Excerpt: Fallcrest

[small pumpkin man]

I find it interesting that they gave a shopkeeper a full statblock. I guess it would make sense if the PCs were on an escort/caravan bodyguard mission given the nature of Orest's business, but it just seems a bit of overkill.

Uhm, he's a magic item trader. I realize your games (and mine) may be different, but killing magic item sellers for thier stuff is apparently feared by GMs everywhere.

 

[LostSoul]

Once again the Nentir Vale is a thinly settled borderland where few folk live. This is a place in need of a few heroes.

Awesome.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I wouldn't be surprised if all key NPCs of the town get a full-writeup. So you can easily plug them into your game.

 

[Terwox]

Excerpt was a bit lacking... I don't have a good idea of what kind of detail they went into, especially with the plot ideas.

The only one mentioned was "Orest can ask the PCs to run guard duty for a magic item shipment." Not very interesting on its own, but, it is a seed.

I'm hoping we see some more elegant and interesting adventure seeds in the actual book. If not, we can all do it on our own, but it would be nice to have a common idea base. The d100 table in the 3.x DMG was not awful... not fantastic, but it was alright.

 

[cthulhus_pinky]

I think that creating an interesting and realistic town is one of the toughest things to do as a dm, so this kind of write up in the DMG is a God send. I may not use it verbatim, but I will use it as a template to flesh out all of my towns.

(BTW - really looking forward to rituals, like many others here.)

 

[Saitou]

Excerpt was a bit lacking... I don't have a good idea of what kind of detail they went into, especially with the plot ideas.

The only one mentioned was "Orest can ask the PCs to run guard duty for a magic item shipment." Not very interesting on its own, but, it is a seed.

I'm hoping we see some more elegant and interesting adventure seeds in the actual book. If not, we can all do it on our own, but it would be nice to have a common idea base. The d100 table in the 3.x DMG was not awful... not fantastic, but it was alright.

You incorrectly assume the excerpt is the full write-up. It is not. It is an excerpt.

I'm quite liking what I read. Especially the backstory on the town itself, dating back four hundred years.

 

[ZetaStriker]

Then again, that is just one shop out of an entire town and valley they're claiming to have info on.

And we've known about PC-class Templates for NPCs for a long time. I seriously doubt this guy was built using PC creation rules, he's just using the Rogue Template.

 

[Kitirat]

Bingo. I think it's been said that if you WANT to, you CAN.

As an unrelated note, it looks like Infernal Wrath is +1 to hit, +Charisma to damage.

Or +1 to hit, +1/2 your level to damage (like the fire resistance).

 

[Rechan]

The plot hooks and such should be organized into a table or a subheader o rsomething.

 

[ZetaStriker]

Or +1 to hit, +1/2 your level to damage (like the fire resistance).

But you don't get a 1/2 level bonus at level 1, so that would have made the pre-gen's damage boost a +0. It has to be Cha.