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<blockquote data-quote="Tales and Chronicles" data-source="post: 7628741" data-attributes="member: 6871653"><p>The first chapters of HotDQ are incredibly lethal. The numbers of enemies encountered versus the staying power of a 1st level group is ridicule. It requires a lot of Dm work to work adequately, and even then, most of the chapters arent that interesting. The whole caravan trip is really a motivation killer; sooner of later a party member will ask the fatal question: ''why are we even doing this?'' </p><p></p><p>I replaced the first chapters of HotQD with Sunless Citadel, with the party as resident of Oakhurst looking for their friends, and have the party find the red dragon mask in a discarded pile of junk. What a surprise when the cult of dragon shows up just as the party exit the citadel to ask to hand them over the mask! They were taken as slave, separated from their friends from Oakhurst, along a huge (in cinematic) trip until they reached the hatchery not far from the Castle Nerytar. They entered the hatchery, found the password to enter the castle (I used the Forge of Fury instead of the regular castle), then fought their way to the bottom of the castle, found a portal that would take them to the Floating Castle.</p><p></p><p>This way, the party would fight some dragons (there's just one dragon fight in HotDQ) and have a better motivation to pursue the cult.</p><p></p><p>Alternatively, all first chapters of HotDQ could be replaced with a refluff for lower levels of Red Hand of Doom, but it will require more work since its a 3ed module.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tales and Chronicles, post: 7628741, member: 6871653"] The first chapters of HotDQ are incredibly lethal. The numbers of enemies encountered versus the staying power of a 1st level group is ridicule. It requires a lot of Dm work to work adequately, and even then, most of the chapters arent that interesting. The whole caravan trip is really a motivation killer; sooner of later a party member will ask the fatal question: ''why are we even doing this?'' I replaced the first chapters of HotQD with Sunless Citadel, with the party as resident of Oakhurst looking for their friends, and have the party find the red dragon mask in a discarded pile of junk. What a surprise when the cult of dragon shows up just as the party exit the citadel to ask to hand them over the mask! They were taken as slave, separated from their friends from Oakhurst, along a huge (in cinematic) trip until they reached the hatchery not far from the Castle Nerytar. They entered the hatchery, found the password to enter the castle (I used the Forge of Fury instead of the regular castle), then fought their way to the bottom of the castle, found a portal that would take them to the Floating Castle. This way, the party would fight some dragons (there's just one dragon fight in HotDQ) and have a better motivation to pursue the cult. Alternatively, all first chapters of HotDQ could be replaced with a refluff for lower levels of Red Hand of Doom, but it will require more work since its a 3ed module. [/QUOTE]
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