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Greetings fellow adventurers! I’m putting some feelers out for running a Red Hand of Doom campaign converted to EN World’s Advanced 5th Edition (A5E). This rule set is a crunchier take on 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons. The free rules are available at A5E Free Rules. I also have the up to current issues of Gate Pass Gazette, which is the monthly e-zine for A5E released by EN World.
Red Hand of Doom was one of the more highly lauded adventures released for 3.5e. It takes adventurers from level 5 to 10 against an invading hobgoblin army backed by sinister extraplanar forces against the citizens of the Elsir Vale in the world of Greyhawk.
I’m ordinarily a 5e GM, so A5E isn’t much of a shift for me. The ideal player for this game is available to post once a day at least and is interested in creating a character that has a vested interest (doesn’t have to be an expressly noble one) in the Elsir Vale and protecting it against this invading threat. This adventure functions much like a sandbox with bumpers. You can explore a bit and accomplish goals in any order, but there is a narrative thread and a timeline to accomplish it in.
If enough interest is expressed, I’ll post an actual recruitment thread for folks to sign up.
Sounds cool...I have played part of the Red Hand before, but we never got very far. I will have to read up on A5E.
Please do. If you don’t mind my asking what part did you play? Just the first parts?
Red Hand of Doom would interest me as well and we're already starting a AE5 game together.
I’m not sure why it didn’t, but here’s the link. I tried to get cute with the hyperlink.
https://a5e.tools/
Never played that... both this adventure and A5E. I'm gonna have a look at it.
So we're gonna top up at level 10, right?
Never played that... both this adventure and A5E. I'm gonna have a look at it.
So we're gonna top up at level 10, right?
That’s right. We’d milestone level up to around 10, maybe 11.
Definitely interested.
I've already thought of a character concept. A female elf druid married a local human man, lived with him, had some half-elf children, raised them, and eventually, inevitably outlived them. Since then, she's become a recluse, living in a cabin in the woods thinking about maybe returning to her elven family. If the community is threatened, however, she'll come to its defense.
I'll start developing this idea and will add crunch as we get information on character creation guidelines.
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It seems like there’s plenty enough interest. I’ll create an official character recruitment thread so it’s appropriately titled to draw interest. I’ll try to have it tonight.
Character creation is going to be simple enough. Characters will be built to level 5 to start. Not going to complicate it with non core class and subclass options. Sources will be from the adventurers guide and the five issues of gate pass Gazette out to date. My drive link with those sources is below for anyone else that wants to get started before I post the official recruitment thread.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-Q7Nly4gjGoGXyDFiCncyZ2kA77N6X8X
I've had a look at some of the Synergy feats and there's some of them to my liking... Will work on it, though there's a lot of info to absorb.
27 point buy, I guess?
Was going to ask about ability scores...or can we roll 4d6??
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I neglected to clarify. You can do 27 point buy or roll 2d6+6 in any order one set.
Official recruitment up. All who responded to this thread have first dibs.