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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cor Azer" data-source="post: 4421042" data-attributes="member: 870">Hmm... I was planning on having a small Shinto-like shrine near the bridge, and already had some strangeness about it. The troll ripped out every torii by the bridge, except the particular one leading to this shrine; having a blind priest there can add more tales of the troll.Good ideas, but I don't want to heap that moral dilemma on my players - in the past they haven't enjoyed them. Still, I might make the troll and blind priest an "odd couple" of friends; well, less friends as much as such long fixtures in each other's lives that the priest is worried about what life will bring afterwards.I had thought of that idea, but I don't really want to delay their playing of the characters that much. However... if I combine it with the above priest idea... maybe he witnesses (as much as a blind person can witness) that battle. Some of his details will be off, but instead of him just telling the tale to the PCs, I'll get the players to play out the fight with said pre-made temp PCs. The details between the drunken crippled veteran and the blind priest will be due to personal biases and selective memory - giving the players a valid reason to mistrust some of the details (ie, urging against too much metagaming against the troll), but still giving them a lot of insight.Ooo... I'm liking this train of thought. I can do it for both the drunk and the priest. Each time the players talk to one or the other, I can play a couple rounds of combat - using slightly different versions of the temp PCs each time (again due to fuzzy memories). Maybe not every time - but only when the PCs bring evidence to one or the other that rekindles a memory ("Didn't Eravin wield a halberd?" "What? Oh yes... then... then maybe it was Durn with the axe, and the fight happening like...")</blockquote>

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