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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarrenGMiller" data-source="post: 2384743" data-attributes="member: 23174">I have run Ravenloft/Ravenloft II simultaneously, like Thanee, but recently I combined several adventures to great effect.  I had to heavily alter parts of them, of course.When I began my campaign, the party started in Homlett and found out that bandits were operating from two different bases.  One was the moathouse (the original Temple of Elemental Evil version) and the other was a small keep (taken from Necromancer Games' Crucible of Freya).  They took care of these two and made contact with the adventurers in Homlett, who went off to destroy the temple.  Meanwhile, the party followed leads they found on the villains from the moathouse and keep and went to the nearby Lortmil Mountains to attack a suspected temple of Orcus (Stoneheart Mountain dungeon from Tomb of Abysthor).  Leaving there in need of a resurrection (without having explored the entire complex and vowing to return in the future), the party travelled to Verbobonc City.  There, they investigated two kidnappings, one of a young Elven maiden by Bugbears (Vanity from a Dungeon magazine) and the other a merchant's daughter (another Dungeon adventure).  Hearing from some halfling contacts in the vicinity of Homlett (at the keep from Crucible of Freya, where the party established a halfling village and set up a former PC as mayor) that a dragon was spotted in the vicinity, they returned to the area and tracked the dragon down to the moathouse they had cleared out months ago.  This time, they entered the moathouse again (the Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil version now, though the dragon was green).  They are now (after clearing the moathouse for the second time) 8th or 9th level.So, as the campaign progresses, they will have pieces of Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil and Tomb of Abysthor active as well.  I am not going to use the Crater Ridge Mines from RttToEE, but am using a string of Dungeon magazine adventures, Necromancer Games products and some Monte Cook adventures.  Soon, the party will be headed to Sterich for another set of interconnected adventures.So, it can work.  Just be careful to keep the details clear.  I used printed handouts of letters and a diary found on the villains to keep the party going.DM</blockquote>

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