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yeah... even just giving her some not-obviously-good motivations beyond getting rescued/revenge... hrm...

sigh... right then:) "trawling". I'm earnest, reely!

The damsel is a captive because the evil cleric "saved" her after she wasn't charmed into becoming a member of the cult. It's somewhat important that she provide some information to the players, but having her be not entirely "good" isn't a terrible idea. Her not be grateful for being rescued...

true. I am certainly considering leaving things as-is (I'm not adverse to using the trope, obviously). Trolling for ideas though. I feel this has the ability to play-out very-similarly to the last damsel situation.

So my group is going through Against the Cult of the Reptile God and will (likely) soon embark on an investigation of the corrupted temple full of evil cultists. Near the end of the area is a fairly critical NPC woman imprisioned and abused by the head (male) cleric. It's rightfully creepy and...

of course... if Bertram is robbing travellers, you'd think they'd go to the authorities and/or blame the innkeeper... Snigrot drugs them so they don't recall and they get dumped outside of town? lying NPCs are hard...

I kind-of like having Derek claim ignorance of the cult and suggesting that Bertram was running a robbery scam from within the inn (he can provide evidence of this with the secret doors and such). This minimizes the chances that he gets caught in a lie too (most of what he actually needs to say...

Coming back to the well of ideas here... After what was supposed to be some short side-treks that turned into likely campaign-defining events, the party finally made it to Orlane with various pc motivations (including an implored visit to great aunt Vilma (thanks Galendril!)). Investigations...

Dungeon magazine please/thanks. As some others have mentioned: location-based stuff without too much mandatory weird backstory. Reasonably malleable villains so I can swap stuff in/out easily. Suggested connections between adventures without having them too tightly-coupled. Good maps...

re: Horn of Fog right then. thanks a ton. I guess my version is the official version then.

I'd be rather grateful for details on how the Horn of Fog works.

My phb binding snapped during gentle use before I even had a chance to play a game. I took it back to the classy gaming store where I bought it (no receipt) and they replaced it on the spot. Hard to get a read on how widespread this is given that there are a lot of PHBs out there already, but...

What about hooking players into things in the first place? You can't really have the town bring them in... Do you just rely on their curiosity (this is somewhat what the module suggests "something strange in Orlane... figure it out"). That doesn't feel like a very compelling hook in the big...

I'm converting Ramne to a gnome (one of my pcs has a deep, deep hatred of gnomes) and down-levelling him a bit. There's no Minor Globe of Invulnerability in 5e anyway, so the "trick" of having that to save the party from the fireball doesn't even work. I'm planning on telegraphing it by having...

I'm converting this module for the kickoff of a new campaign. I've never played it and haven't run a game at-all in quite a while. I'm both delighted and terrified that based on a reading of the adventure, I have no clue what's going to happen (my players tend to impatience begetting...

I'll certainly be drawing by hand - more fun for me too. I've got lots of time to work as we don't play particularly often... My artistic skills are hardly the greatest, but I should be able to get something. Thoughts on gameplay-centric map elements? Having an ancient script on the map is...

...so I let my players buy a map from a vendor at a festival (leading to ancient ruins and adventure, of course). They seem really keen on following up on it so I'm prepping for next session assuming they'll follow the map out of town. I think I want to give them a handout of the map... Any...

self-aware gaming references are what makes the strip - not the stories themselves. thumbs-up to "railroading" comment.

Yeah... agreed. I think what you really want is something that works without the gaming context, but gamers will get an "in" joke. Of course... thinking of something really good is tricky. Sigil *is* where it's at though:)

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