A Look Inside Ghosts of Saltmarsh: Contents, Saltmarsh Map, & More

mach1.9pants

Hero

• May 9, 2019

• #41

Very excited about seeing a bit of Greyhawk in the Guild


Been waiting for this for a while - Greyhawk Grognard has been writing up a campaign guide whilst waiting for this to happen

 

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Paul Farquhar

Legend

• May 9, 2019

• #42

Sword of Spirit said:

I like how they kept so many Greyhawk references.

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It's not a case of "keeping" the references. At least with the U series the only Greyhawk reference a brief mention of Keoland. They have added in lots of references that where not in the original.

 

Hussar

Legend

• May 9, 2019

• #43

I wonder, since they are mining Dragon magazine, if this might be a possible way forward to continue mining the material. Whether it's later era Paizo stuff like Savage Tides or earlier stuff (and, really, things like The Styes is already Paizo Dungeon IIRC, certainly Salvage Operation is), there's a MASSIVE boatload of adventures in Dungeon magazine that can be mined going forward. Figure an average of about 40 adventures a year for what, 25 years (?), we're talking a HUGE resource.

I hope we see more of this sort of thing going forward, where they grab a well known module, then bolt on a bunch of other old adventures onto it and build a full campaign.

Hrm, might have to go slogging through my Dungeon collection again.

 

CapnZapp

Legend

• May 9, 2019

• #44

Morrus said:

First, the setting...The village of Saltmarsh is unequivocally set in Greyhawk. It says so in the book. This is not set in the Forgotten Realms, nor in some ambiguous generic world. This is Greyhawk.

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So... Where in the Realms is the suggested placement...?

 

CapnZapp

Legend

• May 9, 2019

• #45

Elfcrusher said:

I just hope it's not another one of those APs where any given campaign only uses 50% of the book.

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What do you mean? (Which campaigns?)

I mean, Curse... or Tomb... contains a lot of world description, monster lists and such, but isn't that something we normally count as being part of an adventure?

 

CapnZapp

Legend

• May 9, 2019

• #46

Monkey King said:

We looked at the 3.5 DMG II, but the Saltmarsh described there is not of a struggling fishing village with smugglers and swamps abounding. This take on Saltmarsh sticks with the U series tone for a fishing village, without the Victorian bits of the DMG II take.

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Saw Dark Shadows the other week (the Depp, Green movie)... If we're talking about fishing villages, I mean!

 

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muppetmuppet

Explorer

• May 9, 2019

• #47

I used the pirate Islands west of the sea of swords when I ran it 15 years ago. I used the port of Skaug as the PC's base of operations and had the lovecraft Yuanti plot from somewhere else added. No idea if that's still compatible with the new book.

 

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Psyzhran2357

First Post

• May 9, 2019

• #48

CapnZapp said:

So... Where in the Realms is the suggested placement...?

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From the screenshots, "midway between Waterdeep and Neverwinter".

 

Hussar

Legend

• May 9, 2019

• #49

CapnZapp said:

What do you mean? (Which campaigns?)

I mean, Curse... or Tomb... contains a lot of world description, monster lists and such, but isn't that something we normally count as being part of an adventure?

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I think he might be talking about Dragon Heist. Or Storm King's Thunder. In either module, you only use a tiny slice of the book in the actual play of the adventure.

 

pukunui

Legend

• May 9, 2019

• #50

Psyzhran2357 said:

From the screenshots, "midway between Waterdeep and Neverwinter".

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I suppose they had to say that, since they haven't officially supported any part of the Realms beyond Chult and the Sword Coast ... but I still find it interesting because the DDAL "season agnostic" Dreams of the Red Wizards plotline puts Saltmarsh and the GoS adventures in the Sea of Fallen Stars.