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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 7933327" data-attributes="member: 40176">I tried going the "hand them out to players" route, but it was definitely unwieldy, and felt bad when half the players lost 'their' NPC due to tough battles - I was pretty merciless in letting them get killed in combat, to emphasise the stakes.I ended up ditching them all by the time they got to the Kuo-Toa village, culminating in the sacrificial ceremony happening to be held on a spring tide (coinciding with a full moon) so that Topsy and Turvy went fully feral during the climactic battle.I got kind-of burned out myself at that point. Having escaped the Underdark, some of the players wanted to carry on and come back for part two, but I bounced hard off the next chapter just reading it, and never could summon up the enthusiasm to run it.</blockquote>