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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9276968" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 95/194: Nov/Dec 2002part 3/10The Witch of Serpent's Bridge: After one basic adventure where the problem is exactly where you expect it to be, it’s time to solve the problems of another little village where the person to blame is trying to pin it on someone else. The Gnolls of the Stagnant Wood are not pleased about the nearby town of New Pedwich continuing to flourish despite their raids. Their wizard has hypnotised one of the villagers into thinking that the titular witch is responsible for the villages escalating woes, when she’s really just a harmless hermit. Will the PC’s go straight to killing her, which won’t help at all and remove a valuable ally in the long term fight, or will they listen to her and team up against the real culprits, who will mount an all-out attack on the village if not found and stopped before three nights have passed. Another adventure where all the elements are ones I’ve seen before, put together in a familiar way that’s competent but completely unsurprising, following predictable plot beats that’ll fill a session and then be forgotten. Critical Threats: The first of these this issue is Yu’thiol Mansecho, a githyanki spy who poses as a whole range of identities on the prime material plane. He’ll do all kinds of sneaky underworld activities for hire for surprisingly reasonable prices. Of course, there’s a catch. He’s feeding all the info he gets from this back to the Lich-Queen and taking out anything that might interfere with her long-term schemes. The kind of character you could meet several times under different disguises before realising they’re the same person. (at which point you’ll become his target, because he very much wants to keep that a secret. ) Then if you do beat him, that could lead into the bigger Gith related plots they have coming up next year. A nicely flexible bit of mid-level material if your campaign is headed in the planeward direction long-term.</blockquote>

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