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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 3846849" data-attributes="member: 29398">Yeah, I had a group of players at the time who wouldn't know a plot hook if it ran up and hit them...which it did, time after time, in that module.  They just kept blundering from event to event without ever looking for a connection or even considering that one might exist.The "vast epic wilderness trek" ended up with nearly every intelligent inhabitant in the entire region either a) refusing to have anything to do with the party and running them off their land/out of town on sight, or b) dead, usually due to the party either directly or indirectly.That, and the PCs just kept dying.  I bring new characters in at about a level below the party average.  B-10 sort of assumes you go in about 2nd-level and come out about 4th.  My lot did the exact opposite...started out about 4th and worked their way *down* to about 2nd, then gave up on the whole thing after a near-TPK vs. the statues on the high bridge at the top of the valley.When you say "B-10" the right way it sounds like "beaten", and they were.One of these days if I'm feeling *really* masochistic, I might haul that adventure out and try running it again...or I might just put a scalding iron poker in my eye; I'm unsure which would feel better. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lanefan</blockquote>

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