I wasn't sure if there was a subject on this, couldn't find it in the search, but I was wondering if there was a average level progression or EXP associated with each module.
Yeah, this changes from adventure to adventure. In the two Waterdeep adventures, one of them goes from level 1 to 5, the other goes from level 5 to 20.
Since I was curious to see them all together in one spot:
Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus 1-13 (not out yet) Dragon of Icespire Peak (1-5?) (not out yet) Ghosts of Saltmarsh 1-12* Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage 5-20 Waterdeep: Dragon Heist 1-5 Tomb of Annihilation 1-11 Tales of the Yawning Portal 1-14* Storm King's Thunder 1-11 Curse of Strahd 1-10 Out of the Abyss 1-15 Princes of the Apocalypse 1-15 Rise of Tiamat 8-15 Hoard of the Dragon Queen 1-8 Lost Mine of Phandelver 1-5
* Yawning Portal and Saltmarsh are both anthologies of separate adventures. Oddly enough, Yawning Portal is not really linked together story-wise at all, but I believe provides full coverage of 1-14 (with Tomb of Horrors also as "high-level characters only"), whereas Saltmarsh is fairly well linked together, but I think has some gaps where it skips levels and would need filling in.
Things start getting hard to balance somewhere between level 12 and 15. The adventures as written do not have anything to account for scaling. You could scale them up using the monster scaling guidelines in the DMG / MM, but it would be difficult and time consuming. There also are not official epic level rules for past level 20.
some of the adventures are good, some aren't, and it also varies by what your party likes. Out of the Abyss for example, would not have the same danger feel for epic leveled characters and would lose some of what makes it good.
I wasn't sure if there was a subject on this, couldn't find it in the search, but I was wondering if there was a average level progression or EXP associated with each module.
Each published module will give you a range of how far the characters should be expected to go.
Yeah, this changes from adventure to adventure. In the two Waterdeep adventures, one of them goes from level 1 to 5, the other goes from level 5 to 20.
If you look in the Marketplace at each adventure, it should be right at the top in bold as Adventure for Levels X-Y
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Since I was curious to see them all together in one spot:
Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus 1-13 (not out yet)
Dragon of Icespire Peak (1-5?) (not out yet)
Ghosts of Saltmarsh 1-12*
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage 5-20
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist 1-5
Tomb of Annihilation 1-11
Tales of the Yawning Portal 1-14*
Storm King's Thunder 1-11
Curse of Strahd 1-10
Out of the Abyss 1-15
Princes of the Apocalypse 1-15
Rise of Tiamat 8-15
Hoard of the Dragon Queen 1-8
Lost Mine of Phandelver 1-5
* Yawning Portal and Saltmarsh are both anthologies of separate adventures. Oddly enough, Yawning Portal is not really linked together story-wise at all, but I believe provides full coverage of 1-14 (with Tomb of Horrors also as "high-level characters only"), whereas Saltmarsh is fairly well linked together, but I think has some gaps where it skips levels and would need filling in.
Correct on Saltmarsh, but I think some of the adventures are expected to level the characters multiple times.
As a note, Rise of Tiamat is designed to follow after Hoard of the Dragon Queen.
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Thanks a ton guys, I was looking at complete lists, not the individual ones, so I didn't notice.
So what would you do if you ran one set of characters through all of them in a row? can they be scaled up?
Things start getting hard to balance somewhere between level 12 and 15. The adventures as written do not have anything to account for scaling. You could scale them up using the monster scaling guidelines in the DMG / MM, but it would be difficult and time consuming. There also are not official epic level rules for past level 20.
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That's cool, there are epic boons, and other choice increases. I'm wondering more if it would even be entertaining.
some of the adventures are good, some aren't, and it also varies by what your party likes. Out of the Abyss for example, would not have the same danger feel for epic leveled characters and would lose some of what makes it good.
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