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I started my party at 2nd level. They still had a very tough time on episode 1. Level 3 would allow them to tackle the challenges without being on the verge of death, which may or may not be a good thing. Like Merric says, I think you should be able to award XP as written without running into...

I've also bought a few GF9 minis. Okay, more than a few. I might pick up Aerisi because I'm a fan of having custom minis for the main villains of an adventure path. Problem is that she doesn't look like one that would be very re-usable (unlike most of the other ones I get, like the cultists that...

For all the flak that the first episode gets (especially the fight with Cyanwrath) I, and others, seem to have found that the Hatchery is really where the difficulty seems to spike. The exact same thing happened with my group in having the dungeon get pulled in on top of them, it was a TPK that...

Yeah, I eventually caved and wound up awarding a few uncommon magical items. I found the HotDQ plot to be good, but I didn't like a lot of how it was presented, and ended up freestyling a lot of my own stuff into it, taking it way off the rails. For my group, this has proven to be a better...

Let me revise that: the roadhouse was a real drag for my group, not because of the adventure, but because of some peculiar decisions they made earlier on that basically removed the roadhouse from the context it was intended for. I think for me, it was because my group had seriously deviated...

I had to scan in the cultists. The ones I found online were pretty low quality, to put it lightly (someone had basically taken a snapshot of the page of the book), same with the Ambush Drake and Guard Drake. There aren't any pictures of Dragonwing, Dragonfang, or Dragonsoul, either. I wound up...

I rushed through the roadhouse, so I didn't stress too much about Bog Luck and Briferhew since I figured they wouldn't play too big a role in my campaign, here are the ones I used, you can probably find better if you wanted, but eh. Not worth it IMHO, YMMV but I thought the roadhouse was a real...

Agreed. As written, Nighthill plays an extremely minor role in the grand scheme of things. Which NPCs do you need art for? I've found pictures that I've used for most of them, and I'm happy to share them if I have any good ones.

Also, if you grab the filename from Bryan syme's deviant art account, you can plug it into google to get a high res version WITHOUT the ugly deviant art watermark on it. I have a bunch of resources I've made (VTT tokens, Roll20 statblocks) but I'm reluctant to share them here since so many of...

Random tip: Google the names of the illustrators from the credits—many of them have online galleries that include artwork from HOTDQ. I know I already mentioned Bryan Syme, but I was able to do this to grab a shot of castle Naerytar from the chapter info for setting the stage when my party...

Depends on the size of the battle and the complexity of the tactics and spells being used. TotM definitely can be faster for small encounters at low levels. Once you start adding participants though and throwing around AOE, it starts to slow down as players ask more questions and need more...

Policing character knowledge (fire w/ trolls) is too much of a hassle, such that I'm willing to handwave it most of the time. As another poster said, it's a good incentive to make your own monsters or remix the ones in the MM. One of the characters in my party is a dragon sorc, loves dragons...

It depends on what you're looking for (I know, helpful, right). I'm running Tyranny right now, and probably will for some time, so I don't get any immediate use out of it. However I bought it for a couple reasons: 1. I enjoy encounter design, so I like seeing what professionally designed...

Brief thoughts. - I've found throwing down level-appropriate CR encounters using the "quick" stat blocks in the DMG vs something from the MM often results in a tougher fight for the PCs. Anyone else notice this? - I think a lot of people have pointed out that a lot of MM CRs are a little...

Has anyone messed around with the speed factor variant at all? I dunno what the consensus is on that in terms of how it affects things, I'm guessing someone's done an analysis on it already, but that would be the first thing I'd look at. In general it might be interesting to just do some sort of...

Other stuff: - If your party has more than 5 people or less than 4, take the time to rebalance the encounters by plugging the enemy CRs for each encounter into the table in the Dungeonmaster Guide to figure out the xp budget that was used. Adjust the budget based on your party size. In my case...

I'm loving Hoard. I've made a lot of changes, I'll try to remember them and add those I've forgotten later: - additional notes, backstory, and art for some of the characters and villains can be found at the WotC site, for example...

Just wanted to leave a quick review of this after I bought everything yesterday (As someone who formerly used Roll20 for helping enhance my F2F games with a projector and HDTV) There's a lot of stuff in here that I like. The drag and drop character creation is very nice. And honestly, the best...

Just did this and it worked like a charm on my MacBook Pro. Diving into the content now.

On the one hand, this makes me feel like a total moron for all the time I've invested into Roll20 (manually parsing/entering spells, monster stats, etc)... And all the money I've spent on premium tokens/maps/mentor subscription for that platform. On the other hand, this is going to save me SO...