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<blockquote data-quote="Daern" data-source="post: 6895091" data-attributes="member: 81800"><p>For discussing aspects of Storm King's Thunder and how to run it.</p><p></p><p>This thread WILL HAVE SPOILERS IN IT. Do not read if you're not going to run it.</p><p></p><p>This post contains shortcuts to particular posts* that offer suggestions and answer questions raised by the adventure. It is broken down by chapter:</p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span>General</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px">Art/Maps:<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6895830&viewfull=1#post6895830" target="_blank">#14</a>, </span><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6898406&viewfull=1#post6898406" target="_blank">#23</a>, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6912478&viewfull=1#post6912478" target="_blank">#33</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Minis: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6947512&viewfull=1#post6947512" target="_blank">#58</a>, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6968206&viewfull=1#post6968206" target="_blank">#80</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Backstory/Motivation/Foreshadowing: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6895414&viewfull=1#post6895414" target="_blank">#12</a>, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6897682&viewfull=1#post6897682" target="_blank">#21</a>, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6923057&viewfull=1#post6923057" target="_blank">#41</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Backgrounds/Hooks: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6944975&viewfull=1#post6944975" target="_blank">#53</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px">Further Reading: </span><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6897450&viewfull=1#post6897450" target="_blank">#19</a>, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6922776&viewfull=1#post6922776" target="_blank">#39</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Streamlining: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6912782&viewfull=1#post6912782" target="_blank">#34</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tying in with Tyranny of Dragons: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6925103&viewfull=1#post6925103" target="_blank">#43</a>, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6959706&viewfull=1#post6959706" target="_blank">#72</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tying in with Lost Mine of Phandelver: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6945133&viewfull=1#post6945133" target="_blank">#54</a></li> </ul><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 15px">Chapter 1: A Great Upheaval</span></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Leveling Speed: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6895127&viewfull=1#post6895127" target="_blank">#3</a>, </span><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6898428&viewfull=1#post6898428" target="_blank">#24</a>, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6912857&viewfull=1#post6912857" target="_blank">#35</a>, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6922789&viewfull=1#post6922789" target="_blank">#40</a></span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 15px">Resources: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6922519&viewfull=1#post6922519" target="_blank">#38</a>, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6926928&viewfull=1#post6926928" target="_blank">#46</a></span></span></li> </ul><p></p><p>Chapter 2: Rumblings</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Resources: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6931835&viewfull=1#post6931835" target="_blank">#47</a>, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6947609&viewfull=1#post6947609" target="_blank">#59</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Missions: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6959016&viewfull=1#post6959016" target="_blank">#69</a></li> </ul><p>Chapter 3: The Savage Frontier</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Additional adventure: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6911625&viewfull=1#post6911625" target="_blank">#32</a></li> </ul><p>Chapter 4: The Chosen Path</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Harshnag: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6898584&viewfull=1#post6898584" target="_blank">#25</a></li> </ul><p>Chapter 5: Den of the Hill Giants</p><p>Chapter 6: Canyon of the Stone Giants</p><p>Chapter 7: Berg of the Frost Giants</p><p>Chapter 8: Forge of the Fire Giants</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fire giant stats: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6971055&viewfull=1#post6971055" target="_blank">#83</a></li> </ul><p>Chapter 9: Castle of the Cloud Giants</p><p>Chapter 10: Hold of the Storm Giants</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Risk level: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6898584&viewfull=1#post6898584" target="_blank">#25</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sneaking: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6967593&viewfull=1#post6967593" target="_blank">#77</a></li> </ul><p>Chapter 11: Caught in the Tentacles</p><p>Chapter 12: Doom of the Desert</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Extending the adventure: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6898428&viewfull=1#post6898428" target="_blank">#24</a></li> </ul><p></p><p>Indexed up to: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6971055&viewfull=1#post6971055" target="_blank">#83</a></p><p></p><p>I think this thread was a victim of the purge. </p><p>In any case I still want to talk about the module and improve it as I'm going to run it after Curse of Strahd I think. I really dig it, but you gotta make it your own. Let's do it!</p><p>SKT hasn't been getting much love so far. I think people must be pretty full up with adventures at the moment.</p><p>Anyways, the first place to go for a guide to improving the module is of course <a href="http://thecampaign20xx.blogspot.com/2016/09/dungeons-dragons-how-to-run-storm-kings.html" target="_blank">http://thecampaign20xx.blogspot.com/2016/09/dungeons-dragons-how-to-run-storm-kings.html</a></p><p>That blog is amazing.</p><p>I am also blogging about by sessions here: <a href="http://neradia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://neradia.blogspot.com/</a></p><p>I agree that putting some thought into a lot of foreshadowing is key to really making the module pop.</p><p>Have giants say "The King is Dead!" a lot. Bring in Felgolos early, so players care about him later. Make less different dragons in general (maybe make the silver one in chapter one the same as the captured one later on). Bring in Old Snarl and the Dragon Cult's ship early on, have a seeming innocuous encounter with a fishy viking from the "Purple Rocks" etc.</p><p>I'm going to supply my players with a poster map. The 3rd edition one I think. So they can add to it.</p><p>You will want to get clear on your travel times. I did some internet research.</p><p>To Waterdeep: (time at 20/day by foot or 48/day sailing)</p><p>Anauroch (via the Black Road) 660 miles, 33 days</p><p>Athkatla 950 miles, 47 days</p><p>Baldur's Gate 550 miles, 27 days</p><p>Caer Calidyrr, Moonshae Isles 750 miles (travel by water only), 15 days</p><p>Candlekeep 720 miles, 36 days</p><p>Daggerford 120 miles, 6 days</p><p>Evereska 750 miles (via the path past Llorkh, between the Greycloak Hills and Forgotten Forest), 33 days</p><p>Everlund 450 miles, 22 days</p><p>Iriaebor 870 miles, 43 days</p><p>Longsaddle 300 miles, 15 days</p><p>Loudwater 390 miles, 18 days</p><p>Luskan 440 miles, 22 days</p><p>Mirabar 650 miles, 32 days</p><p>Neverwinter 300 miles, 15 days</p><p>Red Larch 100 miles, 5 days</p><p>Scornubel 550 miles, 27 days</p><p>Secomber 260 miles, 23 days</p><p>Silverymoon 500 miles, 25 days</p><p>Westgate 1,370 miles, 69 days</p><p>Yartar 210 miles, 11 days</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daern, post: 6895091, member: 81800"] 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 chapter: [SIZE=3] [/SIZE]General [LIST] [*][SIZE=3]Art/Maps:[URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6895830&viewfull=1#post6895830"]#14[/URL], [/SIZE][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6898406&viewfull=1#post6898406"]#23[/URL], [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6912478&viewfull=1#post6912478"]#33[/URL] [*]Minis: [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6947512&viewfull=1#post6947512"]#58[/URL], [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6968206&viewfull=1#post6968206"]#80[/URL] [*]Backstory/Motivation/Foreshadowing: [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6895414&viewfull=1#post6895414"]#12[/URL], [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6897682&viewfull=1#post6897682"]#21[/URL], [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6923057&viewfull=1#post6923057"]#41[/URL] [*]Backgrounds/Hooks: [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6944975&viewfull=1#post6944975"]#53[/URL] [*][SIZE=3]Further Reading: [/SIZE][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6897450&viewfull=1#post6897450"]#19[/URL], [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6922776&viewfull=1#post6922776"]#39[/URL] [*]Streamlining: [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6912782&viewfull=1#post6912782"]#34[/URL] [*]Tying in with Tyranny of Dragons: [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6925103&viewfull=1#post6925103"]#43[/URL], [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6959706&viewfull=1#post6959706"]#72[/URL] [*]Tying in with Lost Mine of Phandelver: [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6945133&viewfull=1#post6945133"]#54[/URL] [/LIST] [SIZE=3][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=3][SIZE=4]Chapter 1: A Great Upheaval [LIST] [*][SIZE=3]Leveling Speed: [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6895127&viewfull=1#post6895127"]#3[/URL], [/SIZE][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6898428&viewfull=1#post6898428"]#24[/URL], [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6912857&viewfull=1#post6912857"]#35[/URL], [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6922789&viewfull=1#post6922789"]#40[/URL] [*]Resources: [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6922519&viewfull=1#post6922519"]#38[/URL], [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6926928&viewfull=1#post6926928"]#46[/URL] [/LIST] [/SIZE][/SIZE] Chapter 2: Rumblings [LIST] [*]Resources: [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6931835&viewfull=1#post6931835"]#47[/URL], [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6947609&viewfull=1#post6947609"]#59[/URL] [*]Missions: [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6959016&viewfull=1#post6959016"]#69[/URL] [/LIST] Chapter 3: The Savage Frontier [LIST] [*]Additional adventure: [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6911625&viewfull=1#post6911625"]#32[/URL] [/LIST] Chapter 4: The Chosen Path [LIST] [*]Harshnag: [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6898584&viewfull=1#post6898584"]#25[/URL] [/LIST] Chapter 5: Den of the Hill Giants Chapter 6: Canyon of the Stone Giants Chapter 7: Berg of the Frost Giants Chapter 8: Forge of the Fire Giants [LIST] [*]Fire giant stats: [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6971055&viewfull=1#post6971055"]#83[/URL] [/LIST] Chapter 9: Castle of the Cloud Giants Chapter 10: Hold of the Storm Giants [LIST] [*]Risk level: [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6898584&viewfull=1#post6898584"]#25[/URL] [*]Sneaking: [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6967593&viewfull=1#post6967593"]#77[/URL] [/LIST] Chapter 11: Caught in the Tentacles Chapter 12: Doom of the Desert [LIST] [*]Extending the adventure: [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6898428&viewfull=1#post6898428"]#24[/URL] [/LIST] Indexed up to: [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488544-Enhancing-quot-Storm-King-s-Thunder-quot&p=6971055&viewfull=1#post6971055"]#83[/URL] I think this thread was a victim of the purge. In any case I still want to talk about the module and improve it as I'm going to run it after Curse of Strahd I think. I really dig it, but you gotta make it your own. Let's do it! SKT hasn't been getting much love so far. I think people must be pretty full up with adventures at the moment. Anyways, the first place to go for a guide to improving the module is of course [URL]http://thecampaign20xx.blogspot.com/2016/09/dungeons-dragons-how-to-run-storm-kings.html[/URL] That blog is amazing. I am also blogging about by sessions here: [URL]http://neradia.blogspot.com/[/URL] I agree that putting some thought into a lot of foreshadowing is key to really making the module pop. Have giants say "The King is Dead!" a lot. Bring in Felgolos early, so players care about him later. Make less different dragons in general (maybe make the silver one in chapter one the same as the captured one later on). Bring in Old Snarl and the Dragon Cult's ship early on, have a seeming innocuous encounter with a fishy viking from the "Purple Rocks" etc. I'm going to supply my players with a poster map. The 3rd edition one I think. So they can add to it. You will want to get clear on your travel times. I did some internet research. To Waterdeep: (time at 20/day by foot or 48/day sailing) Anauroch (via the Black Road) 660 miles, 33 days Athkatla 950 miles, 47 days Baldur's Gate 550 miles, 27 days Caer Calidyrr, Moonshae Isles 750 miles (travel by water only), 15 days Candlekeep 720 miles, 36 days Daggerford 120 miles, 6 days Evereska 750 miles (via the path past Llorkh, between the Greycloak Hills and Forgotten Forest), 33 days Everlund 450 miles, 22 days Iriaebor 870 miles, 43 days Longsaddle 300 miles, 15 days Loudwater 390 miles, 18 days Luskan 440 miles, 22 days Mirabar 650 miles, 32 days Neverwinter 300 miles, 15 days Red Larch 100 miles, 5 days Scornubel 550 miles, 27 days Secomber 260 miles, 23 days Silverymoon 500 miles, 25 days Westgate 1,370 miles, 69 days Yartar 210 miles, 11 days [/QUOTE]
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