Catching Up

I've been hesitating on updating this blog mainly because there are some problem elements with the maps for Three Faces of Evil. The First part of the complex never even got turned into a 3D map as my players where hot on my heels in terms of prep time at this point.

The second part of the complex did get turned into a 3D map and I'll include it but its got issues. The U shaped cavern is so complex that I suspect my 3D map is near useless for anyone but myself - I know whats being represented because I made the damn thing but for other people your often trying to figure out what the heck is going on through up too three layers of transparency.

The map for the last part of the cavern is significantly modified from the original campaign modules as well as I felt that the plethora of small encounters really did not cut it in a module that was essentially a single dungeon crawl that was already too long. My encounter here essentially just saw the remains of the tribe come pouring into the main room for a final battle royal. This section of the adventure reaches its highlight in the U shaped cavern and I don't feel its justified to have more then a single big fight after that climax in any case.

I made a number of changes in this part of the adventure as well. Most significantly I changed the Grimlocks to Orcs - Grimlocks are really high level in 4E and I did not want to bring them down that many levels. I gave the Orcs darkvision to allow them to operate effectively and tossed in a Goblin lackey encounter at the start and one with the Krenshars featured a Bugbear who controlled them.

I also condensed the encounters in the U shaped cavern down to two. one on each side of the cavern. This worked really well...note that all the enemies don't actually have to be working together to be in an encounter.

Three Faces of Evil - The Caves