D&D 5E Looking for an article: HotDQ Regrets chapters 4-5

[jayoungr]

I've been listening to the Tome Show lately, and in the November-December episode of the sub-series "Behind the DM Screen," one of the hosts mentioned finding a web article that helped him out when he was preparing to run Hoard of the Dragon Queen:

There's a good website that a guy wrote where he wrote a bunch of stuff that he wished he had done for chapter 4 and 5, and one of the things that he mentioned was actually having the PCs visit the Yawning Portal, where the Undermountain entrance is. I thought that might be fun, and that might end up being six more weeks before they actually reach the next chapter, so I kind of passed on that idea.

There was no link to the post in the show notes, and I haven't been able to find it with Google-Fu, so I thought I'd see if anyone here knows where I can find the article. I'd really like to read it as I look ahead to running those parts of HotDQ for my own group. So does anyone have a link?

 

[pukunui]

Is this it? http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.co.nz/2014/09/on-hoard-of-dragon-queen-episode-i.html

 

[jayoungr]

Is this it? http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.co.nz/2014/09/on-hoard-of-dragon-queen-episode-i.html

It's possible, but I don't think so. I don't see any mention of Undermountain or the Yawning Portal in the writeups for chapters 4 and 5--in fact, there's very little about Waterdeep at all. Great series, though!

I suppose I could always just e-mail Mike Shea and ask for a link....

 

[pukunui]

I suppose I could always just e-mail Mike Shea and ask for a link....

If you do, post the link here. I'd be interested in taking a look.

 

[jayoungr]

I finally got around to e-mailing Mike Shea, and he kindly sent me the links. I'm posting them here for anyone who may be interested:

Chapter 4: http://thecampaign20xx.blogspot.com/2014/10/hoard-of-dragon-queen-on-road.html
Chapter 5: http://thecampaign20xx.blogspot.com/2014/10/hoard-of-dragon-queen-carnath-roadhouse.html