Hell's Heart is up at Dungeon

[WayneLigon]

Hell's Heart, the third in the Viktor Saint-Demain trilogy of Eberron adventures, is up on the Dungeon site. The interior art for the adventure takes another significant up-tick for this second online adventure; more of it, and all of it new. I can't wait to run this, which will require a bit of finagling on my part since in my game, Viktor was cured of his insanity and now tends bees in a quiet Cliffside retreat and solves mysteries around his dinner table.

 

[Deekin]

This is a nice adventure.

 

[blargney the second]

Viktor was cured of his insanity and now tends bees in a quiet Cliffside retreat and solves mysteries around his dinner table.

Sounds like a simulacrum to me.

 

[shilsen]

Sounds like a simulacrum to me.

Or a changeling.

 

[Asmor]

Sounds like a simulacrum to me.

Or a changeling.

Or a simulacrum of a changeling.

 

[Bagpuss]

Or a polymorphed, simulacrum of doppleganger impersonating a changeling impersonating Viktor.

 

[Gothic_Demon]

Or he's faking it.

 

[WhatGravitas]

Good things:
- The adventure itself. Nicholas Logue writes awesome stuff... and I need more adventures like this. And more Eberron adventures.
- The illustrations. I liked them, nice to see the non-Paizo iconics again, though they looked a bit displaced in Eberron.

Bad things:
- The layout still makes no sense. The ornamental frame is on the same side, every time. This makes no sense, if you print it double-sided. And the illustrations look a bit "floating" in white space.

To sum up: They have to work out some kinks in the presentation - but the adventure doesn't fail to deliver!

Cheers, LT.

 

[GQuail]

my game, Viktor was cured of his insanity and now tends bees in a quiet Cliffside retreat and solves mysteries around his dinner table.

I would go with the Batman school of thought for working this out: how often has Two-Face been "cured"? And yet, curiously, Harvey Dent's brain always ends up re-addling him and he voluntarilly scars himself so he can become Two-Face once again.

This isn't quite as easy if someone was magically cured of insanity, but the principle remains the same: you just need to add in a trigger to put him bacl. And you can always go the angle of having someone actively return him to crazyness for whatever reason: in my own campaign, a psionic murderer (one of few of his kind) has just been cracked out by another party because they want to use his rare talents as part of their own goals.

 

[mhensley]

They need to put the level range of the adventure in its description.