Eberron 4e

I'm about to start running a trial of d20Pro for 4e for my F2F group. We're going to be playing Eberron, and I'm currently building the introductory adventure in the 4e Eberron Guide in d20Pro. I'm sure it's going to be a great success with the guys. I'm using the downloadable high quality maps from WOTC for the maps files, although I have to modify in a graphics a few of them to clear out markers for creatures. I'll post a zip file containing the files (maps, creatures etc) as soon as I can. I'm scanning in pics of the various monsters so that I can attach them to the creature files.

If everything goes well, I'm going to be using d20Pro to run an online 4e game as well. I've looked at other tools, but d20Pro runs on a Mac and doesn't have me worry about doing too much work to get running. So far, so good

 

Absolutely.

These maps are all freely available on Wizard's site to download, although I'm not sure what explicit licensing they have for those. They don't make it easy to find that information...

 

Unfortunately the same can't be said for the monster portraits. Even with a DDI subscription there's no images to go with entries in the Compendium, which means scanning in artwork, or using alternative fan-made open content.

 

I've got the first two encounters for the intro adventure in the Eberron Campaign Guide put together, and I'm going to be running it tomorrow. I've exported the maps, and put together a document detailing some of the hacks I have to do to get it to run. I'll be giving it a run tomorrow and based on that, I'll update these encounters and then upload them to an external site so others can access them. As the group plays, I'll add more and more encounters to the archive file so that I can test these before releasing them.

Wish me luck!

 

Thanks! I was planning to take some screens. The beauty of playing on a Mac is I just need to hit a simple key combo. As we're playing on a big screen, I can capture my GM screen AND the player screen independently.

I'm having to tweak a 4e import. Seems that the Warlock Powers aren't put into Attacks. The character has no weapons listed in inventory, and so no Attacks at all so I wonder if this stopped any of the Powers being imported into Attacks. The other characters imported just fine.

 

And I was so into the game tonight that I forgot to take screen shots...

However, the game was a resounding success, and we all had a good time playing, even though we were getting used to d20Pro. We had it running on my laptop, which was also connected up to a HDTV so everyone could see. Two of the guys also had their laptops, so they connected and controlled their own characters in game.

So.. yes, I'm buying a GM license and a bunch of guest licenses. One of the guys already bought his player license, even before I had got there. So, two new customers at least Looks like I'll be running a couple of online games as well.

I'm going to tweak the Eberron maps I made and upload them in the next day or so for others to look at and use.

 

DDI. That was exactly the problem. The player had forgotten to add the wand to equipment and equip it before I imported it. All the players jumped a level, so that will be corrected in for the next import

 

Already picked up and imported

 

I'm currently cleaning up the maps I used for the 4e adventure and will be posting them off-forum hopefully over the weekend.