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  1. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Need help making sure this class is balanced: The Alice Class for A Red and Pleasant Land

    Here's the version I made a while back, posted on my blog. My version is quite a bit more randomized. I imagine it depends on how traditional your 5e game is. Will players need to know what abilities are coming up next...
  2. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Enhancing "Storm King's Thunder"

    It's all coming down to the wire! Are they going to rescue Hekaton before attacking Imryth? There was a bit of a feeling in my campaign of the blockbuster with one too many epic finales: Court, King, Dragon. Looking back I might have combined the rescue mission with Imryth (had her laired...
  3. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Enhancing "Storm King's Thunder"

    Finished it. The campaign met its finale with a final battle against the blue dragon. No PCs died, though I kinda spaced out and forgot to attack a couple of times. High level fighting is silly. Happy to turn over the DM screen to my friend for Tomb of Annihilation! We'll have some...
  4. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Enhancing "Storm King's Thunder"

    Not really worried about the canon. Just thought I could have a series of giant monster battle one-shots with the high level characters. I thought long and hard about adding the Tiamat storyline. I seeded all the backstory throughout the campaign and that ended up being the best part...
  5. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Enhancing "Storm King's Thunder"

    Finished it. The campaign met its finale with a final battle against the blue dragon. No PCs died, though I kinda spaced out and forgot to attack a couple of times. High level fighting is silly. Happy to turn over the DM screen to my friend for Tomb of Annihilation! We'll have some...
  6. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Combining LMoP, ToD, PotA & SKT

    I've been mixing the Tyranny plot into my running of Storm King. It's been great. The whole part about the depressed giant how has been tricked/coerced into working for the dragons in Skyreach Castle is weird and great. I'm in the middle of the Imryth battle now. I've set it up to go on to...
  7. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Fun & Engaging House Rules

    I use side initiative. d12 rolled while making intense eye contact with the designated player. We roll each round. It's fun.
  8. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Enhancing "Storm King's Thunder"

    Speaking of... my players still haven't gotten that Bag of Holding from Pow Ming. The battle against Imryth begins: http://neradia.blogspot.com/2017/12/storm-kings-thunder-29-heavy-lifting-in.html
  9. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Enhancing "Storm King's Thunder"

    That's a pretty amazing end to a campaign. I can see how its anti-climactic but still, wow.
  10. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Enhancing "Storm King's Thunder"

    Last night the battle of Ascore began. Many gargoyles were slain. And we ended up ditching initiative for opposed push up and pull up contests. I won the first. Then lost the next few. An unexpected twist to the campaign finale. Next week the big blue emerges from the sands...
  11. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Enhancing "Storm King's Thunder"

    Here's the story. I gotta come up with something epic for the final battle! Minis and dioramas ho!
  12. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Enhancing "Storm King's Thunder"

    Almost at the end! The heroes did some dragon research at Candlekeep and used the Scry spell to scout the Klauthen Vale. Klauth greeted them and they came to an agreement: A loan of the airship in exchange for the hoard of Imryth. Picked up the ship (delivered by Harshnag the Frost Giant), and...
  13. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Enhancing "Storm King's Thunder"

    So close to the end. The Return of the King. Next up, Imryth. Now I need your help ENWorld. How to make that battle all time epic? What have people done? How did it work out? What awesome ideas? The party is mostly 12th level. I've been thinking that Ascore may be ridden with Purple...
  14. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Enhancing "Storm King's Thunder"

    The adventure continues... I had a neat thing come up in play. They sailed across the Sea of Swords and were attacked by storm giant minions of the newly enthroned Queen Mirran. They made landfall at Rhauthym. I conflated Rhaughym and the Purple Rocks by accident one session and just ran with...
  15. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Enhancing "Storm King's Thunder"

    That's fine with me! I haven't really looked around the wiki threads but its sounds like a great idea. There really are a few key things that would be helpful for SKT DMs to think about and this is one of the most thorough threads on it on the web.
  16. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Enhancing "Storm King's Thunder"

    Wikified. Tonight the sorcerer posed as a half dragon cultist to the confusion of Lord Drylund. She accused him of betrayal, to which replied that he had done everything asked and the cargo was delivered to Rauthym sleeping on the Morkoth. Then his pet octopus jumped on his had and ripped his...
  17. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Enhancing "Storm King's Thunder"

    I don't see it...
  18. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Running Maze of the Blue Medusa for 5e

    I agree that 5e would not be as rad for Blue Medusa, though it is certainly full of RP possibilities. I run Barrowmaze with zero preparation. There is a 5e version. Not set up to be very RP heavy, but you can always improvise.
  19. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Enhancing "Storm King's Thunder"

    How do I make it into a wiki?
  20. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Enhancing "Storm King's Thunder"

    Yeah, I'm going the dragon cult, RoT route as well. I think I'd better have them find some purple robes and dragon stuff in Drylund's personal effects. And Pow Ming's. I made his body guards "purple vikings" from the Purple Isles. A bit of a hint of location there I guess.
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