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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7133114" data-attributes="member: 5100">If you remember, there was some confusion/consternation over the correct scale of the map. I think I used the scale printed on the map, but maybe it was one of the "fixes". Regardless, it put like three days between each of the towns and two days between Red Larch and the first elemental outpost. I dropped it in Eberron, centered at Wyr and that scalle pretty much covered the entire Aundair/Eldeen Reaches border, which is huge. It wasn't necessarily a fault of putting it in the Realms so much as it being just stupidly huge.There were a few odd things, like the barbarians didn't translate well so I ignored that whole side bit. I had to change all the references to dwarven construction to ancient goblin construction (which would have been no big deal, if I'd set it on the eastern side of the continent). The one that really caught me off guard was the weird bridge that sounded like it was practically the St. Louis Arch in bridge form. I think there were a few others, but they may not have had as much to do with putting it into Eberron as pulling it out of the Realms.Overall, yeah, I guess it wasn't that hard to convert other than the scale, which could have been operator error. Once I'd set the scale to the players, though, I felt obliged to keep it. It was just a pain. I think part of the disappointment was that the appendix that promised setting conversion notes read like someone who wasn't actually familiar with any of the settings called out. I did very much appreciate the effort and would love to have seen that done for other adventures. Honestly, I think it would be great to see every adventure (that isn't hardwired into the Realms like Tyranny of Dragons) to have a web supplement that gave hooks for the Five Factions of Faerun (for AL play), some basic conversion notes and consistent use of specific factions from the other settings. I don't know exactly how much effort the PotA appendix took, but I wouldn't think more than a couple days. It would actually stop the majority of my complaining, especially if the conversion notes continued to improve.</blockquote>

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