zingbobco000
Explorer
Finally, an observation:
There seems to be a distinct lack of items suitable for heavy tanks, am I right? (No magical plate mail or greataxes, for example)?
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Since I have five players, not four, this isn't a huge problem. One of the reasons I wanted this shakedown is to see where to put in that extra item.
That is, to follow the same distribution the OotA authors have chosen but with a fifth player, add two items each from Table F and Table G. (Again, not worrying about consumables)
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No problem and yeah I based it off of four people not five so the data could be a little weird for your group.
Stripping away consumables, you're saying the module adds roughly double the number of permanent items appropriate for mid-level characters than suggested by the DMG?
Thanks!
Yes, yes I am.
So... to summarize the info I wanted:
Tentacle Rod
Wand of Viscid Globs
+1 Dagger
Sun Blade, sentient
Boots of Speed
+2 Studded Leather
+2 Shortsword
+1 Shortsword
Stone of Controlling Earth Elementals
+1 Warhammer
Heward's Handy Haversack
Flame Tongue
+2 Longsword
+1 Dagger
Ring of Protection
Ring of Free Action
Gem of Brightness
Gem of Seeing
Necklace of Adaptation
Robe of Eyes
Twenty items (excluding any consumable or need-to-kill-ally or crazy OP monster), enough for five items each, given the four-man party.
My take away is that there are plenty of "plain" magic weapons (unless you stripped away information on special abilities). This is something I will embellish, I think.
One question: the Monster Manual writes about drow items as optional gear. Is this specified by Abyss? That is, has the adventure author made the choice for us which, if any, drow that carries magic gear of the kind mentioned in the MM? (I am aware OotA repeats the rules on drow items. But I will assume any such gear to be noted specifically. That is, all the +1 and +2 weapons in your listing are the kind that survives sunlight, right?)
No, sorry, I did not use the drowcraft items because every single generic magic weapon/armor is drowcraft. I'll make a note of that.