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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rothe" data-source="post: 3341020" data-attributes="member: 39813">It's not too  long as a introductory set piece, a good thing to read while the players get their dice and character sheets in order.  Once the adventure starts flowing it's way too long.Assumptions about time of day are a good point, but If you assumed daytime that's probably the time all characters would approach a place of great evil. <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=":)" />Well, putting together long passages like that off the top of your head or otherwise is very hard to do, unless you are a gifted story teller.I like box text if it is well done, i.e., a different box for coming through different doors etc.  Up top things you might notice as you approach, a note to the DM if monsters present.  It should be right up front.  Levels of detail in the text, quick look detail, extended look detail.I tend to write my own and as the player's ave a standard operating procedure, I can make some assumptions about what they see.On the Gygax intro here is how I would have presented it... [/qb]  Here is where I would have stopped  Ending on vileness and horror.The illusionary images and sounds I would play out.  I've done this before and the players can get really freaked out (things in front, things behind, we walked inot a trap!)before they realize it is an illusion.  The players actualy feeling the discomfort is far better than saying your eyes play tricks but of course there is nothing there.[/qb]You really didn't read this did you?  I mean isn't that assumed for any module, high adventure, treasure; and if you didn't have your weapon out already when you first saw things out of the corner of your eye, your doomed. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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