Out of curiousity when making your adventure did you have kind of free reign as long as it linked with the others? Or did they give you a present thing like....Ken of Ghastria wrote:Yep, that's the whole series. They haven't released the descriptions for the back half of modules, but they're all part of the storyline.
You made an undead brain-eating mass-murderer happy today...Ken of Ghastria wrote:Sneaky.Yes, I happily looked at several of the VR Guides for inspiration, although I'm limited in my ability to customize creatures from the Monster Manual. (For the Adventurers League adventures, we're understandably asked to stick to creatures that have been properly playtested. That's not to say I didn't attempt to tweak.) Van Richten's Guide to Ghosts is the best RPG supplement I've ever read, and I'm glad I was able to say that in person to William Connors at Gen Con about 16 years ago. However, it's not the VR Guide that I picked up most often last month... and I'll leave it at that.
A little bit of both. All the writers are told of the overall themes, key NPCs, and objectives of the whole season, which is key for a tightly connected story like this. Then each writer gets a short brief for his or her adventure. It describes where the PCs are coming from, where they need to be by the end, and what key Ravenloftian notes should be struck. It also says, "By the end of the adventure, the PCs need to have achieved {Storyline Objective X} and found {Mystery Thingie Y}." How the PCs get to those key points and what they have to overcome and experience are left largely up to the writer.Zilfer wrote:Out of curiosity when making your adventure did you have kind of free rein as long as it linked with the others? Or did they give you a present thing like....
"Hag lives outside barovia and causes problems for villages. Do an adventure about that."
Does that mean Horror checks will be a thing through these adventures? If so that's pretty awesome.Ken of Ghastria wrote:A little bit of both. All the writers are told of the overall themes, key NPCs, and objectives of the whole season, which is key for a tightly connected story like this. Then each writer gets a short brief for his or her adventure. It describes where the PCs are coming from, where they need to be by the end, and what key Ravenloftian notes should be struck. It also says, "By the end of the adventure, the PCs need to have achieved {Storyline Objective X} and found {Mystery Thingie Y}." How the PCs get to those key points and what they have to overcome and experience are left largely up to the writer.Zilfer wrote:Out of curiosity when making your adventure did you have kind of free rein as long as it linked with the others? Or did they give you a present thing like....
"Hag lives outside barovia and causes problems for villages. Do an adventure about that."
That might sound slightly constrictive to some, but it's actually rather liberating. Instead of stressing out over the end point, I already know that. I can focus my attention on the juicy stuff, like blood and Horror checks.
I know what you mean by stressing over the end point, sometimes I do creative writing and if I don't know where the ending is going it can be hard to "get there." XD Happily, 5e already allows for Horror checks (DMG, p. 266). As for whether or not Horror checks are actually used in these adventures... well, who's to say?Zilfer wrote:Does that mean Horror checks will be a thing through these adventures? If so that's pretty awesome.
I see. These will literally be the first 5e Products I buy so I'll have to look into that should I ever pick up a DMG.Ken of Ghastria wrote:Happily, 5e already allows for Horror checks (DMG, p. 266). As for whether or not Horror checks are actually used in these adventures... well, who's to say?Zilfer wrote:Does that mean Horror checks will be a thing through these adventures? If so that's pretty awesome.
For clarification, this is the Adventurers League Player's Guide for the Rage of Demons storyline. It does not replicate the information found in the DMG.alhoon wrote:Well, the rules for horror checks (short term and long term madness) are FREE in the Out of the Abyss supplement.
Now, I'm not sure they free supplement actually gives effects though.
True. It's a big advantage of going relatively "rules light" in this edition. That sort of backwards-compatibility was unthinkable in 4E.alhoon wrote:The good about 5th edition is that it can be adapted for play with previous editions too.
