War of the Paragons story arc

Hi Henry,

Can the Crusade retirement be deferred until 30 March please?

2 days is not enough time to organize a catchup for the missed adventures.

Southernskeis

Henry I have two guys who played in the old campaign that are just working their way through the Crusade arc. We are currently in the middle of the first BI. We lost an entire month’s worth of playing time due to work and vacation over the holidays. I’ll talk to them this Sunday when we next play and let them know what’s up, but it’s shame they won’t get to play all those cool mods you wrote.

But if they get retired no big deal we can jump ahead to the Blessed Lands arc, but they’re not 1.5 yet….so there’s the problem.

Henry,

Thanks for the update and a way to bring characters up to the level needed for the new story!

@Taffy I’ve got a character that’s 3.2 now with 68 ARs. I’ve had money to spend and have bought exceptional weapons, runes and miscellaneous gear. Even with all that, the gear adds a bit of help here or there, but it’s really the base character that does all the heavy lifting. Give him standard gear and he’s as effective or nearly as effective. The items certainly add flavor, but I don’t think they’re by any means critical.

Also, until we see what the level to Tier 3 cert looks like, it’s hard to say where a PC nets out. If this was back in the old 3.0/3.5 days, it’d be a far different story.

One other thing I will mention in terms of retired mods – if you download them before hand, nothing prevents you from playing them with friends. The only thing it prevents you from doing is adding any affects to your character (XP, money, Fame, Infamy, curses….).

With a sweep of his hat,

Paul

Hello Eric,

Yes it is and in fact, its ready to go, however there was an adventure written (by another author) that sounds like a lot of fun, but it MUST take place BEFORE the BI finale.

I’m hoping to give it an edit in the next couple of days and expedite its release along with the BI.

I want to clarify something. Does this mean that going forward any character must be Tier 3 to play anything from Arc 3 forward? Including soft points? Will there any mods open for lower level characters? I’m concerned that it will be hard to recruit new players if they have to start at Tier 3. ARG is a great game but it does come with a stiff learning curve compared to 5E, which is why we started our new players locally off with the Crusade Arc mods. Thanks!

I guess I was not clear. Will there be any intro style mods to ease new players into the system? I suppose the difference between a 1.0 and 1.5 character is not that large and all things considered Into the Blessed Lands could serve as an Intro. I was concerned that retiring the low level Crusade mods might discourage a new player from jumping into the system. There’s an awful lot of competition out there for new players and I want to stack the deck in our favor. And I would never encourage anyone to “play up” in this system Henry, I know better than that. And from a mechanics stand point I totally understand the desire not to do so many stat blocks. You should see the number of stat block pages we have left over from the 3.5 days….. A lot of trees died for that campaign.

One thing else. And perhaps this is restating the question that baffled Henry. I think what I’m trying to say is going forward will any new mods be written for people who would like play at the lower levels or is everything new going to be Tier 3 and above?

I was thinking of having a few select Soft Points from the A1 series or possibly A2 be reclassified as Intro adventures, basically to take you from Tier 1.0 to 1.5.

As to new low level adventures, given that we have limited writers and there are complaints about not enough adventures,I don’t think that would be a good use of our resources.

So assuming there are X number of Intro mods that get you to 1.5, that allows that player to then move to the A2 series. By the end of that, they should be right at Tier 3 or so, allowing them to continue forward.

If anyone has a suggestion as to which adventures to make into said Into mods, please feel free to name them in this thread.

That actually sounds like a good plan. Let me get back to you on suggested adventures, but there are a couple that come to mind and I would like to see opinions on this:

In Darkness, Light–good for introducing the role faith and religion play in the game, plus I always thought there was some good RP opportunities in that mod.

Gleam of Fires, Throb of Drums–showcases the dangers posed by the Ssethregorans and has pretty good boss fight.

Salvage Operations–Underwater mod, deals with a certain favorite group (trying to avoid spoilers)

There’s more but I need to look over the list. Take care all.