What Is Your Favorite Linear Adventure/Campaign

[jian]

You’re missing out. Parts four and five have been completely reworked in the latest release.

Instead of traveling to Kislev in Part Four you now track down the remnants of the purple hand, the jade scepter and stop a terrifying Skaven plot beneath the city and in the middle mountains.

Part five is far more political as well as a tour of the empire. It’s much improved.

Ah, yes, I was thinking back to playing in the 80s and 90s. Glad to hear it’s been reworked, it really needed it. The release of and reception to EiF back in the early 90s was such a huge thing, it was so hard to actually get a copy and play it.

So it looks (on DTRPG) like it’s now:

1. Enemy in Shadows
2. Death on the Reik
3. Power Behind the Throne
4. The Horned Rat
5. Empire in Ruins

So presumably Kislev is replaced by a skaven plot and 1 and 5 have been at least renamed (from Shadows over Bogenhafen and Empire in Flames). Is that right?

 

[THEMNGMNT]

I think Rime is an illusory sandbox. If you follow the advice in the book, the PCs can do like 3 things before they have to move on. It is the most "tabletop CRPG" of all of WotC's adventures I think.

Fair point. The Alexandrian blogged that it's this close to being a sandbox. I think you could make it one pretty easily by ripping out the metaplot and mixing in whatever elements you like from the new Forgotten Realms GM book and the older Legacy of the Crystal Shard.

 

[Reynard]

Fair point. The Alexandrian blogged that it's this close to being a sandbox. I think you could make it one pretty easily by ripping out the metaplot and mixing in whatever elements you like from the new Forgotten Realms GM book and the older Legacy of the Crystal Shard.

You can make any adventure a sandbox by ripping out the main story.

For Rime, though, I think it would suffice to eliminate the milestone leveling and just let the players do whatever they wanted.