Temple of Elemental Evil TTRPG materals

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    WyrdHamster Member

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    Hi! Long time reader and player, first time poster! I'm avid ToEE cRPG player - and also TableTop Game Master of 25+ years now. In coming months I want to run ToEE TTRPG module for my players. I'm preparing game but I feel they will need a dungeon or two for level 1 & 2 before proper story from Moathouse onward. Maybe you can point for good ideas on those from cRPG implantatom ? Or you found good trivia ideas that could become plot hooks?
     
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    Endarire Ronald Rynnwrathi

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    Depending on your system, you could start the group at a slightly higher level (likely 2-3) due to D&D's low level lethality.

    I was in a campaign that did various Slavers modules before Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil[/url].

    Thankee!
     
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    just have them do the in-town Hommlet NPC quests to get level 2, then do the out-of-town Hommlet quests to get level 3.

    If they end up talking to Terjon about Emridy at level 1, just have Terjon tell them he requires more capable adventurers for his task. Stuff like that.
     
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    FDR4PREZ Established Member

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    Yeah, you can mimic/use much of the many ToEE starting vignettes to get them started on an early arc, and you can use the Delko Grove and Welkwood Bog from the Co8 NC stuff.

    Some of the in town quests i think may be boring for a real PnP playthrough, but you can use/repurpose some of the interesting ones.
     
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  5. Shiningted

    Shiningted I changed this damn title, finally! Administrator

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    Most of the ToEE (CRPG) quests are natural extensions of the basic info Gygax gives in the module - Freulla is called, "handsome but bossy" and acts it, the tailor is a crack shot with ranged weapons but is excluded for being a weedy little tailor etc - and well worth incorporating in a P&P game, just not the overarching 'marriage quest' nonsense. The tension between the recently arrived, proselatizing Cuthbertians and the followers of the Old Faith could feature too. Plus many of the Old Faith housewives have a human-sacrificing coven, I forget what page that is on.

    Welkwood Bog was specifically introduced to give parties a crack at some first level fighting fun for those who wanted to be second level when they head to the Moathouse but don't want to do the around-town quests, sounds like you need that.
     
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    Wait... there' a coven of human-sacrificing housewives in Hommlet?? I have the OG "Village of Hommlet" and ToEE P&P modules, and have never heard of that... ???
     
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    Shiningted I changed this damn title, finally! Administrator

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    Well, you have to read between the lines...
    Actually, that was a bit of facetiousness on my part, Daryk - a Desperate Housewives reference.
     
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    Ah, thanks for letting me in on the joke, Shiningted! :)
     
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    Do we have a map from 'Spiders Grove' quest? I was thinking about using it as simple entry combat encounter in area for players.
     
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  12. Shiningted

    Shiningted I changed this damn title, finally! Administrator

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    Correct. What sort of map do you need? A PnP map?
     
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    Yes, best would be PnP map. I run onROll20, so battlemaps are also great.
     
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  14. Shiningted

    Shiningted I changed this damn title, finally! Administrator

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    Well looking at the module I don't see any maps for this area: I'm pretty sure Troika simply invented the whole encounter. You'll have to do your own maps, sorry!
     
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