The Astral Express | A Festive 5e Adventure for 5th-Level Characters

Just found this awesome adventure and I'm building it on Roll20 to run for some friends. Was there ever a stat block or a total number of HP given for Klaus?

Katelyn Holland

Not to raise an old thread, but I think there is an issue with the print maps? Maps 02 and Maps 03 are the same.

Kris

Hi! I'm afraid I can't have any links on my Patreon that aren't my own for security reasons. You can however share it elsewhere if you like.

Tom Cartos

Hi all. I've compiled your entire adventure into a free Foundry VTT module. Can I share the link with everyone?

Степан Куликов

I'd like to run this for my family this Thanksgiving, but one thing that I can't seem to find is the total number of HP Klaus has-- during the final battle he can take a significant amount of damage, but I have no clue what I would be subtracting from. I read through the entire PDF multiple times, am I just missing something?

SPP

Love this, setting it up now just finding a few errors in the monsters Gundrop instead of GumDrop, and copying of text from the thrower to the wariors pack tactics, couple monster stats are wrong . I am though a little upset that even though there are 25 tokens there are 2 of the unique monsters that tokens are not supplied for, the mechanical Abomination and the Hot Cocoa Monster

Evil Scotsman

Hi Nick, sorry about that. The maps were all provided by different artists so some may be over the limit for Roll20. Glad you could fix it yourself though!

Tom Cartos

Lounge car is too large for roll20 upload as is, i had to compress the PNG using a tool. Unfortunately roll20 maxes out at 10MB for map uploads

Nick Moss

Hi Mark, Thanks for the great feedback! We will take all of this into account for future collabs. Its always a bit tricky getting so many creators organised, especially when they are doing all the work for free and trying to fit it in around their busy schedules. Some content ended up getting cut for time, which is why there is an extra map or two.There is also not necessarily a 'correct' order for the train cars. You can run them in any order you like, and you don't need to use all of them.

Tom Cartos

Update: Saw on a different post on reddit that the Lounge car map had been added, so that resolved that issue. I've already downloaded it and added it to my VTT. Thanks for fixing it.

Mark W Parrish

First, I would like to say that this collaboration is epic and everything included in it is absolutely wonderful. The concept as a whole is wonderful and it is amazing that everyone was able to work together on the project. I am running this just a couple days after Christmas and wanted to point out a few observations. I am not complaining in any way but did have some challenges in preparing this adventure and felt a responsibility to share them. The encounter names in the adventure document do not match up well with the names given to the individual maps. Some of the names are easy to figure out but some of them are way off and I had to fully read the entire description and carefully study the maps to figure out which maps went with the correct encounter. After I spent more time than I am willing to admit to figure out the correct order, I found the youtube preview video of the adventure and it somewhat shows the correct order but it is not fully correct either. One of the encounter descriptions does not have a corresponding map and one of the maps does not have a corresponding encounter. This makes me wonder if I have an outdated document. As an American left to right always feels more natural to me so I assumed the direction of the train would be left to right, or that the train is heading east and the party arrives on the caboose to the west and makes their way eastward. Some of the maps seem to be created with the party entering from the west and some with the party entering from the east. The locomotive or engine car is facing to the west. The youtube video has the engine car first heading west followed immediately by the caboose and then with the cars in correct order except for the extra map. The facing issue was easily fixed by just flipping the maps horizontally to make everything go in the direction I want. I really appreciate all the work the artists did on the maps, however it would have been a nice option to have map versions that did not have the actual encounter monsters drawn directly onto the map. I am running this in a VTT with moveable tokens. Despite those minor challenges I love this adventure and look forward to running it. I did want to also state that I am running this purely as a stand alone one-shot and the good boys and girls that are summoned by Klaus are actually human children from modern day Earth 2020. They have manifested onto the train in the bodies of D&D adventurers and instinctively know how to use all of the skills and abilities but are still little kids on the inside. My players will have to role play as little kids in a heroes body. Should be fun!

Mark W Parrish

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Great stuff!

Gary Barnett

The maps are awesome and full of very good idea ! I'm impressed of the collab ! Thx again and merry xmas :)

Thibaut Lorimier

the sheer amount of content is jaw dropping!

Mykey 2 Lyfe

this is amazing!

Vivacia