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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davelozzi" data-source="post: 7339599" data-attributes="member: 771">Hey all, I haven't posted in this thread in several months because I was doing the Lost Mine of Phandelver lead into Storm King's Thunder that was discussed earlier in the thread and was focused on that.  I did use some of the tie in ideas discussed earlier in this thread between the lost mine and the fire giant/drow plot, and in my game Nezznar the Black Spider is the thirdson of the drow House Xorlarrin.  Anyhow, the party just finally tracked him down and killed him last session and just have a little bit of mopping up to do with the Forge of Spells before they are done with {i]LMoP[/i] so now I need to start leading them into the giant plot.  They found a letter from Nezznar to his matron mother explaining that the Forge of Spells doesn't look like it is going to fit the bill for Duke Zalto's purposes and that they should focus on his brother's mission to find the elemental powering the forge in Gauntlgrym.  Only my game is pre-Spellplague and pre-the rediscovery of Gauntlgrym, so at this point my players' plans for tomorrow's session is to wrap things up in Phandelver than head to Neverwinter and research both Gauntlgrum and Duke Zalto.So things are going pretty good so far.  I have very little time to prep tomorrow's session but I am cool with winging it for the most part, however I was thinking of having some sort of giant encounter on the road to Neverwinter to set the stage for what's happening in the North at large.  I might do hill giants since they are the lowest ranking/CR giants (my guys are only 4th level) but am debating other options (especially since I see the hill giant thing being mostly focused on the Dessarin Valley and they're pretty far from Graud Haug.  I could have sworn that there was an encounter written up somewhere with a single frost giant (or maybe two) on the High Road returning to his ship on the coast with a bag of ill gotten gains, but I can't seem to find it anywhere.  Does that ring a bell with anyone?Anyhow, any comments about any of this are welcome, or thoughts on if I'm heading for a TPK if I break out a frostie, but the main thing I am looking tonight is a point to where the above mention encounter may be written up, if I didn't imagine it.  I looked through Storm King's Thunder fairly thoroughly and couldn't find it but I also downloaded A Guide to Storm King's Thunder and some other stuff a while back and wondered if it might have been something from one of those sources?  Thanks in advance for any help!</blockquote>

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