[Quest Pack] [14 Quests] - WAAAGH!!!

[The Admiral]

It is a shame this quest pack was never finally published. It is actually perfectly playable as it stands, without the two extra quests mentioned by the author. The only thing it lacks are the quest notes for the last double quest.

[The Admiral]

I'm getting to the point where this will be played as part of our ongoing campaign. It doesn't look like we are going to get the two extra quests mentioned, or the quest notes for the last two quests. I even tried a PM to the author, but got no reply .

Looks like I'm going to have to make up some quest notes for my own use.

[StratosVX]

You're not having much luck on the quests you want, are you? Any plans to make the notes available to others?

[The Admiral]

You're not having much luck on the quests you want, are you? Any plans to make the notes available to others?

Your right, I'm not!

Sure. I will be playing through the first 10 quests beforehand though. Firstly to get a feel of any themes the author had going, and secondly to tailor them to the situation of the party when they get to the last two quests i.e. what sort of potions/scrolls they need, what level of bosses they can fight etc.

I would so love Thrawn to give us the real thing though, but it doesn't seem he is around any more.

[The Admiral]

Right, I am beginning the playtesting of this with my Heroes, in anticipation of running it in the future with my brother's Heroes, who have evolved slightly differently to mine, but are essentially reasonably similar.

If you are interested in the story line and the characters involved have a look at this file:

[The Admiral]

I'm about to start Quest 3. According to Thrawn's monster notes, the only new monster should be the Orc Bigun, and he is clearly introduced in Note E. There is however another icon I don't recognise? One is placed in each of rooms E. G, and room B below room E. If I had to guess in context I would say it is an Orc Archer. Can anyone confrim please?

[StratosVX]

That is the Orc Archer icon in Heroscribe.

[The Admiral]

That is the Orc Archer icon in Heroscribe.

Thanks, I can't get Heroscribe. Looking at how Thrawn has handled the goblin and Skeleton archers, I gave these orcs a 3 dice ranged attack, but only 1 die in hand to hand.

I'm up to quest 5 now. I'm positive that those guys at the end of corridor 'I' are the fanatics. I'm looking forward to playing them. There is no actual Note to go with the 'I', but as this is their first appearance, I am going to assume the author is just using the note for something atmospheric to introduce the little critters, much as he did with the Big'Uns:
"At the end of the corridor you see two strange goblins, gibbering and shaking uncontrollably."

[Lemmeron]

How are you finding the balance and difficulty ramp up in the quests so far ?

[The Admiral]

How are you finding the balance and difficulty ramp up in the quests so far ?

Good question. My Heroes are finding too easy, but I am realising it is because they already had some experience. They weren't veterans by any means, but this is meant for four completely new Heroes. I didn't think it would make that much difference, but it does. My four chaps have 7, 4, 1 and 1 quests behind them. I also realised that it didn't fit into my storyline at all. my four Heroes were up in Ostland, and this is all occurring in the Border Princes/Badlands. So, this is scrapped and it's on to Plan B.

The next of my brother's Heroes that is up for questing after we finish with His Barbarian and his men, is the Elf (Eagle). Eagle's last quest was 'Mage in the Mirror' and it was our closest finish yet. Eagle survived with 2BP's and 1 healing potion remaining, while his whole team (Female Elf, Barbarian, Dwarf, Elf and Wizard), along with all 15 henchmen were wiped out. This however means I need a whole new crew for him. It is going to be from one of the D&D base sets: Regdar the warrior, Carn the rogue, Dothal the Dwarf Cleric and Lanin the Elf Sorceress. This will therefore be the ideal opportunity for these four to play this quest and then meat up with Eagle, who in the meantime will be drowning his sorrows on a world cruise, along with his cousin, a Wardancer, in The High Elves' encounter pack. This quest conveniently ends on the coast at the border of the badlands, where he can meet the others and then go and do the Karag Eight peaks quest together.

I have some serious quest playtesting to do!