Chapter six is a side quest chapter, there is a mini campaign that can get the player group started similar to how Curse of Strahd had the Death House.

What they uncover though could have dire consequences on the realm forever.

In DD 4th Edition, The Elder Elemental Eye makes an appearance.

But this character makes appearances in books going back as far as First Edition in the module The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun by Gary Gygax in 1982.

Many books since have mentioned Tharizdun in some way or another since.

Another interesting point tied to past books that is returning in this book is the Temple of Elemental Evil which we will get into more later in this review.

Though not everything is directly related here with this new book, the history behind some of the locations, names, and characters is really cool.

Princes of the Apocalypse is the first campaign setting book for 5th Edition that was released after all three of the 5th Edition Dungeons Dragons core books in April of 2015.

Monster Manual, Dungeon Masters Guide, and Players Handbook).

The first chapter also comes with a surprising amount of plot hooks to get the story started.

The campaign is meant to start at 3rd level party characters.

There is a plot hook that specifically can be used with the Starter Set Lost Mines of Phandelver which would take players to the 5th level.

Unfortunately the start of the campaign would be pretty easy if they are moving directly into this story.

One thing that I like that was included in this chapter was travel time information.

This is something that on my own campaigns I like to flesh out as well as it really adds a pacing and real consequence like feel to actions and travel in general.

There is a good amount of information on each of the 4 elemental cults as well, the main goal is to venture to outposts and find out more on each of them or even side with one of the cults themselves.

Chapter 4 is about the Temple of Elemental Evil, this is essentially the dungeon section of this campaign.

There are 4 sections that if you have not guessed that there is 1 section for each then you havent been paying attention in this review.

There is an order that is suggested to clear out the dungeon but any group can tackle them in any order that they wish.

The more dungeons that get cleaned out the harder things are going to get.

This is the climax to the story where the players will confront a prophet.

The final battle will be based on the order in which the players go through and handle each elemental cult.

This creates some nice replayability so this campaign could be played through more than once.

The campaign will take players all the way up to level 15 which at this point is pretty high.

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