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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
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Yeah but I'm still going to need more dakka from your Wizards and Sorcerors.
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Grabbit Allworth
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Grabbit Allworth
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Indeed it was. I always felt that it wouldn't last so I downloaded a tremendous amount of D&D content before it got nuked.
There's still wayback machine snapshot of the old Trove, but the amount of content is limited.
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Yeh I sat down and got every single d&d book I could. Plus a ton of other books. Figured the same thing before it poofed
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Got a D&D question. I asked in one of the other threads if there was any D&D game/module where you go to the Nine Hells or fight any of the big guys that the lore heavily builds up. Or are they perpetually out of reach and more used as deities / plot devices?
I'd love to play a game where you explore the Nine Hells as they appear in D&D. Cania (8th) was always the one I found the most interesting.
Read that BG1: Siege of Dragonspear has a chapter that involves Avernus, and Planescape: Torment might involve some Hell activity, but other than that I don't know of them appearing in any D&D video games. What about campaigns/modules? Any that explore Hell? Also wondering about the Abyss, which seems like it'd be too expansive for anything to ever even fool with.
I'd love to play a game where you explore the Nine Hells as they appear in D&D. Cania (8th) was always the one I found the most interesting.
Read that BG1: Siege of Dragonspear has a chapter that involves Avernus, and Planescape: Torment might involve some Hell activity, but other than that I don't know of them appearing in any D&D video games. What about campaigns/modules? Any that explore Hell? Also wondering about the Abyss, which seems like it'd be too expansive for anything to ever even fool with.
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I can't remember any content that takes place in the Hells/Planes other than the examples you gave. However, I haven't played the majority of those games in years; some decades. So I could be missing something.
It's not "D&D," but the Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous fits the bill later in the game and Pathfinder is effectively D&D with a different name.
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Kovaks
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What about Baldur's Gate:
Descent into Avernus
It takes you to he'll, played some of it but don't remember how many layers you get to.
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Rajaah
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That a module?
I wonder if it's related to the part of the Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear game that has you, well, descending into Avernus.
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I completely missed the part where you asked for not just PC games, but modules that take place in the areas you referred to.There are numerous examples. As previously mentioned, almost the entire module of Descent to Avernus takes place in Hell.
There are a lot of others, but it'll take a little time to make a list.
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Grabbit Allworth
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I'm going to update this as I find more.
Abyss:
1. For Duty and Deity (2e).
2. Tales From the Infinite Staircase (2e).
3. The Rod of Seven Parts (2e).
4. Dead Gods (2e).
Hells:
1. Descent to Avernus (5e).
2. Crown of the Oathbreaker (5e). This campaign is massive at over 900 pages and the planar traveling includes more than just the Hells.
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If you're just looking for lore, I can point you to at least a dozen books and even give you the pdfs if you want.
Abyss:
1. For Duty and Deity (2e).
2. Tales From the Infinite Staircase (2e).
3. The Rod of Seven Parts (2e).
4. Dead Gods (2e).
Hells:
1. Descent to Avernus (5e).
2. Crown of the Oathbreaker (5e). This campaign is massive at over 900 pages and the planar traveling includes more than just the Hells.
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If you're just looking for lore, I can point you to at least a dozen books and even give you the pdfs if you want.
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Lore wise. I'm a big 4e nerd soooooo. The Plane Below also The Plane Above.
I'd also recommend some of the Erevis Cale books. And without a doubt, Elminster in Hell.
I'd also recommend some of the Erevis Cale books. And without a doubt, Elminster in Hell.
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Kovaks
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Got a hardcover Elminster in Hell. Looks like it's part of a book series, hopefully I'm not lost reading it by itself. I do a lot of reading when I'm not working on a particular game so I'm down with adding a D&D book to the list.
Just bought this too. Couldn't find Crown, but it's just as well, I think one of these is enough to peruse for now.
Should be fun, I haven't bought a D&D module in like 10 years.
I've got a whole box of them at my mom's place, one of these days if I remember I'll get them out and do some reading / take some pictures.
My favorite hands-down is The Keep on the Borderlands. What a fantastic module that is. Single-handedly got me into D&D's world and also helped get me interested in video game RPGs, before I ever even had a video game system.
It's actually kind of shocking that it took me this long to play Baldur's Gate etc.
What's that other module lots of people say is the best? Tomb of Horrors, I think? Pretty sure I have that one too, I need to check.
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All the Elminster books are fine as stand alones. And that one had a lot of stuff that just I never really seen in lore books or moduals which was cool. But I wouldn't have expected anything less from Ed Greenwood. The man's a fucking legend.
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Tomb of horrors is iconic and they updated it for 5th, others would be the esvenloft/curse of strad stuff