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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Destil" data-source="post: 850271" data-attributes="member: 1980">Exposition for "Shadows of Justice"Yeah. Titles have always been a big weakness of mine. I Didn't like it much either, but I was in a real hurry to get this all down (my notes were what I would have had before running it as an adventure in my game: a basic idea in my head and a list of proper nouns. Even the adventuring party was a creation I hadn't really given any forethough to. And I had around 4 hours to write it before class).The judge / paladin connection jumped right out at me. The manacles were originally slated for possible PC wear after a trial of some sort, but this was easier. If anything I think perhaps having S.L. subdue the party and letting them try and escape may have worked better, but runs the risk of dues ex machiena. And generaly I was aiming more for playability of the adventure above anything else (just my game design instincts, I hope).The bodies were just the first thing that came to mind while thinking about some logic holes (why S.L. dosn't just kill Lethyeas right off).Yeah. I knew this one was a real weakness. In my own defense from a mechanachal standpoint I think the owlbear combat would keep the flow of the combat aspects of the adventure very well. But from a story standpoint I was just glad I didn't have to figure out where joyous laughter would fit in. Oh, well... my first idea was to call the adventueing group the "Mighty Owlbears" or something similar. At least they would have been consistantly called it, unlike poor Rist / Rast.The shadow crocs were the axis around which the rest of the advenure was spun in my mind. Then you have the dimatericaly opposed paladin judge with his mandicales and animate dead, and with the shadow plane linking alternate primes the idea of the "evil twin" tie in was too tempting to avoid, though I wondered if the crocs themselves were a little forced (any shadow creature of similar CR could have worked equally well). We'll just assume S.L. shaved off the gotee before steping through the planar gate.<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" />Looking forward to the next round!</blockquote>

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