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Message: <blockquote data-quote="King_Stannis" data-source="post: 436924" data-attributes="member: 324">Yep, you've hit the nail on the head. I have no doubt this would have been the reaction of my group, too. Hey, if some of you like this kind of thing, then more power to you. My players would look pretty queerly at me if I threw this adventure at them as written. In the Adventure Backround, it says Ghaerleth was an outcast from his kind. Then in the next paragraph it says his ultimate goal is to plant the seeds of a new illithid empire. Come on! The guy takes over one small human (well, somewhat human) town on the surface and he expects that that is somehow the lynchpin in building a new illithid empire? Would any of his kind know? Would any even care? Just a silly excuse to throw a bunch of monsters at the PC's, in my opinion. My players would have been in full revolt or laughing their asses off at the Fiendish Dinosaurs. Again, this is not an indictment of high magic. It's an indictment of a lame plot involving a gaggle of monsters that are related by only the slenderest of plot threads. I've run "Gaxmoor", which had it's share of diverse monsters, too. Yet somehow that adventure had its own logic and it didn't seem so, well, silly.</blockquote>