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I know that a while back i said on a thread somewhere that i thought it would be almost impossible to run this in IK. Well i have had a change of heart and would really apreciate some help from anyone who has attempted it so far. What have you changed or substituted and where have you set it in the IK? Thanks .
Has anyone else ever played this adventure? I know its long out of print but i rank it as one of the greatest ever, up there alongside TOEE and COTSQ. Its the first one that i ever played in as a novice figher 18 years ago. I have also DM'd it myself in second ed and enjoyed it even more. It has such memorable npcs such as Menlo Seccord who even now means a lot to at least one of my players. I would love to see this done for 3rd ed. In my oppinion it has everything that makes an adventure a classic: Plot, Character, Location and a real reason for the pcs to want to finish it. Brilliant!!
Just thought i'd mention a player of mine called Dave. Dave is a VERY inventive individual. He played a character called Lassiter who was an elf from another world. A fighter pilot by trade, he came to Greyhawk many years ago and ended up near Cauldron. All through the campaign he has regailed his companions with tales of 'the coming war', which refers incidently to a githyanki invasion that i plan to happen eventualy. Lassiter is a survivor from a previous invasion of his home world. Lassiter has been very inventive throughout the campaign, the highlight being him trying to strike a deal with some drow they met to provide him with giant spider carcasses so that he could create mobile spider tanks for himself and his colleagues. At one point he wanted to drain the caldera lake of Cauldron and turn it into a huge spider farm but shelved this when i mentioned how deep the lake was. He has had an ongoing projest to create a flying machine called a flit which works in a primitive way and has amazed his companions. Both Lassiter and the rest of the group have befriended a mimic called Bob who now serves as a valuable henchman and mobile disposal unit. And lets not forget Daves other pc, the wizard Lum, possibly the laziest man alive. At various points in the campaign he has volunteered himself as a test subject for novice wizards to use as a practice target for their sleep spells. So to Lassiter, Lum, Drinnin the Bruce Lee of monks, Bannor the paladin no one loves, Galdar the uptight cleric of St Cuth and Corian who got them all into this mess in the first place i say STOP IT! I can't take any more!!
What lies beneath the mine at area 32. In my campaign i am having some of my players who grew up in Diamond Lake know of a childrens tale about a bogeyman called poxpanus that is said to dwell deep in the mine. The children dare each other to venture into the mine but they cant get far due to it being collapsed. Poxpanus is real and i am developing him as arecuring bogeyman that may well haunt the pcs throughout the campaign. They may never know what it is but the will certainly have an interesting time trying to find out.
Id like to see loads of information on these clasic Gygax characters
Has anyone else ever wondered why there is never any mention of Gary Gygax's Gord the Rogue books? For anyone thats never read them they concern the life story of a young thief called Gord who grows up in Greyhawk. He goes on to become achampion of Balance in the war to stop Tharizdun being released. I have always wondered why we have never seen stats for Gord or the other characters in both Dragon or Dungeon. The likes of Curly Greenleaf(half elven druid), Chert(barbarian), Gellor(bard) and many others would make fantastic Npcs as would Gravestone/Unron Nalvistor/Beanpole/Graves, possibly one of the crepiest and deadly servants of Nerull ever . What do others think? I'd especialy love to hear some feedback from some of the guys at Paizo.
Hi. Im after a few new players to join our group. We play on a regular basis on a tuesday night. At the moment we are just about to start the new Age of Worms campaign.
Just wondering what others think about using bits of the Book of Vile Darkness in the AOW? We havent started the campaign as of yet but i am planning on tweaking it a bit to make it more 'mature'. I plan on adding a few spells here and there to some of the Ebon Triad members in TFOE, as well as using the rules for drugs in the Emporium. I feel that Diamond Lake has got just the right kind of gritty realism about it to handle these modifications. I also plan to have a side plot running involving a demon worshiping cult of Fraz-urb-lu, hidden in an abbandoned building somewhere in the town. Not to sure of the ins and outs of this yet but seeing as they worship the prince of deception and lies i may go with the cultists duping the pcs into recovering parts of the demon lords staff, not realising what it is they are really doing. The article in Dragon has a lot of good hooks to it , especially dealing with the cultists. |
