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DDAL09-10 Tipping the Scales
Publisher: D&D Adventurers League
by Cameron E. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/02/2025 21:35:25

I am in the process of running all of DDAL09 as a campaign, so will be reviewing each adventure as I run them. For context, I have run 10 adventures in this campaign already, a homebrew one where the party needs to get out of Elturel with as many civilians as possible as the city is being sucked into hell, and then Baldur's Gate: Fall of Elturel, also on DM's Guild for a different group of adventurers, finally I have run DDAL09-01 through DDAL09-09.

What I liked:

The idea of the adventure is interesting, the retrieval of a Silver Dragon ally from a devil in a swamp filled crater is a neat adventure! Descending into the swamp is an interesting series of encounters.

What I didn't like:

The execution isn't great. A random encounter table that doesn't do much, the two add on quests aren't interesting, and the actual problem to solve (Is the devil cheating) is both too easy and not interesting. I ended up changing a lot here.I made the swamp a small hexcrawl with 9 encounters to explore to get to the cave. I also changed the nature of the Dragonchess match, the devil in my adventure was the one that was legitimately winning. And toying with the Silver Dragon in hopes of corrupting them, the goal being to make the silver dragon cheat out of desparation and forfeight his soul. The party was then able to solve that issue by talking to the dragon and convincing them of the trap, breaking the contract, or playing in their place. This helped clear things up a lot.

Overall, this is not a great adventure to just run as is!



Rating:
[2 of 5 Stars!]
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DDAL09-10 Tipping the Scales
Publisher: D&D Adventurers League
by casper a. p. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 08/20/2020 09:15:14

the adventure and the coice in the end is good but the whole thing about climbing and meeting an enemy that isnt even a stat block for in the adventure is too much missing plus the ice devil. i have the ice devil because i save a monster compendium in arkenforge from another adventure but i actually miss that statblock aswell



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[2 of 5 Stars!]
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DDAL09-10 Tipping the Scales
Publisher: D&D Adventurers League
by Roger M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/03/2020 11:42:36

My players liked it but this the first game coming out lockdown. As other stated stat blocks are missing but I have the books available so no big deal. The opening is a little hard, it is basically here is the adventure you are before the dungeon door. We all laughed at the various names used and changed them. Could dragons start dating something other than an elf. Part one does not have any notes for what happens if the group flies down or in my case tosses half the pary down to bottom of the pit. I suggest you add more flying creatures and add a hard, very hard adjustment to encounters. The swamp exhaustion rolls need to be DC 15. I just said if they failed their ability check they gain a level of exhaustion. This really only harm one person in the final fight. Add a note in the swamp encounters text to have one combat, and one other encounter. By group got the quicksand and murdered the imp for his ice water. Part two. Either change the dragon from to a dwarf or leave it in dragon form. My players got confused about which elf was which. Up the stakes in the brawn battle, if they lose their souls becomes the Ice Devils. Do the same in the chess match but only the pc who is playing Dragonchess soul is up for grabs. Again add encounter adjustment block. Even sticking the pcs and devils in 30 by 30 cage match did not help the devils. Add in a lair attack or have the devils roll with advantage on initiative.



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[3 of 5 Stars!]
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