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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6252503" data-attributes="member: 7006">Once I finish my current Gates of Firestorm Peak campaign (which I sandboxed and talked about previously in another thread)... my next thoughts are either to use and more fully expand either Expedition To Castle Ravenloft or Isle of Dread.EtCR already has expanded and sandboxed things a bit more out from the village of Barovia... with all the fanes that the party should deal with before heading to the castle itself.&nbsp; But if I do go with that adventure, I'll probably go rummaging through my modules and pull out a few more that are necromancy, gypsy, or gothic related.&nbsp; I know there's a couple &quot;haunted house&quot; modules out there that could be dropped into Barovia easily enough... there's a 4E Nentir Vale Backdrop article (Backdrop: Mistwatch) that is marked similar to the situation in Barovia that I can plunder some ideas from.&nbsp; Plus I'm sure there are plenty of others.&nbsp; Having a landscape that is surrounded by the impenetrable mist contains everyone and everything and makes for a cool land to explore.And as far as Isle of Dread is concerned... it's another one where the area is contained.&nbsp; The fact that it's already been updated as a D&amp;D Next playtest adventure just makes it even better.&nbsp; There's already a bunch of areas on the map that are encounter spots, but there's still plenty of space to drop in other modules (like The Lost Isle of Castanamir) or encounters as need be.&nbsp; I've even thought removing the temple found on Taboo Island and replacing it with the City of Skulls (incorporating Return to the Tomb of Horrors into the Isle).In both cases, they each have a starting village to use-- Barovia and Tanaroa... and plenty of space beyond to begin exploring.&nbsp; And also in both cases, there is a central plot adventure area (the Castle and Taboo Island) that the party will eventually make their way towards.&nbsp; I've found that doing it that way for my current GoFP campaign has worked really, really well... and I'm looking forward to trying it again with a different central adventure (either Castle Ravenloft or the Tomb of Horrors.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6252503, member: 7006"] Once I finish my current [I]Gates of Firestorm Peak[/I] campaign (which I sandboxed and talked about previously in another thread)... my next thoughts are either to use and more fully expand either [I]Expedition To Castle Ravenloft[/I] or [I]Isle of Dread[/I]. EtCR already has expanded and sandboxed things a bit more out from the village of Barovia... with all the fanes that the party should deal with before heading to the castle itself. But if I do go with that adventure, I'll probably go rummaging through my modules and pull out a few more that are necromancy, gypsy, or gothic related. I know there's a couple "haunted house" modules out there that could be dropped into Barovia easily enough... there's a 4E Nentir Vale Backdrop article (Backdrop: Mistwatch) that is marked similar to the situation in Barovia that I can plunder some ideas from. Plus I'm sure there are plenty of others. Having a landscape that is surrounded by the impenetrable mist contains everyone and everything and makes for a cool land to explore. And as far as [I]Isle of Dread[/I] is concerned... it's another one where the area is contained. The fact that it's already been updated as a D&D Next playtest adventure just makes it even better. There's already a bunch of areas on the map that are encounter spots, but there's still plenty of space to drop in other modules (like [I]The Lost Isle of Castanamir[/I]) or encounters as need be. I've even thought removing the temple found on Taboo Island and replacing it with the City of Skulls (incorporating [I]Return to the Tomb of Horrors[/I] into the Isle). In both cases, they each have a starting village to use-- Barovia and Tanaroa... and plenty of space beyond to begin exploring. And also in both cases, there is a central plot adventure area (the Castle and Taboo Island) that the party will eventually make their way towards. I've found that doing it that way for my current GoFP campaign has worked really, really well... and I'm looking forward to trying it again with a different central adventure (either Castle Ravenloft or the Tomb of Horrors.) [/QUOTE]

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