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<blockquote data-quote="roguerouge" data-source="post: 4479626" data-attributes="member: 13855">The Runelords has a great first three adventures: a BBEG that the players write backstory about with hysterically funny goblin minions; a Hell House adventure; and Mammy Graul for the win in Hook Mountain. I didn't especially care for the series after that. As for Curse of the Crimson Throne, it's more streamlined and you have a real sense of powerful evil from the BBEG, as you can know who's behind it all and still not be able to do a thing. The one thing that you'll need to do, IMHO, is to run some Resistance fighters side quests at a certain point in the plot. Your players will be aching to do it once everything goes to Heck in a tea cup. They don't give you that option, which was a huge missed opportunity. The set pieces aren't as memorable, but the sense of an organic setting in operation is much better. My ideal series would be to start in Runelords for the first two modules, then have them go to Korvosa and scale some of the encounters and run that whole series.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="roguerouge, post: 4479626, member: 13855"] The Runelords has a great first three adventures: a BBEG that the players write backstory about with hysterically funny goblin minions; a Hell House adventure; and Mammy Graul for the win in Hook Mountain. I didn't especially care for the series after that. As for Curse of the Crimson Throne, it's more streamlined and you have a real sense of powerful evil from the BBEG, as you can know who's behind it all and still not be able to do a thing. The one thing that you'll need to do, IMHO, is to run some Resistance fighters side quests at a certain point in the plot. Your players will be aching to do it once everything goes to Heck in a tea cup. They don't give you that option, which was a huge missed opportunity. The set pieces aren't as memorable, but the sense of an organic setting in operation is much better. My ideal series would be to start in Runelords for the first two modules, then have them go to Korvosa and scale some of the encounters and run that whole series. [/QUOTE]

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