Review: Lost Mine of Phandelver on Fantasy Grounds Classic

DM Greg here with another Dungeons and Dragons adventure review for use on Fantasy Grounds Classic.

The Lost Mine of Phandelver (LMoP) was the first game module I ran on Fantasy Grounds back in November 2019. As a matter of fact I still have the module loaded as my party, at the time of this writing, is still adventuring in the same area utilizing the same maps and continuing to interact with the NPC’s they met from their early interactions. If anyone is familiar with the physical copy of the module it includes pre-generated characters, fold out maps, an adventure campaign and setting, as well as some dice and quick start rules. The digital copy faithfully incorporates all of that into Fantasy Grounds (when counting the free 5e SRD rules and dice in the application).

The Campaign Setting

The setting for LMoP is a small mining town of Phandalin nestled on the Sword Coast between Neverwinter Woods and the Kryptgarden Forest along the Triboar Trail. The party has been hired by Gundren Rockseeker to escort a caravan of supplies from Neverwinter to Phandalin. Obviously thing don’t go as planned but the details and maps of the area really lays the groundwork for my ongoing campaign. The Sword Coast and Phandalin maps are excellent, nothing was lost in their resolution when loaded into Fantasy Grounds.

The Adventure

*Spoilers*

The adventure has 3 main parts. First, an intro escort mission that turns into a rescue mission that took us one session to complete. Next, the exploration of Phandalin and introduction to a handful of NPC’s along with a bunch of side quests that took us 4 sessions. And finally, the investigation and subsequent dungeon crawl of Wave Echo Cave, again 2 more game sessions.

The encounters formatted for Fantasy Ground is pretty much the standard I hold all other module to. The enemy tokens are pre-placed on the map and combat is logical and properly loaded every time.

Going Forward

After completing the module my players PC’s were all at level 5. Since then I have been adding to the intro adventure by running adventures found within Tales From the Yawning Portal and modules that Wizards released as add ons to Dragons of Icespire Peak. The world building has been very rewarding to me as a DM as again, LMoP laid excellent groundwork for my ongoing campaign.

Cheers,

DM Greg

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