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<blockquote data-quote="Elrith" data-source="post: 2008263" data-attributes="member: 2103">Both as a follow-up to the Sunless Citadel and as a stand-alone this adventure lacks the most important part of any published dungeon: A really compelling reason to be there, and to stay! If my party hadn't included a zealous dwarf paladin, I don't think I would have used it. I had to work hard to develop a compelling plot around this dungeon. I even left about half of it out just to keep down the number of times I had to say &quot;you come to another door...&quot;The mixture of monsters was interesting, but really lacking in cohesiveness. My advice is to either avoid this adventure or gut it and rebuild it. I played the orcs for all they were worth by having them set up a ambush in which they attacked in successively more powerful waves from multiple directions. This worked wonders and added a great deal of excitment as the weakened party fled an angry ogre.Unfortunately this adventure needs a lot of work, so it might not be worth the $15.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elrith, post: 2008263, member: 2103"] Both as a follow-up to the Sunless Citadel and as a stand-alone this adventure lacks the most important part of any published dungeon: A really compelling reason to be there, and to stay! If my party hadn't included a zealous dwarf paladin, I don't think I would have used it. I had to work hard to develop a compelling plot around this dungeon. I even left about half of it out just to keep down the number of times I had to say "you come to another door..." The mixture of monsters was interesting, but really lacking in cohesiveness. My advice is to either avoid this adventure or gut it and rebuild it. I played the orcs for all they were worth by having them set up a ambush in which they attacked in successively more powerful waves from multiple directions. This worked wonders and added a great deal of excitment as the weakened party fled an angry ogre. Unfortunately this adventure needs a lot of work, so it might not be worth the $15. [/QUOTE]

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