You begin lvl 5... you explore a LOT, fight a LOT, some encounters easy, some others exhausting your HP and ressources. Good to know that the mobs don't like the flaming sphere so you can channel them. After a while, you wonder why your characters don't progress. Even the last vilain (OMG, what a fight !) didn't help to get you to the 6th level.;
BUT...
... the nasty little surprise in the lowest level did !
Very good module, let's go on to the night raid

Unfortunately no, its just the way Solasta Works, Any custom items and quest items are removed from inventory by the game when the character is exported.

Absolutely loving this series. Played the original module ages ago. Great work! Question: is there any way to keep the Greatsword of Lightning?

Finished it yesterday. Was a blast again. Especially the trader at the start :D I again cleared everything and made a ton of gold ;) Also had fun with the encounters. The "sad" part was, that my learned recipes were gone, also an unequipped magic weapon. Had fun with my battle cleric and his guardians in combination with my bards thunder spell, wiping whole groups at the start of the battle. "Chainlightning" from my sorcerer was fun to, especially casting through walls :D

Brilliant sequel to A1, fights got much more challenging and the explorable area nearly doubles. Easily took me 8 to 10 hours, I tend to creep and try to search everything and everywhere. Take my points, awarded.

One issue, which I'm not sure if it's a bug in Solasta or just this campaign, I got a Greatsword of Lightning in A2. When I complete the campaign and update my character, the weapon dissappears. Occurs both when equipped or stored in inventory.

Any info on if this would be fixable or not would be nice. Enjoying this campaign otherwise.

FA-BU-LOUS
Once again, the mapping is stunning. They say the devil is in the details, you must rule hell by now ! Never had so much pleasure exploring in solasta. Not even the official campaigns are so well designed. Every corridor, every room looks perfectly organic and with purpose. Like theses places had a past and our characters disturb the dust of what's left of it.
The encounters are very cool and challenges changes very intelligently, with very different arenas.
What a delight.
Thank you for your exemplary work.

How interesting! I love it.

That's his brother mentioned in the journal in the first module. If you search his desk in the end, you'll find out Lady Almalphia wasn't his intended target... it was you.

Fair, but I killed him in the first module. Why's he back again? :-D

It was a fun experience though.

Oh yeah that's a Werewolf, you need magic weapons to beat him or use the scroll in the chest prior to him

(part 2) If I had any criticism of this module at all, it would be the difficulty scaling. It goes from super-easy to near impossible very quickly and without warning. Specifically, that guy from the Crown campaign that's immune to all damage types? I wish you would stop using him. He wasn't good in the crown campaign, and it makes less sense that he keeps showing up in the previous module and this one (and I assume the NEXT one).

Seeing as he just single-handedly wiped my team, I think I'm going to move on to other adventures. Your series was my first non-official delve into modules. Good times! Thanks for making it.

You might have mistyped that. It SEEMS like a pretty authentic re-creation of Slave Pits of the Undercity. Like... to the point where I entered the room with the slaves in the upper floor and said "Wait... I remember this! This is a trap!"

I'd forgotten the exact nature of the trap and didn't want to look it up, but this module made me grin a LOT.

I just re-created Slave Pits of the Undercity for Talespire for online D&D play, and this was a LOT like it.

Been re-creating Secret of the Slaver's Stockade as well. My favorite module of the olden days by a lot.

(cont.)

Well you might, this specific PnP D&D module is actually Secret of the Slavers Stockade. And one of the monsters in the module is a Troll, It is designed as close to the original as possible.

It looks like this is the only module in your A-series campaign that requires Lost Valley DLC. Is there any way around this for players like me who don't have the DLC? Or am I going to have to skip this module of the campaign?

Followup to A1 Haunted Keep of the Slavers. I'd finished A1 at level 4 and was automatically levelled to 5 at the start of this, which made the first many encounters fairly trivial, as they were against a lot of low-level fodder enemies, and my party was replete with area-of-effect attacks to quickly zero their numbers. ...and then I got to the basement levels, where I ran into all manner of nasty jerks and ended up barely pulling it out in a few of the fights on the 2nd and 3rd basement levels.

Again pretty high on loot, everyone in my party now has three attuned items at level 6, but likewise it seems balanced for it. The map design was quite good again, as well.

Recommended custom module!

Hey @Silverquick. I'm really enjoying the modules, thanks for putting all the time and effort into them. I am a bit stuck though on this one. I feel like I've covered the entire map at all levels but I know I'm missing something somewhere (otherwise I'd find the Lady I need to rescue and finish it). There are several red buttons to interact with. One I can't seem to reach (shows an arrow with a red X). The rest appear to not do anything (click, run around to see if something changed, click the next one, etc.). Any help would be appreciated. If you need more info, I can try to provide details.

First let me say I love love love what you've done with this modules. Sooooo cool. I love them.

But I see a problem (outside of typo's). A2 Assault on the Slave Lords is 'pose to be for lvl's 4-5. I'm using my lvl 4 characters that I finished A1 with.

BUT the very first thing this module does is give you XP and level all the characters to lvl 5.

So if it's for 4-5, and the first thing it does is level you to 5th, then why say it's for 4-5 if you are forcing 5th level characters right off the bat?

@silverquick Doh! Makes sense.

@Silverquick, Thanks, I missed the entire orc room. lol.

Its just a sign that tells you that's the room where they receive the slaves.

I hit the button and it just says "<receiving>" over and over. What does that mean?

Its the button in the Orc Room

I am stuck. I defeated the ghouls and basilisks in the third area , but there does not appear to be anywhere to go after that. I backtracked to the second area and coul dnot find an alternate path. What am I missing?

I found a work-around for the Stirge problem. After stirge combat if a player has an unremovable Doomblade Cut then a Short Rest will remove the debuff without killing the player.

Great modules! Fantastic work. I'm enjoying playing them through sequentially.
The stirges in A2 cause Doomblade Cut on a successful bite but there is no way to remove it and the PC isn't given a Con save each round as they should be per 5e rules.
If the Con save can't be added, then could you make it removable by at least one of the following: Lesser Restoration, Cure Poison, Cure Disease. I have tried those all and none work.
Thank you for such great work and I can't wait for Against the Giants!

If you go in through the well passage then back out through the main gate, the events don't trigger in the right order.

Hi ! I enjoyed this episode a lot. You lose your recipes between each episode, so you're not able to craft anymore. I was glad to make my +1 ultra heavy plate armor for my paladin (who can carry that), in the first scenario. But after this, even if you buy a prepared armor from the merchant in the third one, you won't be able enchant it.
Not crucial, as there is enough stuff to loot everywhere
Wait... a troll ? Was there a troll somewhere ^^ ??

Yeah Lost Valley because of the Troll in it.

Hey, had a ton of fun with A1 but with this one it says "missing DLC content"? are there any necessary DLC's to play this?

Thanks for all you do. Great work!

Ahh more of the new placable changes issues,
Ok give me a sec Ahriman.

EDIT: Ok Ahriman, the placeables have been moved and its been pushed again. Just hit the FROM DISK and it will fix your saved game.

Hello there,

In the sewers there is a large group of orcs with the shaman at the end, however they cannot be engaged because the path to them is blocked by the 'vines'.

Updated it with the new things available in the Tilesets.

Temple now includes the Troll that pops out of the offering box, per the original.

This was amazing!!! Big thanks.

I probably should've commented right after finishing the module as I can't remember specifics now but I can definitely say it was another solid adventure that I thoroughly enjoyed. :)

Fixed multiple issues with Slave Pits not despawning mobs or spawning guards. You may see an update to your saved game when you start it. Select the From Disk option to receive the changes as it will correct your saved games.

NOW UPDATE with the changes to the new Toolset. There are now actual Slaves to rescue and with the new Tilesets, I was able to build the Outer Temple and Courtyards to specs with the original map for Slave Pits of the Undercity.
Also now includes the actual Slave Pits in the Classic Module which could not be put in prior.

Quick question: If there any downtime in a town with a store, so we can sell/use the loot from the first scenario? Or do i have to find a different mod???

Thank you Meepichi,
And I share your pain with the RNG.

An excellent and challenging module. When rng isn't playing nice it can be a real pain but over all quality work. I can't wait to see what you can do when they give you more to work with. Keep up the great work! :)

That said, its good to see you noticed that regarding the 4th level party vs 5th level.
The idea behind the optional encounters is indeed to be able to come back and beat them once you're 5th level if you cannot beat them at 4th level.

Just for fun, I tested the front entrance with a 4th level party. Very difficult without good AOE damage spells. Then retested with a 5th level party. Trivial. Aside from the OG in the temple area, no real problems. You should replace that HP in that area with an EP. The HP AI is just useless. He just stood there, casting cure wounds on himself after the rogue's sneak attack, and waited for the pally to finish off the orcs.

Oh yes, by the way Acadiantri I did take on that encounter a good 6 times when play testing. I found the best way to take it on was to take it on from the North, Where you can choke point the Ghouls. in the first wall and rubble choke point. Optionally your cleric can turn undead causing about half of them to flee. Or you can wait while the rest sweep the right side and bunch up, then fry them with an upcasted burning hands or Thunderwave. Or optionally plug that route with a Flaming Sphere.
That said its an optional encounter so you can just avoid it if you don't want to take it on. But its great exp.

That would soo be nice Acadiantri, I hope they do put those in.
I'm not so sure you'd have liked the Basilisks though as the original encounter though. That's basically 2 saving throws vs Petrification from each party member per round. Someone is going to fail, and be turned to stone.
I read the 5E version of them and its a lot nicer than 1st Ed version as you get a second save on the next round to avoid it being perminent. But still... likely by probability, you'd lose someone, because you won't take both of them down in 1 round.
At least with Ghouls they have to hit you first before you need to make a saving throw. Basilisks do not.

Would rather have faced the two basilisks. Maybe someday. I heard that the full bestiary has giants in it! Hope that we get those soon.

The 8 ghouls was fine. I charged in there. It was the mass in the courtyard that I didn't like. That's where I retreated to the chokepoint.

Now to go into it further,
the first Ghoul encounter you are talking about, is only 8 Ghouls. BUT... originally in the module they are waiting in the caved in room above, and they jump on top of the party after you've already entered the room. So you start the encounter surrounded. I had to improvise of course, and create little alcoves to hide them in and see if you walked into the trap, but in your case you retreated through the door to choke point them, which is a valid strategy.

Heh, sorry Acadiantri, but those encounters are quite literally directly out of the Slave Pits of the Undercity as written. They are official D&D encounters from the module.

The only one changed was the Ghouls in the ruined courtyard area. That is originally supposed to be a pair of Basilisks, However that is a much more deadly encounter than the Ghouls, and I don't have a Basilisk in the toolset.

Started this, but your penchant for mobs of paralyzing undead made the first big fight difficult. Not difficult to win, just difficult to click through. Unless you want to be surrounded, best tactic is to retreat to the chokepoint. Only two can attack, but with a fourth level party, it's a slog to kill them all without using resources. Moreover, because only two can attack at a time, there's a noticeable lag for each of the others as they explore all possible paths to melee range. As a result, the fight is forty minutes of click, wait, wait, wait, click, wait, wait, wait, click, and so on. I found it so dull that I eventually quit the module. May restart at 5th level, but that'd probably make the fights generally unchallenging. The use of mobs of low-levels was cool to see the first time with the orcs and the badland spiders, but I hope that you find a new trick soon.