PC's Just Turned Paragon - Need New Adventures

[Infiniti2000]

The PC's in my campaign just turned paragon tier and defeated the BBEG of the heroic tier, accomplishing several major goals. We rotate DMs and therefore I have quite a bit of time in order to prepare the path through paragon tier. Currently, I have a homebrew world, but it's pretty much stock 4E rules and monsters. I'm looking for recommendations on what to do next. While I have still several potential plot hooks open, I can work anything in. The game is somewhat sandbox, but my group doesn't particularly like that style, so I'm actually more interested in a longer, but very focused goal (similar style to Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil). This is an in-person game around the table, so the material needs to be printable. Price is no obstacle. I'm a DDI subscriber and I've been scrubbing the Dungeon articles, but nothing really has caught my fancy yet. I might be willing to do a major 4E conversion if there's a really good suggestion (e.g., Banewarrens).

pre-thanks!
-- I2K

 

[RangerWickett]

As an EN World subscriber, you should get access to War of the Burning Sky. I can't keep track of which posters have and haven't played it yet, but I think you should give it a look if you haven't.

 

[Psikus]

Having just finished King of the Trollhaunt Warrens, I can say that it is a pretty good module, with interesting and varied locations, and some degree of freedom (though it still is, at its core, a dungeon crawl). It also succeeds in conveying the idea that the PCs are doing more important stuff than in heroic levels - Trolls are pretty rough monsters, and you do get to defend a town [sblock] including a really cool series of siege encounters [/sblock]

There's a catch, though: it's an old adventure with pre-MM3 monsters, so you'll want to do some heavy conversion work in order to pose a serious challenge to a paragon party. This includes all monster damage values, as well as some redesign for brutes and soldiers, and specially solos and minions. As much as this sucks, I wasn't able to find an adventure at these levels that actually featured more modern monsters, so I settled with this one, and decided to do the hard work myself. I've been compiling these updated stat blocks in an article series for my blog, but it's still a work in progress.

 

[Infiniti2000]

I've been compiling these updated stat blocks in an article series for my blog, but it's still a work in progress.

Excellent work! If I go this route, I'd be happy to help with the conversion. I can start from the end.

 

[Infiniti2000]

As an EN World subscriber, you should get access to War of the Burning Sky. I can't keep track of which posters have and haven't played it yet, but I think you should give it a look if you haven't.

As I noted, this is an in-person game, so a browser-based game won't work. Based on this thread, that's what WotBS is, so that's not really an option.

 

[Riastlin]

As I noted, this is an in-person game, so a browser-based game won't work. Based on this thread, that's what WotBS is, so that's not really an option.

Pretty sure you can print the modules for WotBS -- though others can verify this.

Anyhoo, some other ideas: I actually rather like Revenge of the Giants (though others have different opinions). Like Trollhaunt you would need to convert the monsters though since they are pre-MM3. I personally thought they had some nice encounters in there though and its a pretty decent mix of sandbox and goal oriented.

Also take a look at the Scales of War paragon adventures. The heroic tier of SOW is a bit of a mess in places but the path really takes off (imho) in paragon tier and it can easily be modified to give a nice, cohesive story. Again though, some mods would need to be made for damage and the like though. On a side note, one of the mods (and one of the best) was written by [MENTION=2]Piratecat[/MENTION]!

 

[Infiniti2000]

Pretty sure you can print the modules for WotBS -- though others can verify this.

If that's true, then the marketing for it is terrible. Looking at the main website, all I see are references to on-line, logging in, and the like. I tried to get the press release and got a 404. There's no useful information on the website, so I'm really turned off by it.

 

[Riastlin]

If that's true, then the marketing for it is terrible. Looking at the main website, all I see are references to on-line, logging in, and the like. I tried to get the press release and got a 404. There's no useful information on the website, so I'm really turned off by it.

I think that's the site for the computer game based on the Adventure Path by EnWorld. You can get the adventure path from EnWorld on this site. (I'm not a subscriber yet, so not sure of the exact link).

Edit to add: I think you can get to the WotBS path from here: http://www.enworld.org/ap/wotbs.html

 

[RangerWickett]

Ha. This is an amusing misunderstanding.

E.N. Publishing released War of the Burning Sky as a series of 12 adventures for 3.5 edition D&D from 2007 to 2008, then did a conversion from 2009 to earlier this year. Some time in the interim, a company got the license to use the storyline and setting for a browser-based game which E.N. Publishing is pretty uninvolved with.

I suppose this means Russ and I aren't doing good enough of a job clarifying what the differences are. I think we assumed all the EN World folks already knew by now about the adventures that are available to subscribers.

 

[Infiniti2000]

I suppose this means Russ and I aren't doing good enough of a job clarifying what the differences are. I think we assumed all the EN World folks already knew by now about the adventures that are available to subscribers.

Well, until about now I was not interested in any other modules or adventure paths, and I'm still not interested in other campaign worlds. I plan on keeping mine and shoehorning in a decent level 11+ external work. So, because my interest changed, I'm now looking at it as a newbie, as it were, and thus am unfamiliar with the content. Certainly, the website using the name of the path doesn't help. I'd recommend asking them to at least put an info page with a link to the non-online game work.

I've done some researching and Trollhaunt Warrens currently wins out over Revenge of the Giants. I'll spend some time to look at the WotBS appropriate-level stuff. I hope it's not too dependent on the setting (a lot of Forgotten Realms stuff would be, for instance).