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Bookrat/mgshamster's Out of the Abyss Campaign Log: http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2t6iu?Out-of-the-Abyss-Campaign

One of my characters went into the underdark looking for exciting adventures after reading about it in a book. He got captured by the drow. Another was a slave in the dwarven caverns above he underdark. He escaped into the underdark hoping to find freedom. He was captured by the drow. A third...

Not in particular. On one hand, they do grant bonuses which are useful in combat, and I allow for them to assist in combat upon a players request. For example, in one scene, they wanted the twins to cut a rope bridge in order to drop a foe; but after Eldeth used her NPC card ability to push...

Yeah. We have lots of NPCs. :) Part of it is because I decided to use a homebrewed system called the Companion System. It sets up key NPCs as cards the players can acquire; each one gives them special abilities. My players are reluctant to sacrifice an NPC, because they don't want to lose that...

Awesome write-up! OotA has to be one of my favorite adventures to run, and I've been playing for over 25 years. What backgrounds did your players take? Did anyone choose the optional backgrounds in Appendix A? My players have just made it to Gracklustugh a grueling 15 days (lots of fast pace...

So tonight I had my players rolls the random encounters. They skipped about 10 days worth of travel with "nothing happened." Really easy to roleplay their travel time. Then I had them meet a member of the Society of Brilliance which was working on a shorter path from Gracklestugh to [this other...

There are a several campaign logs you may want to read. Some of them are quite good. Here are some of them; I particularly like the first. The second is my own. http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?470251-CAMPAIGN-Out-of-the-Abyss-SPOILERS...

I had planned on rolling encountered in advance during travel time. Didn't happen. So I've been rolling encounters at the table during game play. I only roll up encounters every few days during travel, the rest of the time I say things like, "You've been traveling for a few days..." I skip...

This thread helps a lot. My players are definitely not the type to go explore and help just for the XP. They have their own missions and plan to stick to it unless given a reason otherwise. I was planning on luring them into the quest lines with promises of assistance avoiding or distracting...

If you head over to the Paizo messageboards and check out the sub-forum "D&D 4th Edition and Beyond" there are several discussions about converting some of the APs to 5e.

There's some excellent NPC cards with associated Houserules located in the GitP 5e forums. Hemeth is one, and he gives the PCs some interesting abilities to use. Created by Goober4473. The thread is called "NPC Companion System Idea." You can also find a link to them on the Paizo messageboards...