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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 3274168" data-attributes="member: 27051">Interesting - a couple of the novel characters do appear here and there, but there isn't any real element of helping them do stuff (if anything, it's the opposite).&nbsp; Still, I guess that different DMs might have approached it differently.&nbsp; By the adventure as written, though, these NPCs are bystanders to the PCs and their actions - pretty much the reverse of the standard &quot;DMPC&quot; schtick.Don't remember this.&nbsp; You might well be right, though.&nbsp; I didn't set my version in the Realms, so any references to Elmonster will have been excised from the adventure and my memory with equal disdain <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />...I had always suspected that the adventure could run as a lame railroad tour of the Realms (like the PC game upon which it based) - that's how it read to me when I bought it.&nbsp; I suppose I just got lucky when running it that this wasn't a problem...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark Hope, post: 3274168, member: 27051"] Interesting - a couple of the novel characters do appear here and there, but there isn't any real element of helping them do stuff (if anything, it's the opposite). Still, I guess that different DMs might have approached it differently. By the adventure as written, though, these NPCs are bystanders to the PCs and their actions - pretty much the reverse of the standard "DMPC" schtick. Don't remember this. You might well be right, though. I didn't set my version in the Realms, so any references to Elmonster will have been excised from the adventure and my memory with equal disdain :D... I had always suspected that the adventure could run as a lame railroad tour of the Realms (like the PC game upon which it based) - that's how it read to me when I bought it. I suppose I just got lucky when running it that this wasn't a problem... [/QUOTE]

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