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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8152425" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 41: May 1988part 4/5Wedding Party: The adventure this issue is an OA one, yet another tournament one given wider release after being used in Gen Con. The PC's are recruited by the emperor himself to protect one of his daughters on the way to her wedding. There are many people who would rather not see that happen, both in and outside the empire. The PC's have to balance protecting her while remaining within the bounds of propriety in the company of powerful&nbsp; people and creatures that haven't done anything obviously treacherous …… yet. This results in a set of scenes which while not quite as railroady as some adventures in here, are still pretty linear. Unless the PC's are cunning enough to short-circuit things, it culminates in the princess being kidnapped by Yuan-ti to be sacrificed to their god, and the PC's having to sneak into their city to rescue her. So it's better than many of their adventures, because it successfully combines it's roleplaying and combat elements, and gives the PC's proper room to succeed and fail. It still has horrible cringe-inducing pregens though, with grossly inflated stats and vaguely asian sounding pun names rather than anything remotely culturally accurate. I suppose the western ones we've seen recently are just as bad, but obviously it feels worse when there's the race factor added in. You'll definitely want to cut them out and use your own PC's if you use this one these days.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 8152425, member: 27780"] [b][u]Polyhedron Issue 41: May 1988[/u][/b] part 4/5 Wedding Party: The adventure this issue is an OA one, yet another tournament one given wider release after being used in Gen Con. The PC's are recruited by the emperor himself to protect one of his daughters on the way to her wedding. There are many people who would rather not see that happen, both in and outside the empire. The PC's have to balance protecting her while remaining within the bounds of propriety in the company of powerful people and creatures that haven't done anything obviously treacherous …… yet. This results in a set of scenes which while not quite as railroady as some adventures in here, are still pretty linear. Unless the PC's are cunning enough to short-circuit things, it culminates in the princess being kidnapped by Yuan-ti to be sacrificed to their god, and the PC's having to sneak into their city to rescue her. So it's better than many of their adventures, because it successfully combines it's roleplaying and combat elements, and gives the PC's proper room to succeed and fail. It still has horrible cringe-inducing pregens though, with grossly inflated stats and vaguely asian sounding pun names rather than anything remotely culturally accurate. I suppose the western ones we've seen recently are just as bad, but obviously it feels worse when there's the race factor added in. You'll definitely want to cut them out and use your own PC's if you use this one these days. [/QUOTE]

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