The Dungeon Masters' Foundation Mk.II

[Nightcloak]

I'll probably follow the campaign track fairly close, with a few minor changes here and there; WotVB doesn't seem to follow along with the Schema Hunt storyline, so I'm still looking for a way to bring it more in line with the other adventures.

Oops. Almost forgot (must be those dancing dairy cows running through the brain).

I'm under the impression from other posters here on ENWorld that the WotVB is suppose to be a sidetrack of sorts with only minimal plot seeds. A sort of interlude in the plot to keep things fresh for the characters.

 

[themind]

Holy crap on a stick, dude, a car accident? Glad to hear that you're alright.



Well, since you asked so nicely

We're FINALLY ready to begin a new campaign, set in Eberron, after a year-and-a-half hiatus (everyone got burned out on gaming - is that even possible? ). Since I have only three players presently, I let them roll up Gestalt characters form the UA. And, since they wanted a high-level ccampaign, I let them start out at 10th level. Considering the cool new races in the ECS, I was surprised (and a little disappointed) that all three chose human as their race :\ . Anyway, the classes they chose are: Fighter/Druid, Rogue/Monk, and Fighter/Psion.

I'm going to run them through the Eberron adventures (The Forgotten Forge, shadows of the Last War, Whisper of the Vampire's Blade, and Grasp of the Emerald Claw). So far, I've only had a little trouble scaling the Forgotten Forge for 10th level PC's (I think that we took to much time off; even though I continued to buy and read game books while on hiatus, I'm still having a little trouble knocking the rust off of the pipes). I've added/deleted some of the monsters originally given in the adventure (like the Beetle Swarm, in favor of a pair of Fiendish Sword Spiders ), and I'm probably going to expand the given dungeon site to account for the PC's levels; seems right to me anyway.

[Sidenote] To aid in building this dungeon (which has never been one of my strong points), I've ordered AEG's Dungeon sourcebook, hoping that it might have some helpful tips and tricks I can use in addition to whatever I can find on the EN World boards. If it proves to be half as useful as I think it will, I just might order their Evil sourcebook as well, so at long last I can run a proper evil campaign my players have been whining for.[/sidenote]

I'll probably follow the campaign track fairly close, with a few minor changes here and there; WotVB doesn't seem to follow along with the Schema Hunt storyline, so I'm still looking for a way to bring it more in line with the other adventures.

Some other little things that I'm going to do will be to use the Marrow Knight from Creature Collections I in SotLW, when the PC's reach Karrnath (FINALLY!!! I've been looking for an opportunity to use this monster ever since I bought the book, and now I can finally inflict him upon my group!).

Anyway, that's it so far. I'll try to keep y'all updated as much as time allows.

Actually I dont think they step foot in Karrnath in the adventures, I'm running them myself, I should know. I have had some good luck with scaling the advcentures up for them. They are 3 levels higher than they should be for the adventures. I found a lot of use for MM3, using monsters in there. Refer to my previous post to what happened with the Fleshraker Dino's.

And yeah, WotVB is sort of a side plot adventure. Although, a couple NPC's are in it that were or will be used in the schema plotline.

[sblock]Garrow shows up and Scimitar the Warforged will be used again in the last one.[/sblock]

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

heee...crap on a stick...heee...

Thanks...I'm back... still adjusting to being at my own pad again and catching up on scads of emails. The campaigns sound great, and hopefully in a few weeks (after I've had a chance to get used to being at work again...ugh) I'll be a contributor and such again!

What he said.

Glad your back!!!

 

[Morbog of Ghetto D]

the Mind..

Yo....The "evil" in the Evil book is dwarfed by the EVIL in Book of Vile Darkness.
the B.O.V.D. is a must have for creepy, evil stuff!

 

[Morbog of Ghetto D]

Doh Aris Dragon born

My post to The Mind was for you..!...

Hate technolgy!

 

[Mordmorgan the Mad]

Finally!!! Argh. Sorry for my recent absence, but the internet has been kinda shaky lately.

@DMCal, good to see that you're feeling better!

Re: Arcana Evolved, I hadn't paid much attention to 3rd party stuff before you guys started talking about this book. Unfortunately, my LGS sold thier last copy the other day, so I'll have to wait to take a more detailed look.

@BoD: There was a thread about cow stats a while back on the WotC forums, so you might want to search for Cow +Diablo.

 

[Nightcloak]

There was a thread about cow stats a while back on the WotC forums, so you might want to search for Cow +Diablo.

The hidden level...

Here you go!

Secret Cow Level

*Shudder*

 

[Blade of Desecration]

The hidden level...

Here you go!

Secret Cow Level

*Shudder*

Thats just wrong...

Hey, if you take the "sh" off that shudder, it spells udder.

 

[themind]

Yo....The "evil" in the Evil book is dwarfed by the EVIL in Book of Vile Darkness.
the B.O.V.D. is a must have for creepy, evil stuff!

I agree, there is a lot of EVIL in that book.

 

[Blade of Desecration]

I now hate goblins more than any other race.
Why you might ask? I just had my gaming meeting. We were defending a town from a goblin attack. Some of these goblins were the same level as us (3rd). It's down to the last enemy, everyone else is a little ways away from me, so they don't see whats happening, and they're all on mop-up. I close to melee with the last goblin, who was just a standard goblin. I miss on my attack. He attacks me, gets a 20. Oh well, he probably won't get a critical. He rolls for the crit, gets another 20. Oh well, even against a crit, I have plenty of HP left. Goblin rolls to check if he gets an insta-kill. NATURAL 20!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was frickin' insta-killed by a GOBLIN!!!!!!!