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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 8831048" data-attributes="member: 54629">A big change that I made when I ran the adventure was to make it so the PCs only needed to visit the Eye once. The PCs were all agents of the Lords' Alliance. When I felt they were ready to go to the Eye, I had their Alliance handler contact them and tell them to meet Harshnag near Longsaddle.I then had Harshnag tell them to visit the various Uthgardt sites and recover some giant relics to deliver to the oracle as gifts - one for each PC. Harshnag gave them his map and said he would meet them at the Eye. I then had the dragon cultists meet them with their airship at the first Uthgardt site they visited instead of outside the Eye.Thus Harshnag was with the PCs when they explored the temple. Through trial and error, they figured out how the portal worked. After recovering the missing axe, they got Harshnag to open the portal for them.Here's a recounting of my group's playthrough of this part of the adventure: <a href="https://swordcoastblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/18/trials-of-the-all-father/" target="_blank">Trials of the All-Father</a>So one solution is to make sure Harshnag is with the group when it comes time to open the portal. Another option would be to make sure the PCs find at least one scroll of polymorph before they reach the Eye.If you want to allow them to deceive the portal's magic into letting them open it without being a giant, I would say go for it, but maybe make it a bit of a skill challenge - don't just make it a group Deception check or anything. Make it so each PC has to contribute to the overall deception in some meaningful way.</blockquote>

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