I fully agree. Taking heavy inspiration from the Alexandrian Remix and adding plenty of my stuff, I'm enjoying it greatly (and apparently so do the players). So, as a campaign framework, I'm loving it, but I would never run it as presented in the book.
I seem to recall the books werent all that great either. Wasnt it the one with the fiend/elemental/god/whatever of mud in the Moonsheas?
This is a great product. There is another I'd post, but it's mine....so no.
Nah, the one with the blue tattoos and the bizarrely different groups. It reads and plays, like it was a badly designed party and the DM was winging it session by session depending on what was in that months dungeon magazine.
Oh god, I just reread the synopsis, what a hot mess!Nah, the one with the blue tattoos and the bizarrely different groups. It reads and plays, like it was a badly designed party and the DM was winging it session by session depending on what was in that months dungeon magazine.
I've read that it takes a good GM to run it. I'm currently in it as a player (psi warrior, an old scholar who knows his way with a sword) and I have to agree on the weakness of the hook. The thing that made us accept is that we had all been reunited from all over northern faerun - we had ties to a village destroyed by giants a while back - so we decided that it seemed to be Fate.
In fact last session was stellar.
Shadows of the last war was dope
I bought it and was disappointed. It was great to see all my favorite characters with 5e stat blocks, but the villains' motivations seemed forced and hokey. Faldorn as an eco-terrorist was great, but Edwin, Monty & Xzar all fell flat. However, I did use Viconia as a hook to get the party the party to go to the underdark where I'm running a heavily edited OotA.
The principles were good, but it was just so sparse. The thought of exploring an ancient giant weapon complex is amazing but the end result, the maps, the artwork, the page count was like something I’d find in Dungeon Magazine. Even this was ranked one of the ten best adventures in D&D 3e.
We played the 1st half. The party chose not to pursue the second half at the time, other tasks being more urgent. Although it now features in one of the character's backstory.
I ran HotDQ straight from the book, with improv based on player actions, no major work. It went well.
I don't know, I've run it multiple times, as is and the players always loved it. I love whitehearth with all my heart. that dungeon is so cool!
Nerver heard of this Adventure, gonna check it out!
I like that even though the adventure is very sandboxy, there are subtle ways the book puts the players on a path. There are specific guides that are viable from the start, and those will direct the party in directions that will give them clues on how to advance the story. So the players will feel like they are making all the choices, but the book is lightly guiding them through....
While HotDQ isn't my cup of tea as an adventure, I do agree that you can run it as written.
