RTGoodman
2008-12-30, 10:39 PM
In the used book store yesterday, I (as usual) managed to snag up quite a few cheap, but still in-good-shape, D&D books, and among those was an old adventure from 3.0 called, "Heart of the Nightfang Spire" for $2. I've looked through it, even though I don't think I'll be using it any time soon, but I've got a couple of questions.
First, does anyone know if the Mooncalf has been updated to 3.5? It doesn't seem like it'd be hard to just use as-is (just changing DR and stuff), but I thought I'd seen it somewhere else before where it was pretty different and I'm not sure if I should use that either.
Second, if anyone's played the adventure, how deadly is it, exactly? To me, without much high level experience anyway, it seems like you'd have to expect at least a handful of deaths in a single run-through, and that's even with the PCs doing stupid stuff to actively get themselves killed. There's two traps that could drop you through a chute (1d4 razors, 1d4 + 5 damage each) plus 12-15d6 falling damage(average 60-70 damage or so, at 10th-11th level), SEVERAL monsters with Con drain or damage (PLUS level drain occasionally), and, IIRC, at least one or two traps that slay PCs outright. That just seems like a LOT to me, but maybe I'm wrong.
Finally, as an aside, what do you think the easiest way would be to fit the thing into the Eberron setting (since that's likely the next IRL game I'll be running)? I was thinking of the area being somewhere in the outskirts of the Mournlands, a remnant of years way before even the Last War, but I'm not sure. Thematically it fits in that one country with the vampire king (I can't remember the name), but I don't know if that's too hokey. Any suggestions?
First, does anyone know if the Mooncalf has been updated to 3.5? It doesn't seem like it'd be hard to just use as-is (just changing DR and stuff), but I thought I'd seen it somewhere else before where it was pretty different and I'm not sure if I should use that either.
Second, if anyone's played the adventure, how deadly is it, exactly? To me, without much high level experience anyway, it seems like you'd have to expect at least a handful of deaths in a single run-through, and that's even with the PCs doing stupid stuff to actively get themselves killed. There's two traps that could drop you through a chute (1d4 razors, 1d4 + 5 damage each) plus 12-15d6 falling damage(average 60-70 damage or so, at 10th-11th level), SEVERAL monsters with Con drain or damage (PLUS level drain occasionally), and, IIRC, at least one or two traps that slay PCs outright. That just seems like a LOT to me, but maybe I'm wrong.
Finally, as an aside, what do you think the easiest way would be to fit the thing into the Eberron setting (since that's likely the next IRL game I'll be running)? I was thinking of the area being somewhere in the outskirts of the Mournlands, a remnant of years way before even the Last War, but I'm not sure. Thematically it fits in that one country with the vampire king (I can't remember the name), but I don't know if that's too hokey. Any suggestions?