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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8997144" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Yeah, I think it was like, the players get to the basement, and one of them said something about how places like this must be closely linked to the Shadowfell, and then the wizard said something about "yeah, I thought about visiting there. Remember that holy man said something about Zorb (another Spiral Tower wizard) went the First Land (Shadowfell) with the Sword of Light." (something like that) So then the cleric used Consult Mystic Sages and learned about what had to be done (and that counted as a success). </p><p></p><p>So it was kind of the players, though to be honest the thought was lurking in my mind that this powerful vampire 'clan' must have something like that, etc. So I might have said something that started the ball rolling, but I can't remember now, this was like 2010. After they decided to try to investigate then I gave them some things they had to accomplish. They needed something like the life force of an innocent, so they spent a good while working on that one. It got them to explore all of this first castle, which was fun because it was like classic haunted house! Actually I think it was October, lol.</p><p></p><p>These players, lets see... Two spent a lot of time playing 3.5 and 2e etc. When 5e came out they ran that for a while, and then went back to 3.5, lol. OTOH one of them also ran a pretty decent Dungeon World game for a while. There was another that didn't have a huge amount of RPG experience, but he was a sharp guy and picked things up really fast. I think in some ways he was wanting a kind of Neo Trad warlock experience, but he was pretty happy with our game, he played for a couple years. I'm not sure about the other 2, I didn't know them as well, but I expect they were pretty trad D&D players. Everyone got into it pretty well. I mean, we never really sat down and worked through the theory of what we were doing. The Wizard was played by my sister, I think she's mostly just into the fantasy aspects of play, doesn't make a wide range of characters, but has a lot of experience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8997144, member: 82106"] Yeah, I think it was like, the players get to the basement, and one of them said something about how places like this must be closely linked to the Shadowfell, and then the wizard said something about "yeah, I thought about visiting there. Remember that holy man said something about Zorb (another Spiral Tower wizard) went the First Land (Shadowfell) with the Sword of Light." (something like that) So then the cleric used Consult Mystic Sages and learned about what had to be done (and that counted as a success). So it was kind of the players, though to be honest the thought was lurking in my mind that this powerful vampire 'clan' must have something like that, etc. So I might have said something that started the ball rolling, but I can't remember now, this was like 2010. After they decided to try to investigate then I gave them some things they had to accomplish. They needed something like the life force of an innocent, so they spent a good while working on that one. It got them to explore all of this first castle, which was fun because it was like classic haunted house! Actually I think it was October, lol. These players, lets see... Two spent a lot of time playing 3.5 and 2e etc. When 5e came out they ran that for a while, and then went back to 3.5, lol. OTOH one of them also ran a pretty decent Dungeon World game for a while. There was another that didn't have a huge amount of RPG experience, but he was a sharp guy and picked things up really fast. I think in some ways he was wanting a kind of Neo Trad warlock experience, but he was pretty happy with our game, he played for a couple years. I'm not sure about the other 2, I didn't know them as well, but I expect they were pretty trad D&D players. Everyone got into it pretty well. I mean, we never really sat down and worked through the theory of what we were doing. The Wizard was played by my sister, I think she's mostly just into the fantasy aspects of play, doesn't make a wide range of characters, but has a lot of experience. [/QUOTE]
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