White plume mountain runs very well as three independent adventures, one for each of the three main wings. It is a black sword that shines like a piece of night sky filled with stars, and it is sheathed in a black scabbard decorated with pieces of cut obsidian. Plume mountain became part of the commonality of experience. The sword believes that all matter and energy sprang from a void of negative energy and will one day return to it. White plume mountain is what i call a funhouse adventure, which is to say an adventure where naturalistic concerns take a backseat to challenging the players, regardless of logic or lack thereof. Can he really be complicit in the kidnapping of a high priestess and the disappearance of others in the area around white plume mountain.
New information has tarnished the reputation of the wizard kelvan. A look back at s2 white plume mountain ddo players. Let your players choose the path they want to take and give them opportunities to leave, recover, and return to the dungeon. White plume mountain is a classic adventure, and many players may have already experienced it. Only return to the keep on the borderlands is better.
When we defeated sir bluto i was offered boots of striding and springing which, since no one else wanted them and im new at this, i took. Hi all tonight i was a player in white plume mountain, and up until now ive had zero magical items. Like its predecessors, return to the tomb of horrors is a prestigeformat boxed set, and it indeed updates a classic idea. She gave them a copy of a cryptic note left for each of the victims and explained the references that lead to white plume mountain as the location to which they had been taken. Blackrazor weapon lost mine of phandelver obsidian portal. A sequel, return to white plume mountain, was published in 1999, and an updated version conforming to v3. Return to white plume mountain 2e in ancient times, a sorcerer. Stunned charactercreatures may use an action to make a con save each round to end the effect. May, tidewater, chupacabra, 1d4con dmsguild release. In the 5e release of tales from the yawning portal there is the module white plume mountain. Wizards of the coast also released a sequel to the adventure in 1999, return to white plume mountain, the events of which are assumed to take place 20 years later than the original. The mountain and its insane lord proved too much for most, but eventually courage and justice.
On the one hand its one of the earliest quest dungeons. Jun 03, 2016 wizards of the coast also released a sequel to the adventure in 1999, return to white plume mountain, the events of which are assumed to take place 20 years later than the original. May 06, 20 white plume mountain runs very well as three independent adventures, one for each of the three main wings. If not, then a single wandering invisible stalker there can tear them apart. Wizards of the coast also released a sequel to the adventure in 1999, return to white plume mountain, as part of the tsr 25th anniversary series of publications.
White plume mountain itself was reprinted in 2005 for the 3. What im curious to know is, do people think that frostrazor could likewise be updated to 5e. We currently host various large scale collections amounting to hundreds of thousands of files. Three dmless 5e adventures for five players, journey to beryls reach. Return to white plume mountain rpgnet d20 rpg game index. The events in the sequel are assumed to take place 20 years following those in the original module. A party i dm is almost sure to take the hook and enter the white plume mountain dungeon as written in tales from the yawning portal. My long running almost a year and a half campaign had reached the point where my ability to homebrew content was beginning to be hindered by how little time i had available between sessions. If you have your own fond memories of experiences within the volcano, you will find this adventure just as fascinating, and just as deadly, as its predecessor. Portal by wizards of the coast for dungeons and dragons 5th edition. By late 2005, tsrs free 3e adventure archive was nearing its end, but that year also contained two of their most notable adventures, 3e revamps of classics tomb of horrors 2005 and white plume mountain. White plume mountain 1979 is erol otus map of the surroundings, first appearing in the second edition 1980 of the module. We can retcon either an id or attunement as part of your short rest if interested. Im sure the presence of the 4 kerapti and the kimprints are the biggest change, but does the inside of the mountain cover the same tricks and traps and then add new ones.
On page 95 it states the previous lore of keraptis the wizard. White plume mountain is challenging, but not just in a onedimensional sense of having bigger monsters that hit harder. Before you stands white plume mountain, home of the mad wizard keraptis. Aug 11, 2019 minor reservations aside which are fixable anyway with an hours worth of finetuning, return to white plume mountain is easily the 2ndbest adventure of 1999. These collections include various image, ebook and software archives. The dungeon is very tightly organized around that quest. I did purchase and read thru the classic modules today conversion. A strange, foreign wizard calling himself kelvan has appeared at the same time a strange mountain materializes out of thin air.
Consequently, one shouldnt think too much about the plausibility of, say, kayaking on a river suspended in midair by means of magic, because. This is the most grueling and unfun battle ive ever seen. Feb 16, 2015 im sure the presence of the 4 kerapti and the kimprints are the biggest change, but does the inside of the mountain cover the same tricks and traps and then add new ones. Return to white plume mountain paperback january 1, 2002. Aug 27, 2015 here are the statistics as presented in my 1980 printing of white plume mountain. Return to white plume mountain 2e wizards of the coast. Thirteen hundred years ago, the wizard keraptis was searching for a suitable haven where he could indulge his eccentricities without fear of interference. I also ran white plume mountain with my party and it was the most fun we had in that campaign, so i am slap bang in the middle of the target market for a follow on from that adventure. Minor reservations aside which are fixable anyway with an hours worth of finetuning, return to white plume mountain is easily the 2ndbest adventure of 1999. Add to this a general tone of levity and often intentional prankish humor, and you have classic dungeon modules like white plume mountain, republished for 5e in 2017s tales from the yawning portal. Hidden in the dungeon of white plume mountain, blackrazor shines like a piece of night sky filled with stars. Its black scabbard is decorated with pieces of cut obsidian. Return to white plume mountain pdf return to white plume mountain is an adventure module for the advanced dungeons dragons roleplaying game released in 1999 by wizards of the coast.
Despite its nihilism, blackrazor feels a strange kinship to wave and whelm, two other weapons locked away under white plume mountain. There is a fourth weapon hidden in white plume mountain, called frostrazor. The word believes that all matter and energy sprang from a void of negative energy and will one day return to it. Originally released in 1979, its been given a new life in 5th editions, tales from the yawning portal.
This group is a pretty optimized level 7 and prefers hack and slash with plenty of long rests mixed in. It is set in the world of greyhawk campaign setting and is a sequel to lawrence schick s 1979 module white plume mountain. Despite its nihilism, blackrazor feels a strange kinship to wave and whelm, two other weapons locked away. Jan 31, 2018 wizards of the coast also released a sequel to the adventure in 1999, return to white plume mountain, as part of the tsr 25th anniversary series of publications. Return to the tomb of horrors 2e wizards of the coast. Finally, in 2005, an online version of the adventure was released as a. White plume mountain is most easily inserted into the forgotten realms near neverwinter. Feel free to adjust traps and other thematic elements, such as changing the gynosphinxs riddle in the beginning to another riddle of your choosing. The 16page adventure bears the code s2 s for special. White plume mountain by lawrence schick an adventure for character levels 510 this module conjatns oackgrouna information, referees noies, player aids, complete ievel, a cutaway view of the mountain complex, and more than 15 pieces ot art tor both dm and player. The story behind them tends to be limited, and next to no time is spent explaining how or why their bizarre creations function. White plume mountain ddal0602 the redemption of kelvan. The trove is a nonprofit website dedicated towards content archival and longterm preservation of rpgs.
It updates material from return to white plume mountain 1999, including the fourth weapon, frostrazor. Here are the statistics as presented in my 1980 printing of white plume mountain. Alongside its siblings blackrazor and wave, this weapon has managed to make an appearance in every single edition of the game, from 1st through to 5th, an honor that cant be shared with their oftforgotten sibling, frostrazor. Im asking partly because im layering return to white plume mt. For example, can your 5thlevel characters handle an invisible monster. Hello, gmplayer coming back to 5e after a long hiatus. Though originally written by schick, three different authors contributed to the 3. With zeke acting as negotiator and rickson reigning in the rogues extreme ambitions, they eventually agreed on a 10,000 gold piece reward for the live return of sans. Finally, in 2005, an online version of the adventure was released as a free download, updated to conform with 3. A 4hour epic adventure for 5th16th level characters. The adventure is a dungeon crawl where the players characters are hired to retrieve three notorious magical weapons, each possessing its own intelligence. Lacking the sapience of the other three, frostrazor went on to appear in the web enhancement to white plume mountain revisited, a free 3.
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