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WOTC has done about as well as can expected with this adventure. But it is close … a lot closer than anything that has come before. The playtest rules take up about half the pages with the rest being the four adventures, ghosts of dragonspear castle pdf free download. The booklet is designed to take players from level one to level ten.
This review concentrates mostly on the content in the first adventure, although most of the comments apply to the other four as well. I took good notes in reading the first adventure but not in the others. First, the outline. There are evil guys. They have a plan. They need four keys. The players slowly unravel the mystery. Blah blah blah, ghosts of dragonspear castle pdf free download.
Therein lies the first problem with the product. Even if the characters do everything right ghosts of dragonspear castle pdf free download or all of he keys are likely to end up in the bad guys hands. The players can not impact it or change the destination of timing of the railroad they are on.
You might find the ride enjoyable. This is not the freely structured adventures of the playtest modules, like B2, X1, or the others. This then is the primary sin of the product. I suspect that the adventure could have been restructured to make it more of a setting with personalities and locations and thereby accomplish both goals by providing an outline of how the adventure usually works the railroad.
It is not going to be easy to restructure it on your own. A shapechanger means someone important harm. This adventure does that. A powerful NPC could kill he party at any time but instead watches them, tricks them, ghosts of dragonspear castle pdf free download, lies to them, and so on, all disguised.
The actual situation is much worse and should not have been included. Given the excellent ideas in the rest of the book they should have been able to come up with something else. You have to pass a skill check to go on the adventure. Easily fixed, right? Someone makes the check and the DM feeds them information. What exactly is the point of the skill check then? Just roll a die and give it to someone.
Or better yet integrate it in to the adventure. The whole adventure does a great job of integrating learning examples in in to play but this is not one of them. It reminds me of why I hate skills in games. Not even the designers, evidently.
This is Ghosts of dragonspear castle pdf free download the correct way and by placing it in an introductory product you are tacitly telling people this is how the game is played. More on that later. Someone who knows how to use a skill check should have caught this in the edit and fixed it.
Skills, in particular, are very hard to integrate in and deserve VERY good integrated examples in these early products. A character opens the door and slime drops on them when the first character passes through the door. Maybe the floor glistens, rewarding characters who ask why. WAY too much. WOTC has published articles about the problems of read-aloud text, but they still do it poorly.
I was trying to find a reference I came across once. It said something to the effect that players eyes glaze over after two or three sentences of read-alound. I think it was a WOTC article but it may have been on rpg.
I know my eyes glaze over when reading it and I stop paying attention when someone is droning on … where droning on is … about three sentences. I know they are supposed to be evocative. This has A LOT of read-aloud, almost none of which does anything required at all. It just sits there and increases page count and acts as something for the DM to read and not care about and for the players to ignore. Speaking of verbosity … this thing has a lot of meaningless stuff in it. All of the words just run together and make it hard to find information.
Everything is spelled out for the DM in a painful level of detail. Provide a general outline and reveal more of it in the text of the encounters and focus on providing flavor seeds rather than specific details. I want terser descriptions and explanations that contain the flavor of the thing. This sometimes extends in weird ways. The monster stats are not included in the adventure text but references to their page are. Ghosts of dragonspear castle pdf free download harkens back to the bad old days of including a 2-page monster-stat in the adventure right in the heart of it.
You need to tell people that a door is immune to poison? Come one guys, I know some asshat players somewhere is going to argue his poison should count for the damage done to a door. I know it. The DM should then punch that player in the face and that should be the end of it. This sort of common sense stuff needs to up to the DM. Speaking of padding … the verbosity here is different than the 3e-era padding that was done by the pay-per-word guys.
You know, some contract writer would be paid by the word and so would pad his adventure with a bunch of worthless detail and description. There is clearly a convention for this that is followed for most, but not all of the rooms. That inconsistency is a bit jarring since you suddenly encounter swamp gas in a room description rather than offset as it usually is, ghosts of dragonspear castle pdf free download.
Not a good thing when you are running an adventure. There is A LOT of good flavor included. It instantly communicates the brutality and reasoning behind it and it does so in a very terse manner.
It happens to be buried in other text that sucks that that nugget is exactly the sort of thing I look for in an adventure and what helps me run it at a table. There are a lot of those little things scattered throughout the text. It quickly communicates to the DM how to run the encounter and provides a decent amount of realism without resorting to tedious descriptions and histories.
The party can talk to the bandits. They can talk to an evil dragon. They can talk to lizard men. Taking to a monster provides for more ghosts of dragonspear castle pdf free download than just hacking it down. And you can always resort to hacking it down later. By having this early product provide numerous situations where characters can talk to monsters it reinforces that this is the accepted play style. Along with this the vermin encounters also provide teachable experiences, both to the players and to the DM, just as the intelligent monsters do.
A stirge has flown in to one area and flying around recklessly trying to get out. If the players hang around too long then it attacks them. The anima-like monster is acting like an animal! How unusual to find in a published product! It also provides an excellent warning to the players. Maybe they hear it. Certainly they see it when they enter the room. Leave the animals along and get away.
Similarly the encounters give some advice ghosts of dragonspear castle pdf free download monsters nearby reacting to the players presence. If you fight the monsters in room three then the monsters in room six and seven will react in two rounds. Or maybe two different types of monsters react if they hear the players in a certain area, or someone runs to room nine to fetch the guys there as reinforcements.
I wish more adventures did this, or just included a summary of which creatures are where. I hate having to look through to see who reacts and usually end up making notes on the map on who lives where. The adventure does a pretty decent job with the NPCs and monsters.
They generally have enough character for the DM to run them well and the notes in the adventure go a long way. In particular I want to cite a local female baron. The treasure is done well. Really well. Jewelry and objects of art are described well; just a couple of sentences but that makes all the difference.
That sort of description is the standard throughout for treasure, exactly as it should be.
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