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Rhewtani
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 Posted - 25 Jan 2008 : 21:22:45
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Ok, so I'm looking to finally moving into FR instead of pulling inspiration from it. My current campaign plotting is to take all of the old adventures, in sequence, and allow my players to play through them.
Each player will actually be running a family instead of just one character. So, they can play the nephew or son of their previous PC when the timeline jumps.
However, I can't find a useful or concise list of FR adventures in chronological order. I'm thinking of starting with Ruins of Adventure, Curse of the Azure Bonds, and then moving to the (awful, I'm told) Avatar trilogy. But, I know there's more and I'm looking for insight.
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LordArcana
Seeker
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Posted - 25 Jan 2008 : 21:51:07
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If your campaign is going to revolve around families i assume most of your campaign is going to take place in a centralized area? There were adventure packs which took place in certain areas like the Dalelands adventures and such. Try doing a google search for "Dalelands D&D Adventures".
There are many old free adventures on the Wizards website as well as free or very low cost adventures on many D&D fan sites. I am looking for the link now if i find it i will edit the post to add it where i once found about 100-150 pdf adventures for 0.99-2.99 each. I bought a few and they were not half bad...
PS On a side note, the Avatar Trilogy is a lot like Dragonlance...makes for an awesome story but is brutely boring for the players. I personally have had the displeasure of both playing in it (first) and feeling so cheated i read through the adventures and wanted to run it. Both times i felt as if the PC's are just footnotes of little importance not even worthy of mentioning in the grand histories of the Forgotten Realms. |
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Rhewtani
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 25 Jan 2008 : 22:00:20
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My PCs have always wanted more direction than they've gotten and they've always wanted to feel like things were going on around them, so ... it might actually help to run Avatar.
It's not so necessary for it to remain in one locale, especially when the time jumps from 1340 to 1358, and then to 1372, etc.
What is want to see ...
...is some legacy items being passed down from one character to the next.
...the occasional situation where a player is running an older more decrepit version of a previous character.
...an elf character from the first adventure being important in the 25th adventure.
...Power shifts effecting what kind of class a character is between two adventures (imagine if one of the players want to make a Cormaeril, or dedicates themselves to bhaal before the ToT, etc).
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Rhewtani
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 28 Jan 2008 : 17:09:02
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Ok, for the sake of recording it, I'm going to put some numbers down.
1340 - Ruins of Adventure
1357 - Curse of the Azure Bonds
1358 - Shadowdale
1358 - Tantras
1358 - Waterdeep
1372 - City of the Spider Queen
xxxx - The Dalelands
xxxx - Expedition to Undermountain
xxxx - Into the Dragon's Lair
xxxx - Pool of Radiance: Attack on Myth Drannor
xxxx - Sons of Grummsh
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Edited by - Rhewtani on 29 Jan 2008 01:46:47 |
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SiCK_Boy
Acolyte
Canada
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Posted - 28 Jan 2008 : 21:58:59
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| City of the Spider Queens starts around the end of Marpenoth, 1372. |
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
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Posted - 28 Jan 2008 : 23:11:14
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| I placed Curse of the Azure Bonds in 1367, and it works just fine with my group... |
Mace's not so gentle gamer's journal My rants were harmless compared to this, beware! |
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Rhewtani
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 29 Jan 2008 : 01:45:36
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| Yeah, I think I had to endure it then, too - when I was a player. But, my goal is to run these things in their default times. |
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
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Rhewtani
Senior Scribe
USA
508 Posts |
Posted - 29 Jan 2008 : 02:01:51
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Awesome.
I will move some of it over and when I get webspace again create a better table for it all.
This answers my main question, though. Barring How the Mighty Are Fallen, there really isn't a realms adventure earlier than 1340.
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Rhewtani
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 23 Mar 2011 : 01:02:44
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| Trying to place "Steelheart" from Dungeon 53. It refers to the Zhentarim serving Cyric. That places it somehwere between 1358 and 1371. When do the Zhents start worshiping Bane again? When did Fzoul start worshiping the godson? |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 23 Mar 2011 : 01:47:37
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Some Zhents never stopped worshipping Bane; they never believed in Bane's death, they never accepted Cyric the Pretender (even after Fzoul read that silly book), their faith sustained Bane through his difficult times.
But if ye seek a particular date, it would likely be late 1368DR ... Bane's faith experienced some resurgence after Cyric incompetently destroyed most of Zhentil Keep and his own base of power. |
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Rhewtani
Senior Scribe
USA
508 Posts |
Posted - 23 Mar 2011 : 03:09:03
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| Oh, right, good time cue right there ... the destruction of Zhentil Keep. |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 24 Mar 2011 : 10:55:28
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| The Dungeon of Death takes place 1 year after Hellgate Keep (whatever year it is). |
Karsite Arcanar (Most Holy Servant of Karsus)
Anauria - Survivor State of Netheril as penned by me:
http://www.dmsguild.com/m/product/172023 |
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Rhewtani
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 08 Apr 2011 : 19:55:40
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| When does the Randal Morn trilogy take place? |
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Asharak
Learned Scribe
France
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Posted - 08 Apr 2011 : 20:38:27
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quote:
Originally posted by Rhewtani
When does the Randal Morn trilogy take place?
1369 according to Volo's Guide to the Dalelands |
"Soyez réalistes : demandez l'impossible"
Sorry for my English... it's not my native tongue. |
Edited by - Asharak on 08 Apr 2011 20:41:28 |
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