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[Reynard]

Maybe they did and it was cut for space. The adventure modules are the thing, not the light framework to connect them.

If so it speaks to a culture of disdain for GMs. That is who you are serving with those 3 pages you had to cut. That's who makes your business possible.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Counting paragraphs there are 15 on the Golden Vault.

 

[TravDoc42]

Judging by the table of contents, most of the included stats are for named NPCs. The only new monsters that I can see are a Clockwork Defender and a Clockwork Observer. There is also a

Was sorta expecting more creatures, for some reason! Thank you though!

 

[Emoshin]

Yes, bit to what end? It had nothing to do with anything. The Golden Vault is just a plot hook to provide an explanation for why a group of heroic characters would have a career of heisting.

It could conclude with the PCs realizing that the Golden Vault is actually a front for your BBEG. (Cliché yes but D&D often is.)

 

[Reynard]

So you praise Eberron’s stuff including the mourning which I compared the Golden Vault to.

Stop. You know as well as I do that they aren't the same thing. The Golden Vault is the Wayfinders or the Harper's. And even so, the Mourning still gets more adventure seeds that this.

EDIT: Let myself get too intense. Sorry about that. ::deep breaths::

 

[Zaukrie]

If so it speaks to a culture of disdain for GMs. That is who you are serving with those 3 pages you had to cut. That's who makes your business possible.

I think you've beat this horse to dust, and, clearly not everyone agrees.

What I really like about the book is the variety of locales. What I'm not sure about is how easy it is to run a planning session and how LONG it would take my players to manage all this.....

 

[Reynard]

Counting paragraphs there are 15 on the Golden Vault.

Then why did you sell it as 2 sentences when directly asked?

 

[Parmandur]

If so it speaks to a culture of disdain for GMs. That is who you are serving with those 3 pages you had to cut. That's who makes your business possible.

...?

Not really? The point of the book is small plug and play modules. As an aside, theybinclude a light joining framework of desired. And apparently, there are 15 paragraphs about the plot hook, anyways.

 

[Parmandur]

It could conclude with the PCs realizing that the Golden Vault is actually a front for your BBEG. (Cliché yes but D&D often is.)

Or maybe the BBEG is a front for the Golden Vault to help secure funding from Bahumat.

 

[dave2008]

I have been freelance writing for RPGs for a couple decades now, and the number 1 rule is that the stuff you write for RPGs should inspire and enable the GM. It isn't wasted words if it gets the GM thinking about how to use the thing in adventures.

I haven't read the full book yet, but the little that have been posted about the Golen Vault do exactly that for me. Any more would, indeed, likely be wasted words (for me). So, by your guideline they succeeded - for me at least.

Look at Keith Baker's Eberron work -- every paragraph is an adventure seed.

I think his writing and passion are great. I could read is books just fine. But I have no desire to play Eberron, it feels like someone else's game to me - to much lore to deal with. I do love the idea of always starting the setting at the same point - I wish they did that for all settings.