08-15-2026, 10:10 AM
Answered your PM, but for the sake of completeness and anyone else who might be interested I'm reposting the meat of it here:
"Temple of the Frog is an excellent setting for first level adventures to start from. What you need to start with is a location in Blackmoor to base your players. The town of Blackmoor never got officially fleshed out so you'd have to homebrew it , BUT Frogtown is pretty well described with a lot of interesting flavor characters and would make a great home base to seed adventures from. No I absolutely was not recommending the high level adventure part of the module for your first level characters!
One that comes to mind that I've run before from Frogtown is Pyramid of the Dragon, by Peter Spahn for LL, but it is a 5-7 level adventure.
However one that might be ideal for you is The Sunken Fort by Nickolas Z Brown (Five Cataclysms). I haven't run this one yet myself but it looked fun when I picked up the pdf. It is for first level characters and could easily be hinted at from Frogtown.
Now If you don't want to start them in Frogtown, your options are to homebrew additional details for an existing town description in the books or crib something from the MMRPG campaign. That will work, but most of the MMRPG stuff isn't super detailed when it comes to towns. I think Heronport and Kings Crossing get decent treatment, however both of those places were made up for the MMRPG."
Okay
now its Swamp F-l-i-e-s not files. That's one of the MMRPG adventures. These can be freely downloaded from this site (although
my log in-link has been broken for years - but that's a me problem). Now I will say that the MMRPG adventures all follow a particular somewhat unusual and dialog heavy format that I personally find challenging to run and I spend a lot of time reading them and then winging it at the table (again, probably a me problem).
"Temple of the Frog is an excellent setting for first level adventures to start from. What you need to start with is a location in Blackmoor to base your players. The town of Blackmoor never got officially fleshed out so you'd have to homebrew it , BUT Frogtown is pretty well described with a lot of interesting flavor characters and would make a great home base to seed adventures from. No I absolutely was not recommending the high level adventure part of the module for your first level characters!
One that comes to mind that I've run before from Frogtown is Pyramid of the Dragon, by Peter Spahn for LL, but it is a 5-7 level adventure.
However one that might be ideal for you is The Sunken Fort by Nickolas Z Brown (Five Cataclysms). I haven't run this one yet myself but it looked fun when I picked up the pdf. It is for first level characters and could easily be hinted at from Frogtown.
Now If you don't want to start them in Frogtown, your options are to homebrew additional details for an existing town description in the books or crib something from the MMRPG campaign. That will work, but most of the MMRPG stuff isn't super detailed when it comes to towns. I think Heronport and Kings Crossing get decent treatment, however both of those places were made up for the MMRPG."
Okay
now its Swamp F-l-i-e-s not files. That's one of the MMRPG adventures. These can be freely downloaded from this site (although my log in-link has been broken for years - but that's a me problem). Now I will say that the MMRPG adventures all follow a particular somewhat unusual and dialog heavy format that I personally find challenging to run and I spend a lot of time reading them and then winging it at the table (again, probably a me problem).