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After reading PirateCat's awesome description of his Grey Guard campaign's transition to the Paragon tier, I want something similarly memorable for my group. Adventure #4 doesn't really do that well. They're just about to arrive in Seaquen, and I don't track XP (I just tell them when they level...

Lee is described in the module as believing "that Seaquen must be destroyed in order to save the most possible lives in the upcoming war." I'm planning to play him as a Well Intentioned Extremist - Television Tropes & Idioms or perhaps Necessarily Evil - Television Tropes & Idioms . I didn't...

It's Makung Shaftobem from Adventure #3. Makung is a male half-elf fighter from Sindaire who fled Khagan Onamdammin’s paranoia with 50 of his men and three ships. His partner is Cernaban Gremman, a halfling from the same module. The White Wyrms are a crime syndicate that's heavily funded by...

Okay, here's one. My group just finished playing through the Fire Forest (4e). I loved this adventure on paper, but in practice it dragged a bit. We talked about that tonight and decided it was for three reasons: The Fire Forest feels like a distraction from the main quest (get the case to...

Maybe I should do that, too. My players have been complaining that they can't keep track of everything. :-) Right now, I'm just reminding them of who somebody is when they meet him (or her). Do your players use the reference, or does it add to the information overload?

There's actually a nice description of what the heroes find if they open the box on page 17 of adventure #1, if you're playing the 4e version. These sort of touches are make me love playing this series. As a DM, I have all sorts of contingencies available if the players go off the rails.

I've put together a companion character handout for Katrina (from Shelter from the Storm). I rebuilt her as an evocation mage from Heroes of the Fallen Kingdoms and mixed in a few other tweaks. Enjoy!

I was planning on playing him as truly colossal (with his head perhaps 10-20 squares up) and just putting tokens for his extremities on the map. Maybe that's what you had in mind anyway. And then for the part where everyone , I thought I'd use custom 5x5 tokens, just for the cool factor. Heh...

Speaking as someone playing through the series, I have to say that the earliest adventures probably weren't tested for balance/fun factor. A lot of them have problems. Not only is the monster math off, some of the encounters are just not built well for 4e. There's a 3.5e sensibility to it, such...

This. The 'feat tax' brouhaha is silly. Some opinionated people noticed that the numbers don't add up, but completely ignored the other advantages PCs get. By all reports, epic tier is too easy, not the other way around. Why not wait and see how the game plays in practice, then decide?

The Rules Compendium is excellent. As you noted, it doesn't have any specifics (like powers, rituals, items, or monsters), but as a rules reference it's all you need at the table. Nobody in my group uses Essentials classes, but we still use the Rules Compendium for rules. (For more details...

I haven't run it, but from the read-through I love the multi-part colossus fight in the 4e version. The shorter length is also a plus--some of the earlier modules (particularly 4e Fire Forest) had stuff that felt like filler; this one seems to be action-packed and relevant from beginning to end.

That's awesome. I'll definitely keep my subscription going for that.

Sure! The original was done in Pages for the Mac, so I've included that as well as a Word export. I'm not sure how well the export worked, but give it a try.

Here's Torrent, Crystin, and Haddin. I haven't done Katrina yet. Torrent's a bit uneven--she's the first one I did.

(SPOILERS) I have my players run all of the companion NPCs in WotBS, so I make little half-page handouts for each one. Generally, I want to downplay the combat effect of the NPCs--by the time they reach Seaquen, they'll have collected five companions--so I simplify the combat stats and include...

There is a squidload (that's the grandma-friendly version) of NPCs in Shelter from the Storm. By my count, there are 19 recurring NPCs and 35 episode-specific NPCs. I love the detail, and it can be a bit overwhelming. To help myself keep track of it all, I made an NPC reference sheet, and I...

I've uploaded a new version with some minor changes. The biggest change is switching the bullets to check-boxes so you can mark off each episode as it's finished. I also tweaked some of the episode descriptions.

My group uses coins to track PC hit points (with 1 cent = 1 hp). Easy, intuitive, and people seem to like the physicality of it.

Essentials is just the name of 10 products WotC wants bookstores to keep in stock. It's part of 4e. If you're new to 4e, the Essentials products are a good place to start. If you've been playing 4e, treat Essentials like you would any other splatbook. The products are: 1. Rules Compendium. Up...