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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 1649831" data-attributes="member: 2">I ran both G1 and G2 under 2e in my current campaign. The results were fascinating.G1 was relatively straightforward, with the giants being bribed by a human to stop trade through a particular mountain pass. I reduced the quantity of giants somewhat, and we had lots of fun; after the adventure the fort was claimed by the party cleric and changed into a church (albeit a church with very big doors.) Recently the group got a visit from a cloud giant shadowdancer who claimed that his King helped the Hill Giants construct the fort, and their five year tribute was due. The party sent him back to his King dominated and sniveling with his tail between his legs and his shadow companion destroyed, with a message that the previous agreement was null and void. G2 went very differently. The plot hook was that the frost giants had kidnapped slaves from nearby human towns. Turns out that the Frost giant King was being controlled by a psionic parasite. The group did amazing commando tactics:- snuck into the area by night, under cover of a heavy snowstorm- sent someone to scout the area ethereally (fleeing when the white dragons sensed his presence)- snuck in past the guards at 4am under cover of invisibility, only engaging in one quick ambush kill- dropped walls of thorns, walls of stone, and walls of force in front of the dragon cave and every single giant barracks.As a result, they only had to fight about four giants instead of forty-plus. They killed the mind-controlled King, went down to the basement I added, killed the psionic parasite controlling him, got all the captives organized, and marched them all out of the King's secret exit tunnel and down the mountain. The giants were too disorganized to follow (having been freed of the psionic compulsion), but they were followed and attacked by a dragon, who they managed to defeat. It was an amazing near-bloodless victory, and it left me very impressed.-</blockquote>

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