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| Jeremy Grenemyer |
Posted - 21 Jun 2013 : 21:45:47
Link to the product page: LINK
Once more I find myself loving the artwork. I like seeing different character classes/races on the cover of adventures, especially with lots of detail.
I'd really like to get a peak inside the adventure to see what the interior artwork is like.
Tip of the hat to EN World for revealing this bit of news.
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| 30 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| hashimashadoo |
Posted - 11 Dec 2013 : 17:06:54
All of the Encounters modules have 3.5, 4th and 5th edition stats so it should be as easy as converting a 3.5 module. |
| 9thChapter |
Posted - 11 Dec 2013 : 15:50:28
Thanks for the thread. For those that have read/played it, how difficult is it to backwards convert to a 2e campaign? |
| hashimashadoo |
Posted - 11 Dec 2013 : 14:36:25
Doi. Yes of course it's 1485. Thanks BEAST. |
| BEAST |
Posted - 10 Dec 2013 : 19:56:42
or 1485? |
| hashimashadoo |
Posted - 10 Dec 2013 : 14:15:15
1385 DR |
| farinal |
Posted - 10 Dec 2013 : 03:04:55
In what year the adventure sets in? |
| TBeholder |
Posted - 07 Dec 2013 : 16:37:33
quote:
Originally posted by BEAST
"Legacy of the Crystal Shard"?
That title sounds a bit like a joke
Yup. Hmmm... I see two variants:
1) Salvatore finally figured out that if he got on his neck, in the words of Markustay, an albatross, he may as well raise the bird as undead.
2) The level of editorial creativity that once gave birth to gems like Bo*D sourcebooks continues to advance in the same direction. And given that some good designers jumped the ship, there may or may not be any way back. Thus, at this point no copycat shall be left unherded. |
| Alruane |
Posted - 07 Dec 2013 : 15:36:46
Ooooh, when I return to the game I shall like to try this. |
| Derulbaskul |
Posted - 07 Dec 2013 : 12:41:21
Also, for those who don't know, Mike Schley has posted a decent-sized version of the wraparound map online. Here's the link and buggered if I know how to get this ancient dysfunctional forum software to show the link nicely. Seriously ugly link
Mod edit: Cast shrinky links. You can edit or quote this post to see how I did it. 
Poster edit: Thanks but why, oh why, can't this just be a normal function of the boards? OK, rhetorical question.... |
| Derulbaskul |
Posted - 07 Dec 2013 : 12:34:50
The more I delve into this adventure, the more I like it.
The highest bit of praise I can give it is that I want to expand it into a larger campaign. Legacy has caught my imagination in a way that Murder in Baldur's Gate did not, in part because there is so much space on the regional map to fill in.
There's room for R A Salvatore's 2E adventure The Accursed Tower, the Caves of Chaos from B2 Keep on the Borderlands, the original G1-3 Against the Giants series and so much more.
WotC has done well this time.
(IMO. YMMV.) |
| farinal |
Posted - 01 Dec 2013 : 22:10:03
Merci! |
| Marco Volo |
Posted - 01 Dec 2013 : 22:06:48
quote:
Originally posted by farinal
BTW do you need any information on the first Sundering adventure or Sundering stuff in general to play this?
No.
quote:
Originally posted by farinal
Is it playable on its own without the need for anything else?
Yes.
Marco  |
| farinal |
Posted - 01 Dec 2013 : 16:12:08
BTW do you need any information on the first Sundering adventure or Sundering stuff in general to play this? Is it playable on its own without the need for anything else? |
| farinal |
Posted - 26 Nov 2013 : 17:57:31
I still don't get it if the maps on the link are there or not if that is what you mean. But I think I'll get this one. I disliked the Baldur's Gate adventure for some reasons (didn't liked the cover, the fact that there wasn't much info on the setting) and it just didn't seem that interesting to me. But I love Icewind Dale. Open the Icewind Dale OST in the background and play this while it's snowing in this winter :D |
| Marco Volo |
Posted - 26 Nov 2013 : 09:31:20
quote:
Originally posted by farinal
Does the book include the maps and all that npc cards and stuff or was it only for the launch event?
Nope, there's no such things as cards and maps, except for the map of the setting itself (Tentowns and Icewind dale) and the maps of the features like the tower (sectional views).
Sorry if I say something terrible here, but when I see the trailer of the coming soon Disney movie "Frozen" it sounds very much like the end of the "Legacy of the Crystal Shard" adventure. With adventurers replaced by sisters. And songs. |
| farinal |
Posted - 26 Nov 2013 : 03:16:19
Okay thanks! |
| Lothlos |
Posted - 26 Nov 2013 : 02:58:16
When I receive my book I will let you know, if someone has not posted already. |
| farinal |
Posted - 26 Nov 2013 : 02:50:07
Does the book include the maps and all that npc cards and stuff or was it only for the launch event? |
| Derulbaskul |
Posted - 23 Nov 2013 : 12:23:24
I rather like this adventure and see it as a huge improvement over the turgid dreck that was Murder in Baldur's Gate. I could actually see myself running this (of course, I would have to replacement the R A Salvatore names with names that suited the Realms but that's why I have a big list of names by Ed).
I still don't think it's really suited to the Encounters format but I think it's a pretty solid adventure framework (still no encounter maps) for a home game.
quote:
Originally posted by Markustay (snip) Unless they don't plan to do that at all, in which case the very title is misleading (since the Shard has 'evolved' into something else at this point).(snip)
The title is accurate and the adventure doesn't in any way contradict the Salvatore novels. The "solution" they came up with works fairly well, IMO.
quote:
Originally posted by BEAST
Does the launch kit contain anything that will not be in the final product?
Or is it basically just a bunch of excerpts?
There's a short introductory adventure which will probably be on the website in the next few weeks, as that is what happened with Murder in Baldur's Gate. |
| BEAST |
Posted - 14 Nov 2013 : 11:50:26
Does the launch kit contain anything that will not be in the final product?
Or is it basically just a bunch of excerpts? |
| Jeremy Grenemyer |
Posted - 14 Nov 2013 : 02:29:24
I like seeing artwork depicting characters from the novels. Good stuff. |
| Plaguescarred |
Posted - 14 Nov 2013 : 01:42:56
There is a new Sundering Trailer Video
http://www.complexmag.ca/video-games/2013/11/complex-exclusive-dungeons-and-dragons-the-sundering?utm_campaign=complexvg+socialflow+11+2013&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social |
| Lothlos |
Posted - 13 Nov 2013 : 23:54:05
Checkout some of the art here
http://dungeonsmaster.com/2013/10/dd-encounters-legacy-of-the-crystal-shard-launch-weekend-preview/ |
| Thauranil |
Posted - 29 Jul 2013 : 13:11:28
quote:
Originally posted by Markustay
"Dark Elf Rising" 
Love this one. |
| carbos |
Posted - 28 Jul 2013 : 21:29:30
quote:
Originally posted by BEASTExile to Extinction . . .
Sounds like Excursion into Extinction. |
| Markustay |
Posted - 04 Jul 2013 : 15:46:49
"Dark Elf Rising" |
| BEAST |
Posted - 01 Jul 2013 : 18:50:35
quote:
Originally posted by Jeremy Grenemyer
When I read the adventure's title and its description, what came to my mind wasn't "The Crystal Shard", but rather "The Dark Crystal".
You know, I've had the same reaction. I've thought that some superficial studio employee might read a screenplay for "Dark Elf: The Crystal Shard", and immediately confuse that with "The Dark Crystal".
That could work in the movie's favor, if the studio reader were a sci-fi/fantasy geek who never lost touch with her inner child.
But if she were superficial, or petty, or just in a cranky mood, she might see the whole situation as a great opportunity to prove how knowing and superior she was, and then trash the story as being too cheesy and derivative of that commerciallly unsuccessful flick.
Therefore, I propose that the first Drizzt film be entitled "Dark Elf: The Shard". Shades of "The Dark Knight"? Edgy reference to a shard? No mention of the word crystal?
It might work. |
| BEAST |
Posted - 01 Jul 2013 : 18:42:04
What if it delves into greater depth of detail on the Shard's past and previous owners? We really only have a little info on the liches who created it, Errtu, and one unnamed Zakharan sheikh. Maybe a review of the Shard's past could reveal some tendrils of history that will have some influence on the Sundering? |
| Markustay |
Posted - 01 Jul 2013 : 16:01:10
My only reservation ATM is that I/we already know what became of the Shard, thanks to TGK, so I have to wonder at what sort of half-baked plot they had to come up with in order to 'distill' the Crystal Shard back out of what it has become.
Unless they don't plan to do that at all, in which case the very title is misleading (since the Shard has 'evolved' into something else at this point).
I've also always felt there was some sort of connection between Vassa and Icewind Dale. Not an actual, canonical one, but rather, some sort of RW error that was made some time ago and the two were always meant to be one and the same. For instance, Castle Perilous sounds an awful lot like what the Shard is/does. I realize both were created by RAS, but there are too many similarities for it to just be attributed to it being the same designer... not to mention the weirdness on the back of the Bloodstone sourcebook itself (claiming Icewind dale is IN Vassa!) And then RAS brought his 'bad boys' over to Vassa and Damara for awhile, which ended abruptly (and strangely), just to shunt them off to Calimport (reminding me of a 'grand tour' of RAS-generated locales, just because he could).
So I guess what I am saying is that although I am looking forward to this because it is tied to The Sundering and 5e(FR), I have certain trepidations because of the subject matter and the weirdness concerning the Crystal Shard itself (and its possible connection to Castle Perilous... another Shard, perhaps?) |
| Jeremy Grenemyer |
Posted - 24 Jun 2013 : 07:01:03
quote:
Originally posted by BEAST
It just sounded like a mash-up of old RAS titles.
Heh.
When I read the adventure's title and its description, what came to my mind wasn't "The Crystal Shard", but rather "The Dark Crystal". |
