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Message: <blockquote data-quote="incognito" data-source="post: 536377" data-attributes="member: 7008">expositionOf the six, that stupid ingredient simulacrum was the hardest for me to deal with.Although it's rich in flavor, it just never semed to want to fit into my scenario.  I bandied about the idea or having the Naga create a simulacrum of himself, instead of the "angels," but he is supposed to be a secret player (he does not want his "true" identity revealed."  I also toyed with the idea of having the Naga replace critical players in the dwarf and/or Orc storngholds with Simulacrums, but that's too eeevil, unless I went with a spinoff. The Naga is, very obviously, CharlieWhy are the bandit's women? I was suprised that seasong came at me so hard on this one, ss there are three good reasons:1) As I stated directly, most parties will look for male, rather than female suspects.  I believe this is a layer worth uncovering.  Remember, the girls often disguise themselves as men.2) In order to better incorporate the ingredient women's clothing (which I though was an ingenious, non-deadly trap. It was in part lifter from a (contact) story hour, in fact.3) In order to keep up metaphor for "Charlie's Angels" or course!The scroll, the scroll, the scroll.  Ok, I admit, I could've been more specific with the miracle.  But I couldn't think of a great one, and I was betting a DM who incorporated this adventure into his campaign could.  With respect to it being a macguffin: objects like this one are usually perfect candidtates, so I was happily trite in this regard.  I though the three spinoff options vindicated the early ambigiuity, but unfortunately, it may not...Which brings me to my BIG, GLARING, ERROR: seasong, oh seasong, how did I forget that plot hook?  It was tickling in the back of my throat all night long - yet when I began typing, it elluded me, like the name of an 80's song you hear 1/2 of on the radio.  I am shamed, I should've taken the time to nail that down.  Which is yet another reason to edit, not write (heh!) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  A final note on Synopsis: I use it to set tone, and that's about it.  I find no where else can you telll another DM directly what a scenario is all about, how you intended things to play out, and what the expectation is from Characters, than in the synopsis.  Should I have been more specific about the adventure details, probably - but the background with me is so rich, well, I though that would cover it enough. so, that's my two cents...Seasongs critique zeroes in on a few things with alarming sharpness, as per his usual.But wait! Seasong-san, (wink) where is your Iron DM submisison with these ingredients?  <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" /></blockquote>

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