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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bodhiwolff" data-source="post: 4587625" data-attributes="member: 71196">In response to the suggested fixes ... While it is kind of you to suggest such things, and such standard advice is never a bad idea to re-visit, it should be pointed out that the module as it stands already has plenty of such motivation, additional fluff, extras, background, etc.   They did very well in providing a ton of little hooks, little additional bits to build off, potential side adventures outside the tower, interesting characters and NPC's each with their own story, etc.  They also made sure to have an ongoing puzzle or two to motivate you to keep exploring the tower in order to figure out what is going on, more than simply hunting the bad guy. That being said ... it is still really, really linear in design and structure.  It feels that you're simply moving through the encounters, one after another, because you *have* to move through the encounters one after another -- especially once you hit the tower itself. Oh, sure, you're motivated by the main storyline and a couple of little puzzles as well, and you're looking for specific answers and objects, etc., but that doesn't do overly much to mitigate the fact that, at a certain point, you're on a treadmill, and you know it. Making you want to keep moving on the treadmill doesn't necessarily make it feel better, if you see what I'm saying. Compared to the older, classic modules, it certainly doesn't hook you the way that the Giants/Drow/Lolth series did.</blockquote>

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