Red Hand of Doom
An army of dragon-worshipping monsters is coming...And hell rides with them! The best D&D 3.5 adventure ever written, remastered for Pathfinder 2e.
About the adventure
An army of dragon-worshipping monsters is coming...And hell rides with them! The Wyrmsmoke Mountains shook with the thunder of ten thousand screaming hobgoblin soldiers, but one general defeated and united the tribes, emerging as a king. A king with ambitions! He stood upon a precipice and raised his arms. “I am Azarr Kul, Son of the Dragon! Hear me! Tomorrow we march to war!” The Red Hand of Doom was originally a D&D 3.5 adventure, but has now been remastered for Pathfinder 2e. Confronted with the relentless advance of Azarr Kul’s horde, the characters must undertake vital missions to influence the outcome of the war. Can they get the people of Elsir Vale evacuated to safety? Can they convince the nearby elves and dwarves to join the fight? Can they wage guerilla warfare to disrupt the inexorable advance of Azarr Kul and his army? Or will Azarr Kul’s dreams of domination rain death and destruction upon the human lands?
Game style
Combat Heavy
Roleplay Heavy
Rules as Written (RaW)
Game themes
$22.00
/ Session
Details
Weekly / Thursday – 3:00 AM UTC
Campaign Length / 45–60 Sessions
3–3.5 Hour Duration
1 / 5 Seats Filled
GAME MASTER
Gamersaurus
he/him
5.0
(18)
Each player will be charged when a session starts.
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(18)
3 years on StartPlaying
214 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, World Builder
Average response time: 8 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
Hey there! I'm Gamersaurus Lex, a longtime player and GM who owned a local game store for about a decade. I am a happy-go-lucky extrovert that spent the last decade of his life running a FLGS and professionally nerding out with gamers of every age and disposition. I love running games with lots of excitement, fully realized NPCs, and a true open sandbox approach, even when we're running an established module. You want to ignore the module's storyline and chart your own course? I will make it happen! Prefer to play in one of my homebrew campaigns set in the Moonsea Region of the Forgotten Realms? Buckle up, you're in for a wild ride! I have decades of experience introducing new players to the hobby, at my game store, conventions, and at my home table, so you couldn't be in better hands if you're just starting out with TTRPGs or if you're switching systems. I have been a pro GM for about 20 years, and only recently started offering my services online with StartPlaying. Veterans will enjoy my games, too, especially with all the Easter eggs that pop up in every session. I tend to run D&D 5e, Pathfinder 2e, and Starfinder these days, but I have plenty of recent experience with 3.x, Savage Worlds, GURPS, and the many varieties of the Cypher System. And, let's be honest, given time to prepare, I can run any system if there is a group that really wants that system.
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Creating your character
Characters will begin at level 1, and most classes, ancestries, and backgrounds are available. We'll be using the Free Archetype variant rule (which helps unify the party a bit). You can pick any ancestry feat you want and choose from a selection of archetype feats that are curated to better fit the theme of the campaign. I will also provide a custom User Guide to help creating a PC that will be a good fit for the campaign. Characters will be built prior to the beginning of the game, and I will be available for 1 on 1 conversations and questions about your choices. Our first session will include some Session Zero content to make sure we are all on the same page, before diving right into the story.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
- Free account at ForgeVTT.com - Discord (join my server at https://discord.gg/adkCzF6S86 where I am u/GamersaurusLex) - Microphone (webcam optional) - Create your character (with my help if needed) in Pathbuilder or in FoundryVTT
What Gamersaurus brings to the table
I am a storyteller and we are going to tell the story YOU want to tell. I create scores of NPCs and try to give them all unique personalities, voices, habits, and motivations. No two campaigns have the same plot, because I customize everything for your PCs. This is as close to an open sandbox as possible while still using a pre-written module. I reward investigation, planning, and social interaction. Indeed, the more you know, the better armed you are for what might be lurking around the corner. I always reward players who come up with unique or creative ways to solve problems, and there are no stupid questions (e.g., "Can I swing across the room on the chandelier?" "Heck yeah, roll an Acrobatics check!") I generally follow the rules as written, along with some modifications to keep the game moving (e.g., if the battle is clearly won, rather than sit around for another 4 rounds whittling away at a monster's HP, I may ask if "How do you want to end it?"), but I am also not opposed to the Rule of Cool, especially in climactic moments! My games are high on RP. For important interactions, I use an easy-to-learn social encounter system based loosely on Pathfinder's Intrigue rules. War is dangerous, but there is often a way to avoid combat, including strategic retreat, if you want. That said, my combats are challenging and interesting (lots of modified monsters and varied settings) and character death is always a possibility. Especially in a campaign where we are fighting a war, death is always one ambush away! If you want to use a voice or accent, that is awesome, but you are also free to narrate your character's actions in the first or third person: e.g., "Beatrice is suspicious of this haughty noble and tries to direct the conversation to learn more about his background" or "I don't believe him, but I want to convince him that I do." As far as resources go, I use FoundryVTT on ForgeVTT (so you just need access to the ForgeVTT website and not your own copy of FoundryVTT). I have a subscription to Demiplane's Pathfinder Nexus so you don't have to own the books, and I can import PCs from Pathbuilder. I also use a ton of add-ons and other services, such as Syrinscape, dScryb, assets and mods from Patreon accounts for awesome maps and art, and even some custom-created maps and tokens and customized art from the original Pathfinder and Wizards of the COast modules (all of which I own).
Homebrew rules
* Keep hero point is new roll is lower. * Ronald the Rules Lawyer's version of Aid (more generous). * Ronald the Rules Lawyer's version of Recall Knowledge (more flexible).
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Internet
Headphones
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How Gamersaurus creates a safe table
We will establish guidelines and norms during our session zero, including what kinds of content will only ever take place "off screen" and the level of violence and carnage to be expected.