The Forest Cliff Lair
In order to get yesterday’s grisly news off the top of the blog, and to showcase one of my most popular series of posts for all the new people stopping by, I thought I’d post a recap of my first foray into terrain building.
I’m currently running Keep on the Shadowfell for my group, and we’re enjoying it moderately…I don’t think anyone is blown away by the new rules. We’ve played three sessions, and they just took on Irontooth and defeated him handily.
I gave them a few advantages because I didn’t think they were working that well together as a team, but they sorted that out before the battle and ended up breezing through it. It was great to see them coming into their powers (none of them are “career gamers” and so they’re not likely the target audience of 4e anyway).
Anyway, I always thought it would be fun to do model terrain, and this seemed like a good time to do it. It was a short campaign with a half-dozen set pieces, handily referenced for me on huge, beautiful poster maps. Also, I had very little prepwork for the actual module since I’m running it as written (best way to learn a new game, right? 
). So far I’ve done two full pieces, and I have to get Dragondown Grotto done for the next game. Here are the five blogs that chronicle my adventure in terrain building.
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5:29 pm on August 5th, 2008 1
I love these. Ploughing through them now in preparation for my second run through Shadowfell. The first time was more of a playtest than an actual set of sessions. We’re going to do it properly this time
9:15 pm on August 6th, 2008 2
Thanks man, I wish you well on your second run through the module. I have to say I think the module is a big part of why I don’t enjoy our sessions, which have been up and down in my opinion. Still, I have a great group, and a great group can make anything fun.
I’m looking forward to giving high levels a shot from the other side of the screen when my friend runs a 4e conversion of Hall of the Fire Giant King at Gencon.