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Sounds perfect. Actually, it sounds better than the pre-written hooks. There are a couple of very good threads about PoTA hidden in the forum - including adventure journals, so reading and stealing ideas is good. The thread by Nebulous is probably the best one. My journal also starts with a...

We finished our PoTA game ages ago now and have been playing Numenera. I thoroughly recommend it, or possibly look at The Strange (which I have not played). The Cypher System (which both games use) is a nice change of pace after D&D and it works better as Theatre of the Mind. It's a lot less...

Jeroid Smith, blacksmith of a small village. He never went looking for trouble, but trouble often found him. He was not an adventurer, he just wanted a quiet life and to keep the villagers safe. He was fun.

A number of different reasons over the last 36 years I've been playing - eeep. 1. The DM gets bored with the campaign (or the work involved) and stops 2. The story comes to its natural end 3. TPK 4. The campaign ends because the bad guys won. 5. People move away Any of those can happen at any...

It was awesome. Stressful, intense and led by the players decisions. That was a DMing masterclass.

Woah. Look at me unintentionaly plagerising a very old joke.

/not serious/ Totally disagree. Let's call every story, season, path, campaign or adventure by a new term. I nominate "level" to cover all of them. Then nobody will get confused ever again. "Hey Ragnor, that was a great level. I've finally gone up a level and I now have 3rd level spells". See...

This sounds like the best possible outcome. Moving on is good.

Isn't it funny how Windharrow, a minor NPC at best as written, has ended up being such a big part of so many people's campaigns.

I'd put it down to something going wrong with the casting of the spell but with a good outcome. You might spend a lifetime trying to recreate that error, but with no success.

I started this at about level 3, so (same as you) missed some of the initial adventures. Many of them didn't seem that great anyway. I set the game in Eberron, 30 years after the completion of my last campaign. I set in in Breeland with brewing civil war as the new king is just an arrogant...

I'm still here. Happily lurking. I don't have a lot to contribute now that we have finished PoTA. It was very enjoyable, especially at the end where it went off in unexpected directions. Still enjoying seeing other people's experiences with it though. We are now playing Numenera and finding it...

Yep, my characters were at about 11th level as well. That's why I had Imix a bit slow moving as he was recharging after his release and sucking up the energy from the lava. The characters knew they could not beat him in a battle, so they had to choose whether to flee or to try and close the...

How old is your son? That makes a big difference in how you approach the game.

In a previous game long ago, I had the characters travel back in time where one of them accidentally directly caused the death of the entire younger version of the party. That messed with their heads.

Deities & Demigods - I KILLED THE GODS ​Unearthed Arcana 8

Deities & Demigods 6 Fiend Folio 5 ​Unearthed Arcana 11

And it's neck and neck....

Deities & Demigods 10 Fiend Folio 10 Monster Manual II 3 - I refuse to bow to the inevitable ​Unearthed Arcana 10

Deities & Demigods 15 - for me this was a book for reading, not for playing Fiend Folio 15 Monster Manual II 8 - not only was it full of good monsters, it was a great colouring in book. Unearthed Arcana 15