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I came to this conclusion when I was writing my History of the Nentir Vale document. While I don't like some of the new lore added by Essentials, I like some of it as well. And I appreciate that they have expanded on the lore, nonetheless. And now that I'm looking for a simpler game to play...

Much like the Rivenroar crypt in the original adventure. And it's close enough to Fallcrest for this conversion to work as intended. Rivenroar was located away from Brindol, in some mountains. The skill challenge for getting there must be changed from exploring the mountains to exploring a...

Someone here is good making PDFs? Anyways, at the Piazza forums they gave me the idea of leaving the references of Red Hand as part of the story of the Nentir Vale, as a potential hook for adapting that adventure in the future (maybe, if this conversion is good enough) It will be so much if we...

I don't know if it was a lack of vision, or if it was something he said deliberately, to target the people who like this mode of play. After all, this was the time were they publicly said that 4e was an "utter failure" (that we know it's not actually the truth, as 4e sold, even if it didn't sell...

Those are really good points

This is also my opinion. A rules system that address almost all the needs of the game with transparency for both the GM/DM and the players, leaves less room for shenanigans - for both sides, as rules lawyer players are more easily controlled if the DM has clear rules to work with.

This is a must. I feel that 4e really failed the Nentir Vale at not setting an adventure in its main town. While Hammerfast will be there for all the dwarfish things, Fallcrest must be the primary settlement. My issue with the Daggerburg goblins is the same that with the Gorizbad/Kiris Dahn...

I once had a very d*ck DM, that even denied his players to do actions that did not favored the story he wanted to tell. Heck, he even invalidated nat 20s if it suit him. His excuse? He was the DM, so he can do it because reasons. So, you may think that 4e rules invalidated the DM, but as I see...

On the other hand, I'm really happy that there is a system of rules that support actions outside of combat, and that is more fair to the game and the players than "DM's fiat".

Now that we are thinking far into the future (?), what to do about Nefelus? Leave it as it is (a far away island) or change it to some town far from the Nentir Vale? (for example, the city of Therund).

My issue with the Red Hand of Doom, is that it really doesn't matter for the adventure path, and that there is no really an important goblin invasion of the Nentir Vale - unless you take into account the goblins invading Kiris Dahn, but they have no impact on the rest of the Nentir Vale, at...

The overall idea of the Points of Light setting is that the world is populated by a variety of intelligent races, strange monsters lurk on other planes, ancient empires have left ruins across the face of the world, and so on. But one of the key conceits about this world is simply this: Civilized...

IIRC, The Plane Above.

While debating on this post, @Jacob Lewis suggested an idea: "Scales of War set in the Nentir Vale. Updated for post-MM3/Essentials updates." And the idea sparked my creativity! You would say: "But Zero, Scales of War is already set in the Nentir Vale", and that would be both, technically right...

Yeah, he was the final boss of that adventure path. I have fond memories of these adventures. The thing with 4e lore is that it's spread in many books, and it was like that by design. When they created the Nentir Vale, their goal was to create "modular homebreweable pseudo-setting", that the...

The Conquest of Nerath board game. While I really like the map, I didn't liked the implications it brought to the world building of the Nentir Vale's world, like having mostly human-ruled nations around the map, and the few nations that weren't human-ruled, were ruled by the Tolkienian races...

The question wasn't addressed to me, but... I also considered back in the day that Essentials somehow wanted to reject the lore they had been building in 4e. For instance, all that nonsense of the common and uncommon races, separating the classic Tolkienian races from the "exotic" ones...

Now that I'm thinking about this, I remember someone did a full H1-E3 adventure path, focused mostly on the Orcus storyline. I guess that frees me, so I can go with the idea of adapting Scales of War to the Nentir Vale. The question is: should we bring the Red Hand of Doom to the Nentir Vale...