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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3769340" data-attributes="member: 20741">I ran Age of Worms until the end of Spire of Long Shadows. I created a fairly lengthy lead in adventure module to Spire of Long Shadows, using parts of the Spell Weaver lab and puzzle detailed in Shackled City so that the party could gain enough XP to survive SPOLS.  So it was about 8 modules in total that I ran to form my AOW campaignAt the end of SPOLS, I ended the campaign for reasons detailed elsewhere in my recent rant against the video gamey nature of RAW 3.5.I would agree that SPOLS required "9:05 resting" to complete it - and a lot of it - which my players dutifully used to their best advantage by casting Rope Trick about a dozen times during the adventure. More or less until I was sick of it.Combined with some raising of the dead within the party and the death of the Spell Weaver lich at the end of SPOLS, I thought it best to end it there. They just wiped out a 17th level Spell Weaver lich for god's sake. Is there really a lot more to do after that?I was facing 18 months or so to finish off the campaign in what was quickly deteriorating into a tabletop wargame.  Which is not to say that the AoW is defective; simply that high level play in D&D 3.5 can easily devolve into that sort of game without determined effort by the DM to avoid it - and my determination to avoid it was commensurate with my enthusiasm for high level play - which is to say, not much determination at all by the end of SPOLS.For all that, there were some memorable adventures in the campaign. I loved Whispering Cairn and the Champion's Belt. HoHR ended up being far more of a meat grinder than it appeared to be and two PCs fell to the Invisible Stalker encounter (far more deadly than it appears to be). It was a lot of fun up to the end of Champion's Belt.  It's at that point that the Superheroes without Capes nature of RAW 3.5 took over and my enthusiasm waned considerably.I will come back to an AP again in the future, but I think given that I run on average only about once ever 3 weeks, a full campaign to 20th level is out of the question for me in the future. A 1st to 12th level campaign, otoh, would be just fine.</blockquote>

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