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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9359199" data-attributes="member: 7044704">Just wanted to say I really appreciate this thread.&nbsp; I'd been a fairly regular Dungeon reader in the earlier days of the magazine, but the entire Paizo run was pretty much a mystery to me so having a retrospective deep dive into what I missed is nice.&nbsp; My main DM at the time was relying heavily on Dungeon material so we were discouraged from purchasing it, and once I fell out of the habit I never resumed.&nbsp; I do recognize both those side quests from his campaign - and we did talk to the lion in our run-through, without which it would have been a pretty &quot;meh&quot; encounter instead of something that had some modest campaign impact for years to come.&nbsp; I don't know if it was in a later Dungeon or improv, but we wound up more-or-less befriending the pride and eventually negotiating an agreement with the local ruler to preserve their hunting territory and leave them in peace in exchange for them keeping an eye on the nearby frontier and alerting his ranger corps of any shenanigans that cropped up.&nbsp; One of the royal rangers even &quot;adopted&quot; the pride leader when he got displaced by a younger male (as happens) and made sure he had a decent retirement, which might have become a tradition if the campaign had continued long enough.&nbsp; The fact that it also gave us a reliable smuggling/escape route in and out of the kingdom was purely a coincidental benefit...&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9359199, member: 7044704"] Just wanted to say I really appreciate this thread. I'd been a fairly regular Dungeon reader in the earlier days of the magazine, but the entire Paizo run was pretty much a mystery to me so having a retrospective deep dive into what I missed is nice. My main DM at the time was relying heavily on Dungeon material so we were discouraged from purchasing it, and once I fell out of the habit I never resumed. I do recognize both those side quests from his campaign - and we did talk to the lion in our run-through, without which it would have been a pretty "meh" encounter instead of something that had some modest campaign impact for years to come. I don't know if it was in a later Dungeon or improv, but we wound up more-or-less befriending the pride and eventually negotiating an agreement with the local ruler to preserve their hunting territory and leave them in peace in exchange for them keeping an eye on the nearby frontier and alerting his ranger corps of any shenanigans that cropped up. One of the royal rangers even "adopted" the pride leader when he got displaced by a younger male (as happens) and made sure he had a decent retirement, which might have become a tradition if the campaign had continued long enough. The fact that it also gave us a reliable smuggling/escape route in and out of the kingdom was purely a coincidental benefit... :) [/QUOTE]

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