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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Salamandyr" data-source="post: 6172357" data-attributes="member: 40233">Thank you for updating your post with the 3 hooks.  Hook 3 is...pretty much exactly what I said.  The goblins are really not bad guys here.  The module tries to make them seem creepy.  They're "ransoming" the magic fruit.  No they're not.  They're selling it.And the villagers suspect that the goblins are trying to "protect their monopoly", as if this is some kind of justification for sending burglars into the goblins home and murdering them.  No; the villagers are showing the same moral clarity of bandits who rob you of your pocket change, and then burglarize your home because you weren't carrying enough in your wallet.Hook 2 is just a set up that works around hook 3 (all hooks happen whether they're used to hook the players or not).  And hook 3 is general "You're amoral murder hoboes!  Go!"Would it have killed WOTC to have had the monsters doing something you know, monstrous?  Being cut throat business men just doesn't cut it in my book.I'm aware that the fruit was malignant.  Talking about the module is making some of it come back.  But the goblins weren't trying to trick the village.  They were honest brokers.  It was the village that wanted more out of the deal, and was willing to send "adventurers" to get it.</blockquote>