This starts things out pretty well. I'm curious to know about the rest of the Saltmarsh series. How does it stack up?
It's either this or Reptile God for my C&C players, I think. I've tried to find a copy of Night's Dark Terror (I believe), but all the copies I can find except one are missing bits hither and yon. The one with all the bits is damned expensive.
Brian
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You use a 1.5 rather than a 2.0 multiplier. The 5400 ajusted XP puts it between 'hard' and 'deadly'. In my experience, the addition of that sixth party member is a significant benefit to any party. (I have a memory of hearing that the encounter math in the DMG is based on a 4 PC party, as an estimate, I can't find where I had heard that. Saltmarsh, which was surveyed in 2012 as part of the Scottish Saltmarsh Survey (Strachan, 2012a). The distribution of saltmarsh is shown in Figures 2 and 3. It was described as follows: Kentra Bay is a large, semi-enclosed tidal bay, 2 km west of Acharacle in the west of Lochaber. Wed Jun 03, 2009 2:43 pm Hey thanks all! Oh Gosh, I forgot all about the Saltmarsh update in the DMG II. It's not really to my tastes though - a bit too high fantasy.