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<blockquote data-quote="BenTheFerg" data-source="post: 8607317" data-attributes="member: 96891"><p>Loads of great comments. </p><p></p><p>To echo these, and others, RotFM has tons of great material, which, with effort, can be weaved into a great campaign. </p><p></p><p>I don't understand why WotC don't employ Justin Alexander (of The Alexandrian) to help edit/ oversee their campaigns to make sure</p><p>1. They make sense</p><p>2. They are internally logical </p><p>3. They give players logical, meaningful choices/ agency</p><p>4. The choices are awesome where possible etc.</p><p></p><p>Between his ideas, those of Eventyr games (DMs Guild), & others, plus my own ideas, I managed to bash a coherent structure onto Rime. </p><p></p><p>Disregarding Canon helped, since none of my lot care about the FR. Thus I made Auril into a corrupted nature goddess, who had been driven insane by the corrupting Chardylin in her flesh (the land of Icewind Dale), esp the spike of Chardylin in her in the form of Ythryn. Thus if Ythryn is either destroyed/ lifted out of the ice, she can be restored. I have given hints about this to the players (they have all seen Princess Mononoke....)</p><p></p><p>Secondly, I made an effort to tie them all into the setting & story. One's a goliath from one of the 2 warring factions. Another a Reghed barbarian. Another an ex-Scarlet Brotherhood wizard, who knows of their plans & has stolen them (which they then decipher as they progress, circumnavigating the need for an NPC Necromancer to lead them, which sucks).</p><p></p><p>Thirdly, I made sure pc choices were real & had an impact. </p><p></p><p>The party are in the hunger caves & having a blast! The RuneKnight goliath has just picked up the frost giants spear & is growing, which fits his concept perfectly! (Have made that temporary since its powerful!)</p><p></p><p>Why can't WotC write fab campaigns? </p><p>To be fair, Paizo, whilst creating better ones & more content, also have this problem: campaigns made by committee, where different bits are farmed out to different creative, and its all a bit disjointed. </p><p></p><p>Great news is that via forums, YouTube, DMs Guild, etc there is a fantastic 'participatory culture' to help busy GMs bring these campaigns to life. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😃" title="Grinning face with big eyes :smiley:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f603.png" data-shortname=":smiley:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BenTheFerg, post: 8607317, member: 96891"] Loads of great comments. To echo these, and others, RotFM has tons of great material, which, with effort, can be weaved into a great campaign. I don't understand why WotC don't employ Justin Alexander (of The Alexandrian) to help edit/ oversee their campaigns to make sure 1. They make sense 2. They are internally logical 3. They give players logical, meaningful choices/ agency 4. The choices are awesome where possible etc. Between his ideas, those of Eventyr games (DMs Guild), & others, plus my own ideas, I managed to bash a coherent structure onto Rime. Disregarding Canon helped, since none of my lot care about the FR. Thus I made Auril into a corrupted nature goddess, who had been driven insane by the corrupting Chardylin in her flesh (the land of Icewind Dale), esp the spike of Chardylin in her in the form of Ythryn. Thus if Ythryn is either destroyed/ lifted out of the ice, she can be restored. I have given hints about this to the players (they have all seen Princess Mononoke....) Secondly, I made an effort to tie them all into the setting & story. One's a goliath from one of the 2 warring factions. Another a Reghed barbarian. Another an ex-Scarlet Brotherhood wizard, who knows of their plans & has stolen them (which they then decipher as they progress, circumnavigating the need for an NPC Necromancer to lead them, which sucks). Thirdly, I made sure pc choices were real & had an impact. The party are in the hunger caves & having a blast! The RuneKnight goliath has just picked up the frost giants spear & is growing, which fits his concept perfectly! (Have made that temporary since its powerful!) Why can't WotC write fab campaigns? To be fair, Paizo, whilst creating better ones & more content, also have this problem: campaigns made by committee, where different bits are farmed out to different creative, and its all a bit disjointed. Great news is that via forums, YouTube, DMs Guild, etc there is a fantastic 'participatory culture' to help busy GMs bring these campaigns to life. 😃 [/QUOTE]
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