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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darkbard" data-source="post: 7005466" data-attributes="member: 1282">Aye,  [MENTION=12731]CapnZapp[/MENTION], I've seen your thoughts about the adventure in other threads, like this one <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?364254-Murder-in-Baldur-s-Gate-(spoilers!)" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?364254-Murder-in-Baldur-s-Gate-(spoilers!)</a>, as I was researching the issue.And I agree with a lot of what you say, especially your last statement above about missing the point via murderhobo-ing. That said, for me, at least, the structure of the adventure, which includes the opening set up (a popular figure is assassinated) and concluding stages (chaos explodes in the city as tension and retaliation escalate, culminating in several city-shaking events) do tie together well if one sees the motivation for the former (unleashing a fell power to spread its destruction on the city) as intimately tied to the latter (the fallout of that fell power as it leads to chaos, murder, mayhem).I think one of the primary issues for me is one of pacing. The adventure, despite its claims to be relatively system neutral, is so clearly geared towards 5E's resource management that it is easy for a DM (especially one running 4E) to fall into the trap of presenting each stage as its own discrete days' event, which neither taxes the party's resources nor engenders a sense of mounting tension steamrolling ahead (to mix my metaphors) beyond the PCs' ability to control.Now, some of that is exactly what I'm looking for in an adventure framework, i.e., the world is beyond the characters' ability to influence everything at once. But since so many of the intermediary stages are only loosely tied together, let alone tied to the bookended framing device I discuss above, the adventure does run the risk of seeming disjointed without DM intrusion.I guess I'm looking for ways to salvage the framing device and improve upon the middle stages of the adventure to make for a more breakneck-things-are-spiraling-quickly-out-of-control feel.</blockquote>

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