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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Napftor" data-source="post: 1397825" data-attributes="member: 617">Here's another plot I remember throwing at the same PCs.  Their NPC was a priest of Lathander (Napftor, my ENWorld namesake, in fact) who could not be assertive as a party member.  He pretty much stayed in the backrgound during combat, healing and bolstering with spells as needed.  I decided to write up a background of why he was this way and then introduce it to the PCs in a unique way.At the module's beginning, an enemy hit Napftor with a psionic dart which knocked him unconscious.  There was an unanticipated side effect, however, in that the dart exploded on impact with the priest.  Psionic waves drew the PCs into whatever memory Napftor had in mind when he was shot.  In this case, it was the memory which explains his unwillingness to lead others.  The rest of the module took place in the priest's mind, though he was not aware of it.  To Napftor, the past was alive again, and the PCs became the members of his old adventuring band.  The story was that a colony of gnomes was being harrassed by a dragon and sent for Napftor's band to defeat the beast.One thing led to another, as it happened in Napftor's past, and the trail led into nearby ice caves where a dracolich was imprisoned.  The dragon they were tracking attacked while its minions attempted to release the undead wyrm.  There was a way for Napftor to collapse the caves, which would stop the dracolich from being revived, but would kill his companions at the same time.  The point of the story was here, when the PCs needed to convince the priest that his action was the right one.  In reality, collapsing the caves brought too much guilt to the priest and he never accepted his decision, believing there was a better way he just didn't see.  Once the PCs convinced dream-Napftor to again collapse the caves, the psionic energy released the party from its trip into the priest's mind.  Napftor awoke without the constant fear of reliving the past and became that much memorable an NPC.</blockquote>

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