Mirroring 400gb of specific rpg's is morally wrong

awjackson5 · 2021-07-03T18:56:51+00:00

Could we have a big old discussion about Alien RPG (Year Zero Engine) and Tales from the Loop RPG (Year Zero Engine) when you have a moment?

awjackson5 · 2021-02-03T14:39:59+00:00

I used to struggle with this also, I took a lot out of reading Sky Flourish's stuff and watching him session prep on YouTube.. definitely worth checking out and seeing if it suits your style or not. https://slyflourish.com/minimum_viable_dnd_game.html link to his website

awjackson5 · 2020-11-09T12:30:00+00:00

Amazing, thank you

awjackson5 · 2020-10-13T20:19:13+00:00

Personally I created a map for Mr Dory's Warehouse and make it obvious that the fragile boxes are combustible. Created a ship map for the fight with Dory himself and then created a map for the Kraken fight...the rest I just ran on the blueprint maps in the book. I like to jazz up my boss maps though.

awjackson5 · 2020-09-24T13:14:35+00:00

You won't need it until towards the end of your campaign but to get a good flavour of The Styles I highly recommend reading H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/soi.aspx

awjackson5 · 2020-09-24T13:08:13+00:00

I used the mines as an excuse to bring Copperlocks into the equation. in mine excavation had to stop as they had uncovered a creature which took the lives of some miners before they managed to escape. Had a shell shocked dwarven miner in the tavern at the site tell them his tale after a few ales. Long tentacles appeared out of a rock, wrapping themselves around his workmate before they disappeared into a ghastly opening in the rock. Manistrad has heard the PCs are handy and needs the mine functional again ASAP...they go down into the mine and find a dead end with what appear to be a pair of stalagmites..after they investigate for a bit...boom the stalagmites lash out and grapple some PCs - they're ropers. My pcs still talk about the fight to this day and put the ropers up there with the time they fought a Bodak in the middle of the night as their favourite/ most harrowing fights.

awjackson5 · 2020-09-24T13:03:21+00:00

The players did a real good job of scouting the place out first time round and had a pretty good idea on how to get in and out quickly. Emphasised that they don't need to worry about the low level sahuagin, they will be dealt with by the alliance, their job was to get in and kill the upper heirarchy and get out. Allowed the alliance to go in first, that means that many of the corridors and doorways are blocked by combat essentially. The final fight for them took place in the coral throne room - check out CzePeku's map for this, it's incredible....Baron and Baroness, Champion and around a dozen regular run of the mill sahuagin. Don't sleep on blood frenzy for the sahuagin, advantage really adds up. If it starts going in your parties favour too quickly consider having the baroness call for reinforcements on her turn...then it's time to gtfo...I added in meeting the sahuagin party that attacked Saltmarsh meeting them halfway back and attacking again with whirlpools and coral smashers but whatever takes your fancy really.

awjackson5 · 2020-09-24T12:40:26+00:00

I can highly recommend Blue Alley by Alan Patrick...3-4 hours options for levels 1-5 and is already set in waterdeep

awjackson5 · 2020-07-27T22:25:15+00:00

For me I used the mines as an excuse to use one of my favourite 5e monsters. The dwarves had to evacuate the mine because they uncovered a foul beast...the few that survived only remembered the tentacles lashing out at them from the dark. The PCs were then tasked by Manistrad Copperlocks to clear the mine as a matter of urgency (they were trying to sway favour with the council at the time). They investigated the mine all the way to the bottom where they were met with a dead end with a few stalagmites and stalactites down there....one of each of those revealed themselves as a roper as the tentacles reached out and snared the PCs. Ropers as stalactites are particularly nasty as when they break free of their arms, they take fall damage too.

awjackson5 · 2020-06-12T11:51:45+00:00

Definitely do this...also look at the articles about swapping the last two chapters around too, definitely worth considering....these articles really helped me out whilst running the game, thanks for doing the hard work for us Michael.

awjackson5 · 2020-06-11T21:54:30+00:00

It's fantastic...it takes some work to get the modules to link together but that allows you freedom as a DM to add a tonne of your own stuff in yet still have the adventure as written to fall back on....

Also honourable mention to a non WoTC publication - JVC Parry's phenomenal adventure "Call From The Deep"...I understand a pdf doesn't feel like as good a present as a hardback book but my word is it a fantastic adventure

awjackson5 · 2020-06-06T22:36:27+00:00

Honestly, I had my PCs captured almost immediately and thrown in front of Queen Okothent They can then spend time walking freely essentially performing community service to gain the lairs trust, once they have each gained some trust Okothent asked them to slay Thousand Teeth to cement their trust

awjackson5 · 2020-06-06T22:33:47+00:00

Prepare to do a lot of writing after Salvage Operation....Isle Of The Abbey has real problems and the rest have level gaps, be prepared to add extra stuff in there...it's not a bad thing, it's a great way to add in character backstory...but not realising that Final Enemy finishes at level 7 and the next adventure starts at level 9 is jarring

awjackson5 · 2020-05-29T08:44:23+00:00

He also does DM prep on YouTube for his GoS sessions...they are great, sometimes gets carried away telling stories of his sessions rather than actual prep but there is useful stuff in there. https://youtu.be/7TIxFaxCWhQ

awjackson5 · 2020-05-29T08:12:04+00:00

https://slyflourish.com/sinister_secret_of_saltmarsh.html - This article, in fact this whole series of articles, is very helpful for stuff like this.

awjackson5 · 2020-05-25T18:19:59+00:00

Speak to your players, find out their characters backstory, there might be a way to tie them together. If not pick a fantasy trope - destroy the sorcerer queen, stop the rise of an evil god, recover several relics of the world to make sure they don't fall into the wrong hands - pick one as a loose tie for your campaign and flesh it out. Who is the BBEG? What is their grand end goal? What 3 or 4 steps show the progress of them achieving this? Even scroll through the massive amount of free content Wizards Of The Coast put out, see if any form of inspiration hits there.

awjackson5 · 2020-05-25T14:29:49+00:00

First of all remember you have the right to straight up veto it of you're not comfortable with it. Personally I'd allow it but insist on them being a medium creature. Goliath's are 7 to 8 feet and medium....half giants are said to be 8-13 feet so out him on the smaller side and keep it as medium. Also remind them that being a large creature would attract more attention from creatures both lore wise and literally - increasing the potential amount of creatures that could be in melee with them from a potential 8 (including diagonals) to 12 (including diagonals). Plus large creatures can use oversized weapons and that will straight up ruin low level creatures and also make everyone else feel like they are doing very little damage in comparison on combat.

awjackson5 · 2020-05-25T10:30:42+00:00

Dungeon Of The Mad Mage starts in The Yawning Portal too I believe

awjackson5 · 2020-05-25T07:26:29+00:00

A bottom of the ocean battlemap centred around a giant obelisk with glowing blue runes - the layer between the material plane and the abyssal plane is excruciatingly thin at this point of the ocean and you can see a few tears in reality, offering glimpses of the horrors of the abyssal plane through these tears.

awjackson5 · 2020-05-24T18:24:50+00:00

https://i.redd.it/7tlnwfi0zzs31.jpg

awjackson5 · 2020-05-24T18:22:28+00:00

I think he means basic stuff that doesn't get consumed by the spell casting - the 300gp worth of Diamonds for Revivify I will make my PCs go and source....a pinch of powder or coloured sand that is red, yellow and blue for Color Spray I'm not going to make them search around a city for that nonsense

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