Legacy of the crystal shard pre sundering

#LEGACY OF THE CRYSTAL SHARD PRE SUNDERING FULL#

TheyвЂ™ve been on the road for a month already so itвЂ™s assumed that the characters have some familiarity with each other at outset. When the adventure begins, the PCs are escorting a caravan to Ten Towns in Icewind Dale. Likewise the Crystal Shard in the adventureвЂ™s title is a direct reference to an artifact that appeared in many of SalvatoreвЂ™s novels. SalvatoreвЂ™s Legend of Drizzt books should be quite familiar with this locale. The adventurer takes place in the Forgotten Realms, in the region known as the Icewind Dale. LetвЂ™s first look at the launch weekend itself. Based on these details and knowing how last seasonвЂ™s adventure was set up, we can draw some fairly reasonable (and accurate) conclusions about this seasonвЂ™s upcoming adventure.

This is exactly how the launch weekend worked last season too.ДЄlthough the launch weekend kit only contains the events of the first session, some information is provided for the DM so that they have a good idea of whatвЂ™s still to come.

#LEGACY OF THE CRYSTAL SHARD PRE SUNDERING FULL#

It just seemed really forced as-is.Although I donвЂ™t yet have a copy of the full Legacy of the Crystal Shard adventure (available in stores everywhere on November 19) the launch weekend kit makes it pretty clear that what happens on launch weekend is an expanded version of the first D&D Encounters session. His idea was that the PCs should be doing other things, and then the events of Murder would slowly unfold as the PCs returned to town. Upon further conversation with one of the guys who ran the module, he had a similar opinion, and he commented that he thought Murder would have been something cool to splice into a home game and a different adventure. One of the players actually attempted to side with the antagonist during the battle in the light house. To be quiet honest, at the end of the module, I felt as though I had little motivation to try to save the town.

While I understand that was, to some extent, necessary for the encounters format, it still made it (at least for me) unfun and dry. There were too many points where (to me and the others who participated at the local store) it seemed as though our choices made little difference in what was going to happen. I just don't think the execution was very good. I applaud the effort to try something different than a string of combat encounters as an adventure. How likely do you think it is that this might happen? That the two sundered pieces might evolve into their own settings: The Forgotten Realms going back to something that makes pre-4E fans happy by looking like a pre-4E Realms again, and The Realms Forgotten keeping 4E influences. It seems to me that it may be possible to create a new setting out of The Realms Forgotten (as they are called in 4E products) for fans of 4E who want their own setting with 4E elements. Just because the two pieces are being pulled apart, that doesn't mean one or the other will cease to exist. To some extent, I feel that lack of knowledge impacts my ability to follow what's going on with D&D right now. Of what I gather, it is intended to split apart Forgotten Realms of the past from the regions ('The Realms Forgotten') added by 4th Edition.ДЇirst, can someone explain to me how those added regions have impacted the Realms novels? I'm not someone who reads many of them, so I'm rather clueless on how events have evolved.

Legacy of the crystal shard pre sundering