#Shadowdale forgotten realms series#

History and commentary of this product was written by Kevin Kulp, game designer and admin of the independent D&D fansite ENWorld. He wrote the Scions of Arrabar trilogy, the Forgotten Realms novel Insurrection, and books such as Shining South. Reid is a designer and author who's been brand manager for D&D and director of the Star Wars Roleplaying Game line. You'll have to hack out and replace a lot of surface detail, but the underlying adventure structure, along with the battle mechanics, are too good to lose.Ībout the Creators. Richard Baker is an author and senior designer whose work includes Red Hand of Doom, Complete Arcane, and the novel Condemnation. This is an adventure I'd recommend even if you don't set your campaign in the Forgotten Realms.

The adventure would be worth it for that alone, but the authors include an interesting and riveting plot to accompany the well-designed adventures. There are fun, varying dungeons to plunder citizen morale to raise a major battle to plan and win and a variety of investigative and tactical decisions to make. One of the most refreshing aspects of this adventure is the varied strategic and tactical goals that the heroes need to achieve in order to save the day. During this adventure, the heroes will penetrate ruined fortresses, battle liches, raise an army of rebels, battle drow, harry supply trains, and lead an army of desperate countrymen into battle against their oppressors.Ī linear dungeon with a 10' by 10' room holding an orc, this is not. The chaos this fostered has created a nice opportunity for newcomers to the area to engineer an uprising against the would-be conquerors, and with Elminster defeated it gives a good reason for the infamously powerful NPCs in the Realms to have tasks of their own to deal with. A variety of foes have managed to tear the magical weave around Shadowdale. The events that began in Cormyr: the Tearing of the Weave, while hopefully thwarted by the heroes during that adventure, were far from isolated. D&D adventures set during an actual war are remarkably rare, and centering this adventure in a war-torn area that players have known and loved for decades was an inspired idea. Heroes of Battle isn't required to run this adventure, for all the rules needed are summarized within, but it makes for a nice companion set of rules. This is a companion adventure to the supplement Heroes of Battle and uses the victory-point rules included in that book to determine whether or not the heroes are successful in their rebellion.

(The trilogy ends with Anauroch: The Empire of Shade.) War rages across the Realms, Elminster is missing and his town is thrown down, and it's up to the heroes to overthrow Shadowdale's conquerors.

#Shadowdale forgotten realms series#

This is the second adventure in a series that began with Cormyr: The Tearing of the Weave, but can be easily played as a stand-alone adventure. Shadowdale: The Scouring of the Land (2007) is a Forgotten Realms adventure for 3.5e D&D that advances four PCs from 9th to 12th level.