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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8396394" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 34: Mar/Apr 1992part 5/5On Wings of Darkness: We finish up with what initially seems like a simple monster hunting mission, that turns out to be a lot more complicated. The PC's are hired by a Calimshan noble to protect her neighbour's sheep from mysterious nighttime predators, in an attempt to show up how incompetent his own guards are. This does not go as expected. Turns out the sheep ARE the mysterious monsters, being transformed by a wizard into ravening darkenbeasts. Then it turns out that the wizard is not the mastermind of the operation, but a slave of a crystal hypnosis ball owned by a rich merchant. But then it turns out the merchant is actually not that rich, but heavily leveraged with debt, and is planning to get out of it by killing his moneylender, and the person who hired you in the first place was merely incidental collateral damage in that plan. A convoluted scheme with a lot of moving parts, that could easily go wrong. This also applies to the writing of the adventure, which is a fairly linear one that makes a lot of assumptions about the PC's daily habits and transport capabilities, and falls apart if they sleep during the day & travel at night, can fly or teleport and travel between locations significantly faster than expected, etc. So this falls into the category of adventures that make interesting reading, and would be decent if they were a story, but just doesn't stand up against a complex party including things like psionic wild talents and races from the Complete Book of Humanoids, even if they're still of the right average levels. Not one I have any real inclination to actually run.A pretty interesting issue to read because it brought up a whole load of both real world and fantastical political issues, giving me more to think about than simple assessments of difficulty of challenge and strength of plot. If your campaign becomes more than going into holes in the ground and killing whatever's there, you will need to think about this stuff, so it's helpful to have lots of different perspectives on what your world could be, and how the PC's affect it as they grow more powerful. On we go again to see what perspectives next issue offers us.</blockquote>

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