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Would Red Hand of Doom tie into the Orcs from the Kingdom of Many Arrows storyline better than an AP? It's fairly long on its own, it might count as a mini-AP. There's a caveat here, in that I have never read enough of the book to be 100% certain that it will work with the preceeding...

I like Trailblazer. There's some interesting design choices there, and Development Notes are always good to read. D/L this morning, quick skim through (still in the office :evil: ) and need to devote some quality time to seeing what changes might get incorporated into my 3.5E experience...

It's even better with Wizard's Amulet - The Crucible of Freya - The Tomb of Abysthor as run-ins. Wizard's Amulet is available as a 3.0 or 3.5 d/l for free from the Necromancer Games' site. The others are 3.0 only but shouldn't be too hard to convert upwards. Use The Tomb of Abysthor as a...

Free PDF? Dang tootin'. Wulf, you are a class act. I've used the Encounter Designer from Pathfinder for the session-and-a-half of my new campaign that we've managed to complete and only managed to take two PC's down to 0HP so far. So fairly well-balanced, then. ;) If I get to see a print...

St. McCoy?? ;) Perhaps you could also work in a Tennant's Hall (perhaps an Inn or Hostel remaining in the Upper Levels and usable as a safe haven, with neutrality between different factions enforced by Golem "bouncers") or The Fount of Jon the Beloved (a source of holy water, perhaps) as well...

My group (theoretically weekly but RL intervenes) still uses 3.5E rules. It's basically any WotC non-setting rulesbook (the DM gets them as well :evil:) though anything out of the ordinary needs my approval. For the Greyhawk campaign I started recently, I took ninjas, wu jen, etc. (basically...

I didn't bother turning the mansion house into an adventure. I had it kept in good repair and goor order by the NeMoren family retainers, and used as a base of operations by the players after they ahd completed the module. I didn't even bother mapping it, IIRC - a bit of a mistake, then, when it...

As well as all that, the adventure is more than a simple Dungeon Crawl. There's a spot of investigation, the chance for some RP in Diamond Lake, a repulsive villain at the end (who doesn't need to be killed, btw)... Gosh, this is all getting me stoked up to run this adventure...

I think what I was really asking was: Did you have an idea of the "story" you wanted to tell at the start of the campaign? Did you link specific parts of that story to specific places? - and you've already said No to that one Do you have a particular set of places that you want the PC's to...

As I've been reading this thread, I thought it only manners to pop in and say hello. "Hello!" I'm not a 4E player (3.5E grognard right here, T-shirt and all ;)), but I thought I'd take a look and see what story elements I could steal while I'm at it. Wow. There's been some lovely stuff...

Adding to the love for NeMoren's Vault, The Whispering Cairn and Crucible of Freya - assuming you start with The Wizard's Amulet first. That's the free download from the Necromancer Games site. It was updated to 3.5E a while ago.

War of the Burning Sky is no Dungeon Crawl. Indeed, it's about Chapter 6 before the first Crawl appears, IIRC. Chapter 1, for example, takes place in a besieged city, the action starting as an aerial battle takes place overhead. The PC's first have to escape from enemy infiltrators and a...

Twice, now, I've had compaigns with nearby huge mountains, ready to drop The Banewarrens in when the party hits the right level. Twice, now, the group had disintegrated before we've got anywhere near the power levels for this bad boy. <why isn't there a head-desk smilie?>

I've started two campaigns with NeMoren's Vault and had a blast each time. The hook to get players in works beautifully, and allows PC's to come together "naturally." While things turn into a Dungeon Crawl, it's a good crawl, with unexpected nasties, a worthy backstory and some seriously good...

I've started writing an adventure recently and attached are some pages from my notes. We play 3.5E so I have been making good use of OGL sources, pulling monster stats from the SRD (or, having advanced them, from MonsterForge) and adding spell notes from there too (to reduce page turning at...

Seconded. There are a couple of good ideas in his latest updates which I must try to remember for my own campaigns. One day.

That sounds marvellous! There are shades of the old Tunnels & Trolls solo dungeon Beyond the Silvered Pane in there. (Sorry, showing my age again). Of course, I'm guessing that mysterious deaths and arcane disasters will be likely to happen as part of this adventure - right?

I'd like to play the R. Talsorien version of Castle Falkenstein some day - have had the rulesbook since it came out, just never had the chance to play it. The use of cards rather than dice is an intriguingly different concept. I also wouldn't mind trying out Castles & Crusades to see how...

I'm certainly in the anti-4E camp, though there are things there which I can cope with -and, indeed, am using in the campaign I am currently writing for my group. Good stuff Skill challenges. One failed roll needn't de-rail an adventure. Exellent. It can almost be ported as-is into 3E and I...

I DM'ed both 2e and 3e games. So, looking from that perspective: The CR/ EL system worked out quite well as a yardstick for pitching encounters. In 2e, I was always worried about overpowering the PC's, or providing a set of easy kills. Whilst not perfect, at least the CR system provided a...