Aaron Campbell the new Franchise Director for DDO posted on the DDO forums "Confirmed, our tribute module is Haunted Halls of Eveningstar. Expect this to be at a higher level than the original module." This is scheduled to be released as part of update 21 in early 2014.

This update shows some promise. It is an old Ed Greenwood module from 1992. I am sure it will get Turbined down in size and content but perhaps it will still turn out better than the shovelware that has been fed to us in the last few updates. If this was in the works I wonder why it was not the basis for the expansion. I would think that Ed Greenwoods name would of been marketing gold in promoting and selling the xpac.

The original module description reads:

"Welcome to the picturesque village of Eveningstar, nestled at the foot of the Stonelands where the River Starwater winds down a gorge and snakes into the King's Forest.

Here, the Knights of Myth Drannor began their famous adventures. Here, the Ladies of the Brazen Blade, The Company of the Singing Sword, The Steel Shield Band, and many others came, clutching royal charters from King Azoun with the ink scarcely dry on the parchment. Some fell, some went on to greatness - but they all came here first: here, to the Haunted Halls.

Despite numerous infiltrations, the Halls have not yet yielded all their secrets or treasures. Many dangers lurk as deadly as ever in dark chambers herein, awaiting new companies of eager-eyed adventurers.

Is it your turn to dare The Haunted Halls? Many come, but few survive to again see Eveningstar's beauty."

A quick search turned up a download of the original module at ftp://libgen.org/comics1/_RPG%20books/Forgotten%20Realms%20(TSR)/Forgotten%20Rea...

thanks for the link!

(I still think my catch of the shadar kai tattoo is a bigger fish, but this is nice also)

Flav wrote on Jul 11^th, 2013 at 7:10am:


Hommlet > Borderlands

thanks for the link...i wonder if it's possible to expand outside of eveningstar though...

Luxgolg wrote on Jul 11^th, 2013 at 8:53am:

Considering Turbine is investing in the new player experience in The Harbor revamp, don't expect to see FR lowbie land any time soon.  DDO has a glut of low level content for TRing and IMO doesn't need more.  FR would be a great place to add level 17-19 content where content is really thin, and plays into the advancement path of iconics starting at level 15.

A very good start to some new content.  Hope they raise the level to 15+ with epic variants.

Carpone wrote on Jul 11^th, 2013 at 8:16am:


Fixed.

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I still think it might be a replacement for Korthos/Harbor

I bet that they probably have to stay off the sword coast to stay out of the way of Neverwinter.

Baaaahahahahaha.  I haven't posted in forever.  Apparently Stainer changed my avatar to KState...

Asheras wrote on Jul 11^th, 2013 at 4:40pm:


Well with the Spellplague and the cataclysms linked to it, Neverwinter has more or less been ripped off the Sword Coast... ( Well it is just extremely difficult to reach Neverwinter and the surrounding )
At lest that's how I parsed the FR D&D Game Books I bought.

Anyway, they don't have reasons to expand to the Sword Coast yet, when there's so many things to do around Cormyr. Look at what we have on the Eberron side, we are on Xendrik and all the other continents are not an option.

As for the FR stuff, logically it would be a 10/15 thing... I'll even expand it to 7-15, that way we can get Veteran II straight in the Realms.

mystafyi wrote on Jul 12^th, 2013 at 6:44pm:

Turbine could easily accomplish that by starting TRs at a higher level than 1.  TR+7 heart + Bigby XP stone = $$$$$$$$$.

OldCoaly wrote on Jul 13^th, 2013 at 12:40pm:

Fuck that idea in the ass with no lube.