Baldur's Gate is a fantastic medieval city with a long and storied history -- a city on the verge of tearing itself asunder. Murder in Baldur's Gate presents the city in the time of the Sundering, a period that will define the future of the Forgotten Realms. In addition to providing 64 pages of in-depth information on the city and its inhabitants, this product includes a harrowing page adventure in which the player characters defend Baldur's Gate against an ancient evil long thought slain.
Abdel and his companions race to save the lives of Bhaal's offspring, who are being killed by people of Faerun who are unaware that each death provides additional power to an evil group of Bhaalspawn intent on returning their father to Toril.
The Baldur's Gate heroes return to the city at last, but their time adventuring in Ravenloft and the frozen northern reaches of the Realms has changed them. Still, each of them must face great trials ahead before they'll be ready to embrace their destiny.
A new hero of the people roams the streets of Baldur's Gate, and Minsc feels left behind despite his own legend. Can he reclaim his place as the city's Beloved Ranger? Whatever happens, evil is going to get its butt kicked most thoroughly! Bhaal must be stopped!
Someone is sabotaging the iron mines of the Sword Coast, pushing powerful realms toward a bloody war, and a young mercenary toward an unimaginable secret. Evil gods, giant spiders, murderous doppelgangers, flesh-eating ghouls, and wicked Zhentarim come to life in the action-packed novelization of the Baldur's Gate computer game form BioWare and Interplay. Minsc and his friends are caught in the middle of devil-tainted corruption that has taken hold of Baldur's Gate. Unravelling the secret of its source will take our heroes to unexpected places and threaten the sanctity of their very souls.
Even if they survive this perilous journey, there will be hell to pay! Mighty giants stir across the land and before their crushing might, nothing is safe. It's worth noting that a couple of the suggested originals for the Awakened Clone are Halaster or Acererak, which could be a good set up for doing Undermountain or ToA next. However, I do see where you specified "community content projects," which I missed. Considering that was the question above, you answered the opposite.
Burnside said:. There are four epic backgrounds that have some ties to events and characters in the adventure. They're all pretty wacky and won't be to everyone's taste, but can easily be toned down or modified as desired. They each come with suggested personality traits, extra skills like all backgrounds, some features, and storyline goals some of which can be accomplished during the adventure, while others would be to pursue if you continue with the character beyond the scope of this adventure characters reach level 6 at the end.
You get 4 death saves instead of 3. The Awakened Clone - you're the clone of an archmage - you have the mage's body, but your own personality Storyline goals attainable : get yourself a soul if you do, you get to acquire either the Magic Initiate or War Caster feat - your choice Storyline goals long-term : Confront your creator Feature: Time limits on spells that restore you to life don't apply. For instance, you can be resurrected with a Revivify spell even if you've been dead for days - as long as your body is there.
The Last Emperor - you are an emperor of a long-dead civilzation. You've been in suspended animation inside a sarcophagus that was being kept in the Hall of Wonders in Baldur's Gate. Somebody woke you up AND stole your sarcophagus. BookBarbarian Expert Long Rester. I remember them getting upset about people using their own trade dress for their products. I didn't realize they encouraged adopting their own so thoroughly.
Guest Guest. I've been looking for reviews on this product, but everything I've found so far shows distinct nostalgia for Baldur's Gate and its iconic characters, which makes me wonder how objective the reviews are. Which would be entirely understandable; I just don't personally care about those aspects.
Anybody want to try to give an objective opinion about this adventure, as it would be experienced by players with zero knowledge of the lore? Or know a good review? Elfcrusher said:. Oh, one other fairly significant issue: I can count the number of times in the entire mini-campaign that the authors found occasion to include ANY skill checks on my fingers.
In the entire first two chapters there is exactly one skill check and it's to pick a lock. Definitely feels like from a design standpoint they had 2e in mind more than 5e in that regard. Post reply. Insert quotes…. Similar Threads B. Replies 86 Views 26K. Sep 24, Demetrios Replies 2 Views Heroes of Baldur's Gate Average Rating: 8. Browse 7 Images » wrong image? James Ohlen Jesse Sky. Publisher: Web published. Year: Hard Cover. View Corrections Link Image. No items found. No images found.
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