First, I don't have the expansions yet.

Second, the big question:

Are the expansions part of the same campaign as The Shadow Rune or are they their own?

What I mean is, if we play The Shadow Rune and then move onto one of the expansions, do the heroes have to start at level one again?

One of the expansions sort of implies that it is happening at the same time and in addition to The Shadow Rune (Lair of the Wyrm). The question here is, if you play both The Shadow Rune and the Lair of the Wyrm in some sort of alternating fashion, would the heroes or Overlord become too powerful by the end of either one?

I'm wondering because I read the heroes must start from scratch for each campaign. On the descriptions of the contents of the Expansions I see new classes but not new skills for the previously released classes.

This brings up a skills question, as well, but I'll start another thread for that one.

- Saf

Truthfully, griton answered this in another thread I just read. Thanks much even if you didn't know it!

And I'm guessing The Shadow of Nerekhall is a new campaign.

- Saf

Yeah, the pattern is Big Box with a full campaign followed by small box with a mini-campaign.

Mini-campaigns can be added to any full campaign, but full campaigns are all independent.

The question here is, if you play both The Shadow Rune and the Lair of the Wyrm in some sort of alternating fashion, would the heroes or Overlord become too powerful by the end of either one?

The side-quests themselves, when played as part of a larger campaign (e.g. Lair of the Wyrm quests during The Shadow Rune) usually do not provide any experience. The only thing gained is gold, treasure, and possibly relics. For any given expansion that you add to a campaign, you'll only play, at most, 2 extra quests, one in each Act. (So far, with Lair of the Wyrm and Trollfens, I think you can play one from each expansion each act, for a total of 4 side quests).

Each small expansion also has rules for "mini-campaigns" where instead of playing 1 Act I quest and 1 Act II quest mixed in with a larger campaign, you can just play all of the quests in a row (usually 5 total) as if they were a smaller, stand-alone campaign.

Ahh.. ok. Got it. I guess this is to make it different the next time you play when you play the quests you skipped last time. Thanks both of you. This helps me out a lot.

-Saf