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Retrofitting SKT for a monstrous party (or, how Volo's guide ruined my campaign idea)
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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7030921" data-attributes="member: 45197"><p>Hiya.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Actually, I think where the wheels fell off was with the sentence: <em>"I opened the game to any of the main books out so far..."</em></p><p></p><p>Y'see, you want to play through a pre-defined story via an AP. That's what they are, lets face it, a pre-written story outline that the players get to fill in some blanks...but the story is already done. Not my cup 'o joe (and definitely not my players), but they can be used as "adventure filler" for the more standard open-ended type campaigns.</p><p></p><p>What I would do is go for your Option #2. As [MENTION=6788312]Greenstone.Walker[/MENTION] said...choices have consequences. If you don't have the world react accordingly, then you may as well just say "everyones human, but you can pick a racial background and get all that stuff...but you're human". But if you do that, then every other monster out there is also, effectively, reduced to "just humans in funny suits" (as is the saying, I believe).</p><p></p><p>So, yeah, Option 2. If/when the players get annoyed that they are fighting on two fronts (giants on one, civilized folk on the other), you'd probably get a lot of requests to 'change' PC's. Unless your players are into that kind of masochism...</p><p></p><p>Anyway, you could take Option 2 and then just use the 'mechanical innerds' of the AP to build your own adventure(s)...it wouldn't be SKT anymore, but it has the potential to be <em>much</em> more rewarding and memorable! (<em>hey, remember that time when we played almost all goblinoid bad guys and had to fight a bunch of giants who wanted to turn all our tribes into slaves to fight the humans?...man...that was fun!...good times...good times...</em>). IMHO it would sure beat out <em>"Hey, remember the time we played goblinoids and everyone was against us? The giants and the humans? Man...we got the stinky end of the stick constantly on that....lets not do that again, kay?"</em></p><p></p><p>^_^</p><p></p><p>Paul L. Ming</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pming, post: 7030921, member: 45197"] Hiya. Actually, I think where the wheels fell off was with the sentence: [I]"I opened the game to any of the main books out so far..."[/I] Y'see, you want to play through a pre-defined story via an AP. That's what they are, lets face it, a pre-written story outline that the players get to fill in some blanks...but the story is already done. Not my cup 'o joe (and definitely not my players), but they can be used as "adventure filler" for the more standard open-ended type campaigns. What I would do is go for your Option #2. As [MENTION=6788312]Greenstone.Walker[/MENTION] said...choices have consequences. If you don't have the world react accordingly, then you may as well just say "everyones human, but you can pick a racial background and get all that stuff...but you're human". But if you do that, then every other monster out there is also, effectively, reduced to "just humans in funny suits" (as is the saying, I believe). So, yeah, Option 2. If/when the players get annoyed that they are fighting on two fronts (giants on one, civilized folk on the other), you'd probably get a lot of requests to 'change' PC's. Unless your players are into that kind of masochism... Anyway, you could take Option 2 and then just use the 'mechanical innerds' of the AP to build your own adventure(s)...it wouldn't be SKT anymore, but it has the potential to be [I]much[/I] more rewarding and memorable! ([I]hey, remember that time when we played almost all goblinoid bad guys and had to fight a bunch of giants who wanted to turn all our tribes into slaves to fight the humans?...man...that was fun!...good times...good times...[/I]). IMHO it would sure beat out [I]"Hey, remember the time we played goblinoids and everyone was against us? The giants and the humans? Man...we got the stinky end of the stick constantly on that....lets not do that again, kay?"[/I] ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]
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