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Any decent modules for 2nd level characters?

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#1
zombiegleemax
Mar 10, 2004 2:01:36 I found a perfectly-good 1st-level campaign for the first Ravenloft campaign I've ever DM-ed, and now the characters are getting to the end of that. Anyone have any recommendations for a 2nd-level adventure in the Ravenloft setting?
#2
zombiegleemax
Mar 10, 2004 2:16:42 I think that fighting with some ghost is perfectly acceptable solution. Mostly I'd use adventures which are more of a puzzle and less of a combat kind of ones.
#3
malus_black
Mar 10, 2004 9:59:36 I recently ran the adventure "Tainted Love" from the first issue of Quoth the Raven for two 2nd-level players, and we all had a great time. It actually fits Irve's criteria exactly, with thinking, little combat, and a ghost ;)

Great adventure if your players like the more thinking part of the game, and also includes some combat. (One of my players had a theory that Igor had become a werewolf and killed the others, he even had the other player convinced, so you can understand that he was quite annoyed when he found Igor slashed up in the woods :D )
#4
mindshred
Apr 05, 2004 12:55:56 "The Created" is an EXCELLENT module, though it takes a little bit of conversion....the carrionettes only deal a damage or two, so you don't have to worry about "prematurely" killing off your players, especially the wizards.

About halfway through, PCs switch bodies with the puppets, and have to hunt their own bodies down through a small village....I gave the whole campaign a kind of manic feel....the sceen in Poltergeist where the clown puppet attacks should be the #1 thing to call to mind here

The PCs still talk about that 1st level starting adventure more than nearly anything else they have done in Ravenloft, ever!

It helps if you ask for the copies of their character sheets at teh beginning, saying you need more NPCs, but don't have the time to flesh them all out, so you're just going to base them off of their characters....then transfer their stats to seperate carrionette PC sheets, and watch the looks on their faces when you hand them their "puppet bodies" halfway through
#5
zombiegleemax
Apr 09, 2004 0:13:02 Any campaign is good, just take a big black marker to all the stats and Items and focus on what story you want =)
#6
zombiegleemax
Apr 12, 2004 14:32:30 The Created.

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#7
slivvy_gaidin
Apr 15, 2004 20:49:13 I'm fairly new to DMing Ravenloft, and in most of my other games, I'm still in that hack'n'slash stage.

I ran "Tainted Love" just the other night, and I was most impressed with its results. For one, it gave me an opportunity to flex my roleplaying skills a little, and did likewise for my players. I found it particularly amusing to watch as my players changed their assumptions from lycanthrope, to vampire, to ghost, and them all the way back to lycanthrope again.

I left out the fear and horror checks in my game for two reasons. 1) My players are unfamiliar with RL (and very new to D&D in general), so I didn't want to bog the game down with extra things.
2) My players handled their characters very appropriately in the situations, so they weren't neccesary.

Still, I really enjoyed running the module.

Where does "The Created" module come from?
#8
zombiegleemax
Apr 16, 2004 10:11:42 It's a 2E Ravenloft adventure. It's hard to find, now, but the SVGames site (I think that's it) has an e-book version.
#9
zombiegleemax
Apr 16, 2004 12:15:13 You can also find it on Ebay from time to time.

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#10
zombiegleemax
Apr 23, 2004 2:20:41 "The Created" is an awesome 2nd level adventure!
Especially when the players run upstairs and slam the door closed on the attacking toys....................only to hear: Meeeeoooowww.
#11
zombiegleemax
Apr 23, 2004 11:44:10 My first session running "The Created" was a role playing extravaganza!

Not one combat die roll was made. Some of my players even thought that the little girl was the killer.

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#12
zombiegleemax
Apr 23, 2004 14:25:13 In the Kargatane netbook of adventures called The Forgotten Children there is a very good one about a ghost child named Barton DeForet tailored for 1st and 2nd level characters. You can still get the PDF from the skeletal remains of the Kargatane website:

http://www.kargatane.com/forgotten/tfcpdf.zip

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 zombiegleemax Mar 10, 2004 2:01:36	I found a perfectly-good 1st-level campaign for the first Ravenloft campaign I've ever DM-ed, and now the characters are getting to the end of that. Anyone have any recommendations for a 2nd-level adventure in the Ravenloft setting?
#2 zombiegleemax Mar 10, 2004 2:16:42	I think that fighting with some ghost is perfectly acceptable solution. Mostly I'd use adventures which are more of a puzzle and less of a combat kind of ones.
#3 malus_black Mar 10, 2004 9:59:36	I recently ran the adventure "Tainted Love" from the first issue of Quoth the Raven for two 2nd-level players, and we all had a great time. It actually fits Irve's criteria exactly, with thinking, little combat, and a ghost ;) Great adventure if your players like the more thinking part of the game, and also includes some combat. (One of my players had a theory that Igor had become a werewolf and killed the others, he even had the other player convinced, so you can understand that he was quite annoyed when he found Igor slashed up in the woods :D )
#4 mindshred Apr 05, 2004 12:55:56	"The Created" is an EXCELLENT module, though it takes a little bit of conversion....the carrionettes only deal a damage or two, so you don't have to worry about "prematurely" killing off your players, especially the wizards. About halfway through, PCs switch bodies with the puppets, and have to hunt their own bodies down through a small village....I gave the whole campaign a kind of manic feel....the sceen in Poltergeist where the clown puppet attacks should be the #1 thing to call to mind here The PCs still talk about that 1st level starting adventure more than nearly anything else they have done in Ravenloft, ever! It helps if you ask for the copies of their character sheets at teh beginning, saying you need more NPCs, but don't have the time to flesh them all out, so you're just going to base them off of their characters....then transfer their stats to seperate carrionette PC sheets, and watch the looks on their faces when you hand them their "puppet bodies" halfway through
#5 zombiegleemax Apr 09, 2004 0:13:02	Any campaign is good, just take a big black marker to all the stats and Items and focus on what story you want =)
#6 zombiegleemax Apr 12, 2004 14:32:30	The Created. ~~~
#7 slivvy_gaidin Apr 15, 2004 20:49:13	I'm fairly new to DMing Ravenloft, and in most of my other games, I'm still in that hack'n'slash stage. I ran "Tainted Love" just the other night, and I was most impressed with its results. For one, it gave me an opportunity to flex my roleplaying skills a little, and did likewise for my players. I found it particularly amusing to watch as my players changed their assumptions from lycanthrope, to vampire, to ghost, and them all the way back to lycanthrope again. I left out the fear and horror checks in my game for two reasons. 1) My players are unfamiliar with RL (and very new to D&D in general), so I didn't want to bog the game down with extra things. 2) My players handled their characters very appropriately in the situations, so they weren't neccesary. Still, I really enjoyed running the module. Where does "The Created" module come from?
#8 zombiegleemax Apr 16, 2004 10:11:42	It's a 2E Ravenloft adventure. It's hard to find, now, but the SVGames site (I think that's it) has an e-book version.
#9 zombiegleemax Apr 16, 2004 12:15:13	You can also find it on Ebay from time to time. ~~~
#10 zombiegleemax Apr 23, 2004 2:20:41	"The Created" is an awesome 2nd level adventure! Especially when the players run upstairs and slam the door closed on the attacking toys....................only to hear: Meeeeoooowww.
#11 zombiegleemax Apr 23, 2004 11:44:10	My first session running "The Created" was a role playing extravaganza! Not one combat die roll was made. Some of my players even thought that the little girl was the killer. ~~~
#12 zombiegleemax Apr 23, 2004 14:25:13	In the Kargatane netbook of adventures called The Forgotten Children there is a very good one about a ghost child named Barton DeForet tailored for 1st and 2nd level characters. You can still get the PDF from the skeletal remains of the Kargatane website: http://www.kargatane.com/forgotten/tfcpdf.zip