The Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde

[mattcolville]

I just picked this up yesterday at OrcCon. I'm interested in the format, but I'm having a hard time finding the adventure? It seems like there's a background section, adventure hooks, a city, and then the encounters. I looked in the other book; nothing but encounters.

Am I missing something? Is there no narrative thread that pulls the heroes through the story?

 

[mattcolville]

Also, this may seem really silly, but I think an "Adventures" subforum would be super useful.

 

[wayne62682]

My understanding is that SGoS isn't a series of adventures but more of a mini-campaign -- it offers hooks and encounters but leaves weaving the story to the DM.

 

[mattcolville]

My understanding is that SGoS isn't a series of adventures but more of a mini-campaign -- it offers hooks and encounters but leaves weaving the story to the DM.

Yeah that's what it seems like inside, but the notion of a campaign of any stripe being anything OTHER than a series of adventures challenges my worldview.

 

[Beckett]

Well, there's two dungeons in the Adventure Book, and a third (the largest) in the Campaign book. The Campaign book also has the set-ups for the three dungeons- the first is the players being hired to retrieve some spice crates stolen by goblins, and the second leading off from that based on a map retrieved (and some enticement from the Luminous Order). Not the most in-depth storyline, but it's there.

I did have some annoyances with how it was set up. I really would have liked information on the towns to appear in the Player's Guide so characters who grew up in the area would have some idea of what it was like. Also, they could read about gnolls raiding this town or that, and decide to investigate the hook.

 

[hong]

SGoS is really all about the combat. Everything else -- the plot hooks, the organisations, the NPCs -- is about dragging the players into the sequence of combats that will get them from 1st to 6th level.

I think this is kinda cool, myself.

 

[jontherev]

I just started dming this myself. If I might make a suggestion, try to tie in the Red Hand of Doom into this one...that's what I'm doing. RHoD is freakin' great. I think it might go down as one of my favorites...odd that I'm actually running it. Anyway, have fun.

 

[Wraith Form]

I just picked this up yesterday at OrcCon. I'm interested in the format, but I'm having a hard time finding the adventure? It seems like there's a background section, adventure hooks, a city, and then the encounters. I looked in the other book; nothing but encounters.

Am I missing something? Is there no narrative thread that pulls the heroes through the story?

You're not alone. I was a little stunned at first, wondering where the adventure "proper" was.