Hello,
Four issues or questions I have, real quick:
1.
I am trying to create and run a new campaign for Margaret Weis' "War of the Lance" campaign for D&D 3.5. And this campaign only begins at level 5 for 4-6 players or so. My problem is that i have some new players in my group and i do not wish to start them off right away at level 5, and i'd prefer to start them at level 1. So, is there a short level 1-5 adventure that someone may have written that i can drop-in-place BEFORE I take my players through the events in "Dragons of Autumn" (the first module in that 3.5e campaign)? It MUST have a historic placement of happening RIGHT BEFORE the War of the Lance, since these players will eventually start Dragons of Autumn all the way through Dragons of Winter and Dragons of Spring, and become the Heroes of the Lance, themselves...
[please note that for those uninitiated, i am NOT referring to the fantasy fiction novels. I am referring to the 3 rarely-known-about 3.5e Dragonlance War of the Lance campaign modules which i own physical copies of).
The ONLY THING i have found so far, for level 1 in Dragonlance, is an adventure for 2nd edition called "Dragons' Knight" but it takes place AFTER the War of the Lance has already begun and it would take too much effort to retrofit it.
Does anyone know of a level 1-5 adventure which I can take my newbie players through that will leave them ready to start taking on my starting-level-5 campaign? I need this info in a rather short time and i THANK YOU IN ADVANCE if anyone knows of anything i can look at. Write me here on this list, or at my personal e-mail (preferred) please. Thanks!
2.
I always prefer using XP whenever possible and I resent the way they designed the War of the Lance to be handwaved-leveling by the DM only... are there any suggestions for how or where i could improvise on those modules to try to lessen my need to hand-wave leveling and let the players figure that out via the PHB tables on their own?
3.
It should also be noted that if i DO run this War of the Lance campaign under 3.5e, with your advice taken for levels 1-4, you should also know that this will be my FIRST EVER attempt at being a Dungeon Master. I have never truly DM'd before, but have played table-top since I was 12. I turn 40 tomorrow
I am strongly considering putting together my own group since i am suffering from a bad case of lack-of-gaming-group-ness...
Is there any advice you can give me about running my first ever campaign? I am reading many books about it (not just the core 3.5e books but the "DM for Dummies" book too).
Do you think that the War of the Lance campaign is a decent one for someone's first ever campaign as a DM?
4.
I'd like to combine 3.5e rules with preference for Pathfinder (classes) rules to supersede what 3.5e says... + my own house rules, which would supersede all of the preceding
I already have somewhat of an idea how to do this, but I'd like advice on this if anyone has also thought of this "syncretism" of the rules approach before?
Thanks in advance!
--Ryan
Four issues or questions I have, real quick:
1.
I am trying to create and run a new campaign for Margaret Weis' "War of the Lance" campaign for D&D 3.5. And this campaign only begins at level 5 for 4-6 players or so. My problem is that i have some new players in my group and i do not wish to start them off right away at level 5, and i'd prefer to start them at level 1. So, is there a short level 1-5 adventure that someone may have written that i can drop-in-place BEFORE I take my players through the events in "Dragons of Autumn" (the first module in that 3.5e campaign)? It MUST have a historic placement of happening RIGHT BEFORE the War of the Lance, since these players will eventually start Dragons of Autumn all the way through Dragons of Winter and Dragons of Spring, and become the Heroes of the Lance, themselves...
[please note that for those uninitiated, i am NOT referring to the fantasy fiction novels. I am referring to the 3 rarely-known-about 3.5e Dragonlance War of the Lance campaign modules which i own physical copies of).
The ONLY THING i have found so far, for level 1 in Dragonlance, is an adventure for 2nd edition called "Dragons' Knight" but it takes place AFTER the War of the Lance has already begun and it would take too much effort to retrofit it.
Does anyone know of a level 1-5 adventure which I can take my newbie players through that will leave them ready to start taking on my starting-level-5 campaign? I need this info in a rather short time and i THANK YOU IN ADVANCE if anyone knows of anything i can look at. Write me here on this list, or at my personal e-mail (preferred) please. Thanks!
2.
I always prefer using XP whenever possible and I resent the way they designed the War of the Lance to be handwaved-leveling by the DM only... are there any suggestions for how or where i could improvise on those modules to try to lessen my need to hand-wave leveling and let the players figure that out via the PHB tables on their own?
3.
It should also be noted that if i DO run this War of the Lance campaign under 3.5e, with your advice taken for levels 1-4, you should also know that this will be my FIRST EVER attempt at being a Dungeon Master. I have never truly DM'd before, but have played table-top since I was 12. I turn 40 tomorrow
I am strongly considering putting together my own group since i am suffering from a bad case of lack-of-gaming-group-ness... Is there any advice you can give me about running my first ever campaign? I am reading many books about it (not just the core 3.5e books but the "DM for Dummies" book too).
Do you think that the War of the Lance campaign is a decent one for someone's first ever campaign as a DM?
4.
I'd like to combine 3.5e rules with preference for Pathfinder (classes) rules to supersede what 3.5e says... + my own house rules, which would supersede all of the preceding
I already have somewhat of an idea how to do this, but I'd like advice on this if anyone has also thought of this "syncretism" of the rules approach before?
Thanks in advance!
--Ryan
