@Carl: Regardless of our personal differences vis à vis this adventure, the final was absolutely awesome…

Let us rejoice, we start the 4e introductory module Keep on the Shadowfel in 3 weeks.

I’ll put up the final campaign log later today or tomorrow.

@ Lamir: I’ll tell you all about it after… I’ll try to make you feel like you were there!

At least in my experience…maybe not the rest of the party, on account of two occasions where this plan led to death for everyone but me, the one who always suggests/enacts such plans…yep…

I guess that our full frontal assault plan will need to be re-evaluated. Or then again maybe not…

95% of Demonweb took place in the Outer Planes via Sigil so I wouldn’t have needed to do any campaign world-driven alterations to make it fit into my own campaign world. Since we’d just “finished” RTOEE everyone was already in Greyhawk, so I figured I’d focus on this new story over the setting.

Again, I liked the entire book. I read the thing cover-to-cover before running it and for about an hour before each session I’d review what I thought we could cover that night. Most times I was ahead of the players by 1 or 2 encounters. I loved the encounter format. I did less page-flipping while running that module than I do when running my own stuff. I didn’t need to look up anything in the MM or the DMG, and the first few rounds of tactics were always suggested so I didn’t have to do much thinking about what the critters were going to do.

My favorite parts was the Beatslands (which I re-wrote 100%) but I really liked Zelatar as is and am feeling that the Grand Finale will be worth it.

Oddly enough, while players grew tired of it at times, we actually completed Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (it took us about 2 years)

That said, I had a very different experience with Demonweb than you. I ran the entire adventure, beginning to end without significant variation from the module. My players loved (and I mean LOVED) every session. There was lots of fighting, some NPC role-play interaction, some truly remarkable treasures and a kick-ass, dramatic, mind-blowing finale.

I thought the adventure was nicely laid out. The encounters clearly designed and the plot interesting. The finale was especially nice since the demons refuse to work together or help each other, so my players were able to fight just about everyone in the great hall as single or small encounters.

That does inspire me to create an actual ‘in-game’ webcomic where we can start exploring the Minis as Actor angle I wanted to do since day one.

Hmmm… feelings of creation are taking over! Damn! I’m at work.

Kermit is going to be making an appearance in my next adventure too (at least the mini is.)

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