by Shawn Merwin
[indent]Since the defeat of a murderous white dragon, Fort Dolor keeps watch over a peaceful region. But now the garrison has vanished into the mountains, and something new menaces the town. An adventure for 8th-level PCs.[/indent]
This adventure is for 8th level PCs.
The Quality of the Maps ruin it again.
Such a Shame, as we have moved into the Digital world it appears that WOTC is running on a VIC20
and I thought I had a problem keeping up with the rest of the digital world..
My mind shut down trying to read this thing. I'll pop some coffee and come back to it later.
The biggest improvement I see is that they listed what level it is for on the individual into page instead of just on the Table of Contents. Good job with that, keep it up (please).
You have to love it when a villain comes up with a highly intelligent plan. Good adventure.
Haven't read this yet (I'm so far behind on this months issue. . . and I'm still slogging through the FRCG - yikes!), but seeing Shawn Merwin authored the article, I'm not at all surprised to hear about intelligent villians.
Shawn has a knack for creating intelligent modules without being an Evil Bastard about it.
Yeah, that's right, I'm in the Sean Merwin fan club. Just don't tell him I said so.
Haven't read this yet (I'm so far behind on this months issue. . . and I'm still slogging through the FRCG - yikes!), but seeing Sean Merwin authored the article, I'm not at all surprised to hear about intelligent villians.
Sean has a knack for creating intelligent modules without being an Evil Bastard about it.
Yeah, that's right, I'm in the Sean Merwin fan club. Just don't tell him I said so.
Could you point me to any other modules Sean has authored?
Could you point me to any other modules Sean has authored?
If you're an RPGA GM you can order modules from the Xen'Drik Expeditions Crimson Codex faction. He was the factionmaster for that part of the campaign, and he's one of the Global Administrators for Living Forgotten Realms.
I think he may have written CORE1-3 for LFR, but I haven't read it yet to know if its his or not.
But, yeah, he does a lot of writing for the RPGA in general.
What is wrong with the maps? They are all high quality as far as I can tell. They look great and are easy to understand.
Try to use them digitally..
View them at 100%, 200% and tell me they look good. Tell me what is on the tables, since you say they are high Quality
If you're an RPGA GM you can order modules from the Xen'Drik Expeditions Crimson Codex faction. He was the factionmaster for that part of the campaign, and he's one of the Global Administrators for Living Forgotten Realms.
I think he may have written CORE1-3 for LFR, but I haven't read it yet to know if its his or not.
But, yeah, he does a lot of writing for the RPGA in general.
Drat. /isn't an RPGA GM.
But thanks for telling me!
I've been looking at this adventure for quite a bit, unsure if I'll use it all in all, but we'll have to see. Currently the PC's are in Fort Dolor, seeking it for a safety, and probably to counter an enemy that is shown to be there. As they got a tip to go there from a letter they found on the body of an ogre.
Like all DM's, we don't use the adventure word for word per say, or there might be many changes. I know some things have changed, instead of the pharmacy on the map, there is a church. It's a church of a "god" that is the current enemy of the PC's. Unsure if this god known as "Imperagon" is truly a god at all, I know they disbelieve it for the most part. Of course, I will probably just move the pharmacy to some other part of the map, not like it's placement is all that important, so long as it's in a wall or has a secret passage otherwise.
Another change is, instead of it going from 220 soldiers, to 30, I found that 50 left instead was more sensible. Of course there is more threats to Fort Dolor than just what the adventure has. As I found it unlikely that any local miltia would be dumb enough to lose that many men, repetitively. As in my campaign, they were formally in threat by bandits, there's ogre attacks, and then the soldiers disappearing the forest. Now they have Bandits working for them, as a kind of "protection", of course even they may not be enough.
Also, the monsters would levels would also be modified for the adventure, as the PC's are 11th level. If anyone wants to suggest that any encounters to get modified, monsters replaced and so forth, feel free to do so.
Party: Fighter/Battlerager, Cleric, Monk, Rogue, Warlord, Wizard,
Although I'm sure I was going to start the adventure, the PC's are currently enraptured in the whole church of Imperagon. Which is fine unto itself, glad the PC's are taking their own direction in things. Of course I'm sure they also believe it's greatly important, but not so much in pertaining to this adventure.
In the 3rd encounter, or at least the encounter called the "Howling Hermit". The Ogre Warhulk's type is listed as a "mount". Is this a typo, or can and does "Trilleste the Howling Hag" ride the Ogre? I'm aware that if I want to have her ride the ogre as a mount, nothing's stopping me. However I'm wondering if this is intentional, that the encounter calls for her to be riding the Ogre. I know it's not that important, but still felt to address it.
Sorry a small bit about some of my random rantings I feel. I thought to share my campaigns version of Fort Dolor if you will. I'm sure I forgot a thing or two, but oh well if so.
Note: "Imperagon" is the character of the same name from the 3.0 adventure, "Lord of the Iron Fortress".
In the 3rd encounter, or at least the encounter called the "Howling Hermit". The Ogre Warhulk's type is listed as a "mount". Is this a typo, or can and does "Trilleste the Howling Hag" ride the Ogre? I'm aware that if I want to have her ride the ogre as a mount, nothing's stopping me. However I'm wondering if this is intentional, that the encounter calls for her to be riding the Ogre. I know it's not that important, but still felt to address it.
Mea culpa on the "mount" left in the stat block. It was a copy/paste error that I missed in my draft and was obviously not caught in editing.
However, I sort of love the idea of Trilleste riding the ogre!
Shawn