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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8243361" data-attributes="member: 22779">But, the Horn is not hidden at all.  It's pretty much the first tower anyone sees when entering the Keep.  Why did everyone not bother going in there?  I'll admit, I've never played this module.  Fair enough.  But, it's not hidden at all.  Did you player routinely leave areas that were very easy to get to unexplored?  Because that's a very different kind of player than I've ever had.Here's a link to the map.  The horn is in E.  Am I missing something?[URL unfurl="true"]https://neogrognard.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/secret-of-bone-hill-map.jpg[/URL]----Sorry, but a thought occurred later on that I thought I'd add.  I think this bit right here, with Lanefan and myself, illustrates some of the real difficulties in discussing earlier editions in anything but very broad terms.  To me, the notion that you'd leave an unexplored area, right near the beginning of the adventure, just wouldn't happen.  We were Greyhawking ie. strip mining modules LONG before that term became popular in Living Greyhawk.  How could you avoid encounters?  You never knew where the really good treasure was, but, dollars to donuts, the presence of some tentacled beasty was a pretty good indicator.  <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" />But, in all fairness, I don realize that there are others that didn't play this way.  I guess the point I've been trying to make through this though, is that WE DID.  Not because we were munchkins or Monty Haul or anything like that, but, because, it made the most sense to us to do so.</blockquote>

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