Well the game progresses along my plan of Temple of Elemental Evil followed by Against the Giants in Nex.
The temple is set in a scrub filled valley on the edge of the Mana Wastes. The moathouse was converted to a 1 level dungeon ruin a full day north of the temple in sandy desert.
The PC's heard about the 'Grand Nexus of elemental power' from papyrus scroll notes in the moathouse.
This is the third time I have ran the TOEE in my 22 years of gaming, it this time it has started rather differently -
- Here's an except from my game journal about what happened -
Wandering through the overground courtyard and straight up to the entrance of a massive grey building lined with stained glass windows and gothic arches.
'We can renovate this place along with the gnome ruins once we take over' declared Byson the Minotaur Druid.
Petal the Elven Dervish smiled seemingly pleased with the idea, but the others were less sure.
Argotz the Magus used magic to read some glyphs imprinted on the massive double doors. Immediately he felt pain in his mind and felt a great need to stay away from this place.
Petal was in tune with the dramatic music in her head and started to climb they large bricks and imbedded gargoyles up onto the roof. She was thrown a rope to secure and soon the rest of the group joined her on the roof all except Mubutu the lion, who decided to have a good nap.
Making their way across the roof they found a 20ft wide stained glass skylight. Should they sell it intact they could make a good 1000 gold pieces however instead they decided to lasso a gargoyle statue and drag it to the skylight to drop through it. Just before it dropped through Ronwen weaved gnomish tricksy magic to make the statue glow with light.
The glowing gargoyle statue smashed through the skylight and kept going down into the well beneath it. It kept going into the darkness, so our heroes figured it was pretty deep. As the group cautiously climbed down ropes some hyena-folk known as gnolls started firing arrows at them.
