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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phoenix" data-source="post: 3045200" data-attributes="member: 16166">I just find it funny how people see the module as little more than, urrrg, Orcs, must kill them...  I freely admit that I'm yet to run it, however have run many similar games to it in the past.  There is every little need to take the aforementioned tactics in this type of adventure, though I can clearly see how people enjoy this method of play, engineering the game so all of the orcs need to be killed?  When did these monsters become little more than a means to a level?Orc 1: Wow, so I heard Larry and Barry over in room 18 got sliced to pieces by some attackers.Orc 2: Yeah, they've been camping out in the wilderness somewhere and making strikes of a night.  We've sent patrols out, but they either don't return or find nothing, they reckon they've got an elven ranger pickin' them off.Orc 1: They've killed, waht, sixty of our troops already?Orc 2: Yeah.Orc 1: So, what say we take a long vacation to somewhere else but here?Orc 2: Nah, there's two of us and four of them.  We're mighty orc warriors, we can take them!Orc 1: Oh, oh yeah...</blockquote>