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Post by Zugarok on Nov 5, 2004 16:02:26 GMT -5
So, I was at my local comic shop the other day...Rhabuka wanted to get the video for Lodoss war (this is the most european style of fantasy I have seen in anime)...and I was getting dragon magazine...and they mentioned that they have a campaign open to all running at the shop. It's on Mondays, so I am considering going after Monday Night Football ends. I have only played a few adventures with the third edition and most have been the first. I remember my favorite store bought adventure was Tomb of Horrors. Anyone else play this one? It only slightly edged out Return to Barrier Peaks. I assume everyone over 25 who is participating in this thread has played Keep on the Borderlands but what are some of your other favorites? Will expand if people actually respond to this thread.
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Post by Phelan on Nov 5, 2004 17:19:12 GMT -5
wish I could help you out, but our DM writes his own stuff he doesn't use the pre done ones, lol.
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Post by Wilkens on Nov 5, 2004 19:41:38 GMT -5
ive never done a premade one either, my dms always made their stuff up.
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Post by hakiko on Nov 6, 2004 14:18:31 GMT -5
The classic Dragonlance modules. Tomb of Horrors. Temple of Elemental Evil. There was a Dungeon magazine a few months ago that listed the most popular 30 ever.
The Ravenloft modules were also very well done, I always found the Spelljammer ones to be a little hokey.
I usually made my own adventures but we did hit on some of the pre-gens over the years.
I think for my group our favorite was West Ends Star Wars RPG we ran a 7 year long campaign in that
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Post by Zugarok on Nov 7, 2004 9:40:20 GMT -5
Ok well then what were your favorite adventures like. It's a shame you didn't play any of these...especially Tomb of Horrors...which is a thinkers adventure rather than a hack and slash....lol it kind of ruined my campaign however, since the game I played in...when you died...you died (rip of character sheet and start a level 1) I think we went into Tomb of Horrors with a party of 8 and came out with a party of 2....
So what were your guys adventures like?
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Post by hakiko on Nov 7, 2004 12:02:14 GMT -5
Yes the tomb of horrors was brutal.
We tended to run campaigns that were more oriented towards political intrigue. While I never ran a campign in Birthright I stole a lot of the mechanics from this setting to get that flavor. I still use the realm simulator to generate realistic political intrigue.
We just finished a capstone war section to our long running campaign (There are a few characters that are 14 real world years old) and most of the players have about capped out their characters. So I have been running historical adventures where they play lower level chars to see many of the events leading up to the war.
This winter when I go home I'll be running a Realms adventure I made. The characters are hired to guard a coach carrying a frail old man that needs to go to a small town in the East. When they arrive they will find a priest of Tyr about to burn a witch in the center of town. Any character with detect evil will be able to tell that she is not a witch. They will also find that children have been disappearing in town and that something weird is happening in the monastary outside town.
Their investigations will bring them in contact with a pedophile, alchoholic, priest of Tempus who has a fetish for cutting himself. A priest of Torm posing as a school teacher so he can investigate the priest of Tyr.
Ultimately they will find that the priest of Tyr is guilty of killing the children, but careful characters will find out that he is under the influence of a vampire. The vampire of course is the old man in the coach.
After dealing with him they can turn their attention to the monastary. Why would the be interested? Because I stacked the party when they were creating their characters. Inside the monastary is a dragon egg that is about to hatch. Many power groups are interested in gaining control of this egg.
The party consists of a dragon in human form sent by the hatchlings mother, a purple knight of cormyr that is in fact a vampire hoping to grab the egg for the Cult of the Dragon to make a dracolich from, an agent of the thieves guild in Calimashan, a harper, and some others who are just along for a ride. Only the dragon actually knows that an egg is inside the rest just know that there is something that their factions want.
There are NPC factions at work as well. The vampire is a member of the Night Masks hoping to gain the egg. There is a group from the Zhentariam in town posing as guards and there are agents of the Monks of the Dark Moon hiding in the good monks in the monastary.
Hopefully this plot will be as twisted as my players tend to demand
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Post by Elindar on Nov 8, 2004 11:13:05 GMT -5
My last steady group (way back in college) had to many players. In general we had a pool of 10 players and 8 would show up at any given session (ideally I find that anything over 6 an assistant GM is a good thing). The personalities of all of us could not have been more severe (we were all students from Pitt or Carnegie Mellon). We covered a vast different array of majors: Law School, Literature, Chinese, Russian, Software Engineering, Art, ecology,one person sold weed for a living but luckily got his life together eventually and is finishig his journalism degree now at 35. We were one dysfuntional family to say the least.
warrior (hardware designer) "I attack"
Wizard (software engineer) "this is the plan I would like to enact."
Rogue (dope dealer) "I will hide in shadows until I see how things pan out"
Bard (Literature, me) "I would like to enact the wizards plan (he is the one with the 20 intelligence after all) but since his roomate attacked I guess I will sing a charm spell"
Priest (Lawful Good one at that) "I heal myself"
and so the thought of a puzzle based (tomb of horrors) or campaign of political intrigue was not realistic for this group.
The funniest thing is that the two most impetuous (the warrior and the rogue) play mostly RTS on their computers.
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Post by Gaien on Nov 17, 2004 19:52:36 GMT -5
Yes Phelan, do tell, what were you favorite adventures? I'll try to add a few ideas from those into the next one...
Zug, Tomb of Horrors was the first pre-made adventure I ever played, though my DM was sadistic and screwed in the head. That sort of killed my thrill for running pre-made ones, but I get alot of ideas from them. If ya got any questions about 3.5, let me know.
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Post by Phelan on Nov 18, 2004 1:32:28 GMT -5
You should know my dear dear GM Gaien, my char, me, Phel, LOL came from my all time fav, and has stuck ever since.  |
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Post by Gaien on Nov 18, 2004 21:04:16 GMT -5
I meant adventures you dolt... hmmm.... that gives me an idea
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Post by Phelan on Nov 18, 2004 22:20:00 GMT -5
I was to Gaien you dolt, our very first, Geeez
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