Freeport in Eberron anyone? [Archive] - Wizards Community

Freeport in Eberron anyone? [Archive] - Wizards Community

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DMR
08-30-05, 04:23 PM *warning - adventure spoilers below! *

Don't read if you plan to play the Freeport trilogy as a player.

I'm thinking of starting a new Eberron campaign using the classic Freeport trilogy from Green Ronin. What I want to do is integrate the city of freeport into Sharn, basically make it one of the districts in the lower levels.

The NPC who has blackouts/memory lapses will be changed to a victim of the quori (maybe effected by a mind seed). The "yellow sign" will be changed to the Dreaming Dark.

Various groups/organizations in freeport will be changed to similar groups/organizations described in the Sharn sourcebook.

I'm going to downplay the whole "pirate" angle, although swashbuckling adventure is okay (no guns, cannonballs, "arrghhh matey", etc)

Obviously - this is a lot of work (lot's of changes).
Anyone else done anything like this?

Thanks!
Lord of Dustbunnies
08-30-05, 04:56 PM I'm only running Death in Freeport, debating on putting it either in Sharn or Q'barra.

The way I have it set up is that the "Yellow sign" is in fact a Cult of the Dragon Below harnessing a Khyber shard with a hint of Daelkyr Essence inside for its mutative properties.

A Shadow Dragon in the Eldeen Reaches wants to destroy (insert decided city) for reasons I have yet decided. The Dragon enlisted the aid of a yaun-ti cultist of the Dragon Below (Milos) and gave him a special shard. Imbedded within said shard is a scale from one of the Daelkyr's armor. The Shard itself is carved into a five headed Dragon.

The Cultist is to set up a Cult within Sharn, under the story that to awaken the Dragonmark that D'Vol held, someone must be of a Dragonmarked House, and become half dragon. So Milos swindles various low-end House members who have no marks to join the cult, and let the mutative powers of the Shard change them into a half dragon so that they can manifest a mark as powerful as Erandis's.

I've removed the pirate ship entirely, and in their place I put a referece to the Glitterdust Nightclub. When the PCs approach Captain Soarbell, a Lyander airship captain who's relaxing there, he'll tell them what Scarbelly knows, but send them to "someone who knows things".

An information broker (and mindseed of the Dreaming Dark) will give the PCs a list of House members who have been missing, having similar situations to Lucius, and who the broker thinks may be involved.

Cue the mercenaries. The rest of the adventure is the same except: 1) Rather than humanoid snakes (which I thought didn't fit in Eberron), I'm going to use core races mutated into reptilian aberrations. For example, a snake-like choker with snake-tendril fingers, aberration paragons (from Dragon) and so on. 2) The Shard turns out to be slowly opening a manifest zone to Xoriat. This is how the Dragon was going to destroy the city, and why the Dreaming Dark wanted it fixed.
Lord of Dustbunnies
08-30-05, 05:23 PM But the Dreaming Dark is definitely the way to go if you're turning it into a campaign.

Are you making Milos a psion rather than a cleric? Or is he actually a cleric of the Dreaming Dark?
DBlizzard
08-30-05, 08:46 PM This has been brought up before. A search will probably find a pretty long thread a while back.

Of the various suggestions, the ones I like are setting it between Sharn & Xen'drik replacing Stormreach (replacing Stormreach was suggested by Keith, IIRC) and setting it around the Principalities.
Lord of Dustbunnies
08-30-05, 09:04 PM This has been brought up before. A search will probably find a pretty long thread a while back.

I didn't see it (There's a lot of pages for 100 days). Any idea what month?
Isran_Imrador
08-31-05, 04:42 PM Q`barra, Stormrreach, might be good sites...
BuddyL33
08-31-05, 05:06 PM I ran Freeport in Eberron when the setting first came out. I set it on an island in between Khorvaire and Xen'drik.
DogOnWheels
09-01-05, 12:16 AM I love Freeport & Eberron. Together they're like peanut butter & chocolate. Yum! I'm running Freeport right now, although not in Eberron. It sounds great. BTW has any one seen a release date for the 5th anniversary edition of the Freeport Trilogy?
Marshall Stone
09-01-05, 01:38 AM I love Freeport & Eberron. Together they're like peanut butter & chocolate. Yum! I'm running Freeport right now, although not in Eberron. It sounds great. BTW has any one seen a release date for the 5th anniversary edition of the Freeport Trilogy?

Go the green ronin website and you can see Freeport Trilogy is available now.

As for me, I'd put Freeport as another island between Khorvaire and Xendrix. Change the deities around just a little bit, and it fits excellently.

The only thing is I like Pistols as part of the Pirate experience but am not sure they belong in the Eberron setting. I've thought of changing pistols to hand crossbows, but that doesn't feel right either. It's a bit annoying.

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DMR 08-30-05, 04:23 PM	warning - adventure spoilers below! Don't read if you plan to play the Freeport trilogy as a player. I'm thinking of starting a new Eberron campaign using the classic Freeport trilogy from Green Ronin. What I want to do is integrate the city of freeport into Sharn, basically make it one of the districts in the lower levels. The NPC who has blackouts/memory lapses will be changed to a victim of the quori (maybe effected by a mind seed). The "yellow sign" will be changed to the Dreaming Dark. Various groups/organizations in freeport will be changed to similar groups/organizations described in the Sharn sourcebook. I'm going to downplay the whole "pirate" angle, although swashbuckling adventure is okay (no guns, cannonballs, "arrghhh matey", etc) Obviously - this is a lot of work (lot's of changes). Anyone else done anything like this? Thanks!
Lord of Dustbunnies 08-30-05, 04:56 PM	I'm only running Death in Freeport, debating on putting it either in Sharn or Q'barra. The way I have it set up is that the "Yellow sign" is in fact a Cult of the Dragon Below harnessing a Khyber shard with a hint of Daelkyr Essence inside for its mutative properties. A Shadow Dragon in the Eldeen Reaches wants to destroy (insert decided city) for reasons I have yet decided. The Dragon enlisted the aid of a yaun-ti cultist of the Dragon Below (Milos) and gave him a special shard. Imbedded within said shard is a scale from one of the Daelkyr's armor. The Shard itself is carved into a five headed Dragon. The Cultist is to set up a Cult within Sharn, under the story that to awaken the Dragonmark that D'Vol held, someone must be of a Dragonmarked House, and become half dragon. So Milos swindles various low-end House members who have no marks to join the cult, and let the mutative powers of the Shard change them into a half dragon so that they can manifest a mark as powerful as Erandis's. I've removed the pirate ship entirely, and in their place I put a referece to the Glitterdust Nightclub. When the PCs approach Captain Soarbell, a Lyander airship captain who's relaxing there, he'll tell them what Scarbelly knows, but send them to "someone who knows things". An information broker (and mindseed of the Dreaming Dark) will give the PCs a list of House members who have been missing, having similar situations to Lucius, and who the broker thinks may be involved. Cue the mercenaries. The rest of the adventure is the same except: 1) Rather than humanoid snakes (which I thought didn't fit in Eberron), I'm going to use core races mutated into reptilian aberrations. For example, a snake-like choker with snake-tendril fingers, aberration paragons (from Dragon) and so on. 2) The Shard turns out to be slowly opening a manifest zone to Xoriat. This is how the Dragon was going to destroy the city, and why the Dreaming Dark wanted it fixed.
Lord of Dustbunnies 08-30-05, 05:23 PM	But the Dreaming Dark is definitely the way to go if you're turning it into a campaign. Are you making Milos a psion rather than a cleric? Or is he actually a cleric of the Dreaming Dark?
DBlizzard 08-30-05, 08:46 PM	This has been brought up before. A search will probably find a pretty long thread a while back. Of the various suggestions, the ones I like are setting it between Sharn & Xen'drik replacing Stormreach (replacing Stormreach was suggested by Keith, IIRC) and setting it around the Principalities.
Lord of Dustbunnies 08-30-05, 09:04 PM	This has been brought up before. A search will probably find a pretty long thread a while back. I didn't see it (There's a lot of pages for 100 days). Any idea what month?
Isran_Imrador 08-31-05, 04:42 PM	Q`barra, Stormrreach, might be good sites...
BuddyL33 08-31-05, 05:06 PM	I ran Freeport in Eberron when the setting first came out. I set it on an island in between Khorvaire and Xen'drik.
DogOnWheels 09-01-05, 12:16 AM	I love Freeport & Eberron. Together they're like peanut butter & chocolate. Yum! I'm running Freeport right now, although not in Eberron. It sounds great. BTW has any one seen a release date for the 5th anniversary edition of the Freeport Trilogy?
Marshall Stone 09-01-05, 01:38 AM	I love Freeport & Eberron. Together they're like peanut butter & chocolate. Yum! I'm running Freeport right now, although not in Eberron. It sounds great. BTW has any one seen a release date for the 5th anniversary edition of the Freeport Trilogy? Go the green ronin website and you can see Freeport Trilogy is available now. As for me, I'd put Freeport as another island between Khorvaire and Xendrix. Change the deities around just a little bit, and it fits excellently. The only thing is I like Pistols as part of the Pirate experience but am not sure they belong in the Eberron setting. I've thought of changing pistols to hand crossbows, but that doesn't feel right either. It's a bit annoying.