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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1542629" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>I agree with SB of course. Things like many important items being located in the bellies of monsters is really a minor flaw if anything - maybe the players are supposed to work out that in an ancient Egyptian setting, everything important is in the stomach? <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 :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>The real killer for me was when the PCs got to the Temple of Osiris. I _could not make sense of it_ no matter how hard I tried, and I spent many painful hours trying. I feel a bit ill just thinking back on it now. Seriously, it left me traumatised (one poor player I'd hinged the scenario on saying "We _thought_ you'd prepared it!" didn't help) and unsure of my GMing abilities - and really, I'm a pretty good GM. I just couldn't work out what was going on or what was supposed to happen. None of it seemed to make sense. The NPCs would lure PCs into a 'trap' that, the way it was written, avoided the hostile monsters, led the PCs straight to a major goal past the guardians, and resulted in an easy victory for the PCs! Mind you, it took hours of puzzlement before I worked that out. A small change in NPC actions turned the trap back into a trap - and killed 2 PCs (one of them Stalkingblue's), w no chance of survival that I could see. Of course the survivors could then win the easy victory the 'trap' led to.</p><p></p><p>I'm pretty tolerant of iffy writing and rules-violations - I don't care if the NPC has 2 more or fewer Skill ranks than they 'ought' to - but a scenario HAS TO MAKE SENSE. It might need a lot of effort to make sense of it - I'm about to run 'The Awakening'; an old AD&D magazine scenario that it's taken me 13 years to decipher & get familiar enough with to be confident of running - but if it doesn't at heart make sense, it's no good.</p><p></p><p>In essence: if you want a scenario that makes sense, don't get Necropolis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 1542629, member: 463"] I agree with SB of course. Things like many important items being located in the bellies of monsters is really a minor flaw if anything - maybe the players are supposed to work out that in an ancient Egyptian setting, everything important is in the stomach? :) The real killer for me was when the PCs got to the Temple of Osiris. I _could not make sense of it_ no matter how hard I tried, and I spent many painful hours trying. I feel a bit ill just thinking back on it now. Seriously, it left me traumatised (one poor player I'd hinged the scenario on saying "We _thought_ you'd prepared it!" didn't help) and unsure of my GMing abilities - and really, I'm a pretty good GM. I just couldn't work out what was going on or what was supposed to happen. None of it seemed to make sense. The NPCs would lure PCs into a 'trap' that, the way it was written, avoided the hostile monsters, led the PCs straight to a major goal past the guardians, and resulted in an easy victory for the PCs! Mind you, it took hours of puzzlement before I worked that out. A small change in NPC actions turned the trap back into a trap - and killed 2 PCs (one of them Stalkingblue's), w no chance of survival that I could see. Of course the survivors could then win the easy victory the 'trap' led to. I'm pretty tolerant of iffy writing and rules-violations - I don't care if the NPC has 2 more or fewer Skill ranks than they 'ought' to - but a scenario HAS TO MAKE SENSE. It might need a lot of effort to make sense of it - I'm about to run 'The Awakening'; an old AD&D magazine scenario that it's taken me 13 years to decipher & get familiar enough with to be confident of running - but if it doesn't at heart make sense, it's no good. In essence: if you want a scenario that makes sense, don't get Necropolis. [/QUOTE]
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