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Bocklin
Learned Scribe
Germany
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 Posted - 07 Nov 2005 : 10:29:09
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Originally posted by Eremite
I really like the ideas you posted. I might try the same but set in Uthmere.
Thanks! Let me know how this turns out, I'd be interested.
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ericlboyd
Forgotten Realms Designer
USA
2067 Posts |
Posted - 29 Nov 2005 : 23:02:26
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There's a sweet little adventure in Dungeon #130 for 1st level characters that could serve as the perfect opening act of a serpent-focused campaign.
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 01 Dec 2005 : 06:28:48
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Originally posted by ericlboyd
There's a sweet little adventure in Dungeon #130 for 1st level characters that could serve as the perfect opening act of a serpent-focused campaign.
--Eric
Are you talking about that Kyuss stuff? I believe you've adapted the series to FR on the Paizo website yes? Thanks for being so nice to us and catering to our FR needs, by the way, but I was wondering which god/organization would spawn "The Kyuss Worms" in the Realms, or preferably, if there is an existing FR monster that could be adapted/shoehorned to fit the module better? Sorry if I missed something out of the Age of Worm to FR adaptation document: I was at work and only had a very limited time to skim over it...
Any insight would be appreciated! :) |
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Dargoth
Great Reader
Australia
4607 Posts |
Posted - 01 Dec 2005 : 06:33:15
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| Eric's refering to The Within the Circle module in 130 |
I am the King of Rome, and above grammar
Emperor Sigismund
"Its good to be the King!"
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Bocklin
Learned Scribe
Germany
151 Posts |
Posted - 01 Dec 2005 : 10:15:29
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Yep. That's a 1st level scenario set in the Dales (Featherdale I think). The short write-up on Paizo's website referred to goblins, but I assume from Eric's post that some "scaly menace" is hiding behind the lower goblinoids...
Sounds exciting, I look forward to reading it.
Bocklin
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Originally posted by Dargoth
Eric's refering to The Within the Circle module in 130
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ericlboyd
Forgotten Realms Designer
USA
2067 Posts |
Posted - 01 Dec 2005 : 11:08:48
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Originally posted by Purple Dragon Knight
Are you talking about that Kyuss stuff?
Actually I was taking about the "Within the Circle" module by Sam Brown in issue #130.
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I believe you've adapted the series to FR on the Paizo website yes?
That's me.
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Thanks for being so nice to us and catering to our FR needs, by the way, but I was wondering which god/organization would spawn "The Kyuss Worms" in the Realms, or preferably, if there is an existing FR monster that could be adapted/shoehorned to fit the module better? Sorry if I missed something out of the Age of Worm to FR adaptation document: I was at work and only had a very limited time to skim over it...
Any insight would be appreciated! :)
I'm not sure I understand the question.
The god/organization behind the Kyuss worms (in my adaptation) is Kyuss. Rather than replace him with a Realms equivalent, I decided to add him to the Realms if you decide to run the adventure. His Realms backstory is being revealed in the conversions, although there is an unexpected Realms god behind Kyuss who I won't name here as it's not a spoiler thread. (I'm not trying to be mysterious in general either ... I've only seen a little more than you have, so I'm trying not to box myself into a corner.) This god behind Kyuss is an additional Realms-only subplot behind the main plot.
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Bocklin
Learned Scribe
Germany
151 Posts |
Posted - 01 Dec 2005 : 13:15:46
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This god behind Kyuss is an additional Realms-only subplot behind the main plot.
--Eric
Which is, without revealing anything, very very nice. I look forward to seeing the details of it, but if seems to fit perfectly in the older FR lore.
I also love the way you have adapted the last two adventures to Waterdeep. The links to the existing families and to the local setting are great.
Thanks a lot for your hard work, Eric!
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ericlboyd
Forgotten Realms Designer
USA
2067 Posts |
Posted - 01 Dec 2005 : 21:20:13
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Originally posted by Bocklin
I also love the way you have adapted the last two adventures to Waterdeep. The links to the existing families and to the local setting are great.
Thanks a lot for your hard work, Eric!
Bocklin
Glad you liked the conversions. I haven't heard any other feedback on the last two conversions (unlike the earlier ones), so I was starting to get worried.
Note that the Lady Aridarye plot thread is built from Steven's most excellent article in Polyhedron #93.
--Eric |
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Bocklin
Learned Scribe
Germany
151 Posts |
Posted - 01 Dec 2005 : 22:17:48
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Glad you liked the conversions. I haven't heard any other feedback on the last two conversions (unlike the earlier ones), so I was starting to get worried.
Note that the Lady Aridarye plot thread is built from Steven's most excellent article in Polyhedron #93.
--Eric
Ah! I did not know. It took me 15 years of RPGing before coming to the FR, so I am ignorant of most of the older lore. Seeing the older material being so weaved into the new stories is quite useful: it's a chance to discover what people had done years before I heard about "Mystra" for the first time. 
Regarding feedback on the convertion notes, my feeling is that most gaming groups are dragging a bit behind the Adventure Path. An adventure every month is quite a lot for those of us who have a job. If I get to actually play once a month I consider myself lucky! I wonder how you guys manage to freelance for WotC on top of your day job!
So I think that once those playing AoW in the FR will leave the Lizard Marsh and get to Waterdeep you'll start to receive more praises! 
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RodOdom
Senior Scribe
USA
509 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jul 2006 : 12:56:25
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Darrin Drader
Forgotten Realms Designer
16 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jul 2006 : 21:10:56
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Originally posted by RodOdom
Now it's been half a year since we discussed it, has anyone used the Serpent Kingdoms much?
It's an integral part of a project I'm finishing up right now.  |
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
2296 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jul 2006 : 21:49:26
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Mace's not so gentle gamer's journal My rants were harmless compared to this, beware! |
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Snotlord
Senior Scribe
Norway
476 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jul 2006 : 21:51:28
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Originally posted by RodOdom
Now it's been half a year since we discussed it, has anyone used the Serpent Kingdoms much?
Mmmmm no. I try every now and then to get some mileage out of this book, but still no luck. I enjoyed reading it though
IMO there are two kinds of good FR books: books to drag along to every session (Players Guide to Faerun, Forgotten Realms Adventures, Mysteries of the Moonsea), and books to leave on the bedside table (Lost Empires of Faerun). Serpent Kingdoms is definitively the later. |
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
5402 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jul 2006 : 01:19:41
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Originally posted by Darrin Drader
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Originally posted by RodOdom
Now it's been half a year since we discussed it, has anyone used the Serpent Kingdoms much?
It's an integral part of a project I'm finishing up right now.
Hm . . . a follow up product to Serpent Kingdoms? Anything else we can pry out of you? |
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Dargoth
Great Reader
Australia
4607 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jul 2006 : 01:25:50
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Originally posted by KnightErrantJR
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Originally posted by Darrin Drader
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Originally posted by RodOdom
Now it's been half a year since we discussed it, has anyone used the Serpent Kingdoms much?
It's an integral part of a project I'm finishing up right now.
Hm . . . a follow up product to Serpent Kingdoms? Anything else we can pry out of you?
I think hes talking about the MoM Web enhancement (Phlan) Darrin mentioned else where that hes including Sarrukh stuff in the WE |
I am the King of Rome, and above grammar
Emperor Sigismund
"Its good to be the King!"
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
5402 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jul 2006 : 01:28:06
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warlockco
Master of Realmslore
USA
1695 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jul 2006 : 07:20:16
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Originally posted by RodOdom
Now it's been half a year since we discussed it, has anyone used the Serpent Kingdoms much?
Mainly use it for the Tren. My players just hate running up against those  |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jul 2006 : 17:55:18
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Well, I am back, a long train journey on a, in the words of the immortal Joe Walsh, rocky mountain way, is behind me.
Serpent Kingdoms is among the book I have used most of the 3ed books. The information about the Western Heartlands and the pieces of history from the same region have seen the most use. Some bits of snakelore have been used to flesh out the customs and beliefs of the region.
The rest of the book have mostly been a fun read until now. |
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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
2104 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jul 2006 : 21:36:36
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Originally posted by Jorkens
Well, I am back, a long train journey on a, in the words of the immortal Joe Walsh, rocky mountain way, is behind me.
Pardon the off topicness, but doesn't rocky mountain way pretty much sum up getting out of the door in Norway? |
There is a rumour going around that I have found god. I think is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jul 2006 : 01:12:40
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Originally posted by Kajehase
Pardon the off topicness, but doesn't rocky mountain way pretty much sum up getting out of the door in Norway?
Well as I live in a hundred year old wooden house built on an old mire that makes the house tilt in all directions at once, I sometimes get the feeling that I don't even have to leave the house.
And you are pardoned. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Na-Gang
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
348 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jul 2006 : 14:24:44
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COPIED AND PASTED FROM THE WOTC PRODUCT FORUM THINGER DOWN THERE.
Well I use it. In fact my whole campaign hinges on it, being that it's set in Lapliiya and The Chultan Peninsula 'n all.
The Yuan-Ti are great foes. Individually powerful but with enough subraces, slaves, and lesser races of 'scaled ones' to provide opposition to any level of party. My group started at 1st level, are now on the cusp of 4th level and have only just met their first Yuan-Ti (even though she's not an opponent she's facilitated their work against a rival Yuan-Ti House).
Yuan-Ti satisfy my DM's need for thick, multi-layered plots, betrayal, and behind-the-scenes manipulation. Plus the fact that the Mulhorandi deity Set is masquerading as the Yuan-Ti deity Sseth, lets me indulge my Old Empires obsession as well.
It's a good book, but I do bemoan the absence of maps. Even if one was made available on the WotC site. I would've gladly paid a bit more for a great map or two included with the product. |
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ericlboyd
Forgotten Realms Designer
USA
2067 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jul 2006 : 16:12:25
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Originally posted by Na-Gang
COPIED AND PASTED FROM THE WOTC PRODUCT FORUM THINGER DOWN THERE.
Well I use it. In fact my whole campaign hinges on it, being that it's set in Lapliiya and The Chultan Peninsula 'n all.
The Yuan-Ti are great foes. Individually powerful but with enough subraces, slaves, and lesser races of 'scaled ones' to provide opposition to any level of party. My group started at 1st level, are now on the cusp of 4th level and have only just met their first Yuan-Ti (even though she's not an opponent she's facilitated their work against a rival Yuan-Ti House).
Yuan-Ti satisfy my DM's need for thick, multi-layered plots, betrayal, and behind-the-scenes manipulation. Plus the fact that the Mulhorandi deity Set is masquerading as the Yuan-Ti deity Sseth, lets me indulge my Old Empires obsession as well.
It's a good book, but I do bemoan the absence of maps. Even if one was made available on the WotC site. I would've gladly paid a bit more for a great map or two included with the product.
It is available on the WoTC website. I intended for the maps to be in the book.
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Faraer
Great Reader
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Trace_Coburn
Learned Scribe
New Zealand
137 Posts |
Posted - 15 Jul 2006 : 16:14:38
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Originally posted by Faraer
Here are the maps:
http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mw/20051213a
[looks at 'tunnels' map]
Holy crap! 
Is it just me, or does that place crawl with snake-things and nasty locales? I mean, I thought the WH were supposed to be nothing but "miles and miles of miles and miles"?
Huh - so much for a 'nice, safe trip' from Evereska to Cormyr for one of my chars.... 
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D&D collection: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual I, Complete Arcane, Arms & Equipment Guide.
FR sourcebook collection: Dragons of Faerūn, Faiths & Pantheons, FRCS, Lords of Darkness, Monsters of Faerūn, Player's Guide to Faerūn, Power of Faerūn, Races of Faerūn, Silver Marches.
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 15 Jul 2006 : 22:14:56
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Originally posted by Trace_Coburn
I mean, I thought the WH were supposed to be nothing but "miles and miles of miles and miles"?
That's not a fact, just what certain ignorant people think. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jul 2006 : 01:04:12
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| Well, if people 'do' give the High Moor a wide berth, and keep to the roads to the south, the miles and miles thing is 'still' true... |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jul 2006 : 04:01:21
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"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Na-Gang
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
348 Posts |
Posted - 17 Jul 2006 : 11:55:51
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It is available on the WoTC website. I intended for the maps to be in the book.
--Eric
Yep Yep, I already had it from there but would have preferred maps included with the book, although I understand that's not your fault. |
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Faraer
Great Reader
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Posted - 19 Jul 2006 : 00:03:18
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Considering that that map covers an area about the size of the British Isles, it doesn't show a high density of serpent stuff -- there are indeed miles and miles between all those locations.
(I've remarked before that certain misconceptions about the Realms wouldn't occur if people read the map scales, but maybe these distances seem small to Americans. They aren't small to me, or to folk of Faerūn.) |
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