of these (or, better yet, all three as a complete series)? I'm looking for thoughts and experiences so I know what to expect, but I'm not having much luck finding resources online. Any help would be appreciated - thanks! :)
Prom 10-22-07, 02:47 PM	Hi WayneTheGame, I've played Barrow of the Forgotten King, but not the others. I found the BofFK hard and fun. There are a lot of difficult battles and practical puzzles. If anything it was too hard, so I suggest turning that tomb spider into a large spider and turning down the power of some creatures. The puzzles were good as they didn't usually kill characters, but you had to figure out how to pass them. You really want the party to have a dragon shaman or cleric with a wand of CLW's, otherwise they will have to rest all the time and there's a time limit on this module. Pukunui, my DM ran the module and has a thread on the DnD site that has suggestions. http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=805817 Let me know how it goes. Prom
Zarith 10-22-07, 08:49 PM	I have all 3 and plan to run them together. It's a good series, just waiting for current campaign to end to run them. I expect they'll be a lot of fun. Fairly descent story easy to play w/ little prep since my "hobby" time is limited.
solbergb 10-23-07, 05:41 PM	We had fun with Barrow, but as written it seems to be a really long deathmarch...you have incharacter reasons to keep pushing deeper and the place is MUCH bigger than we at least expected. Our party did the whole run without stopping to rest (although the mod does have some stuff in there that helps a bit, only one character really benefitted). If you do it as a series of delves, the suggested levels make sense. If you do it in a single gulp....we had a party of six level 3-5 characters and we were fully challenged.