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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 3040701" data-attributes="member: 11">I am not sure I have the energy or inclination to do the DM Commentaries anymore - at least not in the written out essay mode, but as always I love answering any questions you guys have in as much detail as I can.“I shall retrieve the Book of Black Circles from the Brotherhood of the Lost, cast one spell from it and then destroy it, or forfeit my life.”When I came up with those words to be spoken by/through Martin the Green I had no idea what the spell would be that he would have to cast or how the Book of Black Circles would be destroyed.The Book of Black Circles was just a note in my DM's Campaign notebook that was something like "Marciosias' Book - Knowledge of seven foul necromancers. . ."I just knew I wanted to link up Martin's deal with what I was coming up with for Beorth (remember him? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />) in terms of the monks, so that two player characters would have a similar motivation that would serve to bind the party together.At one point I thought the spell from the book would be used to open the way to Hurgun's Maze, but I dropped that idea once I started thinking more about what Hurgun's Maze was like and the role of the modrons within it (which will be explained a little better in the next installment) and eventually I liked the idea of the spell being a "gray" spell - something he could potentially abuse, but not something he might just refuse to cast if he deemed it inherently evil to do so.</blockquote>

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