best free adventure [Archive] - Wizards Community

best free adventure [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Blackrazorblade
11-14-04, 01:51 PM which one of the free adventures are your favorite among the ones on wizards of the coasts site?

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20030530b
OmiKapSi
11-20-04, 07:41 PM Just to skew the results, I know of them, could use them, have read a few, and never use them, preferring to just steal bits.

I rather liked the polymorphed ettin idea, and the ghost sphinx though.
wildduck
11-21-04, 07:10 PM The only one I have run was Ettin's riddle. I didn't tell my PCs it was canned, as I was able to fit in the in the middle of two bigger adventures as sort of a "side quest" Basically the bridges that was out was one they needed to cross, so helping the people of New Keep was in their best interest as well.

I had to change A LOT to make it work in my campaign. In the end, I opened up the PDF file in Adobe acrobat (full version, not the reader) and copied all the text out of it. Then I pasted it into word, cleaned up a ton of formatting and finally did a whole ton of "replace" functions. Because my campaign is a gnome one, I had to change the default race to gnome, and add in a few other NPCs. We don't play in grewhalk either, so the deities needed to be changed, and (as there were no equivalent opposites like Hextor and Heronius, I created a saint Roccio (whom they were already familiar with) and his arch nemesis, a Demon Xulomus, whom they learned about from an NPC). As religion is a major factor in our games, I put a lot more emphasis on that and created a greater disparity between the priest (who wanted to help the ettin) and the constable (who wanted to kill him) than was originally in the adventure. The party sided with the priest and eventually saved the Ettin. Overall it was not rated amongst one of their favorite adventures (I create polls after every adventure to find out what the party thought of something anonymously), but they didn't complain either. I changed around some of the loot and gave an interesting back-story to the longsword left behind.

Wow... that was a lot of blah blah blah just to say that I, as the DM, rather liked Ettin's Riddle after lots and lots and lots of changes (probably put as much work into is as I would creating my own adventure).

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Blackrazorblade 11-14-04, 01:51 PM	which one of the free adventures are your favorite among the ones on wizards of the coasts site? http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20030530b
OmiKapSi 11-20-04, 07:41 PM	Just to skew the results, I know of them, could use them, have read a few, and never use them, preferring to just steal bits. I rather liked the polymorphed ettin idea, and the ghost sphinx though.
wildduck 11-21-04, 07:10 PM	The only one I have run was Ettin's riddle. I didn't tell my PCs it was canned, as I was able to fit in the in the middle of two bigger adventures as sort of a "side quest" Basically the bridges that was out was one they needed to cross, so helping the people of New Keep was in their best interest as well. I had to change A LOT to make it work in my campaign. In the end, I opened up the PDF file in Adobe acrobat (full version, not the reader) and copied all the text out of it. Then I pasted it into word, cleaned up a ton of formatting and finally did a whole ton of "replace" functions. Because my campaign is a gnome one, I had to change the default race to gnome, and add in a few other NPCs. We don't play in grewhalk either, so the deities needed to be changed, and (as there were no equivalent opposites like Hextor and Heronius, I created a saint Roccio (whom they were already familiar with) and his arch nemesis, a Demon Xulomus, whom they learned about from an NPC). As religion is a major factor in our games, I put a lot more emphasis on that and created a greater disparity between the priest (who wanted to help the ettin) and the constable (who wanted to kill him) than was originally in the adventure. The party sided with the priest and eventually saved the Ettin. Overall it was not rated amongst one of their favorite adventures (I create polls after every adventure to find out what the party thought of something anonymously), but they didn't complain either. I changed around some of the loot and gave an interesting back-story to the longsword left behind. Wow... that was a lot of blah blah blah just to say that I, as the DM, rather liked Ettin's Riddle after lots and lots and lots of changes (probably put as much work into is as I would creating my own adventure).