In search of adventure
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In search of adventure
Not sure this is the place to raise this or even if it's late to make a difference but a poster at enworld mentioned some serious (his words) mechanical errors in this book. Just felt you should know.
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Re: In search of adventure
Arawn,
Thanks for the heads up. I'll see if I can find the Enworld post.
//H
Thanks for the heads up. I'll see if I can find the Enworld post.
//H
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Re: In search of adventure
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper"
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Re: In search of adventure
Thank you! I spoke w/ Blackdirge tonight. We'll see what we can do.
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Re: In search of adventure
No worries. Thought you'd want to know.Harley Stroh wrote:Thank you! I spoke w/ Blackdirge tonight. We'll see what we can do.
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Re: In search of adventure
Will the fixes be included in the print edition?
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Re: In search of adventure
Seeing as how it's been printed for several weeks now, unfortunately, no.xredjasonx wrote:Will the fixes be included in the print edition?
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Re: In search of adventure
Will an updated PDF be available? (Maybe not immediately, but at some future point when the mistakes have been errata'ed?)
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Re: In search of adventure
At some point, yes. We usually batch any discovered errata then do an update including all of the known issues.
Re: In search of adventure
I'm gearing up to run King Dretch from In Search of Adventure at Owlcon, and I spotted some things I think are errors in Kuzgug's stat block:
- His Reflex and especially Will defenses are outside the range that 1st level characters can be expected to hit reliably; 8 and 14 higher than expected for a normal creature (and still too high even for a solo)
- His wizard spells have a +0 attack bonus, which seems off even if he were a PC (+1 magic orb, -1 Int mod, yes but not taking into account +2 from level) - but as a controller monster he should have about +8 attack vs. defenses other than AC
- He doesn't have the ability to take multiple actions in a round (either by making two attacks or an immediate interrupt) each round, which IMO a solo needs to be the equivalent of 4-5 monsters
Here's what I plan to do at the con:
- Drop his Ref to 18 and Will to 16, only 2 above the expected value (and within the range of higher defenses I'd expect from a solo)
- Use +8 as his attack bonus for his wizard spells
- Allow him to use one demonic standard action (e.g. claws, wave of fear) and one wizard standard action (e.g. scorching burst, sleep) each round
I'm going to give him some flavor changes attached to that last ability, and also restructure the adventure some for convention play, but I'll post about that after the con in case any canny players are reading this
- His Reflex and especially Will defenses are outside the range that 1st level characters can be expected to hit reliably; 8 and 14 higher than expected for a normal creature (and still too high even for a solo)
- His wizard spells have a +0 attack bonus, which seems off even if he were a PC (+1 magic orb, -1 Int mod, yes but not taking into account +2 from level) - but as a controller monster he should have about +8 attack vs. defenses other than AC
- He doesn't have the ability to take multiple actions in a round (either by making two attacks or an immediate interrupt) each round, which IMO a solo needs to be the equivalent of 4-5 monsters
Here's what I plan to do at the con:
- Drop his Ref to 18 and Will to 16, only 2 above the expected value (and within the range of higher defenses I'd expect from a solo)
- Use +8 as his attack bonus for his wizard spells
- Allow him to use one demonic standard action (e.g. claws, wave of fear) and one wizard standard action (e.g. scorching burst, sleep) each round
I'm going to give him some flavor changes attached to that last ability, and also restructure the adventure some for convention play, but I'll post about that after the con in case any canny players are reading this
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Re: In search of adventure
After recently purchasing In Search of Adventure from a RPG Shop In North London
my thoughts
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Since now I'm Dungeon Master of a small group in west London. To some new or not to 4th edition this will help a lot plus we have just completed the mists of madness good fun.
my thoughts
SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET
Since now I'm Dungeon Master of a small group in west London. To some new or not to 4th edition this will help a lot plus we have just completed the mists of madness good fun.
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