Hoard of the Dragon Queen 5eWolfgang Baur Steve Winter. WOTCD D 5. ELevels 1 7. In an audacious bid for power the Cult of the Dragon, along with its dragon allies and the Red Wizards of Thay, seek to bring Tiamat from her prison in the Nine Hells to Faerun. To this end, they are sweeping from town to town, laying waste to all those who oppose them and gathering a hoard of riches for their dread queen. The threat of annihilation has become so dire that groups as disparate as the Harpers and Zhentarim are banding together in the fight against the cult. Never before has the need for heroes been so desperate. This is an 8 episode adventure that is, generally, not very good. Its not the episodic nature, that I can accept. WOTC wants to run D D at game stores every week and to do that they need episodic content. Watch Stand By Me HDQ' title='Watch Stand By Me HDQ' />I brought my brand new Lenovo computer paid 1,000 in on June 16 to have geek squad tell me why it wasnt running properly. They charged me 200 just to look at it. Due to no response from tech support I have yet again had to add another page. With delays in our funds our knew website will come later then we wanted The trip from Fort Dix to Baltimore lasted approximately three hours. It had occurred to me that it was the first time in eight weeks that I actually was sitting in a. I get that. I might quibble that they could do better at the episodic nature and making it feel less railroad, but I get it. No, the adventure is of lower quality because it feels like a 4e episodic adventure. Alejandro, rey. nam 196768, year of the monkey, usn corp man, tet 1968, hue do or die, went mentally ballistic, ended up da nang nav. English in a quarter of the time The Callan Method can teach English in a quarter of the time taken by any other method on the market. Instead of the usual 350 hours. Watch Stand By Me HDQ' title='Watch Stand By Me HDQ' />FromPaul Wayne Cagle to Bill, Joseph, aaron 091563, bcc me On a boat in the land of Paradise just floating lazily down a Brown Water River headed to the South. I asked what score is required to pass. Heres a monster. Go fight it. NextA potentially exciting and dynamic environment is introduced And then they screw it up with the details or lack thereof. As a DM player you have a lot choices in what system you play and which of the tens of thousands of published adventures you play. There is no reason to play this except for its what everyone else is playing at the game store on Wednesday night. Thats a shame. I see a few major issues with the adventure. First, its generic. Its very non specific, so much so that it seems like the designers are actually afraid of offering details. They will provide reams of data on the over arching story and plot but then when you get to the actual adventure there are words like throw a couple of encounters at the players with nothing else present. Or they clearly have an idea of how the adventure should proceed, like with the lizard man allies in episode 6, but are terrified of being accused of railroading. This extends to the descriptions, which are almost universally uninspiring. They feel flat and boring. The magic items are completely generic 1 sword, and the titular HOARD of the Dragon Queen is actually abstracted throughout most of the adventure. The text does not inspire you, the DM, and that may be the most important sin. It is very rare for me to complain in a review about formatting I care much more about the content and the imagination present in the adventure, but this time I feel I need to. They have chosen a very conversational style that contributes to a Wall of Text issue. There is not enough use of offsets and bullet lists and the like to allow the DM to reference important information quickly. This conversational style confusion tends to mix with some some poor choices for organization of text. In episode 8, for example, the first part involves getting in to the castle, but this information is scattered throughout the text of the first part. Three ARE issues with railroad, with lack of player agency, with villain monologues and pass a skill roll if you want to go on the adventure, but these are minor and more easily fixed, both by the DM and by the designers in the next adventure. Episode 1 Town under Siege. While pursuing the most generic hook known to man caravan guard. In the first 2 D D products thats twice now that its been used. Time to maybe branch out and try a hook with some life to it And both times its been a complete throwaway. The hook is literally maybe the players are caravan guards. Thats pretty lame. So lame that it makes me think they are pushing some kind of agenda. Idle speculation is idle though in the end the hook is lame and reflects badly but accurately foretells what it to come. Generic Lameness. You come upon a town being looted by monsters Mercenaries, kobolds, and a dragon zoom about through the streetsOhs Nos Youre then presented with 8 little encounters to run, one of which should be done first. The first is a family being chased by kobolds. The goal is to rescue the family and then theyll tell you to take them to the central keep, where in you can pick up the rest of the missions. The kobolds ignore you, thinking you are their allies. If you escort the family to the keep then you are the last ones through before the gate is barred right before the keep is surrounded by enemy forces. It all smacks me as a little forced. Look, yeah, I know why. You want to give the players missions to do. But there should be LOTS of ways to do that without forcing them in to the keep and setting up some kind of EPIC MOMENT when the gates are barred behind you. What about the same thing in the churchOr a family in a cellar Or any of a dozen other things that could have been added But no, rather than the thing being run as a dynamic environment with brief suggestions it instead has to be run as a railroad. BULL. SHIT. Like I said earlier, I could quibble with the nature of how the episodes are done, and make comments on how they could be less railroady but ok, I guess I just did. The GENERIC content though is what breaks this. There is something that quite literally looks like a skill challenge. To sneak through town you need to make stealth checks. For every two you have a random encounter. Ok, thats not bad. It even makes sense But then the encounters ug Thats what passes for CREATIVE CONTENT from Wolfgang Winter. Seriously You get exactly one interesting option 1d. Thats it. Thats something a DM can work with. But just a generic list of monsters Why the hell did they even both Give the thing some life How about those 6 kobolds have a wagon piled high with bed frame and dressersOf the bandits are rolling some kegs of ale down the road It wouldnt kill you to add a single sentence each and it would do WONDERS to help bring the scenes to life. This same thing is the problem with the rest of the first episode. The encounters are presented as generically as possible. Yes, the DM must bring the encounter to life, we all know and accept that. But the designers job is to give the DM the tools to do that. Watch Straightheads Online here. To help them. This dont do that. The vast majority of the text is spent on bullshit superfluous text instead of communicating an evocative and dynamic encounter. The Cult of the Dragon led by d. KJSDFKHD KDFgwk. DGF the high K WDH KE H of KWGKEGKE is UgGlobal GCR RV updates 2 Galactic Friends. 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