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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dd.stevenson" data-source="post: 6130052" data-attributes="member: 6683099">Well, the interior of the tower should be grungy and dilapidated, for one thing. To go for the smurfs feel, I would use every opportunity to confirm the wizard as a power out of their league. Maybe show them the details of the deal between Khenemet and a demon, and let the PCs know for a fact that his powers of transmutation are beyond what they can muster themselves. Let the pcs experience the horror of learning the fate of Khenemet's other victims and yet being unable to rescue them. Get creative here; what they discover should be unpleasant enough that they sort of want to get out of the tower, despite the potentially great wealth. Things like a wire drawing die that turns princesses into silver wire. Or a magical contract between Khenemet and a friend of the PCs that stipulates if the friend breaks the terms of the contract he or she will be turned into butter. Or a too-large-to-move model of the local friendly castle, that allows the holder to zap a single person standing on the battlements with lightning.Despite the wizard having fled, nothing they discover in the tower should ease their mind or leave them feeling better off than before.Personally I wouldn't go with the shrink trap--seems a little on the nose and comical for my tastes. However, something like the wizard's maze in dying earth with lots of little bones of shrink victims that were hunted down by the cat would be in order, I think.Also, it kind of goes beyond the scope of your question, but if this is an interlude between campaigns, this is the time when you really want to raise the stakes. Maybe they find a list of beings Khenemet has grudges against, with the names crossed off to indicate that he's gotten his revenge. (And what if the PC's names are crossed off too? What revenge has Khenemet enacted that they aren't yet aware of?)</blockquote>

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