Prolegomena
Over the winter break I had the opportunity to run Winter's Daughter twice, both times using Old School Essentials. I thought I'd put a quick writeup here of running the module as a relatively new GM. This is also an excuse for me to work on recording my thoughts to better express myself. In preparation for these games I made a number of pre-gen characters to help things start off quickly. I picked a subset from the Advanced Rules book and the Mage and Acolyte from Carcass Crawler. To help balance out the characters some, I gave those with the worse stats more starting gold and the ones with better stats less gold (inspired by Electric Bastionland/Into the Odd). I rolled the starting amount in OSE (3d6 * 10) a number of times equal to the characters I was making and then assigned the values to individual characters. When making the pre-gens, I also made sure each character had some interesting piece of equipment for the players to play around with and to encourage them to get creative in their problem style in the old school way.
