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<blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 7328439" data-attributes="member: 11821"><p><em>This has minor spoilers (mostly descriptions) for an adventure so old it'd be entering college this year.</em></p><p></p><p>So after wrapping up our delightful 4e Zeitgeist campaign at Level 30, we were all in for something more down to earth and slightly different. I'm running the recently-released Shadow of the Demon Lord conversion for the classic Freeport series. (Shadow of the Demon Lord is fantastic, by the by - I am loving it so far.)</p><p></p><p>Anyway! When preparing the first adventure, Death in Freeport, I was about 2/3 of the way through the adventure when I realized ... there's <em>not a single named female NPC</em>. Not a one. Not the missing librarian, his priest friend, the high priest, the assistant, the vicious pirate, the mercenaries, etc. Everyone's basically just a weird, bland dude. I looked through the next two and it seems like there's at least one or two in the next few adventures - but in this first one? Germany doesn't have sausage fests this big.</p><p></p><p>A few things struck me about this.</p><p></p><p>(1) Wow, was it <em>noticeable</em>. But I don't remember ever hearing mention of it back in 2000 when it was released for 3e.</p><p>(2) I don't think this would have slipped by a publisher today, in 2017, except for the purposes of faithfully converting an old adventure. So we're not all the way there, but man, we've made some progress in the past decade and a half, you know?</p><p></p><p>At any rate, I'm going through Death in Freeport and making some changes to make the NPCs more vibrant. I didn't go with the immediately obvious switch and make it so the priest and librarian were romantically attached - that seemed kinda cheap. The pirates though? Scarbelly and Aggro? Married, mean, orc ladies - my players met them last night and <em>loved</em> them.</p><p></p><p>If you're familiar with the series, are there any changes you'd make? I'm open to suggestions. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Obryn, post: 7328439, member: 11821"] [I]This has minor spoilers (mostly descriptions) for an adventure so old it'd be entering college this year.[/I] So after wrapping up our delightful 4e Zeitgeist campaign at Level 30, we were all in for something more down to earth and slightly different. I'm running the recently-released Shadow of the Demon Lord conversion for the classic Freeport series. (Shadow of the Demon Lord is fantastic, by the by - I am loving it so far.) Anyway! When preparing the first adventure, Death in Freeport, I was about 2/3 of the way through the adventure when I realized ... there's [I]not a single named female NPC[/I]. Not a one. Not the missing librarian, his priest friend, the high priest, the assistant, the vicious pirate, the mercenaries, etc. Everyone's basically just a weird, bland dude. I looked through the next two and it seems like there's at least one or two in the next few adventures - but in this first one? Germany doesn't have sausage fests this big. A few things struck me about this. (1) Wow, was it [I]noticeable[/I]. But I don't remember ever hearing mention of it back in 2000 when it was released for 3e. (2) I don't think this would have slipped by a publisher today, in 2017, except for the purposes of faithfully converting an old adventure. So we're not all the way there, but man, we've made some progress in the past decade and a half, you know? At any rate, I'm going through Death in Freeport and making some changes to make the NPCs more vibrant. I didn't go with the immediately obvious switch and make it so the priest and librarian were romantically attached - that seemed kinda cheap. The pirates though? Scarbelly and Aggro? Married, mean, orc ladies - my players met them last night and [I]loved[/I] them. If you're familiar with the series, are there any changes you'd make? I'm open to suggestions. :) [/QUOTE]
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