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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9138050" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 86: May/Jun 2001part 4/6Stormdancers: Last time we had to deal with an eternal storm, it was a shakespearean epic of an adventure that put you through a whole string of challenges before you could resolve the main one. This is a much smaller and lower level affair that looks like it could probably be done in a single session. A pseudodragon was exploring a dead wizard’s lair and came across a magical horn. Like any curious creature it did the obvious thing and blew it. This summoned an air elemental, which became uncontrolled when the pseudodragon flew away and is now distinctly displeased about being trapped on the prime material plane. It’s own attempts at blowing the horn merely summoned more air elementals and now they’re making an almighty mess of the surrounding forest. You’ll be asked for help by a Treant just before you reach the worst of it. (and even if you say no, you’ll have to trek through the storm anyway or take another route if you have a specific destination. ) Climb the mountain, realise there’s too many air elementals of various sizes to kill them all, explore the wizard’s tower, blow the horn and hold the portal open long enough for all the elementals to go home, then find out it’s magically bound to the place and you don’t get to keep it to use in future adventures. All very 2eish, emphasising puzzle solving and talking to things over combat. Not terrible, but rather underwhelming since we got the long, high level melodramatic version of the same basic concept first not that long ago. There is such a thing as pacing and diminishing returns and this falls foul of that. If only you’d put them the other way around.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 9138050, member: 27780"] [b][u]Dungeon Issue 86: May/Jun 2001[/u][/b] part 4/6 Stormdancers: Last time we had to deal with an eternal storm, it was a shakespearean epic of an adventure that put you through a whole string of challenges before you could resolve the main one. This is a much smaller and lower level affair that looks like it could probably be done in a single session. A pseudodragon was exploring a dead wizard’s lair and came across a magical horn. Like any curious creature it did the obvious thing and blew it. This summoned an air elemental, which became uncontrolled when the pseudodragon flew away and is now distinctly displeased about being trapped on the prime material plane. It’s own attempts at blowing the horn merely summoned more air elementals and now they’re making an almighty mess of the surrounding forest. You’ll be asked for help by a Treant just before you reach the worst of it. (and even if you say no, you’ll have to trek through the storm anyway or take another route if you have a specific destination. ) Climb the mountain, realise there’s too many air elementals of various sizes to kill them all, explore the wizard’s tower, blow the horn and hold the portal open long enough for all the elementals to go home, then find out it’s magically bound to the place and you don’t get to keep it to use in future adventures. All very 2eish, emphasising puzzle solving and talking to things over combat. Not terrible, but rather underwhelming since we got the long, high level melodramatic version of the same basic concept first not that long ago. There is such a thing as pacing and diminishing returns and this falls foul of that. If only you’d put them the other way around. [/QUOTE]

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