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Dragon+: Six Faces of Death (5e)

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An alien being, dark omens, and vanishing ships send the adventurers to a mysterious island newly appeared in the Sea of Swords.

But can the characters uncover the mysteries of the Changing Island in time to save Faerûn from a terror from another plane?

A dark fantasy adventure for characters of 11th to 13th level, originally appearing in Dragon+.

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Sabine F July 31, 2023 8:55 am UTC
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I'm fascinated but also super confused by this adventure. So in order to help myself better understand the cube, I built it as a 3D model and found another issue (apart from the one already pointed out by Matthew):
According to the maps (pages 20 & 23) and text (p 22 & 22) 4.1 and 2.1 are connected by a two-way junction room. But after building the cube, it seems that they should open into 6.33. I used the map on page 27 to build the cube, but that one doesn't align with the maps on pages 29, 34 & 44, so that might be where I went wrong?
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Blair R August 10, 2022 5:25 pm UTC
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The PDF that you download directly is corrupted (or otherwise can't be opened), but the version that gets sent to Dropbox works fine.
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Matthew V May 28, 2022 8:24 pm UTC
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I'm two sessions into this and I've found an error, unfortunately, mid-game.

On Face 3, 3.2 leads directly to 5.2. Picture map supports this.
But over on Face 5, 5.2 says it goes deeper into the cube via 6.42 and 6.6. Picture map supports this too.

The maps and text don't align. I ended up saying there were two doors right beside each other at 5.2, thus marring the perfection of the doors on the sides matching the pips on a die (something my players theorized, but I didn't realize was true until right now!).
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Jason T May 29, 2022 6:02 am UTC
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Hi Matt,

Thank you so much for discovering this error! As the author, I can't believe I missed this and that it this made it so long without being noticed. You are 100% right.

3.2 should lead into 6.42 (which should have two entrances from the outside, rather than one as in the drawing).

5.2 should lead to the corridor between 6.42 and 6.6 (as indicated on the map).

I'll try to have this corrected as quickly as possible. Till then, hopefully these comments will be helpful to anyone else running the adventure who notices the error. - Jason
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John H June 22, 2022 9:44 pm UTC
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Checking on the status of the corrected version of the above as I plan to run it starting this Friday. Thanks!
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Steve J May 24, 2022 5:48 am UTC
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Are there player maps available? The room numbers obscure the grid and the art work.
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Joseph R February 17, 2022 5:02 pm UTC
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For the gridded maps included with this, anyone know what pixel rate I can set them to in Roll 20? Having a heck of a time trying to line it up on a grid...
Adventure is going wonderful so far. Full review to come when I finish DMing it.
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James L April 20, 2022 7:33 am UTC
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I have no idea, but: Sometimes you can check the properties of the image and it will tell you. If NOT.. Download MapTool and look up it's features on laying out maps. MapTool is the grand-daddy of all VTT platforms, and it can size ANY map, even off-center and off-scale hand drawn maps. You have to figure out how to nudge MapTool around.. but it'll figure out any map you can throw at it. ;)
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BRIAN H October 12, 2021 3:48 am UTC
How many sessions/how long does this run?
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Brannen P March 26, 2020 7:21 am UTC
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On of my PC's pulled "The Void" from the Deck of Many Things. Used this campaign as an in-between to help the group find his lost soul trapped in another plane. Kind of home-brewed some of the plot and story to fit into their regular campaign, with the reunion of the lost soul and all - but it worked like a charm. Very well thought out campaign, and it reads SO well. Author went above and beyond. Cudos!
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Matthew P January 03, 2020 2:32 pm UTC
Does anyone know how long this adventure might take to run? It looks to me like more than a 4 hour one shot, but (as I'm not all that experienced as a DM) I'm not that good at estimating the length of adventures yet. Any advice appreciated. Thanks.
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Jason T January 18, 2020 6:42 am UTC
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Hi! Author of the adventure here. It definitely will take two or maybe even more 4-hour games, depending on what the players do. In the first playtest they didn't even get beneath the surface of the island in the first 4 hours. You can speed things up a bit by starting the party out on a boat on the way to the island (or shipwrecked there, if you want to do a really high-danger game) instead of doing the stuff at port at the beginning.
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Nicholas D December 01, 2019 10:50 pm UTC
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How many PC's would you recommend to play this as is at each level 13?
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Jason T January 18, 2020 6:45 am UTC
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A group of 4 13th-level PCs would be appropriate. It's a fairly dangerous adventure (though there's a lot of DM leeway to make it harder/easier in how the opponents react and respond to the PCs).
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September 29, 2019 9:02 am UTC
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This adventure reads really well. There are so many inspired ideas in the adventure, that Cube 1717 could easily be used in your own homebrew setting or in the Forgotten Realms. It poses a real threat, handles the challenge rating well for characters of level 11 to 13, and mixes pure evil with pure law. Excellent!
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George K September 09, 2019 2:36 pm UTC
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A devil named Earl Andromalius? He has a surname? Luckily the adventure didn't feature his brothers Randy and Buck. That and the use of a drow surface sea ship are the only "?!" moments in what is an interesting adventure, which in the old days of Dragon/Dungeon wouldn't have had a chance of being set in the Forgotten Realms. It still shouldn't be set there but that's the joy of having a "catch all" background setting. File off the dissonant aspects noted above, get it the heck out of the Realms, and you have a good homebrew, Planescape-y adventure.
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David K October 21, 2019 10:34 am UTC
Earl is a title, not a first name.
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Jerrin C September 02, 2019 4:14 pm UTC
Are these AL legal?
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Phil A September 10, 2019 3:58 pm UTC
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Not according to the FB forums.
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