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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 5001045" data-attributes="member: 5122">Death in Freeport was the second adventure I ran in the 3E era.  (First was Atlas' excellent Maiden Voyage.)My beef with Freeport is that it's too whimsical and good-natured for the image GR tried to project for it.  There are puns, silly NPCs (not crazy NPCs, actually silly NPCs), and too many Good-aligned people running the show.(To use an analogy, I wanted Mos Eisley of Star Wars, and what GR ultimately ended up providing was Mos Eisley of Phantom Menace.  Not difficult to change, but disappointing that I had to.)However, I'm not sure when, exactly, all that stuff started taking over.  You may be fine through the Trilogy (or you may simply not mind the zaniness the way I did), or it may start in the second or third adventure.  I honestly can't remember.In any event, if you want a city that feels dangerous and amoral, rather than a little cartoonish, start laying the groundwork for it now.  It sounds like you are already doing that, to some extent, by emphasizing the physical grime of the city.</blockquote>