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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arwink" data-source="post: 1152908" data-attributes="member: 2292">Unfortunately, I get to claim no credit for the hook.  It'sfrom an old dungeon adventure (in this case: King Oleg's Dilemma by Lee Shepherd, first published as a 2e Dungeon module and later republished in the Dungeons of Despair collection).  The weird part was that two of the players (Geoffrey and Capellan) had read the module, Geoffrey's player quite recently, and we all kind of thought through the events and realised it didn't make much difference <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=":)" />Essentially, A Heroes Tale and the Dungeons of Despair modules are both sets of 2e adventures that I've always wanted to run, but rarely got the chance to under the old system.  The one upside of the trip to Borr was that it gave me the excuse to slot Oleg's Dilemma, easily one of my favorite adventures I never got to play, in on short notice.  I'd already stolen the name of the northern continent from the adventure, so it kind of made sense.  Later I worked out that I'd planted the seeds to run Olegs at least seven times in various campaigns over the years, and this is the first time anyone's taken the bait that would lead to me running it.For that, I almost forgave them from going north.  Almost <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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