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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bryan898" data-source="post: 2068961" data-attributes="member: 9085">The adventure that went along with the CotSQ is the "Spiral of Manzessine" by David Noonan in Dungeon Issue #94 (which btw has Awesome cover art, best illithid picture IMO).  It's quite a good adventure and does a great job of making the trip to the drow city more interesting.   If you were to run it, I would take note that it is 3.0, and some things become more powerful in the change to 3.5 (minor spoiler) For example:  Room 6 has an eleven headed cyrohydra, with them now having high fast healing and requiring sunder's to take off the head it may prove a much harder challenge.  Also, in room 15, there is a Summon Monster IX spell that summons a Gelugon, which IMO are much more powerful in 3.5 and could prove devastating to the party since there is little time to rest and heal in this adventure. (/end spoiler).  As for the CotSQ, I think it plays rather well, though there is quite a bit of hack and slash.  If the adventures are looking for roleplaying opportunities they leave plenty of room for you to insert them into encounters.  Quite a few encounters in the module can be avoided through role-playing, and note how to in their descriptions.  Many more require roll-playing  <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=":)" /> .  The interesting environments and locals help keep the encounters semi-original.  I had quite a few cinematic/ heroic moments in the adventure.  For prep, I wrote up the basic stats of a lot of the creatures on notecards, arranged em into a few piles for quite access.  I also cut out my stat block section and stapled it together <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" />.  I'm sure that photocopying it would work just as well <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.</blockquote>

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