Why is H1 coming out a month before the PHB?

[Plane Sailing]

apropos of nothing in particular we are planning on a Finnish name for our new puppy (when it arrives).

 

[nerfherder]

Much obliged I should really say thank god for amazon too but I'm watching the England vs switzerland match and I don't want to jinx them!

No problem - looks like we'll be getting the books at about the same price as the 3.0 introductory price, or all 3 for about the same as an XBOX 360 game...

 

[Gundark]

I'm not buying the adventure, but someone in my group is and will what to run it. I imagine we'll be playing with the pre-gens.

 

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

I'll absolutely be buying the adventure.

I think it's better for a group to see an integrated package before they move on to the complete rules.

 

[Lanefan]

Then again, I've also found that a good test for adventures is trying to keep all locations while replacing all encounters or vice versa. If that works without problems the adventure's probably NOT a good one. Because basically it means it's completely generic.

Generic is just fine by me in this case, provided it comes with maps and some interesting ideas. In fact, generic is good, because I can more easily plug it in anywhere I like without having to build too much of the world around it. (to me, the least useful pre-fab adventures are those that can't be extricated easily, or at all, from the original setting they were written for; e.g. most of the 1e Dragonlance adventures)

Being generic is a good thing if I am just looking for an adventure idea; it's a bad thing for an adventure that's supposed to be fully developed and ready to play without putting further effort in it.

Given as I'll be putting "further effort" into it anyway in order to ret-con it, this doesn't bother me very much.

Lanefan

 

[nerfherder]

Yes it is a Finnish name, a hybrid of 2 people I once knew back in my snowboard days.

And I thought it was because you were a World Rally Championship fan.

After spending last week learning to snowboard in the French alps, I now know that le Rouse, as well as being cool, must also be very used to falling down and then picking himself up off the ground to continue

 

[Scott_Rouse]

And I thought it was because you were a World Rally Championship fan.

After spending last week learning to snowboard in the French alps, I now know that le Rouse, as well as being cool, must also be very used to falling down and then picking himself up off the ground to continue

As it turns out the ability to get back up after falling down is a useful skill for a D&D brand manager as well as any of you who were at the Ennies last year can attest to.

 

[nerfherder]

As it turns out the ability to get back up after falling down is a useful skill for a D&D brand manager as well as any of you who were at the Ennies last year can attest to.

Ha! I was there, but didn't witness any falling over - maybe it was after the end when I accompanied some of the judges to an establishment at the other end of town where absolutely nothing happened...