Welcome to this campaign blog!

Call me Haladir.

I'm a long-time tabletop role-playing gamer. I started playing Dungeons and Dragons in 1982 with the "Red Book" Basic D&D box set, and I've been playing ever since. I've been playing third-edition D&D since it hit the market in 2000, and we immediately switched to 3.5 when that hit the shelves in 2003.

My gaming group and I were just not very keen on 4th edition D&D, feeling that it abandoned too much of the original feel of D&D, so we've been continuing with 3.5. However, we've decided that it's time to revise the rules again, so we're moving on to Pathfinder.

As another change of pace, I volunteered to run our game as a fantasy horror game. I've always loved the original 1985 Castle Ravenloft 1st-edition module, so we decided to run the expanded 2006 "Expedition to Castle Ravenloft" 3.5 minicampaign.

Converting a 200+ page module into a similar but just-different-enough-to-be-annoying game system is proving to be a bit more daunting than I'd originally planned. I am also placing it in the Pathfinder RPG official campaign world, so there's that part of the conversion to deal with as well. Nevertheless, I am confident that this will be a fun game when we start. Because we're all new to Pathfinder RPG, I'll be starting the characters at first level. To get our feet wet, I am also modifying the first two modules of the Pathfinder Adventure Path Rise of the Runelords to get the campaign started. We are starting with the adventure "Burnt Offerings."

This blog will serve as the campaign log for my players, but is also open to other gamers who might be interested in what we're doing. For that reason, I am going to keep the technical aspects of the conversion to a minimum.

So, welcome all! I think this may be a very interesting trip!