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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doctor Futurity" data-source="post: 9761053" data-attributes="member: 10738">To wit: when I ran this module as a kid (it was the first D&D module I ever ran) the first group of PCs all died under the presumption that invading the caves and killing the monsters was the goal (and none of us saw any reason to assume otherwise from what we read in the book). The second group (new PCs, same players) was more circumspect and engaged in a bit more sneaking and negotiation (and fleeing) to get out of trouble. They had a couple survivors, who also recruited a jovial orc that wasn't typically evil, and then dragged him around as a torchbearer for the next seven years of gaming. That poor orc didn't escape being a henchman till we all went to college! That orc is most definitely something I injected, as a way of saying, "hey, you don't have to just fight everything" to my group in good old 1981, who were so new to gaming that the concept of a reaction table was nonexistent to them, so they didn't realize I was using the tools at hand to adjudicate encounters.</blockquote>