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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9176069" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 89: Nov/Dec 2001part 5/6Rage: After a long brutal adventure where you’re in distinct danger of coming out with fewer levels than you went in, its a relief to see them do a short, lighthearted one as contrast afterwards. A barbarian annoyed a troll witch by killing her son, so she decided he deserved a fate worse than death and stole his rage as a revenge. He’s still no slouch in a fight, but being polite and well-spoken all the time is just so not him and he’d be rather pleased if some fine chaps like the PC’s would assist him in returning to his usual temperament. So you’ll have to go to her lair and either fight her and her two surviving sons, engage in some kind of negotiation to get her to lift the curse, probably requiring a whole other quest for suitable compensation, or sneak inside and break the mirror that his rage is trapped in. A short, very fairytale styled adventure that works best if you really ham up the roleplaying of the barbarian both before and after he gets his rage back, this manages to have plenty of comedic potential while still being a serious challenge that you could solve in multiple ways and doesn’t try to railroad you into any of them. Quite a satisfying read in a retro kinda way, this is one I’d have no problems using in any edition, unlike the previous one, which would function very differently if converted to anything other than 3e.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 9176069, member: 27780"] [b][u]Dungeon Issue 89: Nov/Dec 2001[/u][/b] part 5/6 Rage: After a long brutal adventure where you’re in distinct danger of coming out with fewer levels than you went in, its a relief to see them do a short, lighthearted one as contrast afterwards. A barbarian annoyed a troll witch by killing her son, so she decided he deserved a fate worse than death and stole his rage as a revenge. He’s still no slouch in a fight, but being polite and well-spoken all the time is just so not him and he’d be rather pleased if some fine chaps like the PC’s would assist him in returning to his usual temperament. So you’ll have to go to her lair and either fight her and her two surviving sons, engage in some kind of negotiation to get her to lift the curse, probably requiring a whole other quest for suitable compensation, or sneak inside and break the mirror that his rage is trapped in. A short, very fairytale styled adventure that works best if you really ham up the roleplaying of the barbarian both before and after he gets his rage back, this manages to have plenty of comedic potential while still being a serious challenge that you could solve in multiple ways and doesn’t try to railroad you into any of them. Quite a satisfying read in a retro kinda way, this is one I’d have no problems using in any edition, unlike the previous one, which would function very differently if converted to anything other than 3e. [/QUOTE]

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