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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TBoarder" data-source="post: 71552" data-attributes="member: 272">Spoilers for The Seige*******************I've just finished reading the Seige this afternoon and have been following the plots of the Shades throughout the Forgotten Realms game books in which they're mentioned (All 2 of 'em <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=":)" />).  A couple of things struck me...First of all, the FR books don't seem to be going exactly by the novels.  In the game books, the Shades are mysterious and nobody knows exactly what they're up to.  Nobody (or not many people) know that they were responsible for the destruction/disappearence of Tilverton.In The Seige, what happened to Tilverton was actually somewhat expected.  I feel weird saying this in light of real life events of the past year, but I feel as though much of the menace and effect of what the Shades did was severely lessened by the fact that Tilverton was pretty much completely evacuated when it happened.  I didn't feel like the crap was hitting the fan at the end of the book, despite the fact that Laeral lost an arm (Which we all know will get regrown), despite the fact that Vangey got his butt kicked, and despite the fact that Tilverton was destroyed (No question, it was destroyed in the novel, not moved to the shadow plane as some people have theorized).  Troy Denning is usually MUCH better at conveying a feeling of dread (see  Pages of Pain), but it just didn't come through here I think.  The main thing I'm really hoping for at the end of this series though is for the Shades to still be around and to still be a HUGE threat.  I'm worried that the heroes of these books will end up defeating all of the Princes of Shade as well as drive the Phaerrim away.  I like what's been happening in the novels and would love to include it in my campaign, with as few changes as possible.  Already, I may be keepiing the Shade Prince who dies alive and doing away with the evacuation of Tilverton.  I don't want to alter things too dramatically so my PCs will still be able to have an effect on the outcome of the upcoming war.Finally... up until today, whenever I've read anything about the shadows in the ruins of Tilverton, I've thought it would be a great opportunity to adapt the 2E Ravenloft adventure, The Shadow Rift, to the Forgotten Realms.  It actually seemed like a great fit and wouldn't need much tinkering at all.  Oh well, nothing says I still can't do it, huh? <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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