Hello fellows who frequent the Paizo boards, I come to you in search of advice. Here's the lowdown:
It's my first time GMing D&D (and also pretty much my first time playing it, aside from a few campaigns which died after 2-3 sessions). I decided to go with a "Greyhawk Classics" campaign, planning to go all the way from ToEE through Slave Lords, Giants, and finally Drow.
We've started the game in Hommlet, and the party already tackled the Moathouse and are now at the Temple, and here's where I've been having trouble.
This is the current party:
LG male human paladin 5/anointed knight 3 - Party leader & Tank
N male human wizard 3/cleric of Boccob 3/mystic theurge 2 - Caster & Healer.
LN male dwarf fighter 6 - Secondary tank
LG male human monk 5 - Has Vows of Poverty, Nonviolence and Peace (Yes, only too late did I realize I may have shot myself in the foot allowing BoED)
and Furnok, the rogue from Hommlet that I'm controlling as an NPC (the party went back to get him after falling for one to many traps XD)
Now, right now my two main concerns are the exalted monk (though I plan to see him develop a bit, if it starts to become troublesome I'll try to kill him, right now I've banned further use of the BoED aside from those two chars) and the fact that the party has advanced way beyond what I have planned (they've only explored half of the first level and already at levels 7-8, I had been planning to them being at most lvl 10 when finishing the Temple). Right now I fear the rest of the Temple, especially the Elemental Nodes, will drag on too much and the party will end up on a way too high level. Currently I was thinking on cropping the Nodes, and perhaps the 4th level.
So, has anyone run ToEE for 3.5? Any feedback or pointers you could give? Help me Paizoans, you're my only hope!