How many adventures left in Shackled City
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I think most of the Shackled City modules (to date) could be run independently of each other with only minor work by the DM. Of course, I think almost any adventure takes at least some effort to fit into an existing campaign, and these will be no different.
Keep up the good work, Erik! My wife and I are co-DMing a new Eberron campaign, and we plan to keep mining the pages of Dungeon...
Keep up the good work, Erik! My wife and I are co-DMing a new Eberron campaign, and we plan to keep mining the pages of Dungeon...
Beretta said:
These will be longer than Side Treks. Essentially, there will be about 35,000-45,000 words worth of adventures every issue.
I'd say that's true of 90% of our readers. Understanding this fact, I believe, is essentially to understanding how to create a better Dungeon magazine.
I'm currently thinking that the second Adventure Path will be more of a traditional D&D quest, with the PCs engaging in some overland travel and visiting several deadly sites. One adventure might be a dungeon crawl, with a clue that leads to a shop in a distant city. One whole adventure might involve the trip from the dungeon to the city, with a couple of roleplay-intensive city adventures coming next, with another wilderness/overland adventure thereafter.
Almost every campaign involves trips from place to place, so I'd like to think that an adventure that occurs wholly "on the trail" is portable to nearly every campaign.
--Erik Mona
Editor-in-Chief
Dungeon Magazine
tmaaas said:
Then you'll want to pick up issue #111, which profiles the Lord of Blades, a major Eberron villain. Issue #113 features our first Eberron adventure, by Origins-Award-Winning designer James Wyatt (City of the Spider Queen). Issues #115 and #116 will contain Eberron adventures by Keith Baker. After that, who knows?
Oh, did I forget to mention that issue #113 will have a POSTER MAP OF EBERRON? It's the only place to get one, as the Eberron hardcover will _not_ feature a poster map.
Nothing but love for the Eberron fans.
--Erik Mona
Editor-in-Chief
Dungeon Magazine
johnsemlak
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MerricB said:
Any comments on how that one went?
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johnsemlak said:
It was great fun. I was running it in 3E; converting some of it on the fly.
I'm glad I ran it 20 years on, actually - it requires an experienced DM, and I was able to manipulate the storyline better in that way.
Highlights of the series: (inviso-text ON!)
* I used the series as part of my ongoing Greyhawk/Fhoi Myore campaign. Just after encountering the Priests of Chaos (in Keep of the Borderlands), they found themselves outnumbered. They ran down a tunnel and found themselves at a Rainbow Portal; one of the PCs smashed the gems embedded in the portal and they ended up in the Desert of Desolation
Pharoah:
* The PCs completing the pyramid in record time - they found every secret way to get up faster!
* The leader of the PCs put on a ring of contrariness - he played it wonderfully, through the entire series and beyond!
* The PCs returning to the pyramid to get treasure, and being creamed by the monsters. (They ran away then).
* They met a group of natives talking about a "buried city in the sand", in that way I was able to get them to Pazar to release the Efreeti.
* In the Oasis, they got embroiled in the intrigues.
* One of the PCs got turned into a monkey. He invented a monkey dance and kept us entertained for several sessions before a remove curse spell was found.
* Lost Tomb of Martek was the most disappointing of the three. Too much of it relies on interaction with the three NPCs - the Abyss area is particularly dull.
* I love the time-trapped tower, though. They did very well to figure out the way out of there without help from me at all!
* One player, seeing a wall of lightning moving towards his PC, just stood still and said "It's an illusion!" whilst his friends ran away. Guess what? It was real. He failed his save... and died.
* They eventually succeeded and returned home.
Pharoah:
* The PCs completing the pyramid in record time - they found every secret way to get up faster!
* The leader of the PCs put on a ring of contrariness - he played it wonderfully, through the entire series and beyond!
* The PCs returning to the pyramid to get treasure, and being creamed by the monsters. (They ran away then).
* They met a group of natives talking about a "buried city in the sand", in that way I was able to get them to Pazar to release the Efreeti.
* In the Oasis, they got embroiled in the intrigues.
* One of the PCs got turned into a monkey. He invented a monkey dance and kept us entertained for several sessions before a remove curse spell was found.
* Lost Tomb of Martek was the most disappointing of the three. Too much of it relies on interaction with the three NPCs - the Abyss area is particularly dull.
* I love the time-trapped tower, though. They did very well to figure out the way out of there without help from me at all!
* One player, seeing a wall of lightning moving towards his PC, just stood still and said "It's an illusion!" whilst his friends ran away. Guess what? It was real. He failed his save... and died.
* They eventually succeeded and returned home.
Cheers!
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