D&D General Good Golden Vault Adventures?

[Zardnaar]

So bought KftGV last Thursday. Can anyone recommend good adventures you have actually run?

 

[jdrakeh]

I've played through The Stygian Gambit and had a lot of fun.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I've run a couple of them. It should be noted that this doesn't really do anything to address D&D stealth-mission problem (especially for a typical combat focused party), and in the first one (Mirkmire) the alarm was raised and most of the party were arrested, although one did escape with the McGuffin. You need to be prepped for "fail state" on these adventures. It's also worth noting that the the Victorian-style museum isn't a good fit for some D&D settings. There are no suggested settings in this book.

I also ran Reach for the Stars, which works much more like a conventional dungeon bash. Although if the party pay attention to the map they receive early on they can go straight for the boss, making it a short adventure. My players approached it video game style and cleared the entire house before going down to face the boss! Note that some of the ceiling heights don't make sense on this map (work out how steep the stairs are).

That's all I've done so far, but I have Heart of Ashes and Concordant Express coming up.

 

[Zardnaar]

I've run a couple of them. It should be noted that this doesn't really do anything to address D&D stealth-mission problem (especially for a typical combat focused party), and in the first one (Mirkmire) the alarm was raised and most of the party were arrested, although one did escape with the McGuffin. You need to be prepped for "fail state" on these adventures. It's also worth noting that the the Victorian-style museum isn't a good fit for some D&D settings. There are no suggested settings in this book.

I also ran Reach for the Stars, which works much more like a conventional dungeon bash. Although if the party pay attention to the map they receive early on they can go straight for the boss, making it a short adventure. My players approached it video game style and cleared the entire house before going down to face the boss!

That's all I've done so far, but I have Heart of Ashes and Concordant Express coming up.

Concordance express caught by eye for a Eberron game.

Distracted atm so haven't read it to much.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Concordance express caught by eye for a Eberron game.

Distracted atm so haven't read it to much.

It uses a lot of modrons and other planars, which I felt meant a lot of changes to adapt it to Eberron (which I considered). It's very Planescape.

 

[Zardnaar]

It uses a lot of modrons and other planars, which I felt meant a lot of changes to adapt it to Eberron (which I considered). It's very Planescape.

I'll have to have a closer read. Generally I can adapt on the fly with adventures from 1E/& B/X through to OSR, 5E and Pathfinder

 

[pukunui]

I’ve run the first 7 adventures so far, all adapted to Eberron. Not all of them fit the “heist” brief, but they’ve all been fun to run, and my players have all enjoyed playing them.

Here’s my thread: D&D 5E - Keys from the Golden Vault play reports

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I'll have to have a closer read. Generally I can adapt on the fly with adventures from 1E/& B/X through to OSR, 5E and Pathfinder

It's easy enough to adapt a generic fantasy adventure to a different ruleset if they are tonally similar. But Concordant Express is jokey and OTT (see: Time Bandits). So, you could easily replace modrons with human staff, but their lawful stupidity wouldn't be funny in the same way.

 

[pukunui]

It's easy enough to adapt a generic fantasy adventure to a different ruleset if they are tonally similar. But Concordant Express is jokey and OTT (see: Time Bandits). So, you could easily replace modrons with human staff, but their lawful stupidity wouldn't be funny in the same way.

Why would you need to replace the modrons for an Eberron game? Modrons still exist in the setting. (They’re native to the plane of Daanvi.)

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Why would you need to replace the modrons for an Eberron game? Modrons still exist in the setting. (They’re native to the plane of Daanvi.)

They don't run the lightning rail though. And a train between Eberron's Moons/Planes doesn't seem like a good fit lorewise or tonally.

And each carriage on the Concordant Express is a kind of planar vignette. No problem mechanically, but you lose a lot of the sense of it without Planescape lore.