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There’s an implicit storyline of a white dragon terrorizing the area, plus a secondary plot of orcs working for half-orc spellcasters who serve an evil storm god, so why not start out with the dragon? As an experienced DM, I quickly turned that into a scene with folks in the inn buzzing about the white dragon that had been destroying local farms and such (and let the storm god plot reveal itself through play).
Newer DMs and players will almost certainly struggle with this. That concludes the following sentence:Ī couple of doors down from the inn, posted outside the townmaster’s hall, is a job board for adventurers.
#Dwarf fortress newb pack main index file missing how to#
After a five-page discussion of how to run a game, there’s a brief description of the town of Phandalin. The hook is incredibly sparse and doesn’t fit current D&D culture at all. The adventure mostly consists a gazetteer that takes place in the same locale of Phandalin and the surrounding region, up to Neverwinter and the Neverwinter Wood and down into the Sword Mountains. (See my recent post for a bit more guidance on this.) Additionally, the section on running the game for one player is two paragraphs long and will likely lead to the character getting killed in the first session or two, as it doesn’t give the DM any advice whatsoever on balancing for that type of game. Do not hand this to a new Dungeon Master and expect them to learn how to run an adventure, although an experienced DM can make it work with some effort. As I’ll explain below, it feels much more like supplementary material to LMoP with some implied extra storylines. Let’s be clear at the outset: I found this adventure disappointing and nowhere near the quality of “Lost Mine of Phandelver” despite the fact that Chris Perkins wrote it. Dragon of Icespire Peak “Adventures in Icespire” by Grzegorz Rutkowski Now let’s get to the other bit: the included adventure. Certainly, I consider it an improvement on the similar portions of the 2014 Starter Set. In general, this portion of the Essentials Kit does a serviceable, if not outstanding, job. Maybe the combat order and condition cards would be useful for less experienced players, but he’s been through a few campaigns and more or less had the ideas down. My son liked looking at the portraits and the roleplaying hints came in handy. In theory, the sidekick cards are cool: they have a portrait on one side, and on the back you have a very brief bio plus Personality, Ideal, Bond, and Flaw. I didn’t need the initiative cards because I only had one player, but I did quite like the magic items and quest cards. The usefulness of the cards vary quite a bit.
There’s a nice table for Encounter Distance. At least it has some good references information, like Actions in Combat, Conditions, DC and skill information, costs for food and services, and other common things in combat like travel pace and cover. I found the DM screen totally useless because it can barely even stand up on its own. I liked most of the little accessories, especially the extra d6s and the d20 for rolling Advantage/Disadvantage. There is no index at all, so if you’re looking for something that isn’t explicitly listed in the table of contents… good luck! Finally, there’s a spell list, a sidekick appendix, and the back cover is a conditions appendix. The latter also contains a few magic items at common and uncommon rarities. There’s a somewhat streamlined chapter on “Playing the Game” (the core rules), plus a slightly shortened Adventuring Gear table in the “Equipment”chapter. Several backgrounds are detailed: Acolyte, Criminal, Entertainer, Sage, and Soldier. For example, it includes the Bard (Lore and Valor colleges), the Cleric (Life and War domains), the Fighter (Champion and Eldritch Knight archetypes), Rogue (Thief and Arcane Trickster archetypes), and Wizard (Evocation and Transmutation schools). The rulebook starts off with “Generating a Character” that includes more than the Basic Rules do. Cover art of Dragon of Icespire Peak by Grzegorz Rutkowski
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