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There are obelisks/clues in Tyranny and Princes? Does anyone know where?

I think the DM handled it well. He gave them a clue (the blacksmith's comment would have immediately given my players pause) and it went right over everyone's heads. All of the stuff was in a bundle. The DM has a group that doesn't pay attention, this kind of thing is bound to happen. It's a...

Check out Dungeon Magazine 102, an adventure called "Zenith Trajectory". You'll have to de-level it a bit (there's a black dragon). The Kuo Toa temple Bhal Hamatugn is one of my favorite dungeons ever. I think just the opening encounters make it worth it and fit right in with the darklake...

The responses in this thread boggle my mind. If the guy is reading the adventure and using it to his advantage, he's cheating. Kick him out! Don't give yourself more work or stress. This person clearly is not mature enough to being playing a game designed for people 12 years old and up or...

I really appreciate Majoru being so open in this thread (I read the whole thing). That said, it makes me very sad. Majoru is going to take just about any abuse, no matter what. I don't mean in D&D, I mean in life. The thing that is most striking to me is the fact that if Majoru told the player...

Just send them right into the temple of elemental evil. The air section is for level 6 characters, lots of cool stuff in there. The entrance to the place is in the sighing valley in the feathergale spire section, but you could put the entrance anywhere. If you want to incorporate your earth...

My group loved it. The highlights were probably the dragon fight in episode 1, the dragon eggs in episode 3, the whole open-ended castle in episode 6, and the final battle against the white dragon... which was epic. I wrote a gigantic guide to running Hoard here.

I'd like to see Paizo continue making the stuff they make now, but also making Dungeon and Dragon magazine in their subscription format. I dunno, maybe 20 bucks for each per month is too much? Paizo did a fantastic job with D&D stuff in the past, I would love to see them get to do more. It...

David Noonan tackled this topic in the 30th level 4e adventure where the heroes fight Tiamat on a platform that is really high up. This is a quote from "Last Breath of the Dragon Queen" in Dungeon #175: "Here’s one last option for DMs with a real flair for the dramatic. The standard rule for...

4 out of 5 rating for The Shackled City Adventure Path I ran this a few years back. The deal with this path is that there are a lot of cool scenarios and dungeons, but as a whole the story does not tie together well at all. The bad guys needed to be foreshadowed much better, and the plotline...

4 out of 5 rating for Dead In Thay My group and I thoroughly enjoyed Dead in Thay. It's a mega-dungeon originally meant to be run by a bunch of groups at the same time. That is easily fixed. The opening scenario is great and the dungeon is awesome. I liked the ending scenario set-up but the...

4 out of 5 rating for Scales of War Adventure Path I ran this entire path from start to finish, and it was awesome. It held many of the best 4e adventures including Siege of Bordrin's Watch, Haven of the Bitter Glass, Tyranny of Souls, and my favorite, Legacy of Io. There were so many awesome...

3 out of 5 rating for Shadowrun 5th Edition Shadowrun 5th edition is an awesome setting with rules that are ridiculously complicated placed in a rulebook that makes everything difficult to find. It is extremely frustrating. The best way to learn this game is to play with people who already know...

3 out of 5 rating for Hoard of the Dragon Queen This is a flawed but ultimately very fun adventure. It kicks off in a truly epic fashion, but becomes a very, very long caravan journey as the PCs follow the illogical trail of the treasure (and by the way, the actual hoard of the dragon queen is...

4 out of 5 rating for The Rise of Tiamat Ultimately, The Rise of Tiamat is a much better conclusion to the first 5e adventure series than 4e's E1-E3 or the 3E stuff which ended with Bastion of Broken Souls. There's good stuff in this book, but it skimps on details in a big way in certain...