The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth is up (EDIT-All Chapters Now Added)

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Including, but not limited to, making some gnomes crazy

"We're removing you guys from the PHB."

"MADNESS!"

 

[sckeener]

As I posted on the other thread, I had hoped that w/o page constraints we'd get art for every monster. That makes the DM's job so much easier.

That would, indeed, be quite cool. But I'm guessing it would also raise the cost of putting together the adventure beyond the point where it'd be a feasible endeavor.

ok, I'm for raising the costs. If our aim is to make life for the DM easier, I'd like to see tokens for each of the monsters in the adventure. They don't have to be fancy. (Heck, I wish WotC would do that for each of the monster manuals.)

 

[Mistwell]

I didn't say I did not care for it, I just said it was unimpressive or "prefunctory." If I thought it was bad or poor, I'd have said so. I did not...I think your response is off base on both the above accounts. You err when you opine that I "don't care for it" when I simply found it so-so or "prefunctory." You err again when you opine that I did not consider it in its proper context,

I read your comments as negative as well, and also thought you didn't realize there were additional parts of this particular adventure. Perhaps you didn't mean your comments to be negative, but I suspect they came across as negative to most people who read them.

And I have no horse in this race, for what it is worth.

 

[Wraith Form]

Couple of things... *snipped*

Wow. Less coffee? More vitamin B?

:: looks at Mistwell's post :: I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought the tone was a little snarky.

 

[Raven Crowking]

I think Ari's work is excellent in general, though I haven't read this one yet.

 

[Mouseferatu]

1) Will the next two parts have the same size and scope as S4, which had a lot.

Well, part two is a pretty direct conversion of the original Lost Caverns interior to 3.5 rules, so I'd say it's got close to exactly as much scope. Part three is, IIRC, somewhat smaller of a dungeon, but still pretty broad, with numerous sections to explore and even multiple factions of inhabitants.

2) Can we expect a sequal, following up on the leads here?

No plans for a sequel, at the moment (though I certainly wouldn't rule it out)*. That said, some of the leads here are followed up later in the series itself.

*I should say that I, at least, have not proposed such a sequel. It's possible one of the other authors has done so, though I don't think such is the case.

 

[grodog]

That said, some of the leads here are followed up later in the series itself.

Ari, by "later in the series" do you mean the second and third chapters, or, is there more to Iggwilv's Legacy than just those three adventures?

 

[Mouseferatu]

Ari, by "later in the series" do you mean the second and third chapters, or, is there more to Iggwilv's Legacy than just those three adventures?

Sorry, didn't mean to be unclear. I meant in chapters two and three (particularly three, since it and chapter one were written specifically with each other in mind).

BTW, I should clarify something I said earlier. I said that chapter two was a "direct translation" of the classic module into 3.5 rules. I probably shouldn't have used the word "direct," because I actually don't know if it's 100% conversion with no changes, or if there are a few "Return to"-style tweaks here and there beyond what was necessary to make it mesh with chapters one and three.

 

[GVDammerung]

I read your comments as negative as well, and also thought you didn't realize there were additional parts of this particular adventure. Perhaps you didn't mean your comments to be negative, but I suspect they came across as negative to most people who read them.

And I have no horse in this race, for what it is worth.

:: looks at Mistwell's post :: I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought the tone was a little snarky.

Well, I appear to be in the minority. That much is certain.

I've read my original post over again and it is certainly not a warm fuzzy but then it wasn't intended to be. It also wasn't intended to be as negative as people have read it. I've previously noted that and I think the verbiage in the post is plainly there to back that up.

Best I can figure is that the post reads negative to some because it is dismissive, perfunctory in its own right. That would be fair as it was dismissive as I found the first installment largely "meh." There is, however, a big difference between being underwhelmed and dismissive and overt negativity. That distinction, however, doesn't seem to have registered. Not much I can do about that.

Had I been looking to be negative, I'd have discussed the installment in detail where I found it wanting. I wasn't, so I didn't.

Not wanting to put too fine a point on it but I reject any suggestion that a reaction must either be praise or condemnation with no middle ground. In the interests of clarity, let me retract my initial post and say this:

I'd give the first of the three installments 3 out of 5 stars. IMO, it is an average piece of work with nothing much to recommend it but nothing terribly wrong with it either.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I loved the reference to the Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun, BTW.

Great work, Ari!