What is the background for the entire campaign?
How much of it takes place in cities or towns. The reason I'm asking, is that I may try to run it with characters that start out as Koblods, but get reincarnated as some other creature whenever they die. That way I can keep the same characters through the campaign, just not in the same bodies...just a thought.
My current campaign takes place in a frontier settlement where the Kobolds live in the basment of the local castle.
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Interesting that you mention that two adventures take place in a huge city. I was under the assumption that Dungeon writers were afraid to locate adventures within well established cities for fear of changing something in the game world. And this lack of adventuring in large cities really bothered me.
This is a bit of good news that should inspire characters to spend a few skill points in gather information, disguise, and the other less frequented skills.
There's 12 episodes. Of these 12, 3 take place in a town, 2 take place in a huge city, 2 take place in a smaller city, and the rest are wilderness or remote locations.
Any chance on getting the GH names of those Towns and Cities?
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Of these 12, 3 take place in a town, 2 take place in a huge city, 2 take place in a smaller city, and the rest are wilderness or remote locations.
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Diamond Lake, Greyhawk, Alhaster. Wilderness locations include an island in the Nyr Dyv (near Alhaster) and the Rift Canyon (specifically the Wormcrawl Fissure). Plus, you'll take a trip to the "Spire of Long Shadows," the only place on the Shackled City area map that didn't get any play in that campaign, but which is critical to this one.
--Erik
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Of these 12, 3 take place in a town, 2 take place in a huge city, 2 take place in a smaller city, and the rest are wilderness or remote locations.
>>>Diamond Lake, Greyhawk, Alhaster. Wilderness locations include an island in the Nyr Dyv (near Alhaster) and the Rift Canyon (specifically the Wormcrawl Fissure). Plus, you'll take a trip to the "Spire of Long Shadows," the only place on the Shackled City area map that didn't get any play in that campaign, but which is critical to this one.
--Erik
So Erik if these are the cities where it is going to take place, if you were using GH. What cities will it use if you use Eberron?
I just started a campain using the Shackled Path putting my players through the Life's Bazaar adventure.
Should I be swapping campains?
I'm only awarding 50% XP to slow down level advancement so can I...
Play both Adventure Paths similtaneously?
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Of these 12, 3 take place in a town, 2 take place in a huge city, 2 take place in a smaller city, and the rest are wilderness or remote locations.
>>>Diamond Lake, Greyhawk, Alhaster. Wilderness locations include an island in the Nyr Dyv (near Alhaster) and the Rift Canyon (specifically the Wormcrawl Fissure). Plus, you'll take a trip to the "Spire of Long Shadows," the only place on the Shackled City area map that didn't get any play in that campaign, but which is critical to this one.
--Erik
Are the dragon shard adventures coming the next three months? My players loved the first, and cannott wait to play the next!!
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So Erik if these are the cities where it is going to take place, if you were using GH. What cities will it use if you use Eberron?
Diamond Lake, Sharn: City of Towers, the Lhazar Principalities. The Spire of Long Shadows is in Q'barra. The Rift Canyon becomes the Goradra Gap in the Mror Holds. Instead of the Ebon Triad (who first appeared in the Shackled City AP and who play a much larger role in this one), the PCs will be facing off against the Lords of Dust.
All of the above was provided by Keith Baker, incidentally.
--Erik Mona
Editor-in-Chief
Dragon & Dungeon
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There will definately be a reason to spend ranks in the social skills like Diplomacy, Intimidate, Gather Information, etc. These skills are going to be useful in pretty much every adventure to a certain extent; one of our design philosophies for Age of Worms is that no matter what kind of characters you build for the adventure, you'll get to show off your choices in skills, classes, etc. at least a few times.
In any case, there'll certainly be plenty of chances to talk your way out of situations or use roleplaying solutions to encounters throughout the adventure path.
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So Erik if these are the cities where it is going to take place, if you were using GH. What cities will it use if you use Eberron?Diamond Lake, Sharn: City of Towers, the Lhazar Principalities. The Spire of Long Shadows is in Q'barra. The Rift Canyon becomes the Goradra Gap in the Mror Holds. Instead of the Ebon Triad (who first appeared in the Shackled City AP and who play a much larger role in this one), the PCs will be facing off against the Lords of Dust.
All of the above was provided by Keith Baker, incidentally.
--Erik Mona
Editor-in-Chief
Dragon & Dungeon
The Lords of Dust :D muhahahahahahahahahahahaha...........
Interesting mayhaps I will wait an extra week and run this instead of running Shackled City considering I want to get the hardback version of that before I run it.
Instead of the Ebon Triad (who first appeared in the Shackled City AP and who play a much larger role in this one), the PCs will be facing off against the Lords of Dust.
So there is a connection between the badguys in both APs?
Is there increased value and tie in for players who have run characters through AP1 first, before running a new set of characters through AP2?
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Instead of the Ebon Triad (who first appeared in the Shackled City AP and who play a much larger role in this one), the PCs will be facing off against the Lords of Dust.
So there is a connection between the badguys in both APs?
Is there increased value and tie in for players who have run characters through AP1 first, before running a new set of characters through AP2?
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Probably. The Ebon Triad's not the only thread that carries over from Shackled City into Age of Worms. I can say that the cagewrights and Adimarchus won't be making an appearance, though, but there will be some characters and themes carried over:
Ebon Triad
Celeste
The Spire of Long Shadows
And a few more...
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Is there increased value and tie in for players who have run characters through AP1 first, before running a new set of characters through AP2?
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They might catch a few references here and there, but I'd say it's more an "Easter Egg" thing than a "developing story" thing.
--Erik Mona
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Dragon & Dungeon
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Diamond Lake, Greyhawk, Alhaster. Wilderness locations include an island in the Nyr Dyv (near Alhaster) and the Rift Canyon (specifically the Wormcrawl Fissure).
Fantastic! Now you've got my Greyhawk engines fired up. I can't wait!
Someone wanna clue me in as to where Diamond lake is located?
On any big Flanaess map, if you look between the Nyr Dyv and the Mistmarsh, you'll see hook-shaped finger of the Cairn Hills running along the shoreline. There are several mining towns in those hills, mines owned by Greyhawk but operated by local mine-managers. Diamond Lake is in the hills 45 miles East of Greyhawk City, along the Urnst Trail. It's the last civilized town on your way out of the Domain of Greyhawk as you stick to the highlands between the Mistmarsh and the Nyr Dyv. The Lake is also the source of the Ery River, which is the tiny little river that combines with the larger Neen River before flowing into the Selintan. There's a detailed local map on the Internet if you dig hard enough. But Erik's spiffy new map is only a week away!
It's about a few miles northeast of the Free City of Greyhawk. Basically, the same temperate region. From the sound of it, everything in the campaign, except for the Spire of Long Shadows, takes place in a temperate forest region.
Squid
Could we maybe get a hint where it's suitable to locate the campaign in Faerûn?
It sounds like the Free City equivalent in the Realms is Waterdeep. Good timing with the City of Splendours supplement coming out soon ;)
So find a hilly region with a lake (or invent one) about 3 days' coach travel from Waterdeep and you've got it.
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i have to ask one thing only= NO YAUN-TI PLEASE !!!!!!!
What, you didn't hear? In the new Adventure Path, it is explained that yuan-ti aren't related to snakes- they're related to worms. Big, green worms. And the next Age is theirs- the Age of Worms. The only way to stop the rising tide is to ally with a race of sentient fish to eat the worms, all of whom worship a Groucho-Marx -glasses wearing, mustachioed demon prince named Badimarchus.
The whole campaign took three minutes to write on a stained bar napkin. I have the original I dug up from Erik's trash. :)
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i have to ask one thing only= NO YAUN-TI PLEASE !!!!!!!What, you didn't hear? In the new Adventure Path, it is explained that yuan-ti aren't related to snakes- they're related to worms. Big, green worms. And the next Age is theirs- the Age of Worms. The only way to stop the rising tide is to ally with a race of sentient fish to eat the worms, all of whom worship a Groucho-Marx -glasses wearing, mustachioed demon prince named Badimarchus.
The whole campaign took three minutes to write on a stained bar napkin. I have the original I dug up from Erik's trash. :)
As crazy as that sounds,it might be true.
Diamond Lake, Greyhawk, Alhaster.
Will there be poster maps of Greyhawk and Alhaster?
Not Greyhawk. I'd like to do one for Alhaster, but we'll see when the time comes.
Cool. I think I'll do a wierd FR hybrid, where instead of using Daggerford as Diamond Lake, I'll just plop down Diamond Lake in Faerun near Waterdeep. That way, I can use the poster map of Diamond Lake, which I like a lot by the way, as well as my maps of Waterdeep as the Free City.
Thanks for being so willing to put up with all of our questions.
What's wrong with YuanTi? They get too much attention in the first adventure path? or is this a personal issue? If their used heavily in the Shackled City I'm definetly buying the hard back...
(loves all things with scales)
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Eric and/or James,
Where to start???I have an easy question, I think...We have not used Greyhawk since the early 80's..played mainly homebrews, Runequest, and Warhammer...again, I am digressing..So, I plan on breaking out the original Greyhawk maps, and just got, on EBay, The Greyhawk Gazeteer, and Greyhawk, The adventure begins...first, I looked in 124, and did not see any dates, does it matter? and second, I read your Blog about the Wind Dukes...is there any other history that should be read...I'll take any advice you can offer...