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I think you needs bits of both railroading and freedom for the PC's. If they are free all the time, they might end up doing nothing...as long as they always feel that their destiny is in their own hands they'll like whatever you throw at them. If my players want to run from "group X" that wants...

I've got no problem with them swaggering really, the issue for me when I think of the narrative of the campaign is that these characters need to be tested by fire as it were, if they are really going to take on the Twisted Rune, which is no small task. I think Ravenloft is a great setting, and...

I'm going to run Ravenloft a bit more subtly than a Tim Burton movie. The campaign so far has the PC's involved with the Twisted Rune (a coven of Liches based in Calimshan) so I don't think the setting of Ravenloft is actually that far out of their element as far as horror is concerned, its been...

My opinion is that if the game becomes too easy, my players will get bored with it. My intention isn't to kill off the whole party of even kill any of them in particular. I just want to challenge them, batter them, make them work hard to survive. They need to feel pressured. If I just wanted...

My players have handled everything I've thrown at them so far pretty handily. Despite my efforts they have only really had one close encounter with death in the form of a bugbear ambush. Now their walking the streets of Calimport with some swagger feeling unstoppable and I think its high time...

Save the PCs? Yes and No. If it is possible that the foes in question might actually be interested in taking prisoners, then yeah, I might...I think that can put a twist on the narrative and it allows the campaign to continue and it puts me on my toes to be inventive and adapt to this new...

Thanks for the ideas everyone, I think I've got a good handle on what I need to do now, I'll post the results when I get everything hammered out.

I DM a Forgotten Realms campaign taking place in the desert Empire of Calimshan, and my players are being hounded by a cabal of liches and their network of spies and agents(the Twisted Rune). They just found a map after killing a priest of Orcus (demon prince of the undead) to the Tomb of a...