AoW: Fastracking for 4E

[Xuttah]

In anticipation of 4E I'm thinking of fastracking AoW by a few modules. We're just starting HoHR, but I was wondering which adventures are not truly necessary to the plot?

[ruined]

From what I've seen, 'A Gathering of Winds' seems to be popular choice for replacement/excision. The two highlights here are dealing with Ilthane (neccesary before you get to Prince of Redhand), and getting a fragment of the Rod. These two elements could easily be adjusted to another scenario.

[Andrew Turner]

You could always play the whole thing through, then when 4e PHB is issued in May, you as the DM will have some whitespace on your calendar to learn the new system whilst the players are confounded by Dragotha.

[I’ve Got Reach]

I'd echo Andrew's comments.

It would be a shame to short-change a great story because a new edition is being released, when Age of Worms would be a great story REGARDLESS of the system used.

In fact, it might be said that AoW was good in spite of 3.5 (what with the high-level headaches 3.5 provides DMs and players alike).

You might even consider expanding the story and cutting over to 4.0, making stat block adjustments as necessary.

[Jeremy Mac Donald]

I agree with the rest of the posters here. May 2008 will not be when you could potentially play 4th edition. Only thing that will be out then is the Players Hand Book. It won't be until July that you could have all the books and it can't hurt to give yourself until August to work up an adventure with the new books.

Basically speaking you can't play for a year in any case. Chances are you can take it easy and play through the whole campaign at a reasonably leisurely pace and wrap it all up right around the time you could reasonably be expected to have all the tools you will actually need to play 4th edition.

[Andrew Turner]

As the others have already said, AoW is 100% awesome. I'd never want to run it with any holes; in fact, I recently replaced four issues through Paizo just to be sure I will have the complete adventure for the next go 'round. :-)

[Xuttah]

Alright, you convinced me. Aow:Uncut it is. Guess I jumped the gun.

AGoW still might get the subbed since I'm not totally sold on it and LoLR will have a little less of the "you need the blue key to continue" approach. I'm not fond of that kind of railroading.

Thanks for shaking me vigorously. :)

PS anyone

[dungeonblaster]

Ilthane can be encountered in PoRH and the fragment isn't really necessary for the adventure (and can even be a bit of a red herring). If the PCs like dungeon crawls, leave AGoW in.