The Burning Peaks

[ewancummins]

If you like to see recycled artwork you must have loved TSR artwork in the 90s.




Don't get me wrong--a lot of my favorite stuff is from that era. But they certainly did reuse pieces, sometimes in creative ways.

The cover of Neither Man nor Beast is actually a mashup of Wessel's Luck novel cover (background) and an FR product's artwork (
foreground, might have been Cities of Mystery?).

[ewancummins]

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[Wolfglide of the Fraternity]

That's absolutely hilarious!

[The Lesser Evil]

The dread possibility about Kas being a vestige and therefore (formerly?) a Dark Power is a juxtaposition I really like. Lots of adventure possibilities there, you could justify all sorts of unfathomable goals based upon a flawed recollection/knowledge of the secrets the Dark Powers had access to.

[Gonzoron of the FoS]

That's absolutely hilarious!

Agreed! Some fine photoshoppin' there!

[kourkenko]

The worst recycling from TSR was the old card game Spellfire, with a sole pic, they were able to make four card for the worst case. It was a good game imo, unbalanced a lot (Vecna was a killer, hard to put on the battlefield but as soon as he was here, the game was won) but cheap and unpredictable.

Going back on the main objective .

Does someone can convert 3.0 and 3.5 characters to the 5th edition ?
I'm writing everything down, a big DM appendix with all the crunch and the stories about the characters, the domains, maps etc...

But converting isn't my cup of tea.

[KingCorn]

I've approached the Burning Peaks as an example of what happens when a Dark Lord breaks the rules, and what happens when the Dark Powers are truly injured. Its just a complete mess of swirling mists and darkness, of burning wastelands and necromantic ruin. Miniature versions of the Requiem happen again and again. The sky is a dark malestrom, a gaping wound in the Demiplane itself made by Vecna's escape. Its also a portal out, but using it is outright suicidal.

[kourkenko]

I've approached the Burning Peaks as an example of what happens when a Dark Lord breaks the rules, and what happens when the Dark Powers are truly injured. Its just a complete mess of swirling mists and darkness, of burning wastelands and necromantic ruin. Miniature versions of the Requiem happen again and again. The sky is a dark malestrom, a gaping wound in the Demiplane itself made by Vecna's escape. Its also a portal out, but using it is outright suicidal.

That's a good take. i'll take some parts of it ^^.
In fact, the Dark Powers are injured and have no powers inside the cluster, they can watch but can't act. The darklords are here because they want to be here, they can leave when they want, they stay because they choose to stay. They just don't want to see anyone beside themselves wining the war. One of them is so old almost nobody remember it today ^^ (it's perhaps because the scenari was soooo bad, even for 1985...).

We are four working on it (and none is able to convert characters...) and the main goal is to have a whole campaign running from the first level to epic. We found ways to permit it because at the beginning, characters would be unnoticed by the big ones. For now we have ten darklords.

[The Lesser Evil]

Ulraunt's Guide to the Shadowfell (DM's Guild Product) has some basic information on the Burning Peaks including 5e stats for Vecna (challenge 38, 40 lair) Kas (challenge 35), Cavitian reavers (challenge 6), Cavitian vultures (CR 9), the hand the Eye (CR 18 each), and the Thing in the Shaft (statted up as a variant roper, CR 8 ).

[kourkenko]

Ulraunt's Guide to the Shadowfell (DM's Guild Product) has some basic information on the Burning Peaks including 5e stats for Vecna (challenge 38, 40 lair) Kas (challenge 35), Cavitian reavers (challenge 6), Cavitian vultures (CR 9), the hand the Eye (CR 18 each), and the Thing in the Shaft (statted up as a variant roper, CR 8 ).

I buyed this book as soon as it launched ^^, as their second one. Even if i don't need gods stats blocks in any normal game, their work is really good. And i already took way more than you already listed. Our Planescape DM insisted to have the biggest bad guy of the setting in the cluster ^^, since we played the Modron's March and Dead Gods, everyone agreed about him.

Btw, i almost finished to work on the main battlefields of the cluster. As soon as he third darklord is over (i will be obvious after reading it ^^) i'll work on Vecna, Kass and Kyuss, we already made all stats blocks for everything about them.
https://mega.nz/file/izAz3QSD#WJoqbIqyv ... JcBcQ5qsrA

It's just a first shot, expect lot of grammars errors and typos (english is my third langage, the google traductor is baaad for full sentences).
Critics and comments are welcome as always