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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 2089059" data-attributes="member: 94">In the "LXG vs. The Tomb of Horrors" my Rasputin-like menace was <a href="http://www.crystalinks.com/thule.html" target="_blank">Dietrich Eckart</a> (scroll down or search). He was a Thule Society member who initiated a young Adolf Hitler into mysticism. I set the adventure pre-WWI so that Hitler was alive, but not too old (this was important for the players to get that "A-ha!" moment when they realize what it is they're up against, that connection to events they know).Quatermain would be quite old in 1919, so I set the piece a few years before that. Eckart had already recovered the Spear of Longinus and was now at work uncovering the secrets of the Tomb of Horrors.So when the LXG came on the tomb (that great image of the hill with the skull face) it was all set up with tents like an archaeological dig scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, with Thule Society "thugs" (proto-Nazis... I hate those guys...) around and inside the tomb.For an added twist Eckart had also already recovered the Eye and Hand of Vecna, and having gouged out his eye and cut off his hand, and with the Spear of Destiny at his side-- he was a bad-ass sorcerer. At least, I thought so until Quatermain killed him with one critical hit from his elephant gun.The party all knew Eckart had the Spear, as they were a step behind him all the way. But when they met him and I described him as having a ripped out eye and severed/re-attached shriveled hand, there was a HUGE "A-ha!" moment as they made the Vecna connection. (Actually, it was more of an "Oh <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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" />!" moment, to be exact...)Wulf</blockquote>

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