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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 12:06AM
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Hi, does anyone have recommendations for adventures for low lever characters, suitable for beginner dms (except Keep on the Shadowfell)?
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 6:23AM
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Date Joined:
Jan 13, 2012
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DNDInsider.com has a vast supply of archived adventures from both Dungeon and Dragon magazines. I'd recommend starting there, if your local game store is of no help. If you still can't find what you're looking for, Google, for the win.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 6:45AM
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If you can find it, get the red box. It retails for like $20 and it has everything needed by new dms and players alike.
Next thing you will tell me Browbeat  is bad.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 6:58AM
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Date Joined:
Jan 13, 2012
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What would you describe as being suitable for a beginner DM? Easily understood content? Fewer books/supplies needed?
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 8:06AM
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You can look through the different things from DnD insider or you can go here:
Livingforgottenrealms.com
They have a ton of adventures free-to-download that work at all varying levels of play. And each module contains everything you need for the full adventure step-by-step.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 1:39PM
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www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/200...This is in the archives for wizards websit. Has a lot of adventures to play with and scale down or up.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 2:01PM
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Date Joined:
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I would suggest just running 'Kobold Hall' in the back of the Dungeon Master Guide. You can be lazy and not look over tons of adventures. It's a simple story, with enough hooks to get your players moving. The first few combat encounters are just one or two NPC's, but after that each new encounter slowly builds in complexity. I've been through the adventure it's not the 'Lord of the Rings', but it's engaging.
I won't worry to much about what you use for your first adventure, just don't pick anything really complex.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 2:15PM
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I would suggest just running 'Kobold Hall' in the back of the Dungeon Master Guide. You can be lazy and not look over tons of adventures. It's a simple story, with enough hooks to get your players moving. The first few combat encounters are just one or two NPC's, but after that each new encounter slowly builds in complexity. I've been through the adventure it's not the 'Lord of the Rings', but it's engaging.
I won't worry to much about what you use for your first adventure, just don't pick anything really complex.
Oddly enough "Lord of the Rings" would be really crappy adventure. Always running away from things, following a DMPC (Gandalf) the whole time, only getting better equipment once and zomg splitting the party.
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Need a few pre-generated characters for a one-shot you are running? Want to get a baseline for what an effective build for a class you aren't familiar with? Check out the Pregen thread here
If ever you are interested what it sounds like to be at my table check out my blog and podcast here
Also, I've recently done an episode on "Refluffing". You can check that out here
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 2:29PM
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Orcs of Stonefang Pass (lvl 5) is pretty well written and easy to DM. 
FWIW [4e designer] baseline assumption was that roughly 70% of your feats would be put towards combat effectiveness, parties would coordinate, and strikers would do 20/40/60 at-will damage+novas. If your party isn't doing that... well, you are below baseline, so yes, you need to optimize slightly to meet baseline.
-Alcestis
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5 months ago ::
Jan 04, 2013 - 3:11PM
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Would second the Red Box adventure.... Everything you need and a simple story. Also, as far as modules, The Slaying Stone is a great and easy module to run, all maps provided, self contained and fun NPCs!
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