Friday we went out in the hope that the power would be back soon. No such luck. So we spent the night reading by flashlight and candle light. I grabbed my old 2e Ravenloft Boxed set to flip through.
Saturday was spent grilling everything in the fridge so we would not have to throw it all out.
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| Eggs, toast and bacon on the grill. I might never eat inside again. |
We then spent the day preparing and playing one of my favorite modules X2 Castle Amber.
And trust me, nothing was quite as fun as playing it all by candle light.
We played it under 5th edition rules. Unlike Bone Hill, I did not have 5e stats for all the monsters in this adventure. But fortunately the conversion process was very easy and most I could do one the fly.
Yeah that is my 1st Ed. DMs screen. I had my kids grab everything and they also got that.
So far 5e is still working very nice for us.
Castle Amber is also a great adventure to play and run. The kids are having a blast. They managed to get through the west wing and they even found an intelligent magical sword. I am not sure what do with that one yet. I hand-waved it for now since I have not found any D&D5 rules about intelligent weapons yet.
My family is loving this adventure so far and I have to admit I was rather gleeful inside at scene where they have to run from the "Grey Mists" to get into the castle.
The nice thing is that even though this feels like a "monster of the week" adventure there is a great tie-in to the overall "Cult of Chaos" plot I have been weaving through all the adventures. Yeah, yeah I have seen the posts that D&D isn't supposed to be "cinematic" or "storytelling". Screw that. I do what my family and I enjoy. My youngest spends his time playing looking for any clues that might help him understand more about the mystery and my oldest wants to read Lovecraft now.
So next time they will finish the central forest and hit the East Wing and then beyond.
D&D isn't cinematic? I've been running it wrong all of these years!!
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Castle Amber by candlelight sounds pretty hip. I always preferred running games in dim light, when I could.
ReplyDeleteWas there any issues with the conversion? or was it straight forward. I love this adventure and would love to give it a whirl in 5E
ReplyDeleteNo issues at all really. Converted nice, I just used the monsters from the Monster Manual.
ReplyDeleteNow B/X D&D has a lot more treasure that D&D5, so there was a lot of magic in the Castle. Had I been better prepared I might have turned it down a notch.