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lokilokust
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Posted - 13 Mar 2007 :  15:56:38  Show Profile  Visit lokilokust's Homepage Send lokilokust a Private Message  Reply with Quote  Delete Topic
1) has anyone run this and set it in the realms? if so, where?
2) why in the name of basic cable does this thing go for so much on the secondary market? i'm a collector and i missed it the first time around, and i'll be damned if i'm paying $50+ for it.

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-s.j. bagley

Halidan
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Posted - 16 Mar 2007 :  17:27:50  Show Profile  Visit Halidan's Homepage Send Halidan a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by lokilokust

1) has anyone run this and set it in the realms? if so, where?


First, I guess it would depend on wether or not you've also ran the original ToEE and where you placed that module.

When I ran ToEE for my campaign, I placed it in the Vast - using the Flooded Forest for the Moathouse, and placing the original temple in the Eartspur mountains east of Maksyr's Eye.

Since those locations had already been established in my campaign, I kept them for RtToEE, and aded the Fane as a structure in the southen Galeana Mountains, just to the NE of Ironfang Keep.

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Originally posted by lokilokust 2) why in the name of basic cable does this thing go for so much on the secondary market? i'm a collector and i missed it the first time around, and i'll be damned if i'm paying $50+ for it.


It's probably because it's an early 3E products and thus, not available on pdf. So it'out of print but still in demand. Simple economics means the price will rise.

However, I think your $50 price from Amazon is too high, and you should be able to find cheaper prices on e-Bay.

"Over the Mountains
Of the Moon
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied,
"If you seek for Eldorado!"

Edgar Allen Poe - 1849

Edited by - Halidan on 16 Mar 2007 17:29:17
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Asgetrion
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Posted - 17 Mar 2007 :  22:37:09  Show Profile  Visit Asgetrion's Homepage Send Asgetrion a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Very interesting, Halidan!

This may be the best conversion of this module I've seen thus far. Possible connections to Ironfang Keep and the Witch King - brilliant!

"What am I doing today? Ask me tomorrow - I can be sure of giving you the right answer then."
-- Askarran of Selgaunt, Master Sage, speaking to a curious merchant, Year of the Helm
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Halidan
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Posted - 19 Mar 2007 :  13:40:06  Show Profile  Visit Halidan's Homepage Send Halidan a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Thanks Asgetrion,

Actually, I did have some serious connections in both modules with Ironfang Keep. The power trapped in my FR version of the original ToEE was Moander, rather than Zuggutomy. In the distant past, Moander had formed an alliance with the Princes of Elemental Evil. Thier combined forces were raiding the Elven Court during the debates that followed the exile of the Drow to the underdark (between the 4th and 5th wars).

The elves of the Elven Court lacked the magical might to deal with the problem themselves. It was the power of Ironfan Keep that taught the elven High Mages the spell to imprision Moander's avatar. This same spell was later used at both Yulash and Darkwatch - but it's first use was in the Earthspur Mountains.

My PC's were able to learn all of this when they researched the glyphs that surrounded the silver chains on the main doors of the ToEE. They eventualy discovered that the glyphs were actually the sigils of the mages who casted the "imprision avatar" ritual. One of the mages was still around - actually, he was a baelnorn protecting his families manor near the Elven Court.

He told the PC's all about the elves first struggle against the ToEE, and about the danger of awakening Moander without having found and re-assembled the golden skull, which was the only way to banish old moldy for good. He also mentioned to the PC's that the ancient elves never did learn exactly who (or whom) was living in Ironfang Keep. It allowed me to keep a bit of mystery going about that place.

"Over the Mountains
Of the Moon
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied,
"If you seek for Eldorado!"

Edgar Allen Poe - 1849
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