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cibet44

Mar 9, 2010, 01:26 pm

I was just going through my selection of 3E stuff and looking at all the adventures our group has played since 2000 (the release of 3E). I thought others might find the list interesting and maybe publish lists of their own.

So here's ours to date in the order we played them:

Chris Mortika RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16

Mar 9, 2010, 02:25 pm

The "Three Days to Kill" / "Tomb of Abysthor" is an interesting juxtaposition.

What did you folks think of "Shattered Gatesof Slaughtergarde"?

Have you noticed any particular distinctions between the dungeon campaigns and the out-in-the-open adventures like Savage Tide and Rise of the Runelords?

cibet44

Mar 9, 2010, 02:54 pm

Chris Mortika wrote:

The "Three Days to Kill" / "Tomb of Abysthor" is an interesting juxtaposition.

Yeah 3 days was (IMO) not put together well and needed quite a bit of tuning for a low level adventure. The Tomb was well done and your classic dungeon crawl.

Chris Mortika wrote:

What did you folks think of "Shattered Gatesof Slaughtergarde"?

In a word: pedestrian.

Chris Mortika wrote:

Have you noticed any particular distinctions between the dungeon campaigns and the out-in-the-open adventures like Savage Tide and Rise of the Runelords?

ST and RotRL definitely have more of an epic feel and this is not just because they are epic in scope. The individual adventures just "feel" big. The out-in-the-open stuff seems to give all the PCs a chance to shine or take a back seat while the dungeon stuff seems to put PCs in the same roles throughout.

The biggest difference I see in all these adventures (and I DMd them all) is that the ST and now RoTRL stuff embraces the 3.5 rule set and really exercises it. It works with the rules and even tells a story with them (I'm not sure how else to explain this). Most of the other adventures seem to work grudgingly with the rule set or in spite of them. Surprisingly, even the early 3.0 Wotc stuff does this. Those adventures seem to have been written with the 1e/2e style pf play grafted onto the new (at the time) 3rd edition.

One other note, I have great respect for Monte Cook as an author and designer but something about his Return to Temple super-module just fell flat to me and my group. I was shocked I felt this way and this happened we were really looking forward to it.

IMHO the rug almost got pulled out from under 3E just as it was peaking as a mature rule set. It seems Paizo recognized this as well and thankfully continued it. I find an important piece of a published adventure to me is that the author tells a story WITH the rules, not in spite of them. If I want to read a fantasy novel I'll buy one. If I want to read mechanics I get a rule book. When I want to PLAY an adventure I now expect a story to be woven in and around the rules of the game.

Serendipity

Mar 9, 2010, 04:13 pm

I'll preface this by saying almost all of my play experiences began on the tail end of the 3e era (at least by some defintions). I played in an Eberron game from 2005 to 2007 but that was largely comprised of the series of
the Forgotten Forge (main book)
Shadows of the Last War
Whispers of the Vampire's blade (had a lot of fun with this one even though it had no relation whatsoever to the others)
Grasp of the Emerald Claw
plus a handful of one offs that (I believe) the GM homebrewed.

Anyway, aside, from that, here's what we've done:

The Revenants Campaign
The Burning Plague
Hollow's Last Hope
The Wizard's Amulet
Crucible of Freya
Revenge of the Kobold King
Tomb of Abysthor
an adaption of the Taming of Brimstone from Dragon 71
Demons and Devils (spread out between many different other things as part of a quest arc)
(A partial adaptation of Dungeonland occured herein)
Demon Within
an adaption of the Ruins of Andril from Dragon 81
and then the Bastion of Broken Souls

It helps to remember that in between all of this, there was a good deal of homebrew campaigning going on - in particular after Tomb of Abysthor and then after the Ruins of Andril (wherein the characters played a pivotal role in a dwarf-orc war and the foundation of a new nation). Also, most everything up there was at least moderately tinkered with - either to make it better fit into the campaign world or to make them serve a specific purpose. Obviously I was (and remain) really fond of the first wave of Necromancer games adventures.
Anymore play with those characters will be moving into lower epic levels of play - and after the headacheyness of Bastion of Broken Souls I'm not anxious to jump back on that horse just yet. (We only finished it a few months ago.) All of the above used the 3.0 rules set except Bastion which was semi-pathfinderized (though any more play with those characters and it'll be all pathfinder).

The Guild game
We played the hell out of The Keep on the Borderlands in what started as a break between campaigns and it eventually spun out into a game of it's own - a mercenary company on the fringes of a decaying empire (the Goodman Games Points of Light book came in really handy here)
Eventually, a local war re-ignited (once the Caves of Chaos had given up most but not all of their goods) and into this I weaved
the Well of the Worms and When Kobolds Fly (both from The Adventure Begins by Goodman Games) and lots of one offs. Most recently, we updated the characters to Pathfinder (like the one above, it was run with 3.0) and played through a slightly modded
Barrow of the Forgotten King.

Two years ago my wife ran a kick ass espionage oriented Eberron game (the Dark Lanterns) and was based primarily (exclusively until about 3/4 of the way through) in, over, and underneath Sharn. I can only list the stuff I'm aware of that she used but it included at least the following (plus her own plotlines and npcs of course).
Queen with the Burning Eyes
Fallen Angel
Chimes at Midnight
Quoth the Raven
Voyage of the Golden Dragon
For comparison, this was a fully 3.5 game using most of the available Eberron books but little else.

The above represents playing (I'm guesstimating here) on average twice a week for hideously long bouts of time at a sitting for about two and a half years. (Which I'm including as a metric though I'm not sure what, if anything, it matters. :P)

Serendipity

Mar 9, 2010, 04:17 pm

I'll preface this by saying almost all of my play experiences began on the tail end of the 3e era (at least by some definitions). I played in an Eberron game from 2005 to 2007 but that was largely comprised of the series of
the Forgotten Forge (main book)
Shadows of the Last War
Whispers of the Vampire's blade (had a lot of fun with this one even though it had no relation whatsoever to the others)
Grasp of the Emerald Claw
plus a handful of one offs that (I believe) the GM homebrewed.

Anyway, aside, from that, here's what we've done:

The Revenants Campaign
The Burning Plague
Hollow's Last Hope
The Wizard's Amulet
Crucible of Freya
Revenge of the Kobold King
Tomb of Abysthor
an adaption of the Taming of Brimstone from Dragon 71
Demons and Devils (spread out between many different other things as part of a quest arc)
(A partial adaptation of Dungeonland occurred herein)
Demon Within
an adaption of the Ruins of Andril from Dragon 81
and then the Bastion of Broken Souls

cibet44

Sep 27, 2010, 11:04 am

So here's ours to date in the order we played them:

The King in Tie-dye

Sep 28, 2010, 10:39 pm

An adventure I had a blast with and cannot recommend enough is The Styes by Mr. Pett. My group had a blast with it despite some hasty alterations (one player who was supposed to flake showed up with his girlfriend.) This adventure really captures the Lovecraft feel and is a good mix of investigation/stealth and good old fashioned cultist bashing dungeon crawl. There is a particularly good part where the PCs are lead into an insane asylum. Just as my PCs were touching the blood covered walls of the deepest, darkest cell the cleric's cellphone went off with the most cheerful whistling I had ever heard. Though cellphones are now banned from my games it remains one of my favorite memories of DMing.

Hagor

Sep 29, 2010, 12:24 am

The King in Tie-dye wrote:

... Just as my PCs were touching the blood covered walls of the deepest, darkest cell the cleric's cellphone went off with the most cheerful whistling I had ever heard...

Something similar has occurred at my table: PCs had infiltrated the BBEG stronghold and just when they confronted him (a demonlike creature - so I tried to set the right mood), the soundtrack of Miffy started on the television (the children of the host of the session were watching television in an adjacent room)...

Back to the topic (but memory is a bit rusty):

I played in a campaign situated in the Silver Marches (near Silverymoon & Deadsnows):
- the standing stone
- the city of the Spider Queen (on hiatus when we reached the final city - everyone needed a break at that point)

At the moment I GM a Savage Tide inspired campaign (also situated in Forgotten Realms for no particular reason):

- There Is No Honor (Savage Tide)
- The Bullywug Gambit (Savage Tide)
mixed with a.o.
- Mad God's Key (Dungeon)
- Forsaken Arch (Dungeon)
- Slaves Pits of Absalom (PFS)
- River into Darkness (planned)
- ... (depending on my players interaction with the world -they want to make the Sea Wyvern in a floating night club/temple of Sharess (~ Calistria in Golarion) & the way too many adventure possibilities this generates...)

Hagor

Luna eladrin

Oct 4, 2010, 04:30 am

Since starting with the 3rd edition, I have used a mix of published 3rd edition adventures, published older edition adventures (rewritten) and some adventures of my own. We are still playing Savage Tide.

These are the 3rd edition adventures we have played (in random order):

Evil unearthed
Playing with fire
Deep freeze
Dungeon of the fire opal
Frozen whispers
The sinkhole
Forest of blood
Base of operations
The sable drake
Tammeraut's fate
Torrents of dread
The cradle of madness
The door from everywhere
Mysterious ways
Bloodlines
The sea witch
Quadripartite
Old embers never die
The black egg
Headless
Thicker than water
A frigid demise
The harrowing
The rock and the hard place
Hangman's noose
The frozen fingers of midnight
Mists of Mwangi
There is no honor
The bullywug's gambit
The sea wyvern's wake
Here there be monsters
Tides of dread (almost finished)

cibet44

Jan 11, 2011, 10:47 am

So here's ours to date in the order we played them:

Chris Mortika RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16

Jan 11, 2011, 10:55 am

cibet44 wrote:

...--Campaign Start--
Burnt Offerings (Rise of the Runelords); The Skinsaw Murders (Rise of the Runelords); The Hook Mountain Massacres (Rise of the Runelords); Fortress of the Stone Giants (Rise of the Runelords); Sins of the Saviors (Rise of the Runelords); Spires of Xin-Shalast (Rise of the Runelords)
--Campaign Start--
Edge of Anarchy (Curse of the Crimson Throne); Seven Days to the Grave (Curse of the Crimson Throne)>> Our current adventure

cibet44, are you playing these through the 3.5 D&D ruleset, or Pathfinder RPG?

hogarth

Jan 11, 2011, 11:08 am

3.5 adventures I've played (not counting pure home-brew):

Campaign #1
-Forgotten Forge
-Buzz on the Bridge
-[campaign died]

Campaign #2:
-Night Below [adaptation, ongoing]

Campaign #3:
-[joined in progress]
-Steading of the Hill Giant Chief [adaptation]
-Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl [adaptation]
-Hall of the Fire Giant King [adaptation, aborted]
-[campaign died]

Pathfinder Society:
-Silent Tide
-The Hydra Fang Incident
-Mists of Mwangi

Spoiler:

I've also played in Pathfinder (Alpha/Beta/final version) games using Shackled City, Age of Worms, Savage Tide, Rise of the Runelords (started it twice), Curse of the Crimson Throne, Second Darkness, Legacy of Fire, and Council of Thieves (not to mention various Pathfinder Society modules). The Age of Worms, Savage Tide, Legacy of Fire and one of the Rise of the Runelords campaigns are ongoing; the rest died a premature death.

cibet44

Jan 11, 2011, 11:40 am

Chris Mortika wrote:

cibet44 wrote:
...--Campaign Start--
Burnt Offerings (Rise of the Runelords); The Skinsaw Murders (Rise of the Runelords); The Hook Mountain Massacres (Rise of the Runelords); Fortress of the Stone Giants (Rise of the Runelords); Sins of the Saviors (Rise of the Runelords); Spires of Xin-Shalast (Rise of the Runelords)
--Campaign Start--
Edge of Anarchy (Curse of the Crimson Throne); Seven Days to the Grave (Curse of the Crimson Throne)>> Our current adventure
cibet44, are you playing these through the 3.5 D&D ruleset, or Pathfinder RPG?

3.5 Core books only + Spell Compendium.

archmagi1

Jan 11, 2011, 12:32 pm

Lets see... The only campaign I've ran where I used published modules was:

--Campaign Start--
Idylls of the Rat King ((PF Beta days))
--Campaign End--

Everything else is generally my own adventures.

I've played in games that lasted one-two sessions from the following:

1) Shackled City, Age of Worms
2) Legacy of Fire

I'm currently in a Ptolus game, though, that uses many of the adventure threads//ideas from the Ptolus book. Its working out pretty well (though the party as a whole is CN to CE as a rule).

hogarth

Jan 11, 2011, 01:58 pm

archmagi1 wrote:

I'm currently in a Ptolus game, though, that uses many of the adventure threads//ideas from the Ptolus book. Its working out pretty well (though the party as a whole is CN to CE as a rule).

That reminds me, I forgot one:

Campaign #4
-Ptolus [campaign died]

cibet44

Feb 8, 2011, 05:51 am

cibet44

Mar 28, 2011, 08:39 am

cibet44 wrote:

--Campaign Start--
The Sunless Citadel
The Forge of Fury
The Speaker in Dreams
The Standing Stone
Heart of Nightfang Spire
Deep Horizon
Lord of the Iron Fortress
Bastion of Broken Souls
--Campaign Start--
Crucible of Freya
Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil
--Campaign Start--
Red Hand of Doom
--Campaign Start--
Three Days to Kill
Tomb of Abysthor
--Campaign Start--
The Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde
Expedition to the Demonweb Pits
--Campaign Start--
There Is No Honor (Savage Tide)
The Bullywug Gambit (Savage Tide)
The Sea Wyvern's Wake (Savage Tide)
Here There Be Monsters (Savage Tide)
Tides of Dread (Savage Tide)
The Lightless Depths (Savage Tide)
City of Broken Idols (Savage Tide)
Serpents of Scuttlecove (Savage Tide)
Into the Maw (Savage Tide)
Wells of Darkness (Savage Tide)
Enemies of My Enemy (Savage Tide)
Prince of Demons (Savage Tide)
--Campaign Start--
Burnt Offerings (Rise of the Runelords)
The Skinsaw Murders (Rise of the Runelords)
The Hook Mountain Massacres (Rise of the Runelords)
Fortress of the Stone Giants (Rise of the Runelords)
Sins of the Saviors (Rise of the Runelords)
Spires of Xin-Shalast (Rise of the Runelords)
--Campaign Start--
Edge of Anarchy (Curse of the Crimson Throne)
Seven Days to the Grave (Curse of the Crimson Throne)
Escape From Old Korvosa (Curse of the Crimson Throne)
A History of Ashes (Curse of the Crimson Throne)-->Our current adventure

cibet44

Apr 18, 2011, 06:36 am

hogarth

Apr 29, 2011, 07:51 am

An updated list. Changes in bold.

hogarth wrote:

3.5 adventures I've played (not counting pure home-brew):

Campaign #1
-Sunless Citadel
-Buzz on the Bridge
-[campaign died]

Campaign #2:
-Night Below [adaptation]
[campaign died]

Campaign #3:
-[joined in progress]
-Steading of the Hill Giant Chief [adaptation]
-Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl [adaptation]
-Hall of the Fire Giant King [adaptation, aborted]
-[campaign died]

Campaign #4
-Ptolus [campaign died]

Pathfinder Society:
-Silent Tide
-The Hydra Fang Incident
-Mists of Mwangi

cibet44

Aug 1, 2011, 07:21 am

cibet44

Aug 22, 2011, 07:44 am

Completed Crown of Fangs. We are now moving to the Pathfinder RPG for Carrion Crown.

So that's it for what I consider the "3rd edition Era" for our group. Not bad, 11 years worth of D&D from the 6 core books (for 3.0 and 3.5). I think we got our moneys worth.

cibet44

Oct 25, 2011, 07:54 am

--Campaign Start--
The Sunless Citadel
The Forge of Fury
The Speaker in Dreams
The Standing Stone
Heart of Nightfang Spire
Deep Horizon
Lord of the Iron Fortress
Bastion of Broken Souls
--Campaign Start--
Crucible of Freya
Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil
--Campaign Start--
Red Hand of Doom
--Campaign Start--
Three Days to Kill
Tomb of Abysthor
--Campaign Start--
The Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde
Expedition to the Demonweb Pits
--Campaign Start--
There Is No Honor (Savage Tide)
The Bullywug Gambit (Savage Tide)
The Sea Wyvern's Wake (Savage Tide)
Here There Be Monsters (Savage Tide)
Tides of Dread (Savage Tide)
The Lightless Depths (Savage Tide)
City of Broken Idols (Savage Tide)
Serpents of Scuttlecove (Savage Tide)
Into the Maw (Savage Tide)
Wells of Darkness (Savage Tide)
Enemies of My Enemy (Savage Tide)
Prince of Demons (Savage Tide)
--Campaign Start--
Burnt Offerings (Rise of the Runelords)
The Skinsaw Murders (Rise of the Runelords)
The Hook Mountain Massacres (Rise of the Runelords)
Fortress of the Stone Giants (Rise of the Runelords)
Sins of the Saviors (Rise of the Runelords)
Spires of Xin-Shalast (Rise of the Runelords)
--Campaign Start--
Edge of Anarchy (Curse of the Crimson Throne)
Seven Days to the Grave (Curse of the Crimson Throne)
Escape From Old Korvosa (Curse of the Crimson Throne)
A History of Ashes (Curse of the Crimson Throne)
Skeletons of Scarwall (Curse of the Crimson Throne)
Crown of Fangs (Curse of the Crimson Throne)
--Campaign Start (Pathfinder RPG)--
Haunting of Harrowstone (Carrion Crown)
Trial of the Beast (Carrion Crown) -->Our current adventure

cibet44

Dec 12, 2011, 08:06 am

hogarth

Dec 12, 2011, 08:09 am

cibet44 wrote:

Completed Crown of Fangs. We are now moving to the Pathfinder RPG for Carrion Crown.

So that's it for what I consider the "3rd edition Era" for our group. Not bad, 11 years worth of D&D from the 6 core books (for 3.0 and 3.5). I think we got our moneys worth.

Ah...if you're now recording PFRPG games, I could add a whole whack of stuff that I've played.

cibet44

Feb 6, 2012, 06:45 am

cibet44

Mar 5, 2012, 06:40 am

cibet44

Mar 26, 2012, 05:54 am

cibet44

May 27, 2012, 07:04 pm

cibet44

Sep 16, 2012, 09:22 pm

Carrion Crown is finally complete! It took us 11 and 3/4 months. Next up: Serpents Skull.

Legendarius

Sep 17, 2012, 12:19 pm

Awesome list of adventures. I'm so jealous of your regular game play.

cibet44

Nov 18, 2012, 07:39 pm

cibet44

Jun 10, 2013, 05:50 pm

HangarFlying

Jun 15, 2013, 09:21 pm

Are you playing with the same players or does membership fluctuate? I'm jealous of your run!

carmachu

Jun 18, 2013, 07:10 am

The only thing I have really done in 3.x era was play in a game of Ptolus from 1st to 18-20. The party stayed mostly the same for the entire run(2 orginial players dropped, and two more were added. Only one orginal player died permenantly. 3 orginial characters were there till the end.....THAT was alot of fun.

cibet44

Nov 15, 2013, 07:34 pm

cibet44

Nov 15, 2013, 07:50 pm

HangarFlying wrote:

Are you playing with the same players or does membership fluctuate? I'm jealous of your run!

Same players. We've been playing together for over 25 years. I refuse to do the math, but its probably closer to 30 years by now.

Serpents Skull is certainly a slog, but fun. I'm adding the PF mass combat rules and battles to it as we go as well.

cibet44

Jul 5, 2014, 05:44 am

cibet44

Oct 6, 2014, 03:46 pm

Another AP complete. October 2012 - October 2014, 2 full years. Quite a bit of time spent on one AP.

Next up: Mummies Mask.

cibet44

Mar 26, 2015, 12:42 pm

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cibet44

Jun 6, 2016, 04:21 pm

Mummy's Mask complete. October 2014 - June 2016!!

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