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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Jefe" data-source="post: 2613827" data-attributes="member: 19990">Discussion -- (Adventure) The Haunted Halls of StonepikeI do have a few comments here, mostly to do with the location of Stonepike Manor.My main comment is the description of the location of Stonepike only loosely corresponds to the map we've been using, and that it doesn't agree with any of the other adventures we've run in that general area (not that all the others agree with themselves!)I'll start with the dwarves boast that they can get from Orussus to Stonepike in under two days, although it's over a hundred miles.  Well, unless they have a special breed of dwarven pony that is faster than a light warhorse, it's not going to happen.  Secondly, according to the map, it's nearly 200 miles just from Orussus to Bainlunder Lodge.  So, I'm not sure about the three days it supposedly took the party to reach Stonpike.  I'm chalking it up to Uriel following his usual practice of making up an adventure as it goes along.The directions for reaching Stonepike from Orussus don't work, either.  Supposedly, you take the "Great Eastern Road" from Orussus, and 3 hours before sundown, you reach a ford over the River Grellgo.  First, the "Great Eastern Road" from Orussus never crosses a river, nor comes close to one until it reaches Fallon.  To get to the Grellgo, you have to turn south on the road to Lathirn, cross over the River Roars, then head offroad to the east for some ways.  I prefer to think that this is a small, little-traveled road running from the road to Lathirn east to Bainlunder lodge.  Because the road is seldom used, it's not on the map.  Yeah, that's it!  Ironically, if the party is mounted on fast horses, it can just barely reach the Grellgo from Orussus in one long day.  Any slower mode of travel won't make it.Uriel's description of the Grellgo doesn't match some of the others, but I can dodge that by saying that the part of the Grellgo that the seldom-used and unnamed road fords is some distance upstream from the location of other descriptions of the Grellgo.The only other thing I noticed is that there were two maps of Stonepike Manor, one for each level, and the stairs leading down from the first level do not match with any location on the second level.  I suppose you can arm-wave around that, too, though.</blockquote>

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