[UPDATED AGAIN!] PRINCES OF THE APOCALYPSE - First Review!

The first comments on Princes of the Apcalypse are in. Fildrigar is the first to rate and comment on the adventure in EN World's ratings system, and gives it a score of 5/5. The adventure doesn't technically hit the shelves until April 7th (or March 27th - next Friday - in preferred stores), so I'm not sure how Fildrigar got hold of one, but there it is!

[UPDATE -- the author has deleted his review.]

UPDATE 2 -- he has kindly reposted it!

Click on the image below, read the comment, and as soon as you get your copy be sure to rate and comment on it yourself!

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[Fildrigar]

Could the author please briefly describe the outline for adapting the adventure to Eberron? Thanks!

Sorry, that's beyond the scope of a review. I did add more information to the review itself.

 

[Krypter]

Page count? Thank you.

 

[Mercule]

[MENTION=67925]Fildrigar[/MENTION]: Thanks. That was very helpful.

You can get for $30 on Amazon or Indigo.

I've said before that I'll pay the difference between the FLGS and Amazon if there's something I'm getting for the difference beyond the warm fuzzy of gifting money to someone. In this case, I'll be travelling next weekend, so the early release date gets me the time I need to absorb the module and the Eberron conversion notes in time to actually use it for my group. Definitely worth the cost.

The information provided here pretty much took this from a "maybe order it, for my next game" to a "almost certainly buy early and use immediately".

 

[Fildrigar]

[MENTION=67925]Fildrigar[/MENTION]: Thanks. That was very helpful.


I've said before that I'll pay the difference between the FLGS and Amazon if there's something I'm getting for the difference beyond the warm fuzzy of gifting money to someone. In this case, I'll be travelling next weekend, so the early release date gets me the time I need to absorb the module and the Eberron conversion notes in time to actually use it for my group. Definitely worth the cost.

The information provided here pretty much took this from a "maybe order it, for my next game" to a "almost certainly buy early and use immediately".

I think it's that good. I immediately abandoned the plans I had for my campaign post-Phandelver to direct the party to this adventure.

 

[TailleferTheWise]

I think it's that good. I immediately abandoned the plans I had for my campaign post-Phandelver to direct the party to this adventure.

Does this mean there is an easy way to integrate LMoP with PotA as rumored? I've got one group going through Pandelver now, and another deciding if they want to do that or Princes. If you could easily start out PotA partway through with a transition from Lost Mine, that would be pretty cool.

 

[Fildrigar]

Does this mean there is an easy way to integrate LMoP with PotA as rumored? I've got one group going through Pandelver now, and another deciding if they want to do that or Princes. If you could easily start out PotA partway through with a transition from Lost Mine, that would be pretty cool.

Did you read the review?

Yes. It is easy to integrate immediately post-Phandelver.

 

[TailleferTheWise]

Did you read the review?

Yes. It is easy to integrate immediately post-Phandelver.

I read your first iteration of it, I must have overlooked that part, unless it was added in after.

 

[Fildrigar]

I read your first iteration of it, I must have overlooked that part, unless it was added in after.

I have been adding to my review.

 

[TailleferTheWise]

I have been adding to my review.

Ok you mention in your review that it's easy to send people over from LMoP, but also that PotA starts off at level 3. Am I to take this to mean it's not to big of an issue to bring 4th-5th level characters in, or would encounters need a fair amount of tweaking to make them more challenging? Thanks for all the info!

 

[Fildrigar]

Ok you mention in your review that it's easy to send people over from LMoP, but also that PotA starts off at level 3. Am I to take this to mean it's not to big of an issue to bring 4th-5th level characters in, or would encounters need a fair amount of tweaking to make them more challenging? Thanks for all the info!

It's not too big of an issue, but might take some tweaking. Bounded accuracy means an encounter a level or two below isn't going to automatically be a complete pushover.

In my campaign, the PCs ended Phandelver at level 4. Partly because I had 6 players at one point, partly because they skipped a few encounters.

In PotA, the first external temple you run into isn't automatically, inherently hostile. ( The air themed one. It's the one tuned for level 3.) This made it easy for me to run it as a more investigatory chapter. ( Do you guys know anything about some evil cults acting in the area? Oh yeah. Those nasty earth guys are over there. Hey, we'll give you a lift on our flying mounts.) Partly that's because I have a good grasp on the traditions of Elemental Evil. ( skirmishing between the various elemental cults at lower levels. )

Hope this helps.