I have been playing for a while and started DMing almost as soon as i started playing. I always end up homwbrewing the world and making my own adventures, but now that i have started to read the campaigns published by WoTC i want to try to run some of those. The only problem i face is I am currently running an ongoing story i could work most of them into, i just don't know how to scale up the adventures as well. Is there a tool I'm not able to find somewhere that will level up the adventures or am i going to have to go through every encounter and ability check the stories call out and adjust it myself?
I know of no tool which will globally search, scale, and adjust adventures automatically.
Kobold Fight Club and/or the DnD Beyond Encounter Builder should suffice for combat encounters, at least. You can enter the party, enter the encounter as published, and then add creatures, change creatures, etc. to bring the level of difficulty back up to a decent level.
As for social encounters, traps, hidden items, etc. - I'm afraid that's going to have to involve DM intervention and design skills.
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That's what I was expecting but was hoping there was an easier way. I wish there was more adventures that started beyond level 1 though. My games usually treat level 3 as the baseline since all of my players have been playing dnd for years.
I'm in the same spot - PCs started at level 4 because they wanted to bring them from a dissolved campaign and I'm running a homebrew but want to use lots of published modules if I can - I started using Kobold Fight Club but I really like the DnD Beyond Encounter Builder so far.
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I have been playing for a while and started DMing almost as soon as i started playing. I always end up homwbrewing the world and making my own adventures, but now that i have started to read the campaigns published by WoTC i want to try to run some of those. The only problem i face is I am currently running an ongoing story i could work most of them into, i just don't know how to scale up the adventures as well. Is there a tool I'm not able to find somewhere that will level up the adventures or am i going to have to go through every encounter and ability check the stories call out and adjust it myself?
Once rolled a -2 on a perception check
I know of no tool which will globally search, scale, and adjust adventures automatically.
Kobold Fight Club and/or the DnD Beyond Encounter Builder should suffice for combat encounters, at least. You can enter the party, enter the encounter as published, and then add creatures, change creatures, etc. to bring the level of difficulty back up to a decent level.
As for social encounters, traps, hidden items, etc. - I'm afraid that's going to have to involve DM intervention and design skills.
My DM Philosophy, as summed up by other people: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rN5w4-azTq3Kbn0Yvk9nfqQhwQ1R5by1/view
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That's what I was expecting but was hoping there was an easier way. I wish there was more adventures that started beyond level 1 though. My games usually treat level 3 as the baseline since all of my players have been playing dnd for years.
Once rolled a -2 on a perception check
I'm in the same spot - PCs started at level 4 because they wanted to bring them from a dissolved campaign and I'm running a homebrew but want to use lots of published modules if I can - I started using Kobold Fight Club but I really like the DnD Beyond Encounter Builder so far.