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  1. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Out of the Abyss Play Reports [spoilers]

    It hasn't come up yet but I am thinking along the same lines that the Fae-stuff in high enough concentration creates an intense chaos effect as well as a madness roll. I compare it to Warhammer's warpstone, in fact I think I will have physical manifestations of the stuff show up here and there...
  2. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Out of the Abyss Play Reports [spoilers]

    That's awesome. You got alot done in two sessions.
  3. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Out of the Abyss Play Reports [spoilers]

    Has anybody played a session yet? How did it go? How did the party break out? Did they get their stuff? Which direction did they go? Let's share ideas. I'll go first. I've started DMing it by email, so of course it is very slow. They have talked to more than half of the prisoners. The...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Kicking off "Out of the Abyss" - Seeking Opinions [MINOR SPOILERS]

    I've started running it by email. I let players continue with older chars or make new ones. Telling them to describe to me how they got caught by drow was the campaign intro. I'm not promising any gear, and they haven't asked yet, though I think some drow would have lock picks and a spellbook...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Out of the Abyss - No Drizzt afterall?

    Dunno if its been said already, but there's totally an opportunity for an angry anti drow ranger DM to have Drizzt in the campaign and have him end ignominiously. Change the name of the Spore Drow from the opening jail scene and you have a tragic shell of a former hero, wandering in a daze...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Out of the Abyss Question with MAJOR SPOILER!

    Its really the players' choice. They can attack the demons one by one. They aren't super hard to find. The only problem is that any one of them at full strength will probly shred a 15th level party.
  7. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Out of the Abyss Question with MAJOR SPOILER!

    The wisest course of action is for the heroes to lie in wait and battle the survivor of the battle royal. They can get involved as early as they want, but they'll get whipped.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Out of the Abyss in my grubby hands (pic attached)

    Those are both pretty cool encounter sites.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Out of the Abyss in my grubby hands (pic attached)

    Quickleaf I ran Night Below back when 3e first came out. Reading OoA I was totally thinking about that box. I think you could use alot of the pieces from it in Night Below, especially the abstract random encounter pieces in place of the super linear nature of the midgame of Night Below. It...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Can someone please summarize Out of the Abyss for me?

    Weddings everybody knows are a mistake... Inscrutable shrieking and violence. Totes KuwtKs.
  11. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Can someone please summarize Out of the Abyss for me?

    She is not present. She helped the wizard summon all the DLs in the first place so she could take over the Abyss while they are gone.
  12. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Can someone please summarize Out of the Abyss for me?

    The drive at first is to escape the Underdark and the Drow. After that, its knowledge of an existential threat that motivates the group. It's sandboxy in the sense that there's no set way to get out of the Underdark, nor is there a set route you follow back down. You don't have to go to...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Can someone please summarize Out of the Abyss for me?

    This is badly needed. The whole thing really needs a set of cheat sheets for synopsis, key developments, etc. A plot chart would help too. I read through it yesterday. It's pretty sandboxy. Here's what I remember: SPOILERS Escape from drow slave pits. Choose a direction to travel in...
  14. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Princes OR Abyss

    You could switch to the Underdark but make some of the EE dungeons locations below? I've been thinking the same thing in terms of switching over my current campaign. Reading the book today though, I think maybe the escape is the best part. Anyways I'm thinking about how much Underdark...
  15. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) D&D Success Story

    Are you in Santa Cruz? I've had some similar d&d successes lately. A great feeling!
  16. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) D&D Encounters: The Rise of Tiamat play reports (sessions 1-12, complete)

    Epic! Are you going to continue your second run of Hoard through to Tiamat?
  17. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Can a Warlock use scrolls?

    I'm allowing anyone to use spell scrolls, but they must roll on a DCCRPG-like chart.
  18. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) PotA Weather Table

    Last week I was rolling this sweet 8 sided weather die. It has little weather icons on each side.
  19. Daern

    D&D 5E (2014) Any Great 5e One-Offs people would reccomend?

    DCC dungeons work great. I ran "The Jeweler Who Dealt in Stardust" as a 3 hour session of 5e and it went really well.
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    D&D 5E (2014) A Simple Way of using the Lingering Injuries Table

    I also play in a game that uses an elaborate injury chart that kicks in when a character drops. Our heroes are quickly becoming a troupe of freaks. My ranger is missing an eye. A warlock lost both legs, a paladin is missing 4 fingers. Horrible stuff. It's certainly realistic, but I dunno...
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