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Demetrio1453 Great stuff. Please keep posting about your sessions. It will be really cool to see how you roll through this one. Any big changes you've made or are you running more by the book? JValeur Those mission hooks are exactly what I'm talking about. Just a little more in terms of...

Here's a couple of good blogs on SKT. Merric is positive about the structure of the book, but the Raging Owlbear blog makes some good criticisms. 1st, he points out the initial quest hooks to get the pcs to travel around the Sword Coast are pretty weak ("deliver the news of a family member's...

If I were to start with a different, longer dungeon, I would add in some connection to the giant plot and load it with foreshadowing. Maybe a book about the caste system of the giants. Or a History of the Giant Dragon Wars. Or a Golden Goose token. Maybe an ancient wreck of a Fire Giant Mech.

I'm going to try to work Blagothus into the story. My players encountered his flying castle some time ago during a "best bits of HotQ" series of sessions. I'd like them to encounter the castle again, or perhaps watch it crash into the mountains, using the Frozen Castle module on DMsGuild.

I dig it. It makes me think of the giants less as separate races and more like different families each with their own style.

Great advice. That's basically what I've been doing. They fought spawn, then rested, explored a bit but were afraid to mess with anything. Then Rahadin came and demanded that they go with him to the guest quarters to await the "wedding". (Ireena is somewhere in the castle) Their mission at...

I'm going to have the goblins survive being chucked. Before getting in the sling, the goblins have drinking contests where they take shots of magicmushroommoonshine. The winner gets to fly. Besides enraged bravery, the brew allows the goblin to run around and fight on broken legs or whatever...

Great stuff. I also prefer to having the breaking of the order be the disappearance of Hekaton. It makes more sense to me that he was keeping the giants in check than some divine caste system. What if the players stumble on some evidence of Imryth's guilt that has her sending assassins after...

I had a similar scenario. The party jumped out the window to escape. They were ambushed by the vampire spawn during a later return to Vallaki and they served as henchmen when Strahd made an appearance in that town.

Hopefully blue is better.

Yeah, I would change the orcs part of Nightstone as well. I like the idea of the elves showing up to help against the orcs, then reluctantly asking for help against orcs in the forest. You could make those orcs hobgoblins, or make the HotH hobs into orcs. The worry for me with old dungeons...

Sorry dude. It's pasted from a google doc. It comes in black, then I recolored it. Does it not show up on the white background version? This forum is weird.

Oh man, we lost a lot here. Not even sure where to start, but let's talk about enhancing Castle Ravenloft because that's where my group is now- and we're playing tonight! 6th level, with the Sunsword and Holy Symbol of Ravenkind. They went down instead of up and met Cyrus, who they tied up...

I agree about the super fast leveling. It was weird when I played it at a con. I'm going the opposite direction and starting characters at a much higher level, continuing my campaign. Horror on the Hill? I think I had that as part of the "In Search of Adventure" compilation. If I remember...

So far, I've only had him fight for a couple rounds at a time. The group has the Sunsword now, so he's fairly well handicapped.

My players are currently camping in Leomund's Tiny Hut in the Ossuary Dining room in Castle Ravenloft. How will they die there?

For discussing aspects of Storm King's Thunder and how to run it. This thread WILL HAVE SPOILERS IN IT. Do not read if you're not going to run it. This post contains shortcuts to particular posts* that offer suggestions and answer questions raised by the adventure. It is broken down by...

Also, I replaced Morgantha in Barovia with Jeny Greenteeth selling pies and spells. It was great. The fighter had two lingering wounds and still refused to risk doing Jeny a favor. Eventually he dd her a favor in order to save the little boy. This will make a good recurring character.

They just sort of followed their noses from Death House to Barovia. Then they blew through the town pretty quick and went straight to Vallaki. No Tarokka reading, which is unaccountably frustrating. Should I allow another character like Rictavio or the Baroness make a reading? or let them...

Shoaki, that sounds similar to the 4e campaign I ran for a year. It was heavy on the set piece dioramas and really fun. Meanwhile, in tonight's game there were not fights and the group blasted past Madame Eva, got no fortune and have now entered Vallaki of the Mandatory Cheerful Demeanor.