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You're doing it exactly right! My players chose to just run for it and have been making their way almost naked in the dark. Pretty scary. They were almost caught by drow twice but escaped due to causing a rockfall and burning holes in the Silken Path webs. They starved. They scored a couple...

I have a feeling that the designers are leaning toward a "milestone" system for level advancement. Anyways, I'm getting into the whole prepared encounter idea. Basically, there are a couple different points the characters need to get to in order to get out of the Underdark and everything in...

I played in a playtest of RPL. It was hilarious fun. My character was first level and totally survived bunch of crazy stuff until finally attempting one brave/stupid act too many and dying. Basically, everything was super dangerous but not necessarily hostile, so you really had to watch your...

I tend to think that the random encounters shouldn't be so random. Use the tables to combine terrain and monsters to interesting effect. These will not be random encounters because the DM will have thought them out ahead of time. It is certainly work for the DM, but not much with the tables...

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That's a crazy critique! I have to disagree that you could "play" this adventure without players. However, you are totally right that there is no "xp budget" and characters will have to level up based on a lot of random encounters. There isn't a clear escalation of difficulty. The adventure...

My group consists of: Human Fighter Human Cleric Elf Druid/Thief Deep Gnome Bard Dwarf Barbarian I think the first three characters are 4th level as they came from our last faded campaign. The gnome and dwarf just hit 2nd level. They are unarmored and bare only 2 swords and a dagger between...

In Out of the Abyss I've discovered it is important to track rations and keep track of foraging. The heroes are naked and afraid, running fairly blindly through the Underdark. In this case, decisions about slowing down to search for food is a decision point because it makes it more likely to...

Why? Is it rad? Isn't that by the guy that did Blackmarsh Bay? I like that and have used it.

You guys are doing great! Totally on the right path! Good luck!

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For me, Abyss is more story oriented though very open ended. Escaping the Underdark is a huge motivation and challenge. Going back in is up to the players. They can choose if and how they do it. It's really pretty rp focused. Princes I have not run, but the isn't a lot of motivation other...

That OGRE thing is awesome. I wish I'd had it last night. I'd like to get the lists so that I can add it to my Last Gasp generator bookmark list.

Some disjointed thoughts: I just DMd the escape and travel/chase sequence. Your concerns are well founded. I was running seat of the pants style and I had a sense that it was beginning to devolve into just a series of incidents. If I were to really prepare well for then next session I would...

Perfect!

That's actually rad because it ties into something at the very end of the campaign.

Let's make this into a 1d8 table: Members of the Brilliant Society are "dedicated to solving the problems of the underdark". Such as what specific problems? "I am trying to map a new shorter path from A to B" "This next part of the road has crumbled, I am finding a detour" "I need to find the...

I ran it and would run it again. My players missed the dragon as well, so I threw it into another campaign and it was a great session. My only real complaint is that the final dungeon is a little less than awesome, particularly the last section of it. The forge thing doesn't make much sense...

Regarding the weak "delegation" hook, what if the campaign starts with the Chars traveling to Red Larch to meet a seneschal who bears the Seal of Nobility that bequeaths Riverguard Keep to one of the characters. That way they have a claim on the Keep, they need to find the seneschal to prove...