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My posts tend to be a bit wordy, so I apologize if the question I asked in my previous post got buried. I'll repeat it: For comparison's sake, can you give me an idea of the page count of a typical module in the War of the Burning Sky series? This question might have been answered elsewhere...

Session 3: The Ghost of Alastor Land The party had just stabilized Alexander after he took severe cold damage from BROWN MOLD. They had decided to exit the Cairn. But just when they were deciding who should carry which end of Alexander's unconscious body, Killick's body was hit be a ray of...

Session 2: Alexander's Ear While Alexander and Tarric were sleeping off their fatigue during the day of the 11th of Planting, Killick and Alees were cutting limbs off the tree that has been felled just outside the entrance to the cairn in order to allow quicker exit from the dungeon in the...

I started this thread off with a price comparison between a subscription to the War of the Burning Sky vs. a subscription to Dungeon magazine. I then attempted to make a value comparison of those two purchases. It seemed to me at first that a subscription to Dungeon had significantly more...

Session 1: Into the Whispering Cairn Cast of characters: Tarric (Scott's fighter) Alexander (Jason's wizard) Katawan (Dave's monk) Alees (Kim's rogue) Killick (JJ's ranger) Killian (Jim's cleric) 10th of Planting: The 5 characters (all except Katawan) departed Diamond Lake at dawn and...

Katawan's backstory At the beginning of the campaign, Katawan is 18 years old. His younger years were spent in Diamond Lake. He left town to join the local monastery at the age of 15 and has not been seen in town for those 3 years. As a boy growing up he was an inquisitive child, always...

Alees's backstory Alees grew up in a clan of Rhennee performers that traveled across this land entertaining countryfolk with crude amusements - and robbing as many marks as they could find along the way. Alees was adopted as an infant by a husband and wife, named Gerick and Azlee. She is an...

Tarric's backstory One night, right after a night on patrol with the Greyhawk Militia, Tarric was feeling particularly depressed and lonely. He really missed his parents. So, without even taking off his armor, he immediately headed to the Diamond Lake boneyard after his shift was over. When...

Killian's backstory Killian Dunbar is an imposing man standing nearly six feet tall with shoulder length brown hair and a bushy fu-manchu style moustache. Even though Killian has not lived a rugged outdoorsy life, per-se, he has been blessed with a muscular build and a hearty constitution...

Killick's backstory Killick was raised by his father, a miner, after Killick's mother died in childbirth. As he was growing up, Killick watched his father's health deteriorate over the years of toil underground, and the child became determined never to work in the mines himself. Left to his...

Alexander's backstory There is a memorial obelisk in the Diamond Lake boneyard that is dedicated to all the miners lost in cave-ins over the years. The young wizard Alexander, apprentice to master wizard Allustan, goes to it from time to time out of respect for the father that died in a mining...

Campaign background The campaign starts in a small mining town called Diamond Lake, which lies 3 days travel east of Greyhawk, one of the largest cities in the known world. Diamond Lake is nestled in an area called the Cairn Hills, named after the many elaborate and ancient burial tombs that...

Calendar and Timeline For reference, here is a basic calendar for Greyhawk. The seven days of each week are ordered and named as follows. Starday (work) Sunday (work) Moonday (work) Godsday (worship) Waterday (work) Earthday (work) Freeday (rest) Each month consists of four weeks (28...

Let me be clear: I am not a novelist. Most of the posts in this thread will not read like a narrative story. Instead, most of them will be mere summaries of my group's gaming sessions. I am hopeful that some of my players will get interested in writing some short fiction based on their...

Menexenus's Age of Worms campaign journal Title: Menexenus's Age of Worms Campaign Journal (unless I come up with a better title) Author: Menexenus Number of Threads: 1 Type: Fantasy System: D&D 3.5e (mostly, with a few house rules thrown in - but nothing major) Setting: Greyhawk Started: The...

I don't care for crit charts and have never used them. I prefer having the DM use his imagination to come up with a description for a critical hit that fits the situation at hand.

I'm a frugal gamer who likes the concept of purchasing Adventure Paths and who is generally happy to help support ENWorld (and its affiliated publishing division). But if I can buy a year's subscription to Dungeon for less than $40, why would I pay $50 for The War of the Burning Sky adventure...

What everyone else has said... Sincerest condolences. :(

SPOILER ALERT: DO NOT READ THIS THREAD IF YOU ARE A PLAYER IN AN AGE OF WORMS CAMPAIGN! I'm DMing the Age of Worms. Right now my players are running throught the Champion's Belt module. Because they missed out on some XP, they are currently behind where the module says they should be in...

My group has always played "core" D&D. So, I personally like Dungeon's policy of sticking to core material. I agree with Olaf's comment. If you want to add unusual spells from non-core sources, why can't you just swap them out yourself? This shouldn't be too difficult. Even though I play...