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4 months ago ::
Feb 02, 2013 - 2:43PM
#901
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Feb 17, 2006
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4th Edition Support As 4th Edition is faced out and I will never see the books I was hoping for, I have started to make my job as a DM easier, especially if the 4th Edition Online Compendium would be closed down (before I have finished playing this adventure path). I have therefore merged all the Online Compendium material according to the setup of PHB, focusing on Chapter 5: Skills, Chapter 9: Combat and Chapter 10: Rituals, so that I have it all updated with all errata. Especially for rituals, it was good to have all material in one pdf. It is also good to have all the combat and skill material available while gaming. I can not share this with all, but I am considering sharing it with those of you following this thread and who has a D&D Online subscription (as you could have done this work yourself by copy and pasting from the Online Compendium yourself). However to get that material you need to send me a message with your e-mail so that I can send it to you. (I do not want to put up a link to it, as it could be missused). You should neither distribute the material outside your gaming group.
If WotC is totally agains this, please respond to this thread.
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3 months ago ::
Feb 18, 2013 - 8:48AM
#902
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Date Joined:
Feb 17, 2006
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I have decided on my next project. I am going to try to run a 4th Edition Conversion of the Pathfinder Adventure Path: Reign of Winter. Think it might be fun. You can follow it here: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...I will complete the E2 and E3 conversions as well. But right now I am having fun in looking at Pathfinder and how to convert that to 4th Edition. /Myrhdraak
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3 months ago ::
Feb 18, 2013 - 9:28AM
#903
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Great idea. I look forward to following both the new campaing and the finishing of the E1-E3. As 4e is coming more and more to an official close I've started to look more closely at Next, Pathfinder, 13th Age, adn other RPGs again. But you know what, I think I still, thus far, prefer 4e. Now, I think it has issues, but I am more confident I can modify 4e to fit my taste than any of the other games I've looked at. So thank you for pushin on with great 4e content.
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3 months ago ::
Feb 18, 2013 - 10:54AM
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Date Joined:
Feb 17, 2006
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Great idea. I look forward to following both the new campaing and the finishing of the E1-E3. As 4e is coming more and more to an official close I've started to look more closely at Next, Pathfinder, 13th Age, adn other RPGs again. But you know what, I think I still, thus far, prefer 4e. Now, I think it has issues, but I am more confident I can modify 4e to fit my taste than any of the other games I've looked at. So thank you for pushin on with great 4e content.
I have tried poking around on the forums to find ideas for improvements. I think I will try to provide a 4.5 Edition guideline, to solve some of the major things people are complaining about.
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3 months ago ::
Feb 18, 2013 - 10:58AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 17, 2007
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Great idea. I look forward to following both the new campaing and the finishing of the E1-E3. As 4e is coming more and more to an official close I've started to look more closely at Next, Pathfinder, 13th Age, adn other RPGs again. But you know what, I think I still, thus far, prefer 4e. Now, I think it has issues, but I am more confident I can modify 4e to fit my taste than any of the other games I've looked at. So thank you for pushin on with great 4e content.
I have tried poking around on the forums to find ideas for improvements. I think I will try to provide a 4.5 Edition guideline, to solve some of the major things people are complaining about.
Hi!
I think this is a great idea to provide a 4.5 guideline. While quite a few have attempted this, I think they go to overboard and overhaul too much. If you'd like layout what you think the problems are and we can contribute solutions and thus save you some time.
I would be eager to test such guidelines.
Primarch
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3 months ago ::
Feb 18, 2013 - 12:11PM
#906
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Date Joined:
Jan 27, 2009
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Great idea. I look forward to following both the new campaing and the finishing of the E1-E3. As 4e is coming more and more to an official close I've started to look more closely at Next, Pathfinder, 13th Age, adn other RPGs again. But you know what, I think I still, thus far, prefer 4e. Now, I think it has issues, but I am more confident I can modify 4e to fit my taste than any of the other games I've looked at. So thank you for pushin on with great 4e content.
I have tried poking around on the forums to find ideas for improvements. I think I will try to provide a 4.5 Edition guideline, to solve some of the major things people are complaining about.
I think this would be a great idea and something I would be interested in using and possibly helping out with. Unfortunately, some of my ideas go beyond what I think a 4.5e would look like, but anything that streamlines and cleans up the rough edges of 4e is good in my book.
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3 months ago ::
Mar 02, 2013 - 2:56PM
#907
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Date Joined:
Aug 26, 2007
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Good luck on Reign of Winter Myhrdraak - I love what you've done so far. My PCs are still on H2, but I have started to think about the disaster that is H3. I have put my changes so far in this document: docs.google.com/document/d/11limcBmEVHzw...It is not finished, but might help someone.
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2 months ago ::
Apr 11, 2013 - 2:48AM
#908
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Date Joined:
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Thanks Myrhdraak - it was a pleasure to contribute something small to your superb project - anytime.
Are you as good at drawing as doing maps? If so, I am later planning to try to recreate a battle in the E-series similar to this one:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MBJv5D5OUw&feat...
But then I will need a number of maps as the characters battle their way up the immortal body of an awaken primordial, given life by Orcus servants.
Hey, First off, I'd like to say thank you all for the amazing ideas you've given me for our campaign (mostly following the Demon Prince of Undeath storyline, with some sidetrecks inspired by Paizo Adventure Paths), and especially Myrhdraak for putting it all together. Apologies for bringing this up so late, but I've wanted to do something of a similarly ginormous scale ever since I started thinking about the finale, and I was wondering if you are still trying to come up with a way to translate it to all to 4e, as I'm having some major difficulties, especially with the maps. Kaloyan
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2 months ago ::
Apr 11, 2013 - 11:51AM
#909
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Date Joined:
Feb 17, 2006
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Thanks Myrhdraak - it was a pleasure to contribute something small to your superb project - anytime.
Are you as good at drawing as doing maps? If so, I am later planning to try to recreate a battle in the E-series similar to this one:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MBJv5D5OUw&feat...
But then I will need a number of maps as the characters battle their way up the immortal body of an awaken primordial, given life by Orcus servants.
Hey,
First off, I'd like to say thank you all for the amazing ideas you've given me for our campaign (mostly following the Demon Prince of Undeath storyline, with some sidetrecks inspired by Paizo Adventure Paths), and especially Myrhdraak for putting it all together.
Apologies for bringing this up so late, but I've wanted to do something of a similarly ginormous scale ever since I started thinking about the finale, and I was wondering if you are still trying to come up with a way to translate it to all to 4e, as I'm having some major difficulties, especially with the maps.
Kaloyan
Yes I have the intent of doing it. I am planning to put it in E2: Kingdom of the Ghouls, as one of the features of the White Kingdom. However, as I have been working on the H1-E3 conversion for quite a while, I wanted to take a break and get some new inspiration, before going back to doing E2. Right now I am focusing on the Pathfinder: Reign of Winter conversion, which probably already have seen at:
community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
It has been quite fun, as it has forced me to look at other parts of the game. Power creation, paragon paths, monster creation, trap creation, etc. But I promise I will get back to E2 soon.
/Myrhdraak
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1 month ago ::
Apr 25, 2013 - 1:02PM
#910
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Date Joined:
Jun 11, 2009
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Hi folks,
Wanted to share how the 'Soul Points' thing worked when I ran the Urishtar fight, and talk about how I've followed through on my Nightbringer ideas.
Urishtar barely lasted two rounds, she wasn't able to blind the party with her globes of darkness, and my group has 3 different divine characters, all of whom are pretty free with the radiant energy. All of this led to her going down quickly, which means my party only ever had the chance to gain 2 soul points (since there's a chance a point would go to Urishtar). Luckily, they both went to the party, sadly they both went to the same player. He seemed to enjoy them, but I wish the creepiness could've been spread around the table a bit more. Alas.
I'm maybe a month away from my party's first real encounter with Nightbringer the primordial. They fought briefly after the sword transformed (I had the well of souls explode, and Nightbringer soak up all the ambient energy and 'level up' to giant cat-monster) at the end of P3, but this will be the first time they actually encounter him in the wild.
I seemed some hints to his activities in the month or so since his release. Mentions of some 'third party' skirmishing in the Blood War, taking out demons, devils, and divine alike. I decided to have this next encounter take place in Death's Reach, a reasonable place to have a soul-devouring primordial travel. He's there for the same reason as the Ashen Covenant, he wants to find the corpse of Timesus, and devour it, thus gaining even more power and coming closer to being the god-like being he was back in the Dawn War. I also decided to use him to handle something I don't like in the module, the 'Herald of Secrets.'
I know he's part of the whole 'Vecna's secretly manipulating EVERYONE' sideplot, but I don't need that sideplot with everything going on in my game, so feh. The plan is to have the party see Calah's descent (as described in D2) from a distance, but change what they find when they approach where he landed. I'm going to have my party's absurdly stealthy scouts come across Nightbringer (in the company of some Blackstar host constructs he's gathered, and maybe a death giant or two) chewing up Calah's corpse, and commenting on all the 'mortals who play with the powers of creation' (referencing the fact that Vecna is an ascended mortal, and thus hinting at the dead angel's allegiance). There's a fight, and Nightbringer bugs out after the first couple of rounds, leaving the rest of the monsters to cover his retreat.
I'm still deciding whether or not to have the 'Moonstone Sphere' survive. I kind of like the image of Nightbringer crunching it like I've always imagined Superman would crunch a jawbreaker...
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