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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 1962415" data-attributes="member: 27051">Great adventure - run it more times than anything else (except maybe Desert of Desolation).  Always the perfect excuse to lay on the Monty Python French accents.  Most groups seem to wander into the feast very early on, which produces massive amounts of overindulgence and rampant paranoia in equal amounts.  The last time we played it through, the party thief ended up becoming a ghost, which the paladin found extremely enjoyable as he decided that he would now be able to turn him whenever he stepped out of line.  Usually we end up with at least one dead character after mealtime.Richard Amber the Lionhearted wound up being dubbed Richard Amber the Lionheaded by one early group, much to his annoyance.  The ogre in the next bedchamber has, to this day, never managed to utter so much as a word.  Every group I ever ran through the place has attacked her en masse, resulting in a very messy end for the poor old dear.In the garden, one group decided that they were going to have their wicked ways with the "helpless young maid and her unicorn".  A few rounds of lewd behaviour were brough to a sudden end when she tranformed herself into her true gold dragon shape.  "I am bowing!  F***ing chronically!" was one player's considered comment.  In a later version of the adventure I made all of the Ambers into an incestuous family of vampiric fiends.  The gold dragon was replaced by a particularly nasty vampire-babe who drained a good few levels before she met her pointy end.The vampire roses / grab grass combo once almost wiped out the entire party after a series of spectacularly failed saving throws, but subsequent groups started lobbing around fireballs as soon as they spotted that anything was amiss.  Usually, at some point after this, the group would start to fall prey to internal bickering and even full-blown infighting.  One party in particular was extremely bad and a three-way feud developed, which ended up with one character being beheaded and another (the party ranger) having his leg amputated while comatose from black lotus blossom.  And it only went downhill from there.The one-legged ranger ended up becoming a werewolf and losing his ranger status and the beheader/amputator became a lord of Glantri (he later went to similarly behead two or three other PCs in his career at various times when under the effect of charm spells).  One hapless character became trapped in amber as a fly right at the very end.  When Stephen Amber was doling out wishes to have lost PCs restored, the trapped fly's player was virtually jumping up and down, begging to have his character restored.  No such luck.  Mr. Beheader used the last wish to get himself a winged warhorse as a steed, crushed the amber, squashed the fly and gave it to the party wizard, who used it as a spell component.  Tough nuts, as they say.</blockquote>

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