What to play after "The Portal Under the Stars"

[narpet]

Hi All,

So... my group is hooked on DCC. They've made it to first level playing "The Portal Under the Stars" and they're ready to play again. I've decided to play all published materials with this group. After creating adventures and worlds for almost 40 years, I just don't have time to do it any more.

So... I'd love to hear some suggestions on what module I should present them with next. Should I play the next adventure that's in the back of the core book... or is there a better module I should go with? I'm going to tie it all together into a somewhat cohesive campaign... but that's my problem.

Thanks in advance.

[Raven_Crowking]

I am going to say that you need only consider level 1-3 adventures for the immediate future.

Some good ones are:

DCC #66.5: Doom of the Savage Kings
DCC #77: The Croaking Fane
DCC #78: Fate's Fell Hand
DCC #80: Intrigue at the Court of Chaos
DCC #81: The One Who Watches From Below
DCC #85.5: The Curse of the Kingspire
DCC #89: Chaos Rising
DCC #92: Through the Dragonwall
DCC #93: Moon-Slaves of the Cannibal Kingdom
The Wizardarium of Calabraxis
The Vertical Halls
AL 1-5: The Stars are Falling
CE 1: The Falcate Idol
CE 5: Silent Nightfall
CE 6: The Crimson Void
The Treasure Vaults of Zadabad
The Haunting of Larvik Island

That's an inclusive, not an exclusive list. There are lots of other good adventures out there.

See also:

http://ravencrowking.blogspot.ca/2014/0 ... art-i.html
http://ravencrowking.blogspot.ca/2014/0 ... rt-ii.html
http://ravencrowking.blogspot.ca/2014/0 ... t-iii.html

[narpet]

Thanks for the ideas. I have 4 or 5 of those... so I will read them over and choose which one fits best.

[Raven_Crowking]

You're welcome!

If you decide to do a holiday themed module around the end of the year, may I recommend my own The Thing in the Chimney, which you can find as part of The Perils of the Cinder Claws from Purple Duck Games?

I also particularly liked The Old God's Return.

[trevorbramble]

I also particularly liked The Old God's Return.

I'm running my players through a few other things in the interim, but we started with Portal and I plan a call back to the final hook (other half of the rulership rod) using Old God's Return, which features a blessing of "sovereign fire" that PCs can spend on various spells, most importantly for my needs, Form of Fire. From the description: "the PC causes his body to briefly transform into living flame".

Haven't sorted out where to drop in wood from a dryad's tree yet, but I'll figure something out. Likely when they get the fire they'll get proactive about it themselves. ;^)

[GnomeBoy]

...Haven't sorted out where to drop in wood from a dryad's tree yet, but I'll figure something out. Likely when they get the fire they'll get proactive about it themselves. ;^)

I've dabbled with creating some content around the loose ends of Portal... including the dryad issue on my blog (link in signature -- there's a keyword for dryad to find those entries easily) and in the Gong Farmers Almanac 2016 ("Beyond the Portal Under The Stars").

[narpet]

Good stuff... I'll check out the others mentioned as well. "The Old God's Return" sounds really good, as does the "The Thing in the Chimney".

I'm also backing the current Lankhmar kickstarter campaign as well... so I may be putting some of that flavor in once it's released.

[takeonrules]

I really enjoyed running Doom of the Savage Kings. It is a very open adventure, with lots of chances for the characters to role-play and problem solve. I also found that it helped establish a potential place of operations (though in my campaign they got the hell out of Hirot).

Doom of the Savage Kings session reports - https://takeonrules.com/tag/doom-of-the ... ?order=asc

[narpet]

I really enjoyed running Doom of the Savage Kings. It is a very open adventure, with lots of chances for the characters to role-play and problem solve. I also found that it helped establish a potential place of operations (though in my campaign they got the hell out of Hirot).

Doom of the Savage Kings session reports - https://takeonrules.com/tag/doom-of-the ... ?order=asc

I have that one... and it looks good. Maybe I'll make that the next one for the group.

Thanks!