"Toot! Toot!" - The sound of my own horn!

[shilsen]

Coincidentally, I just downloaded the pdf off the Wizards site before coming in to the messageboards and seeing this post. I always loved death knights, and I like having semi-sympathetic villains, so I'm looking forward to reading it. More comments when I'm done.

Thanks and congratulations!

 

[diaglo]

sorry darrin,

i download those out of habit. to me it seems on par with all of the others.

 

[Silver Moon]

Congrats, I'll take a look at it.

Now on the subjet of tooting your own horn, I support that idea but you never struck me as a "toot, toot" kind of guy, more like a deep "Ah-ooh-gah".

 

[Nifelhein]

Darrin,

Congratulations for yet another work that has made its way to the shleves, well, not quite it, but you can picture the idea...

The adventure has great background and is very inspiring for a villain, Death Knights are a long loved one for me too.

I have not read it as a whole, but from the synopsis it seems a lot inclined toward search and destroy, which would be a waste of the background and idea, but it seems good so far, maybe later I will finish reading it and fin out that I must use it at my table...

Conratulations!

 

[Arnwyn]

I haven't had time to read it (nor will I in the near future), but it's a higher-level adventure, so already I'm favourably inclined towards it. I'm always appreciative of another higher-level adventure.

Quick question - where did the maps (originally?) come from? Are they unique to this adventure, or are they from one of the previous Map-A-Weeks?

 

[Taelorn76]

Congratulations.

Gave it a quick glance and it looks good. Ill have to dig into it deeper this weekend.

 

[alsih2o]

i haven't had the chance to read it yet, but congrats!

 

[barsoomcore]

Congrats, Bar!

Wait, is that you or me?

What a rewarding moment for you.

I've downloaded and read every free adventure from WotC so far, so I'll get to yours this weekend. I have a game next week so I might even be able to give it a whirl! Let you know.

 

[BSF]

Most Excellent!

My players are a long way off from seeing this adventure - we are running the second session of a new campaign tonight - but the preview looks cool. I think I can integrate most of it into my game without too many troubles as well!

Now, about those Death Knights - I didn't realize you did the work. Cool. So, for a little bit of story fun. I was looking to throw a Death Knight at my party of 7 9-10th level characters. In the end, I decided to just use the sample character from the MMII. The classic moment was when the Ftr3/Clr7 stepped up to go toe-to-toe with the Death Knight. The Cleric had a +1 Holy Great Sword which he had just made. (With a little help from a High Priest friend of his.) I couldn't resist - Power Attack/Sunder and one +1 Holy Great Sword shatters. For the second attack, it was a backswing to decapitate. Sadly, that one missed and the Death Knight became the brunt of a variety of attacks from the rest of the party.

It was still fun and it scared the bejeezus out of the group. For some reason, the players don't like encountering Death Knights....

EDIT: Doh! Through != throw

 

[Darrin Drader]

Quick question - where did the maps (originally?) come from? Are they unique to this adventure, or are they from one of the previous Map-A-Weeks?

The maps are new. I put them together in Campaign Cartographer 2 and then they went through the cartography department at WotC to give them a nice professional polish.