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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6924390" data-attributes="member: 22424">You're welcome. It was a very good post.What you did was to make explicit what was (possibly) implicit. (Though it's also worth noting that it is also only your interpretation of that symbolism - it's not necessarily the only one, nor indeed can we be certain that it was what Chris Perkins intended.)The thing is, the WotC designers (and their counterparts in other companies) should be well aware of the endless DM advice around puzzles/riddles/mysteries in the game - that clues need to be spelled out very clearly, because what's obvious to the DM probably isn't obvious to the player.The exact same lesson applies here: what's (potentially) obvious to the designer isn't necessarily obvious to the DM reading the book. So, again, it should be spelled out very clearly.And it's also worth noting that not every DM is going to be familiar with the symbolism, and not every DM is going to draw those connections. Indeed, the DM can't be assumed to be familiar with "King Lear", or indeed with any Shakespeare... nor even that English is their first language.(And, for that matter, it's worth noting that while WotC has referred to "Shakespearean giants" at various points, I don't think the book actually says that - if you didn't happen to know that from Perkins' twitterings you might well miss it entirely.)</blockquote>