Quests From The Infinite Staircase

D&D 5E Quests From The Infinite Staircase

Overview Images (8) Replies (321)
rokville said:
How do you deal with curious players in the Infinite Staircase?

This may be more of a general DM question, but I'm new to DMing and really intrigued by this model of presenting episodic/anthology quests, and especially this quest-giver model.

The book says the doors tend to be unlocked, and they can go anywhere, but tend to present themselves in ways that indicate (at least generally) what is beyond them. That sounds tempting to my Player brain.

If I were playing, I think I'd want to poke my head in some random doors, but as a potential DM, I'm sweating having a bunch of encounters queued up that are unrelated to the given quest.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Click to expand...
I'd say that Journeys from the Radiant Citadel is a good resource: modular Advebtures thst can plug and play, that by base assume a plane-hoppimg party.
 

log in or register to remove this ad


Henadic Theologian said:
Oh and their is also an Egyptian God called Saa, so renaming the dead Pharoh Amun Sa did nothing, it's just embarrassing. Honestly I'm thinking of putting together a petition against WotC still doing this nonsense. They are wrecking lore for nothing and in a way that makes them more offensive not less.
Click to expand...
You take this way too seriously
 


I note that this book says to pronounce Tsojcanth as “SAWJ-kahn”. Is the omission of the “th” at the end an error, or is it really meant to be silent?

On a related note, the scale for the Yatil Mts map is 4 miles per hex. That seems way too big to me. The map is ~40 hexes from top to bottom, so that would be 160 miles. That’s crazy! I wonder if it should be 1 mile per hex. Maybe two.
 
Last edited:

pukunui said:
On a related note, the scale for the Yatil Mts map is 4 miles per hex. That seems way too big to me. The map is ~40 hexes from top to bottom, so that would be 160 miles. That’s crazy! I wonder if it should be 1 mile per hex. Maybe two.
Click to expand...
In the original AD&D module, the scale is 3.5 miles per hex, so quite similar. This should, more or less, match the size of the area in the Greyhawk map.
 

When I ran the module back in the 80s I remember the hex crawl being the best bit. I assume the scale was chosen so 1 hex = 1 day's travel. The Yatil mountains are a big range, but not implausibly so. The Himalayas are 1500 miles long.

I think the Sunset Mountains, the Suggested FR location, are too small though (at least if you take the Far Hills into account). I would shift it to The Spine of the World, which is plenty big enough and then some.

I pronounce it So-Canth.
 
Last edited:

pukunui said:
On a related note, the scale for the Yatil Mts map is 4 miles per hex. That seems way too big to me. The map is ~40 hexes from top to bottom, so that would be 160 miles. That’s crazy! I wonder if it should be 1 mile per hex. Maybe two.
Click to expand...
If you look at the main Greyhawk map the scale is 30 miles per hex, 160 miles is just 5 hexes and some change, and the Yatil mountains can easily contain that.
 

pukunui said:
On a related note, the scale for the Yatil Mts map is 4 miles per hex. That seems way too big to me. The map is ~40 hexes from top to bottom, so that would be 160 miles. That’s crazy! I wonder if it should be 1 mile per hex. Maybe two.
Click to expand...
Looking online, found this that shows the location of the Tsojcanth regional map on the Darlene map:

Tsojcanth-Greyhawk-map-location.jpg
 


Similar Threads

M
D&D 5E Quests from the Infinite Staircase TOC and Zargon.
15 16 17 18 19
Replies
180
Views
23K
Nikosandros
Nikosandros
B
A Peek at Quests from the Infinite Staircase
2 3 4 5 6
Replies
51
Views
14K
MNblockhead
MNblockhead
jasper
DDAL Jasper DMs Quests from the Infinite Staircase
2 3
Replies
20
Views
2K
jasper
jasper
B
In-Depth Review of Quests from the Infinite Staircase
2 3
Replies
22
Views
13K
Parmandur
Parmandur
Morrus
D&D 5E Quest From The Infinite Staircase Adventures Revealed
16 17 18 19 20
Replies
195
Views
33K
Parmandur
Parmandur

Trending content

Remove ads

Top