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Marauders of the Dune Sea

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#1
nightchill
Jun 20, 2010 6:25:54 I was a bit surprised to see that Marauders of the Dune Sea description containing 'This stand-alone D&D adventure is designed to take characters from 2nd to 5th level.' but then Page Count: 32.

That seems a pretty thin book for advancing so far; unless the text means the adventure can be run for characters between levels 2 and 5, and not that it'll advance players that far. Any thoughts?

#2
Raddu76
Jun 20, 2010 17:59:16 Good catch. It definitely sounds like they would advance from 2 to 5th level, but as you suggested...kinda hard in 32 pages. We'll see.
#3
Aegeri
Jun 20, 2010 18:14:49 If it's like most of their other adventures for a setting it will have two 32ish page books. Unless they've done something rather radical.
#4
firesnakearies
Jun 22, 2010 1:07:28 Maybe they've abandoned the space-wasting delve format, finally. You could get a lot more adventure into 32 pages if you didn't have to eat up two pages (with a bunch of white space and redundant maps) for every single combat encounter.
#5
nightchill
Jun 23, 2010 2:21:51 Ah, looking at the frontcover a bit more closely it says 'An adventure for characters of 2nd - 5th level'. So not levelling through that range.
#6
Terrainosaur
Jun 25, 2010 15:20:12 If the PCs start at level 2, that's fewer than 30 encounters to level 5. If they shorten the encounters to just a list of monsters there's plenty of space.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 nightchill Jun 20, 2010 6:25:54	I was a bit surprised to see that Marauders of the Dune Sea description containing 'This stand-alone D&D adventure is designed to take characters from 2nd to 5th level.' but then Page Count: 32. That seems a pretty thin book for advancing so far; unless the text means the adventure can be run for characters between levels 2 and 5, and not that it'll advance players that far. Any thoughts?
#2 Raddu76 Jun 20, 2010 17:59:16	Good catch. It definitely sounds like they would advance from 2 to 5th level, but as you suggested...kinda hard in 32 pages. We'll see.
#3 Aegeri Jun 20, 2010 18:14:49	If it's like most of their other adventures for a setting it will have two 32ish page books. Unless they've done something rather radical.
#4 firesnakearies Jun 22, 2010 1:07:28	Maybe they've abandoned the space-wasting delve format, finally. You could get a lot more adventure into 32 pages if you didn't have to eat up two pages (with a bunch of white space and redundant maps) for every single combat encounter.
#5 nightchill Jun 23, 2010 2:21:51	Ah, looking at the frontcover a bit more closely it says 'An adventure for characters of 2nd - 5th level'. So not levelling through that range.
#6 Terrainosaur Jun 25, 2010 15:20:12	If the PCs start at level 2, that's fewer than 30 encounters to level 5. If they shorten the encounters to just a list of monsters there's plenty of space.