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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1305071" data-attributes="member: 259"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  This adventure has real potential for Cthulhuesque imagery (by which I mean, really freaking nasty stuff that makes you say, "dude!  That's so wrong!")  My feeling is that you should run it as such:  things should start off just a little bit wrong, and progress creepier and creepier until the players realize that they're facing a full-on Creepy Invasion of the town.  They'll be wrong -- rather than invading the town, Creepy is planning on annexing it -- but you can still get some good dread going on that way. Shadowdancer, I bet you're right about which encounter he was talking about.  I rant he encounter a little differently, however, and it wasn't nearly so tough. I figured that the bad guys wouldn't know whether the players were going to go, and so instead of all being together, they were situated at various outposts on the map (actually, isn't that how it was written?)  That meant the players got to deal with the bad guys in little groups instead of all at once, making it a lot more manageable.  Add to that their immediate instincts to take to the air via flight spells, thereby gaining rooftop-cover against archers on the ground, and they had a pretty easy time with the encounter.  The ogre mage managed to call up some darkness and shepherd the survivors away, but only barely. Daniel</blockquote>

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