Something that I really enjoyed that my DM did when we went through this campaign was when we fought the third prophet (who we one-shot), the prince of elemental evil was still summoned, but weakened. So we got to fight two of the princes, one nerfed, the other at full strength.

Not sure why you ONLY have 6 k subs. Your information density is very high and clear presentations make this a treat.

Many thanks for your thoughts. I'll be getting this to run after Tyranny of Dragons, which we're just about to start so it's going to be a few months yet.

Best review of this adventure so far here on you tube, thanks.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and I would love to hear about your experiences. We are having our character creation session tonight!

We started with the fire temple and burned it down capturing two of the cult leaders and turning them over to the authorities

Hey there, That map that you have on the table is it campaing specific? and even if its not where can i get something similar?

Been running this with my group. I feel it's a bit too open ended. As DM I've tried to sway the party to take out the surface outposts so they are of appropriate level later on but they ignored my leads and are approaching the temple of Elder Eye at level 6 when they should be 10. They have retreated to rest after each encounter in Fane of the Eye. They are still determined to plunge deeper.

I found this consistent issue for my players that the adventure is really fluffing my players pillows. A lot of the encounters that are pretty standard are nearly tpking the party. I gave them a little faster level up to 4 even then they nearly wiped halfway into the first water cult base. I also found a lot of the open ended side quests to be really bland when I ran them by the book for my players so I've been more or less heavily editing a lot of the side quests they've encountered for more entertainment. Is this campaign supposed to be this brutal on them. It's a little hard for me as a dm to grasp their struggle as well but they all almost died on 3 occasions. Basically every session.

Hello good sir. Wonderful review. I have a quick question; What tiles would be great for 5th edition(Includes Tyranny of Dragons and Elemental Evil)? I need tiles because it helps to visual aid more(for me) than 'theatre of the mind'. Thank you in advance! You gained a new sub :)

I don't understand how a module can be "reviewed" unless it's been played at the table. This is more like a summary of the story with brief commentary on what the reader finds interesting. What is a good read isn't always a good game.

Thank you!

I was going to pick up a new adventure. Do you recommend this or the dragon series?

So this DOESNT take place in Oearth it takes place in Faerun? I dont understand why since the other temple games were in one setting and this is in another. No Iuz no Zuggetmoy?

Wait if the players came from the lost mine of Phandelver at level 5 would that mean they would be level 17 by the end?

Which would better to dm for people who have never played D&D and are probably never going to play D&D again after that campaign, Princes of the Apocalypse, or Curse of Strahd?

How would you say this compares to the original TOEE? Better, about the same, worse, or too different to be able to compare directly?

Great video. Thank you for your insights. =)

I played in this module for a while before the game fell apart after a near-TPK. The reason we let it go at that was that us players didn't care: at no point did we have a clear understanding of what was going on or why we should be murdering all these cultists. It did not appear as though the book gave a reason why we should be murder-hoboing our way through this adventure. Now I have not read the book, and maybe that is in there, but that was our problem.

Thank you

How long would it take to play through?

I make my characters go back to 1st or 5th level(depending on what i think is best) and integrate why they are "Summoned" to these adventures for my champaign.

Please do this for hoard of the dragon queen

So is it a remake or a sequel to The Temple of Elemental Evil?

Thx 4 the Review! By the way, thre is a second free pdf for this campaign available since today on the wotc homepage.

I've been playing this campaign for a few months now and although I'm not an experienced master in fifth edition I was a DM yaers ago with AD&D. I am finding this campaign hard to master: the whole sandbox open world "do what you want" concept is nice but translated in actual gameplay fails; if the PC choose to things in the "wrong" order the will end up in a section of the adventure not designed for their level and either find it way too easy o just die. Second and I think worse is the fact that the book is full of names of people, backgrounds and other information which is nearly impossible to keep in mind but information the master really needs.. well he'll have to make up. the point is that these cults aren't doing anything dangerous for all chapter 3. Why should a party of adventurers want to go after them? The book hints to "monsters appearing in the valley (Faerun is crawling with monsters what makes the Dessarin valley different?) and some "elemental apocalypse" getting nearer but actually for all chapter 3 it's the PC that are attacking the cults wile the cults are doing nothing at all to deserve this attention. Yes, some peasants go missing, some monster appear here and there.. hardly the stuf for heroes. So why should the characters go after these harmless cults? For example in "hoard of the dragon queen" character knew that the cult wanted to summon tiamat on the prime material and that that was indeed dangerous. Here we don't really know what these cult's aims are and what they are doing to achieve these aims. They are just there, posing no real threat to anybody. There is no sense of epic struggle in this campaign, no sense of threat or evidence of impending evil. Masters have to make up something to get the PCs engaged with the campaign. I think the book could be a bit more specific on what the characters need to prevent other than fight a few cults of fanatics as you could find thousands of in Faerun.

Very good review! Maybe flip the camera so we can see you talk, and not your hands. But very informative!

no spoilers, but does this seem like a wash and repeat of the "Hoard" books? Cults...blank...cults.....I am BIG fan of 5th, it just seems a bit close.

I like the adventure BUT I also had a great many issues. SPOILERS BEWARE: 1. I didn't like the the Elemental Evil isn't gone into. There is more detail on the evil emental Eye in the conversion for alternate settings than in the actual campaign adventure. WTF? 2. faction leaders etc, aren't detailed, 3. friendly NPCs are really only given name/race/class descriptions. That's not good enough. 4. I didn't like that the adventure spent all of its end portion in a big megadungeon with everyone thrown together. That's LAME. I don't see parties enjoying going back and forth to the dungeon numerous times. If you have a big playground like the Realms USE IT! Don't keep things confined to this small boring area. 5. If at the end you have chance of fighting one of Elemental Princes on their own plane WOTC should have included details on that not hand waved it.