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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arrgh! Mark!" data-source="post: 2375465" data-attributes="member: 14559">They don't know they are in Carceri?Then be real, real evil. You know that 'Hell is a casino you keep winning in.. but you can't leave, it's a snowstorm outside?'Start of a standard adventure, with a nice little town. They are told a necromancer is plagueing the town with undead. the local mayor funds them his entire fortune. So there's a dungeon. They go and slay him. And it's easy. Very, very easy. No matter what they roll, it's an instant hit/critical. They get vast hordes of treasure. There's some form of regeneration. Spells come back in minutes. They slay the necromancer. But then the town is plagued by an evil overlord and his kobold minions. So they go and slay them.. easily. The bad guy goes down in a single hit. Treasure galore. Of course, the village can't handle so much loot. They get cheered by the villagers. And then, they get told there's an evil artifact that controls all red dragons, and an evil mage of immense power has just found it. They go to his tower and slay him after lots of pyrotechnics but no damage is taken. The artifact is there. ....Continue, making the game go as quick as possible. However, they'll try to leave eventually - all the mountain passes are snowed in, despite the fact the valley itself is perfectly fine. The key is realising something is wrong. When they do that, only then will things start to happen.  <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" /></blockquote>

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