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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9081148" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 82: Sep/Oct 2000part 3/6Playing with Fire: Last adventure should have just about brought you to 2nd level, putting you at just the right level to do this one, which demonstrates how much faster advancement is supposed to work in this edition. This time, the PC’s don’t need to engage in tedious digging to get to the sealed away evil because they’ve just found the key in a previous adventure. One Legend Lore spell or a few hours hitting the books later and they’re off to fight evil fire cultists. Unfortunately fire doesn’t tend to do too well in enclosed spaces and the fire lord is already dead. He had a plan to bring himself back to life at a later date, but that’s been spoiled by the Azers and Grimlocks trapped in there with the cultists, who are not loyal and really just want to get out. If you play it right, you don’t have to fight them (but they’ll cause trouble back at the village if you do, which may have long term consequences) but you will have to fight the bound fire elemental & mephits which are summoned by any disturbances. If the PC’s are higher level coming into this, it’s easy enough to change things so the fire lord does get raised successfully and the PC’s can have a dramatic confrontation with him at the end instead of just looting his body. Slightly smaller, but also more interesting than the previous adventure, this does pretty well at making the dungeon feel like a living place where the creatures have sensible motivations. The two are also thematically similar enough that it would only take a little fudging to have one directly lead into the other, which makes putting them right next to each other a good choice by the editor. Well, it definitely makes it easy to get a campaign going that way.</blockquote>

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