Pretty much what the title says. I want to make a playlist to listen to while I'm doing the planning and be able to get into the right mindset.
(Ahh yes, one of the only officially named Arcanaloths who looks NOTHING like an Arcanaloth)
And no, I can't submit a bug report, because there aren't any imputs to do so XD
This is going to be a bit more free form/speculative, as i haven't gotten nearly far enough in my running of this module to be thinking about eberron, but I've been having IDEAS and I need to share them with someone to see if they sound as good as i think they do (and also if the encounter would be as balanced as I'm hoping)
Basically, from what I've been seeing, of all the sections of this book, eberron feels like it's had the most thought put into it, and for that reason, most of the things I'm tweaking are AROUND the dungeon, and not the dungeon itself. I've been going through and trying to flesh out every location the players visit to make them feel more alive/true to their source- I've got THOUGHTS on the Krynn chapter but that's for another day- and in my mind, you can NOT include a chapter where the players explore the bowels of a giant mech that actually has a stat block in the eberron book and then just NOT follow through with a thing like that. So my idea is to just change the location from mount ironrot to Metrol, the capital of Cyre, and my reason for that is twofold. Firstly, the Colossus that's inactive there is just kinda leaned against a wall instead of phased into a mountain, so it will serve a much easier explanation of how they get it operating, and the second reason, I'll get to later. But metrol has a big lake right in the middle of it, so I'm thinking they get into the colossus, they find the rod piece, and then a literal kraken bursts out of the water, and then it's fantasy pacific rim.
And then, when they find out they have to go to barovia, they're conveniently located in the exact city where Cyre 1313 shows up occasionally.
There's a lot more I need to do to make it coherent, but anything that leads to piloting a fantasy Jaeger and fighting a massive water creature is worth it to me
So, I recently got a job that lets me use headphones while I work, and I've been using them to get caught up on a bunch of d&d books I've been meaning to read for several years. Knocked out the og dragonlance trilogy within a few days, and i decided, on a whim, to start the Dark Elf trilogy, not knowing too much about it other than "Hey, I've heard of Drizzt, and he's always seemed pretty cool!"
Needless to say, trying to assemble circuit boards while uh, The Graduation Ceremony was happening was NOT how I expected to let today go. (Please don't spoil the rest of the book, I haven't gotten much farther past the raid)