Don't do it! It is a TRAP!!!
~GRINS~
Well, IMHO, the RotRL Map Folio is a nice addition, since it removes the need to search for most of the maps. Other than that, have an extra Players Guide for yourself.
Edit - Also, look in the messageboards for what other DMs have experienced. Some of them have some great ideas that would add to the experience.
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There is a lot of really good community created stuff, maps, handouts and the like.
The GM reference threads are very handy and have all sorts of errata and clarifications.
Classic monsters revisted has extra info on goblins and ogres, very handy.
Watching the movies recommended in the editorials was very handy (seven, the original hills have eyes, texas chainsaw massacre and deliverance).
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Don't do it! It is a TRAP!!!
~GRINS~
Well, IMHO, the RotRL Map Folio is a nice addition, since it removes the need to search for most of the maps. Other than that, have an extra Players Guide for yourself.
Edit - Also, look in the messageboards for what other DMs have experienced. Some of them have some great ideas that would add to the experience.
Are the maps of the dungeons still too small to be used as battlemaps? There has been many complaints about that in the reviews of this product.
Are the maps of the dungeons still too small to be used as battlemaps? There has been many complaints about that in the reviews of this product.Don't do it! It is a TRAP!!!
~GRINS~
Well, IMHO, the RotRL Map Folio is a nice addition, since it removes the need to search for most of the maps. Other than that, have an extra Players Guide for yourself.
Edit - Also, look in the messageboards for what other DMs have experienced. Some of them have some great ideas that would add to the experience.
There are quite a lot of solutions to this, including my own. Check out the Rise of the Runelords section of the messageboards.
My one regret in starting an AP was this nagging completist urge to start with the first one. I've since realized that they definitely increase in quality with each new AP. If I had to choose over again, I would have timed my new campaign with a new AP subscription... in fact, that's what I've just done.
Runelords benefits from a lot of groups having played it already, so advice and game aids abound... but I can't help but feel that I should have started with one of the subsequent APs... Crimson Throne seems more my style.
Having run the AP I would definitely say read some of the other posts about it, there were a handful of encounters that were a little harder than they might have been expected to be in the first few APs, you should give them a good "once over" before running them for the group. Obviously it depends on the group make up/power level, but it can be somewhat of a killjoy.
