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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8126339" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 7: Sep/Oct 1987part 5/5The Jingling Mordo Circus: Yup, it's evil circus time. Far scarier than even energy draining undead due to it's capacity to make the PC's look ridiculous, while quite possibly also killing them as well. And in this respect, the adventure really does not mess around, as it's run by an exceedingly powerful wizard who will use scry/time stop/teleport combos to naughty word with the PC's without them having a chance to see who's responsible or strike back. The rest of the troupe are no slouches either, with an interesting mix of classes, races, and weird creatures, which are quite capable of using their powers intelligently and co-operatively. This is an adventure that will remain challenging no matter how much raw power the PC's have, unless they also have dirty tricks to anticipate and short-circuit encounters, and even then that'll just make this a level playing field. Don't use it unless you're prepared to play the characters as smartly as they're written, and if you do, it might be a good idea to plan ahead and have your PC's pass through the circus a few times at lower levels before triggering the main plot, so they get to know the flavourful NPC's and aren't immediately on edge and bringing their armour and weapons everywhere as soon as you mention the very concept of going. It'll all take a lot more work than just killing them in the Tomb of Horrors. Issues 3&4 are already out of print on the back-orders list. That bodes well as an indicator of how quickly they're ramping up operations.A pretty strong selection of adventures overall, spanning a wide range of levels and sizes, but all give you a fair degree of freedom in how you solve the problems in them, have room for roleplaying and long term consequences depending on how you complete them, and don't force you into a string of meaningless combat encounters. For all that they say they don't want evil PC's, they're giving you plenty of chances to play more morally ambiguous characters here. Let's hope they'll keep that spirit and sneakiness in the face of the moral majority for many issues to come.</blockquote>

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