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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mjsoctober" data-source="post: 7503897" data-attributes="member: 93583">I had it as a scale model inside and out, with the various levels being removable to see inside. I mainly did this because I had decided to hide a clue inside the model for the PCs to find. I also had a replica of the crystal heart represented by a small red crystal suspended from a thin chain. I allowed the PCs to make a map based on their examination of the model, but told them the more detailed they made the map, the longer it would take, and the more likely the other denizens of the temple would find them.FWIW the reason I did this is that it didn't make sense to me (as written) why the model was in the temple, and why it was called "the architect's room". Why would the architect of Castle Ravenloft be living in the evil temple?!?! Castle Ravenloft was built before Strahd pursued his pact with the dark powers.I decided to make Khazan (of Khazan's tower) and the "architect" the same person. Then I decided to make Khazan the person who went to the temple in search of becoming a lich. He succeeded and became the lich Exethanter. I decided that when he was alive, and designing the castle, Khazan modified the teleportation room to allow him to escape through the brazier to his 'home". Strahd did not know about the addition. The PCs discovered some of Khazan's notes in the tower, including a journal entry saying that he was taking his research, and the model, to the Amber Temple. Thus the PCs had a reason to go to the temple and seek out the model, as a potential means to escape Barovia.</blockquote>

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