Yawning Portal: INTO THE WILDERLANDS- Adventures in Karameikos Intro

Sunday, February 17, 2013

INTO THE WILDERLANDS- Adventures in Karameikos Intro

Intro:

Well I finally got a group together where I moved to that's becoming a bit more regular. I wanted to really try out the DCC ( Dungeon Crawl Classics) because for me if felt like B/X on steroids. I felt DCC would appeal enough to the players who were used to the older versions of D&D and those that liked later versions with lots of character options. And since I'm running B/X in the Northern Reaches campaign with my online group, I really wanted to do something different with this group.

Though getting through all the combat, critical hit, fumble and spell tables is still a bit cumbersome at, I think the group is settling into it nicely. I'm finding the rules creates some pretty cool play as far as combat and spell outcome. I ran the group through some modules in the Norther Reaches Campaign, which were mostly dungeon crawl stuff. This was a good way to get us used to playing the rules, adopting stuff that we wanted, and altering stuff that didn't work for us.

After a few months of playing and about a half dozen sessions, we all agreed to continue playing DCC but with more role playing and a story arch. I had always wanted to run Nights Dark Terror all the way through and felt this was a perfect mini campaign for us to play in for a while that didn't require a huge and long term commitment. It also left a lot for me to expand upon and Ive created a while back story that fits well with the whole Law vs Chaos dynamics of DCC magic.

So we made new characters starting at 2nd level and I decided to run an intro module to get the party together and on the track to the mini campaign. Since, I LOVE running the Keep on the Boarderlands as a good intro, I decided to use that for a session or two to get the group some cohesion, some treasure and some magic items until its time to move onto Nights Dark Terror.