Ghosts of Saltmarsh makes no sense, here's why. Its also where the major NPCs of the town are described. Theres a table you can use to determine a hazard type at random. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These guards are alerted by noise in 1. comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment Shiroiken Additional comment actions. Session Zeros are a great time to relax with our friends before the adventure begins. Blood, Salt, & Bones contains 25 different statblocks for. Whether you agree about Salvage Operation or not, whichever adventures you personally like or dislike, the designers have made it trivially easy to weave whichever parts youre prepared to use into a full-length campaign. I'm going to be running Ghosts of Saltmarsh for some people over Roll20 starting this evening. DREAMS OF THE RED WIZARDS AN ADVENTURE FOR CHARACTERS OF 2 ND -4 TH LEVEL TITO LEATI MATT SERNETT CHRIS SIMS. TheCharm of Plant Command andHelm of Underwater Action in particular need no explanation. The map of Saltmarsh is full colour, but the majority (including the hex map of the region) continue the trend of recent Waterdeep products to return to a more old school line art style. This first adventure is APL 6 designed to be run before chapter 6. A storm, fog, or sandbars might fit here. Free shipping for many products! Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors. The roster would be far more effective a tool. It contains supplemental rules your DM is bound to find useful while running these adventurers or if your homebrew campaign ever goes near the sea. Causing the kraken to flee avoids that horror, but taking the long view it may be a worse result: hidden in the ocean depths the kraken can grow to adulthood unopposed. While the events of this adventure are very exciting, it has significant problems. This table is a fun idea but only moderately useful in my opinion. If this happens, the adventure is reduced to the level of an old school dungeon crawl of seemingly random monsters dropped into a location without context (in this case a Lolth-worshipping half-orc druid, spider-themed monsters, and a random group of ghouls which are somehow aboard the vessel). Here are some ideas: The Final Enemy concludes the trilogy which began with The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. An adventure for levels 5-8, the adventure is told in a series of short episodes requiring about 2-3 hours to play each. We also learn that the official setting for Ghosts of Saltmarsh is within the region of Keoland in the Greyhawk campaign setting, not in the Forgotten Realms. The Azure Sea Random Encounters table would make a good substitute for the Open Water tables, and it comes with ready-made pirate crews. See Full PDF Download PDF. The section also provides ways for characters of old and new backgrounds alike to be tied to Saltmarsh these are tools intended for characters who are local to the region. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Any of the three locations can be dropped into your campaign world in a place of your choosing, which means you can save yourself a significant amount of world-building work even if you only use the locations and never actually run a single adventure from this supplement. A vocal subset of fans have been asking for the return of Greyhawk for a while now. Its a bit of a generic concept, and ends up being less exciting than some of the other islands for it. However, the adventure directs that he attacks at the first sign of intruders, meaning his death before he can tell his story is a very strong possibility. What would be far, far more useful would be a summary of what creatures might arrive in a room from elsewhere. Ive noticed a meager handful of editorial errors in the form of minor typos. Youre unlikely to encounter a galleon which is intended for fishing, for example. It's a Sith legend. Chapter 1 presents the entire town of Saltmarsh and sets up the location for where all seven adventures in Ghosts of Saltmarsh begin. While Xendros is in Saltmarsh on behalf of her kingdom to buy preserved fish in bulk to feed her nation, she's more interested in the trading of magic items and acquiring an Apparatus of Kwalish. Thats good, because although the campaigns central story is now concluded, the book still has two higher level adventures for them to face! [] While Ghosts of Saltmarsh contains plenty of nods to its Greyhawk roots, the book is still 'setting agnostic' as DMs and players don't need to know anything about Greyhawk before they sit down to play the adventure. The actions section of a ships statblock has changed. [11], For Bleeding Cool, Gavin Sheehan wrote that "Ghosts of Saltmarsh is one of the best put-together books in the entire run of 5th Edition. As in the main releases in the Dungeons & Dragons Adventure System series, the Ghosts of Saltmarsh expansion sees one to five players becoming heroes with their own set of unique skills and abilities, which they'll be able to add to and improve as they gain experience and level up. Ghosts of Saltmarsh features adventures from Dungeon magazine and the TSR UK staff, all connected through their nautical themes. The only adventure Im less than keen on is Salvage Operation. Alternatively, these locations can be used as a starting point to inspire adventures: each location has a section of guidance for generating adventures that might take place there. We progressed, and now currently are at level 7. However, this isnt always the case (for example, in Danger at Dunwater creatures might move between room 10 and room 29). This was the perfect time to start fresh, take a deep breath, get together with our friends, and learn about the world and the characters who will sit in its center. This means that the included adventure roster should be a helpful tool for determining whether the characters alert any nearby sahuagin as they move about the fortress. Rather than their exact attacks be specified, ships can now take a certain number of actions chosen from a list (this section of the statblock looks similar to a monsters legendary actions). The juvenile kraken must be slain. The seven adventures can be played through for characters 1st through 11 th levels, not exactly as a single campaign, though advice is provided for how to do that. The Ghosts of Saltmarsh consists of 7 adventures that take players from level 1 - 11 The first adventure - The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh - is 4-6 players of level 1 The second - Danger at Dunwater - is 4-6 players of level 3 The third - Salvage Operation - is 4-6 players of level 4 The fourth - Isle of the Abbey - is 4-6 players of level 5 The first, Avernus, fell apart. It's a great time to reinforce the main themes of the campaign, integrate the characters together into a group, and discuss any sensative issues anyone might have with these themes. If the characters have been playing through the entire campaign, they have by now been awarded with citizenship and a free house in Saltmarsh. The traditionalists see it as meddling by the outside iron gauntlet of the king. He offers 10% of the profits of the sales to the characters, plus of course the friendship of a wealthy and important person may have other benefits. This is easily the beating heart of an exploration game, and it doesnt look like it would get repetitive in a hurry".[13]. Mr. Dory a named NPC, hes an unusual variant of skum (which also appear in this appendix). Honestly, I think the standard cover is more attractive and the alternate cover looks too dark. Its crew dropped anchor at an island to look for food and water, only to fall victim to the cannibalistic tribes which lived there. The Compendium Content bundle does not grant access to all the content's options in the rest of the toolset, such as the searchable listings, character builder, or digital sheet. Its further broken down into the following sections: a brief introduction to the town, followed by Politics and Factions, Saltmarsh Overview, Downtime Activities, Saltmarsh Region, Adventures in Saltmarsh, and Saltmarsh Backgrounds. During The Haunted House the adventures investigate the abandoned cliffside abode of a long dead alchemist, which seems to be haunted. The last thing you want is for the sahuagin to be a distant threat right up until the adventurers face them. The rules here now include ship upgrades, which grant your ship special benefits/powers. However, it is almost certainly a sign that Greyhawk is about to be added to the list of supported settings on the DMsGuild, which would enable fans to update Greyhawk themselves. Mr. Dorys connection a cult of Tharizdun and a being called The Whisperer, believed to be Tharizduns messenger, who gives the cult orders. As things stand, I would probably wouldnt useSalvage Operation. [12], On ship-to-ship combat, Brandes Stoddard, for Tribality, wrote that "most of what we saw in the [Unearthed Arcana] article of the same name seems to still be in place the same component/battle station format for ships and naval combat. Since chapters 2, 3, and 6 are the trilogy that form the through line of the larger campaign, this is the first of what we might call side quests. This appendix includes statblocks for a number of creatures. This article is one of a series of articles covering the hardback D&D adventure book, Ghosts of Saltmarsh. For this adventure the party ought to have 4-6 characters of 9th level, so do another side quest if you need them to level up. what plots should yo. This sets off immediate alarm bells because of the expected level: 11th-level spellcasters have significant ways to steamroller through this sort of adventure. A far more logical and helpful approach would be to summarise who might arrive in a room and why in the roster, so that you only need to glance at one entry on the table: the one for the room the characters are currently in. Adding in grid maps for each ship type (galley, keelboat, longship, rowboat, sailing ship, and warship) and area descriptions for average vessels of those types is awesome. I recommend this product: I think your DM will get a lot of value out of the content and should enjoy running the adventurers within for you. While its not the first time Fifth Edition has used a campaign book has a gateway into another world (that would be Curse of Strahd, which acts as a gateway to the larger Ravenloft setting), this is still a huge deal. Running Ghosts of Saltmarsh Chapter 2: The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh, Running Ghosts of Saltmarsh Chapter 3, Danger at Dunwater, Running Ghosts of Saltmarsh Chapter 4: Salvage Operation, Running Ghosts of Saltmarsh Chapter 5: Isle of the Abbey, Running Ghosts of Saltmarsh Chapter 6: The Final Enemy, Running Ghosts of Saltmarsh Chapter 8: The Styes, Running Ghosts of Saltmarsh Chapter 7: Tammeraut's Fate, Matt Coleville's video on the value of player guides, D&D Beyond version of Ghosts of Saltmarsh, Running Ghosts of Saltmarsh Chapter 5, Isle of the Abbey, Subscribe to the Sly Flourish weekly newsletter, Fantastic Adventures: Ruins of the Grendleroot, Sly Flourish's Frequently Asked Questions. The sahuagin are indeed a threat to Saltmarsh and it would be in the towns interest to help, but the lizardfolk hadnt previously considered them a useful ally against a primarily underwater foe. Crossing the dunes is akin to crossing a minefield, except choosing the wrong path results in an explosion of undead from the sand. Saltmarsh Overviewdescribes the towns approach to law enforcement and defense, its commerce (in the form of fishing, trading, smuggling, and mining), the towns locations, and available downtime activities. Wasteland Wheels roars onto the scene! A session zero is vital to a healthy campaign but we would all rather be playing than going over rules, expectations, and character creation so these sessions . The Final Enemy is the last adventure of the trilogy focused on the sahuagin threat which began in The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh and continued on in Danger at Dunwater. They find an aboleth at the temple (which is of course the Whisperer) recuperating after being attacked by its kin. The investigation eventually leads the characters to the mysterious Mr. Dory, and an investigation of his warehouse leads to a fight with he and his skum minions. 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