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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6464629" data-attributes="member: 29398">In its defense, Slave Pits (and in fact the whole A-series) was initially written as a tournament module, the conceits of which are somewhat different from non-tournament play.  Tournament modules by their very nature have to be a bit lead-'em-by-the-nose into a preprogrammed series of encounters so they can be fairly scored, some (or in some cases many) of which will be combat.B-10 Night's Dark Terror - a module with which I freely admit to having all sorts of other beefs - is in all fairness an exploration module overall.  Yes the exploration is probably going to lead you into various little combats, but the overarching themes are exploration of a fairly large chunk of land and what lives there, and investigation of what the merry hell is going on and then what is behind it all; and in the final segment you're best off trying to play the factions against each other as you'll be - or certainly should be - slaughtered if you just try to kill everything that moves.  [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] can tell you more, he loves this adventure! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lan-"bree-yark!"-efan</blockquote>