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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 2513751" data-attributes="member: 5143">This sounds a lot like the Mark of Heroes Special Event at Gencon.  It is an RPGA event.  So each person who plays needs an RPGA number and a character, although they were giving out premade to the new people for 1 dollar (25 cents per sheet for photocopying).Now, RPGA events are already notoriously linear and have a low amount of role playing.  I still think they are fun, however, they are just limited to their format (4 hour long blocks with a hard time limit and have to be generic enough that any group of players can finish them).  However, the Gencon Special events tend to be dungeon crawls with very little time to finish them.  They try to cram about 5-8 encounters in a 4 hour block, which requires that everyone pay full attention to the game and not get side tracked by role playing that won't help the adventure that much.  If this is the mod, I believe it is, then really all you needed to know is "the daughter is likely in this building, go get her."  Then you get there and you just kill all the monsters in all the rooms to find her.  After a couple of times running the mod, most DMs get impatient with questions THEY know are not important to the adventure because they've been yelled at a couple of times over the con for not moving fast enough and not getting to the end of the adventure.The special is a bad idea for a beginner, the real reason to play them is that they give more XP and gold to your character than normal Mark of Heroes (the Living Ebberon Campaign) adventures.  Plus, they sometimes give good benefits for future adventures.That all being said, it sounds like you still got a bad DM for this adventure, as there was more room for role playing than that in the mod.  Still, they are required to run the mod as written.  If they aren't given a description of the person, they don't have one to give you.</blockquote>

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